Consciousness & the Afterlife

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and consciousness researcher at the University of Arizona, to explore the quantum nature of human awareness. Broadcasting from typhoon-ravaged Manila where power has been out for four days, Art examines how anesthetic gases selectively eliminate consciousnes...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Brian Weiss, psychiatrist and chairman emeritus at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, who describes how traditional hypnotherapy with a patient named Catherine unexpectedly led to vivid past-life memories dating back 4,000 years. When Catherine channeled specific details about Art's deceased...

Art Bell broadcasts from Manila during Typhoon Glenda before welcoming Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Radin provides an overview of the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton, where 65 shielded random number generators positioned worldwide have been running for eight years,...

Art Bell welcomes author and researcher Graham Hancock from Great Britain to discuss his book Supernatural and the hidden dimensions of human consciousness. The conversation opens with an examination of the Great Pyramid, including new evidence suggesting some limestone blocks may have been poured like concrete, tho...

Art Bell welcomes Ian Xel Lungold, who presents a theory rooted in the Mayan calendar that creation itself is accelerating. Lungold explains that nine distinct cycles of consciousness, each twenty times shorter than the last, reveal a pattern of exponential change building toward a dramatic conclusion in the near fu...

Art Bell welcomes author Laurie Jacobson to discuss her book Hollywood Haunted, exploring ghost sightings connected to some of the entertainment industry's most famous names. Jacobson shares accounts of Lucille Ball's melancholy apparition watching her beloved home being demolished, Ozzie Nelson's spirit taking libe...

Art Bell speaks with Dr. Jon Klimo, author of the definitive study on channeling and co-author of Suicide: What Really Happens in the Afterlife, about what 120 years of channeled material reveals regarding the fate of those who take their own lives. Dr. Klimo explains that his scholarly research examined hundreds of...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Melvin Morse, a pediatrician and neuroscientist who spent 15 years studying near-death experiences in children at Seattle Children's Hospital. Dr. Morse describes his first case, a young girl submerged underwater for 19 minutes who later recounted every detail of her own resuscitation, includin...

Art Bell welcomes medium James Van Praagh for a wide-ranging conversation about psychic ability, life after death, and communication with the spirit world. The episode opens with a replay of the previous night's extraordinary moment when a frantic Area 51 caller was cut off as the broadcast satellite lost Earth lock...

Hypnotherapist Elaine Stevens joins Art Bell to explore the startling world of past life regression and future life progression, drawing from thousands of sessions conducted over her career. Stevens explains how clients under deep hypnosis spontaneously recall vivid details from previous incarnations, complete with...

Art Bell speaks with ancient astronaut theorist Zecharia Sitchin, who reveals that the recently completed human genome project identified 223 genes that cannot be traced through normal evolutionary progression from bacteria to vertebrates. Sitchin notes that the science editor of Newsweek labeled these "alien genes,...

Dr. Albert Taylor, aeronautical engineer and author of Soul Traveler, joins Art Bell to discuss out-of-body travel after a first-hour news and open-lines segment. Art opens with melting Antarctic glaciers, magnetic compass anomalies reported from Australia, and a bizarre fax about a mysterious P-38 pistol found on M...

Art Bell sits down with spiritual medium James Van Praagh, whose book Talking to Heaven holds the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Van Praagh describes how he first discovered his abilities after visiting a British medium at age 24, and within two years was accurately relaying names, personal d...

Linda Moulton Howe reports on Pfiesteria, wind storms, and coral reef disease before Dr. Bruce Goldberg discusses out-of-body experiences, dimensional travel, and Peaceful Transition. Howe reports on the spread of Pfiesteria, the virtually indestructible dinoflagellate devastating fish populations along the U.S. Eas...

Kevin Randle discusses Roswell alien abduction and the Santilli autopsy film, and Dr. James R. Lewis explores the afterlife after Linda Moulton Howe's opening encounter report. Linda Moulton Howe opens with a gripping account from a Washington State woman who describes a fully conscious encounter with gray-colored b...

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...

Debbie Anderson, criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C. and third-degree witch in the Blue Star tradition, joins Art Bell bridging courtroom law and magical practice. She confirms witchcraft can kill but such power takes decades to develop, and anyone skilled enough is wise enough to rarely use it, framing le...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Sam Parnia, a fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Cornell University and founder of the Consciousness Research Group, for an in-depth exploration of what happens at the moment of death. Dr. Parnia explains that the brain ceases electrical activity within approximately 10 seconds o...

Art Bell welcomes internet pioneer Lauren Weinstein to discuss digital privacy and technology's impact on society. Weinstein addresses the battle between piracy and legitimate downloading, warning that overly broad copy protection measures could harm non-infringing uses. He examines the NSA domestic surveillance con...

Former psychological counselor Peter Novak joins Art Bell to discuss the Binary Soul Doctrine, and Willie Nelson appears in the first hour on biodiesel and alternative fuels. Art also covers breaking news of a fireball streaking across the Oregon sky and sonic booms reported across the Midwest. Nelson explains how h...

Art Bell interviews Pam Reynolds, a musician and mother of three who underwent one of the most extraordinary surgical procedures ever performed. In 1991, surgeons at Phoenix's Barrow Institute cooled her body to 58 degrees Fahrenheit, stopped her heart, drained her blood, and achieved zero brain wave activity in ord...

Art Bell hosts Dr. Scott Mandelker and David Wilcock for an expansive discussion on what they call the Time of Global Shift. Wilcock presents data showing a 230 percent increase in the sun's magnetic field strength since 1901, a 500 percent rise in worldwide volcanic activity since 1875, and a 400 percent increase i...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Leo Sprinkle, professor emeritus of counseling psychology at the University of Wyoming, whose two personal UFO sightings in 1949 and 1956 redirected his academic career toward investigating both the UFO phenomenon and reincarnation. Dr. Sprinkle describes how 40 years of research with thousands...

Art Bell broadcasts on Thanksgiving evening, opening with holiday-themed open lines before welcoming Dr. Walter Semkiw, a medical doctor who presents what he calls visual evidence of reincarnation. Dr. Semkiw argues that physical facial features carry over between lifetimes, offering side-by-side photographic compar...

Art Bell begins with Linda Moulton Howe reporting on a wave of Canadian crop formations discovered during the summer of 1999. Farmer Clint King describes finding wheat stems intricately braided and woven in a 300-foot pictogram near Hagersville, Ontario, while a neighbor reports observing a large red glowing object...

Art Bell welcomes researcher Carol Bowman, author of Children's Past Lives, to discuss the startling phenomenon of young children who spontaneously recall details from previous lifetimes. Bowman shares how her own son Chase, at age five, described vivid memories of being a soldier on a battlefield, complete with det...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist and near-death experience researcher, alongside licensed clinical psychologist Trisha McGill to examine the rarely discussed phenomenon of frightening near-death experiences. Dr. Long reveals that up to 15 percent of NDEs may be terrifying rather than blissf...

Art Bell interviews Dr. Charles Tart, the first holder of the Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a founding figure in transpersonal psychology. The two bond over their shared backgrounds in ham radio before Tart makes a bold declaration: five paranormal phenomena are p...

Elizabeth Clare Prophet, mystic, author, and spiritual teacher, joins Art Bell for a rare and wide-ranging interview about reincarnation as Christianity's missing doctrine. Prophet recounts her childhood soul travel experience to ancient Egypt at age four, an awakening that set her on a lifelong mission to recover w...

Linda Moulton Howe reports on new developments in the controversial alien autopsy footage story from a conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. She describes an uncut 14-minute version of tent footage showing a being similar to the autopsy subject, along with separate film depicting a crashed disc-shaped craft on a milita...

Dr. Bruce Goldberg joins Art Bell to explore the extraordinary claims of hypnotic past life regression and future life progression, a field Goldberg has pioneered over two decades of clinical practice.Goldberg explains how patients under hypnosis can perceive multiple future timelines, choosing an ideal frequency am...

Dr. Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, joins Art Bell to discuss scientific evidence for psychic phenomena and the yogic abilities known as siddhis. Radin reveals the Global Consciousness Project has accumulated results at three-trillion-to-one odds against chance using a worldwide netw...

Art Bell sits down with Dr. Robert Lanza, a scientist whom U.S. News and World Report once likened to Einstein, to discuss his groundbreaking theory of biocentrism. Lanza argues that life and consciousness are not accidental byproducts of physics but are fundamental to the structure of reality itself. He points to w...

Art Bell welcomes engineer and author Maurice Cotterell from Ireland to discuss his theories on gravity, God, reincarnation, and the encoded wisdom of ancient civilizations. Cotterell proposes a new explanation for gravity, arguing that Isaac Newton identified the relationship between mass and gravitational force bu...

Art Bell welcomes Dr. J.J. Hurtak, founder of the Academy for Future Science and author of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch. Hurtak discusses expanding consciousness, the power of prayer, and his discovery of the Osiris tomb in Egypt through remote sensing and mental visualization techniques he experienced d...

Art Bell interviews Zeph Daniel, a survivor of satanic ritual abuse and mind control, who shares his extraordinary account of childhood trauma, institutionalization, and eventual spiritual liberation. Zeph describes how satanic groups systematically traumatize victims to dislodge the soul from the body, creating an...