So who is this Ed Dames that predicts that N Korea is going to lob a missile into S. Korea?? Does he have a web site, column or what? Sorry I seem to be the only one not "in the know".

Taz

-- Taz (Tassie @aol.com), June 17, 1999

Answers

Ed Dames PSI Tech, Inc. Beverly Hills, California

What & Why

A favorite guest of the irrepressible Art Bell, Ed Dames is a practitioner of technical remote viewing, which is fancyspeak for a paranormal practice that involves using advanced mental methods to see events taking place at far removes of space and time. Something like that requires a lot of concentration, obviously, and the PSI Tech Web site bracingly describes the look of a hard-chargin remote viewer:

While at work, a viewers mind-body state could be generally characterized as one of high attention. (To an unwitting observer, a PSI TECH viewer could easily be mistaken for someone engaged in an attempt to solve a difficult math or science problem.) . . . Meticulous attention to Technical Remote Viewing structure is required not only to correctly acquire the target and maintain lock-on but, additionally, to disallow subconscious analysis and/or imagination from interfering with the unconsciously acquired signal.

All right. ... Uh ... huh? Put more simply, what Ed and his folks do is make predictions about what will happen elsewhere, often way out in the solar system. One of Eds big interests right now is remote viewing the fruits of a Nostradamus prophecy that goes like so:

The year 1999, seventh month, From the sky will come a great King of Terror To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

In a December 1998 appearance on Art Bell, he made a couple of predictions for 1999 that should attract plenty of notice, whether or not either precisely satisfies the Nostry blather: 1) There will be a bioterrorist attack on Shea or Yankee Stadium, apparently in July; 2) The sun will hit Earth with a ray or flare or something (the Moderator had trouble following this part) that Ed calls the Kill Shot. Many, many millions of people will die as a result.

A Nice Thing About Ed Dames

As he told Art Bell, he doesnt seem to think the Y2K computer-date crisis is a big deal, which is a relief to hear. Bells show often plays a survival-products ad in which Y2K guru Gary North makes this scary claim: Y2K will be the mostly deadly event since the Bubonic Plague.

A Bad Thing About Ed Dames

He may be fulla crap. (Surprise!) Glenn Campbell, a savvy paranormal watchdog in Nevada, kept track of the Eddian predictions for 1998. (Dames prefers to call them technical remote viewed future events.) Among other things he foresaw: a volcanic eruption at Mammoth Mountain; the landing of a plant pathogen cylindric object in or near Burundi that would spread plant disease around the world; a missile-mounted nuke attack by North Korea against South Korea; Clinton otto office before the end of the year; and cannibalism in Eastern Europe due to food shortages.

Learn More!

You can check out PSI-Techs Web site at: http://www.trv-psitech.com

-- DamesBot (Dames@DamesBot.com), June 17, 1999.

you can listen to the fool/chap/guri at artbell.co/archivesn ,,,,

I warn you, sounds sorta convincing but no monica...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), June 17, 1999.

More evidence of War and Missile coming very soon:

N Korea states- "a war might break out any moment"

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-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), June 17, 1999.

So far none of Ed Dames' prognostications have worked out.

"Remote Viewing" has a whole lot more people talking about it than doing it. It's not a practice that can be learned in a week or a month. These are some informative links:

From Lyn Buchanan's website :

"Ed Dames Sets the Record Straight" - by Ed Dames

Response to Ed Dames by Joe MacMoneagle

Response to Joe MacMoneagle by (Name withheld)

Response to (Name withheld) - Lyn Buchanan

Many other interesting links on Dames here: Remote Viewing: Media-Politics

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), June 17, 1999.

Ed Dames got his remote viewing training in the US military. He became an instructor and was a major when he left the Army. The military remote viewing program did have some success, but it is by no means 100% accurate. There was a program about it on the Discovery channel about two or three weeks ago.

According to Dames, it is very difficult to fix a date when an event will happen. He has predicted an economic collapse, catastropic solar event, and he says that the next nuclear detonation as a result of hostilities will be in Korea. He thinks that another catastropic event will precede y2k, and that is why he does not see it having a major impact. The damage will have already been done.

In regard to his prediction about the plant pathogen, there was a news news story a few weeks ago about a fungus killing wheat in Africa. At he moment, I have not formed an opinion on his abilities. I follow his predictions and am waiting to see what happens.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), June 17, 1999.

Ed Dames will be on the Art Bell show Tuesday June 22. Art bell is on 1:00am EST, 12:00am CST

-- quietly (quietly@lurking.com), June 17, 1999.

There are many kinds of magic. One kind trys to see the future. Another kind trys to transform that future.

It goes without saying that the second kind is the more dangerous. It also goes without saying that it is sometimes less dangerous than doing nothing. This is one of those times.

Dames will be right. But not in the way he expected. At least if we succeed. As Ben Kenobi says: ... there is no such thing as luck.

-- otay (spanky@lilrsacles.com), June 18, 1999.

"...and cannibalism in Eastern Europe due to food shortages."

Gives a whole new meaning to "Hungarian goulash," if it spreads to Western Europe, there is always "French toast," "Belgian waffles," "Swedish meatballs," ....oh yuck.

-- marsh (armstrng@sisqtel.net), June 18, 1999.

Don't you mean "Hungarian gHoulash"?

I'm more worried about bomb Alaska.

-- Noam from Nome (zsazsabinks@annoyinggit.com), June 18, 1999.

I'll have the Swiss steak, Polish sausage, French fries, and Danish pastry ...

-- yummy-yummy-yummy in my tummy (tum@tummy.tummy), June 20, 1999.