January 30, 1997: Remote Viewing - Ed Dames

Major Ed Dames, former military intelligence officer and head of PSI Tech, returns to discuss the frontiers of technical remote viewing, including his company's startling findings on Telstar 401 and the alien autopsy hoax. Dames reveals plans to release a home study course that would bring remote viewing skills to the general public for the first time, a move he acknowledges will eventually put his own company out of business.

The conversation takes a dark turn when Dames presents his most alarming prediction yet. He describes a cylindrical structure attached to Comet Hale-Bopp containing engineered plant pathogens that, once released into Earth's atmosphere, will systematically destroy all terrestrial plant life beginning in equatorial Africa. He projects a global economic collapse by mid-1998 driven by catastrophic food shortages, with an estimated 80 to 85 percent reduction in the world's population over several years.

Art Bell presses Dames on the Courtney Brown controversy, the ethics of remote viewing, and the spiritual implications of what Dames calls the discontinuity, a future event where all timelines appear to shift simultaneously. The episode captures a pivotal moment in 1990s paranormal culture, blending classified military history with apocalyptic prophecy.