Yesterday I went to the Manchester show of David Icke’s ‘World Wide Wake Up Tour’. As a teenager in 1990’s I remember vividly his interview on Wogan and the fevered tabloid press coverage that followed. Everyone from that generation will know his views on the Royal family, illuminati and lizards. Younger generations will also have been exposed to this once ‘hidden’ knowledge via his prolific YouTube output and spread of conspiricist views online. If nothing else, Icke is a strident articulator of his ideas. From a research point of view, I was interested to see who would be in the audience and how his message would be received. The event was sold out. Luckily, I’d been warned his talks go on all day so brought my sandwiches…
As you would expect there was a lot
of detail. I will therefore concentrate on the main themes he covered then
discuss my thoughts on the day.
Part 1: Intro and Conspiracy
Theories
Icke appeared to start slowly with
views many would find acceptable, such as we spend our lives chasing dreams
others tell us to aspire to rather than living in the moment. Education is a
programming tool to subjugate us into working for the ‘man’ and live the life they
want us to. Pink Floyd was referenced here. It stifles creativity and
discourages right-hemisphere processing in the brain (linked to whole picture
thinking). As a child who was into art I can dig that!
After about an hour it went up a
notch and we got on to conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories have a bad
reputation. In of themselves they are not ‘bad’ or display irrational thinking,
particularly if they are true! Some would argue it displays critical thinking
to appraise the information you are given. There are many examples where
questioning the status quo and investigating leads has led to the exposure of appalling
behaviour by those in positions of power. For example, the exploitation of vulnerable
children by paedophile rings. Icke has been making such claims for years and has
taken credit for exposing these.
Icke’s main argument in this section
was a small elite control the political and economic system. If they want to
change it they create both the chaos and solution to fix it. He terms this: Problem–Reaction–Solution that creates a ‘Hunger Games Society’. This has led to a
series of crises others would call standard conspiracy theories:
9/11 – Perpetrated by the US government
to justify the war on terror and bring about regime change.
World War Three – Russia is not
being aggressive. Stories created by Western societies to start a war and
increase influence in Russia, China and Iran. If we win of course! ISIS is
controlled by the world order but they don’t realise it, lol!
European Union – Migrant crisis to
engineer civil war in Europe.
Banking Crisis – Make us dependent
on electronic money (credit) that does not exist and take our real assets when
we cannot pay the debt. The cost of homes becomes too high so have to live in
small houses in condensed cities under their surveillance.
Climate Change – Not really happening.
Designed to change the economic model of where we live and how we grow food. We
are unable to be self-sufficient and live off the land. See Agenda 21, 2030.
Energy Crisis – Energy is freely
available (Tesla) but we are not allowed to access it. Fracking is allowed by governments
despite its environmental impact but other energy sources are curtailed for the
same reason.
Vaccines – 74 vaccines before the
age of 17! Make us susceptible to diseases we wouldn’t normally be prone to. Criminalisation
of health, sanctions imposed if you don’t conform and alternative medicine is
demonised or banned.
Homeopathy - Water has a memory.
Homeopathy - Water has a memory.
News/Social media – Controlled by
elites but any dissent is classed as ‘fake’ news. Tyranny of language: newspeak.
Cannot say what we want to. Social justice agenda creates safe spaces that are
creating a Generation Jelly where young people are not exposed to or can argue
against unpalatable views.
Antisemitism – To criticise Israel
is to be anti-Semitic. Argues he is not anti-Semitic, against Zionism not Jews.
Despite this I noted the Star of David appeared on many slides.
Identity Politics – I AM A… define ourselves with labels. We are all one. Perception controls reality!
Part 2: Reality is an Illusion
This is where we take the red pill…
Postage stamp consensus – Our reality
is based on a small percentage of what exists. Our perception has been
controlled so we cannot see the whole. We are locked into our 5 senses. Infinite
awareness is the true reality. Everything is conscious, we are one. Revealed in
near death experiences. Mystics can see this but are labelled ‘mad’.
World is a Holographic Illusion – We
only see a small frequency range in our prison of perception. Universe is a
quantum computer. Oh, and the world isn’t solid BTW. Pineal gland is the third eye
that just happens to be calcified by floride in water.
Paranormal – Ghosts are frequencies
not sharp enough to be in focus, are interference. Psychics tune into other frequencies of reality.
Tarot cards - each picture has a frequency you are drawn to. Paranormal
activity relates to electricity as it carries information. Entities are
electromagnetic. Cannot impact on our frequency in other ways.
Astrology – New book coming out! Is
a science. Planets are waveforms of information that affect our fields.
Numerology – Reveals the underlying digital code of our universe, e.g. Fibonacci sequences and fractal patterns.
Conclusion - We are
living in a simulation controlled by aliens. Cannot see its borders as at the
speed of light time stops. If you control perception you control reality!
Part 3: Alien
Lizards?
Part 3 was going to be on who
controls the simulation but I was too tired to stay. I had already been there 6
hours! The lizards will have to wait until next time.
There were a lot of references to the
work of Dr Richard Day (1969) and Bill Hicks so I suggest you check these out.
My Thoughts
The audience itself mainly seemed to
consist of the demographic age 20-40. I saw very few really young or old people
and have to say they were overwhelmingly white. There was great affection for
Icke and many points were met with a ripple of applause, although the more extreme
views had fewer hands clapping. There was a fair amount of humour which broke
up the dense subject matter. It was a long day and the couple in front of me
had brought a picnic!
Despite this I really enjoyed it, particularly
Part 1. This had more information (3 hours’ worth) and for me was internally consistent
in a conspiracy world view. The second part was too Matrix-y for me. As a
materialist I find it difficult to engage with even basic assumptions of spiritualty
so this was outside my comfort zone. By
the law of probability something of what he said will be true. If you cast your
net wide enough you will get a ‘hit’.
Whether you accept any of his premises
or not he is an engaging speaker. He came across as reasonable and happy to be
ridiculed for his views. You’ll note there was no Q and A however. Unsurprising,
I was unconvinced by his arguments but would recommend seeing him for the experience.
If he is right you can’t say you weren’t warned…
