On the subject of David Icke in general
Icke has a spiritual awakening in about 1990. He has recounted this in the book "Truth Vibrations". While he was trying to relate this to the world, his comments were taken out of context, especially on the Wogan show, and he was made to look ridiculous. In particular he was made to look like he had considered himself the Son of God. In fact all he ever believed was that he was a being created by the 'Godhead' - as in fact we all are. So he was not judging himself to be a special person at all, but this impression was created very strongly and he has been ridiculed ever since. People continually repeat the same misunderstandings about him and thereby completely misjudge him, even those who like to think they look at all unusual phenomena and claims with an open mind.
Icke went on researching and exploring the new, strange world he had entered and by 1994 he had discovered a lot of information on conspiracies, and how that ties into the whole metaphysical and spiritual thing. In 1995 he published "The Robots' Rebellion", his first major foray into that area of research. It is extremely good; although some of the material is basic, and almost all of it is gleaned from other researchers (Icke mostly doesn't do his own direct research but collates the work of others) there is little in it that is too controversial to most conspiracists / esotericists.
He followed it up in 1997 with "...And The Truth Shall Set You Free", which if anything is even better. It especially goes into great detail about the many areas of conspiracy in the 20th Century (where Robots' Rebellion was more historical). It is an excellent compendium of the most important areas of conspiracy research and revelation.
By this time Icke had gained a large following of readers and lecture-attenders. This was because he came out with good, comprehensible material, didn't expect you to just believe what he said, encouraged open-mindedness and independent research, admitted that he may have got many little details wrong, but insisted (quite correctly I think) that he had got most of the major 'themes' right.
Up until this point Icke's opinion on the nature of the global conspiracy was that it was a group of humans he called the 'Brotherhood' who were insiders in secret societies from way back into antiquity. In which belief he was in great and large company in the conspiracy research world.
Then around 1998 by his own account he started to get lots of people coming up to him all over the world telling him about the 'reptilian' aspect of it all. That they kept seeing reptilians, saw humans 'shape-shift' into them and back, that many of these shape-shifters were people in high places and prominent positions - the very people he and many others had worked out were the 'insiders' working for a clandestine agenda via secret cabals and societies. It culminated with one Arizona Wilder, who went into detail about the rituals she was mind-controlled into performing for the shape-shifting reptilian global elite.
Icke ended up swallowing the whole thesis, convinced he had stumbled on an aspect of the conspiracy situation that few others had (actually there were precursors). "The Biggest Secret" was written on that basis, published 1999. He has since followed it up with "Children of the Matrix", which I haven't read. Opinion amongst his readers on the new 'reptilian thesis'or 'reptilianism' was divided. Many people just went along with it; others rebelled and decided David Icke had gone badly astray from the accuracy of his previous books and theories.
I have come round to the latter opinion, as have many others. Allegations began to come out that David had been 'nobbled': that his previous books had contained a lot of truth and were influencing a lot of readers to question things, and certain interested parties had set him up with disinformation, specifically via these various people who seeded his mind with stories about reptilians. Having become convinced and having published on that basis, he is now wedded to the illusion, and for reasons of ego and needing to keep his following he 'can't' backtrack and admit he may have been wrong.
If this is so, the damage has been done and he has indeed been nobbled. The evidence is in all the various mostly open-minded people who just ridicule his name, are ignorant or misled about his views or life-story, refuse to read his work and thereby judge for themselves. If these people read The Robots' Rebellion or And The Truth they would discover easily readable and valid accounts of conspiracy down the ages, with no hint of any Son of God illusions or Reptilianism. Nothing to ridicule. But unfortunately many of the people who consider themselves open-minded are not open-minded enough.
There are many other twists and turns to the Icke story: e.g. how he has been smeared with the lie of anti-Semitism; how that reached fever pitch in Canada due to the attack on him by the Canadian Greens, etc. Also I very much believe in reptilians now, just not the kind that Icke talks about in TBS. He describes beings shape-shifting between human and reptilian in the third dimension; as far as I know the 'reptilian' beings that exist are only fourth-dimensional (lower astral). I have 'sort of' observed such beings myself; more particularly I have heard many reports of such from people close to me. I don't know how much of a connection there is to the great and good, the leaders and secret society plotters, but they are here alright, and probably always have been.
David Icke's website is at
http://www.davidicke.com. Go and check it out for yourself, judge for yourself. Almost all comment on David Icke in the media, including in this thread, is based on ridicule, ignorance and disinformation.
Yours,
Mat McVeagh
(I didn't expect a lot, to be honest...)
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