Episode Details

Art Bell welcomes prolific author Brad Steiger, who has written over 140 books exploring the paranormal, UFOs, and spirituality. Steiger shares his foundational experience at age five when he caught a dark entity with enormous cat-like eyes peering through his family's farmhouse window in rural Iowa. Decades later, he encountered a woman from a neighboring town who had seen an identical being on the same October night, an experience that shaped both their lives.

The conversation covers Steiger's near-death experience at age eleven, during which he saw geometric forms that communicated an ecstatic sense of meaning and purpose accompanied by cosmic sound. He connects this to similar accounts from other experiencers, including Gordon Michael Scallion. Steiger presents his unified theory that UFOs, ghosts, angels, spirit guides, and paranormal phenomena all originate from a single source, a perspective he acknowledges frustrates those who prefer neat categories.

Steiger discusses his book "Guardian Angels and Spirit Guides," drawing parallels between Native American shamanic traditions and Western angelology. He recounts verified out-of-body experiments conducted live on ABC television and reveals that a mentor of his underwent medically controlled death experiences after surviving a morgue revival. Art and Steiger agree that prophecies of imminent earth changes are converging from every tradition they have studied.