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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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September 23, 1998: A Remote Viewer - Joseph McMoneagle

Sep 23, 1998
2h 38m
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Art Bell welcomes Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewer 001, the first person recruited into the U.S. military's classified Stargate program. McMoneagle spent 21 years conducting remote viewing operations for 16 government agencies, earning the Legion of Merit for his work. He explains that 99.9 percent of his intelligence work remains classified but confirms that remote viewing produced actionable results in locating downed aircraft, identifying secret facilities, and supporting Cold War intelligence collection.

McMoneagle describes a controlled experiment in which he accurately described four future locations of an unknown individual, including a top-secret nuclear weapons facility and an operating linear accelerator. He discusses his near-death experience in 1970, when he was delivered to a German hospital clinically dead and encountered a white light he perceived as God. He credits that experience with eliminating his fear of death and opening his psychic abilities.

The conversation covers psychokinesis experiments in which McMoneagle bent a surgical steel instrument inside a sealed glass tube over eight months. He shares his conviction that ruins exist in the Cydonia region of Mars, built roughly a million years ago by 12-foot humanoid beings who may be ancestral to humans. He also predicts that a tactical nuclear weapon will likely be used in anger within his lifetime, most probably in a third-world conflict.

Key Moments

  1. Viewing the life of Christ at the Monroe Institute: McMoneagle describes a blind explorer session at Robert Monroe's institute, conducted under Hemi-Sync, in which he reported on the life of Jesus and concluded that Christ was a supernatural figure and a son or construct of the Creator.

  2. Mass-mind weather and UFO experiments: Bell tells McMoneagle about his on-air experiments asking millions of listeners to focus their minds to summon UFOs over a city and bring rain to fire-stricken regions; Phoenix lights, Las Vegas sightings, and Florida, Texas and Alberta rains followed. Bell admits the apparent results scared him into stopping.

  3. Bending a surgical steel bar inside a sealed glass tube: McMoneagle describes a months-long psychokinesis experiment in which he put roughly a 3.5 cm bend in a surgical steel rod sealed inside a glass tube, and a separate nickel alloy serving spoon he rolled up like paper that shattered when forced open.

  4. Cydonia and the 12-foot Martian ancestors: McMoneagle says he remote viewed the former inhabitants of the Cydonia region of Mars, depicting them in his book Mind Trek as humanoid figures roughly 12 feet tall, and suggests a portion of that civilization may have been transported to Earth, raising the possibility that humans are aliens to their own planet.

  5. Art's Paris out-of-body experience: Bell recounts an unprompted out-of-body experience in a Paris hotel room with his wife - shooting upward at indescribable velocity above the city in pure ecstasy - and McMoneagle confirms it bore the hallmarks of a genuine OBE rather than a lucid dream, noting roughly 90 percent of OBEs are spontaneous.