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June 22, 1997: Psychic Discoveries - Sheila Ostrander & Lynn Schroeder
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Art Bell welcomes authors Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder to discuss their book Psychic Discoveries: The Iron Curtain Lifted, revealing decades of secret Soviet research into psychic phenomena. The guests describe dangerous trips behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, where they smuggled manuscripts hidden inside flower bouquets and relied on diplomatic pouches to get research materials to the West.
The conversation covers Kirlian photography and its ability to capture energy leaving the body at death, Soviet experiments in telepathic hypnosis capable of putting subjects into trance from over a thousand miles away, and the KGB''s massive 500-million-ruble budget for psychic warfare devices. Ostrander and Schroeder also reveal cosmonaut UFO sightings suppressed for decades, including claims that Neil Armstrong reported mysterious objects during the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Art and his guests discuss Soviet remote influencing experiments, the potential for psychic assassination, the use of microwave beaming against the U.S. embassy, and how Russian parapsychology research inadvertently confirmed spiritual ideas about human consciousness and interconnection. Callers weigh in with questions about super learning techniques and electronic voice phenomena.
The conversation covers Kirlian photography and its ability to capture energy leaving the body at death, Soviet experiments in telepathic hypnosis capable of putting subjects into trance from over a thousand miles away, and the KGB''s massive 500-million-ruble budget for psychic warfare devices. Ostrander and Schroeder also reveal cosmonaut UFO sightings suppressed for decades, including claims that Neil Armstrong reported mysterious objects during the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Art and his guests discuss Soviet remote influencing experiments, the potential for psychic assassination, the use of microwave beaming against the U.S. embassy, and how Russian parapsychology research inadvertently confirmed spiritual ideas about human consciousness and interconnection. Callers weigh in with questions about super learning techniques and electronic voice phenomena.