November 21, 2002: Demonic Possession - Gordon Michael Scallion

Art Bell welcomes futurist Gordon Michael Scallion for a conversation that shifts from earth changes and economic predictions into a sustained examination of demonic possession. Scallion reports that after the D.C. sniper shootings, three days of nonstop visions flooded his consciousness with information about possession as a growing crisis, and his own spiritual guidance directed him to discuss it publicly.

Scallion describes possession as operating through the body's etheric field, with negative entities entering through the spinal column to influence the brain. He distinguishes between possession by agreement, as in mediumistic activity, and involuntary possession driven by a collective negative consciousness he associates with the Luciferian force. Fear, anger, depression, and sustained stress act as beacons that attract these entities, and he connects rising societal stress from terrorism, economic instability, and rapid technological change to an unprecedented vulnerability. He predicts 2003 will see a major outbreak tied to Mars approaching closer to Earth than it has in 50,000 years.

Art references his interviews with the late Father Malachi Martin, who reported an 800 percent annual increase in possession cases in New York. Scallion predicts possession will eventually become a legal defense in criminal trials, framed as a failure of collective society. The first hour covers antibiotic-resistant bacteria, truckers being stalked on highways, invisible aircraft sightings, and a man's attempt to auction his soul on eBay.