February 8, 2004: A Dark Future - Ed Dames
February 8, 2004: A Dark Future - Ed Dames  
Podcast: The Art Bell Archive
Published On: Fri Jul 25 2025
Description: Art Bell welcomes Major Ed Dames, retired military intelligence officer and remote viewing instructor, for a wide-ranging discussion on looming global threats. Dames opens with claims about Earth's most intelligent non-human life form, identifying a species of giant squid whose sophisticated photophore communication system and massive brain rival human cognition. He connects this discovery to a BBC report on an African grey parrot demonstrating telepathy and complex language skills.The conversation turns darker as Dames presents his remote viewing findings on interconnected catastrophes. He warns of imminent crop failures driven by fusarium fungi, an avian-borne disease crisis already showing early signs in the Far East, and a potential nuclear conflict triggered by North Korea. Dames links these events to the approach of a planetary body he identifies as Nibiru, whose gravitational effects would cause Earth to wobble, triggering massive flooding and geophysical upheaval.Art presses Dames on timelines, and the Major points to 2005 through 2007 as the critical window. The discussion also touches on China's remote influencing program, the ethics of psychokinesis research, and whether mass human consciousness could alter these projected outcomes. Dames remains characteristically grim, earning his familiar nickname of Dr. Doom.