The Art Bell Archive

Art Bell welcomes back Dr. Evelyn Paglini, a parapsychologist and authority on the occult, for a wide-ranging discussion on predictions, rising evil, and natural magic. Paglini shares her forecasts for devastating wildfires, many set deliberately by arsonists, along with widespread flooding and a significant earthquake in northern California. She warns of an economic downturn driven by the housing crisis and adjustable-rate mortgage collapses, predicting over one million home foreclosures and a full recession by the third quarter of the year.

The conversation turns to what Paglini describes as a rising tide of evil unprecedented since the Middle Ages. She explains that as human consciousness expands and people develop heightened awareness, dark forces intensify their efforts to seduce and control. Art draws parallels to his interviews with the late Father Malachi Martin, who reported an 800 percent increase in cases of evil in the New York area years earlier.

Paglini also offers investment advice, recommending silver, gold, palladium, and copper as hedges against inflation. The first hour features open lines where callers discuss the mysterious disappearance of honeybees, chemtrails, reptilian sightings, and the Iran hostage crisis unfolding at the time.

Art Bell welcomes Dr. Laurie Nadel, author of Sixth Sense: Unlocking Your Ultimate Mind Power, for a wide-ranging discussion on intuition, remote viewing, and psychic phenomena. Nadel recounts interviews with over 100 scientists and remote viewers, including Russell Targ and the late Willis Harmon, whose accounts of the SRI experiments convinced her that remote viewing is a legitimate and teachable skill. She questions why the government would abandon such a cost-effective intelligence tool.

Nadel shares her own journey into the paranormal, which began after returning from covering the Chilean military coup for UPI and Newsweek. Suffering from post-traumatic stress, she began hearing a voice in her apartment and eventually witnessed a red eye appear on her wall. The American Society for Psychical Research assured her these were signs of emerging psychic abilities rather than mental illness, setting her on a path of lifelong research into consciousness.

The first hour features open line callers discussing former Governor Fife Symington's Phoenix Lights admission, France's unprecedented release of 1,600 UFO case files, the discovery of caves on Mars, and a vast underground water reservoir beneath East Asia. Art also examines the coming solar maximum forecast and the growing mystery of honeybee colony collapse.

Art Bell explores lucid dreaming with Dr. Stephen LaBerge and Dominick Attisani of the Lucidity Institute, then speaks with journalist Leslie Kean about the Phoenix Lights. LaBerge defines lucid dreaming as knowing you are dreaming while the dream is happening, explaining that this awareness opens the door to conscious decision-making within the dream world. Attisani, a practitioner for over 30 years, describes lucid dreams as opportunities for pleasure, creative exploration, and confronting fears.

The guests explain that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill built on dream recall and intentional memory. LaBerge draws parallels between setting an intention to wake at a specific time and setting an intention to recognize a dream. He notes that lucid dreamers often report an afterglow of energy the following day, and that the practice bridges consciousness research with the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of dream yoga.

In the first hour, Leslie Kean discusses her exclusive interview with former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, who admitted to witnessing a massive, silent craft during the 1997 Phoenix Lights event. Kean emphasizes the distinction between the solid object seen by thousands and the later row of lights likely caused by flares, and challenges the media's conflation of the two events.

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 but never explained what causes it. His model traces the origin of gravity back to the Big Bang and the conversion of energy into matter.

Using Einstein's equation E=MC squared, Cotterell constructs a framework where God is pure energy and the physical universe represents its opposite. He argues that human souls carry a measurable voltage that increases through love and compassion, allowing them to return to God upon death. If that voltage diminishes through negativity, the soul reincarnates into a new body with its memory essentially wiped clean, consistent with what the Tibetans call sanskaras.

Cotterell draws on his decades of research decoding the treasures of the Maya, the tomb of Tutankhamun, and Celtic artifacts, claiming all these civilizations encoded identical spiritual and scientific truths. The first hour features open line callers discussing global weather extremes, the honeybee colony collapse mystery, and a former Canadian defense minister's call for disclosure of alien technology.

Art Bell welcomes billionaire entrepreneur Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace for an in-depth look at the private space industry. Bigelow, who launched the Genesis 1 spacecraft in July 2006, reveals that Genesis 2 is scheduled to launch from Russia the week of April 19th. Art shares exclusive photographs from his personal tour of the Bigelow Aerospace facility in Las Vegas, showcasing the expandable habitat modules originally developed by NASA.

Bigelow explains that his inflatable modules provide three times the interior volume of any module on the International Space Station while offering superior protection against micrometeorite impacts. He describes the complex political landscape surrounding private spaceflight, citing ITAR regulations and congressional interference as greater obstacles than technology or funding. The ultimate goal is an occupiable module called Sundancer, targeted for launch around 2010, with a commercial space station to follow.

The conversation turns to Bigelow's well-known interest in the paranormal, including his funding of research into UFO phenomena through the National Institute for Discovery Science. Art and Bigelow discuss who owns space under the 1967 Moon Treaty and the geopolitical implications of China's growing space ambitions.