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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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September 4, 1994: Past Lives & Future Lives - Dr. Bruce Goldberg

Sep 4, 1994
2h 6m
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Dr. Bruce Goldberg, a hypnotherapist who has conducted over 30,000 past-life regressions, joins Art Bell on Dreamland to explore reincarnation, the nature of the soul, and the space-time continuum. Goldberg details his journey from dental practice to full-time regression therapy after witnessing a colleague overcome phobias and habits through past-life exploration without any direct therapeutic suggestion.

Goldberg presents his most documented case involving a patient he calls Ivy, whose regression into a 1927 Buffalo murder victim named Grace Doe produced three dozen verifiable facts. Two disputed details from newspaper accounts were later proven correct through sealed birth records that CBS News independently accessed for the first time in 65 years. The case became the CBS television movie The Search for Grace. Goldberg explains the quantum physics framework behind his work, describing how the superconscious mind operates outside the space-time continuum, allowing access to past and future lives simultaneously.

Art Bell presses Goldberg on the scientific evidence for the soul, including early twentieth-century studies measuring a three-quarter-ounce weight loss at the moment of death, Kirlian photography, and the therapeutic implications of accessing parallel future timelines.

Key Moments

  1. Holland City, Michigan March 8 1994 mass UFO sighting (Linda Howe): Linda Howe plays unaltered audio from the Holland City police dispatcher and a National Weather Service radar operator tracking three to four solid radar targets in triangular formation, 25 miles end-to-end, between 6,000 and 12,000 feet over Michigan.

  2. Search for Grace - the Buffalo 1927 murder case: Goldberg recounts how patient 'Ivy' regressed to a 46th past life as Grace Doe, murdered May 17, 1927 in Buffalo. CBS's independent researchers verified ~36 facts, including her age (32) and son's name (Clifford) - facts that contradicted the newspaper record but matched closed New York state birth records.

  3. Weighing the soul - McDougall's three-quarters of an ounce: Goldberg cites the 1913 McDougall study where dying patients on analytical balances showed a ~three-quarter ounce weight loss at the moment of death, which he frames as scientific evidence of the soul as electromagnetic radiation.

  4. Hell is the Earth plane - Ivy murdered by the same man 20 times in 46 lives: Goldberg argues there is no realm below the Earth plane and that 'hell' is this life. He cites Ivy as a woman murdered by the same soul ('Johnny'/'Jake') 20 times across 46 incarnations, surviving three attempts in her current life.