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The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 3

by Matthew Dentith Posted on 29 November, 2011

Table of contents for The Lion Sleeps No More

  1. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke
  2. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 2
  3. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 3
  4. My Life With Icke – Part 4
  5. My Life With Icke – Part 5
  6. My Life with Icke – Errata

Ampli-fly me to the Moon…

Icke’s eleven-hour presentation started with a discussion of his philosophy and ends up with his pointing the finger at those who are responsible for all the bad things in our reality. However, to get there he had to take us to Saturn and back, in a move that can only be called “audacious.” He makes this move in a haphazard way: the second section of the talk was scatty and a little vague on particulars (I was going to say that it was the weakest section, but, really, the final two and an half hours were an hour too long). Thus this section might seem a bit scatty (a bit like the last one, really), but it’s all going to come together (admittedly in a weird way) when we get down to the four groups who control our prison planet.

On with the show.

In what can only be described as a moment of having it both ways, Icke revealed that people like the Bilderbergers are not the people who are really in charge. Rather, it is the people behind the Bilderbergers et al who are in control of the prison planet. Now, this is a case of having it both ways because, should you challenge Icke, he can always say “Well, yes, I’ve been talking a lot about the Rothschilds and you are right to say they aren’t the real threat: it’s the people who control them who are the real threat!” His views about who is in control cannot be falsified because he has a built-in escape clause that allows him to suggest (yet) another shadowy group is behind the shadowy group you don’t think is really to blame1 This is the kind of easy mistake I warn others about: if you spend hours listening to someone explain their controversial thesis to you, you will, at some point, end up going “Okay, I’ll accept this point for the time being to see where they go with it” and moments later you forget that you only provisionally accepted that claim, start believing it and thus end up going ever deeper into the rabbit hole.)).

Icke, in developing his talk of who is (or, really, when you gloss him properly, might be) in control touched on the recent report by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In short, they did an analysis of which companies own other companies and discovered that about 150 companies control near half the world’s wealth. Icke puts this forward as both proof of his thesis2 and yet manages to say that as it was put out by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich group it can’t be trusted because, as we all know, the Gnomes of Zurich are part of the system of control over the prison planet and therefore nothing they say should be taken seriously.

Icke likes to have it both ways a lot.

Still, all that was by-the-by and fairly standard stuff. What I wasn’t expecting was to find out that the Moon is a spaceship and that Saturn is a giant transmitter, part of the system of control that locks us into this holographic reality.

The second part (of Icke’s four-part journey into his belief system) ends up on Saturn, via the Moon, but first he gave a potted history of his thesis that the Illuminati bloodlines have been interbreeding with humans for most of our history. I suspect I can’t really do his radical reinterpretation of all human history much justice, given how sweeping and ahistorical it is. Wikipedia is probably your safest bet.

Anyway, for some reason the Illuminati focused their attention on Europe (and ignored, it seemed, the vast majority of the rest of the world), but during the Colonial Era (i.e. that time when Europeans decided to visit their patent brand of destruction upon other cultures)3 they moved out of Europe and set up secret societies to control the world as their traditional systems of control (monarchial bloodlines) were being disestablished (which was, of course, part of the plot to make us think we were gaining back control of our destinies)4.

Anyway, that was sort of by-the-by: the potted history of humanity and the Illuminati was there to provide a backdrop to Icke’s startling claims about the Moon and Saturn. Icke has a theory about who controls the world, and for how long, and now he has a revised theory about how that control is maintained.

By a giant spaceship in orbit around the Earth, amplifying signals sent from Saturn.

Icke’s revelation started with a thoughtform (an idea that was placed into his mind by another (higher) entity). The thoughtform contained the revelation that the Moon was an non-natural satellite. Now Icke, as previously established, is a firm believer in synchronicity and thus this thoughtform was shown to be true because because he then, within days, found that other people had had exactly the same thought(form) as well5.

Now, how do we know that the Moon is non-natural and thus a spaceship.

Because it’s hollow, silly.

It’s hollow because the centre of the Moon is an empty fuel tank6.

Icke tells a story about how NASA set-off explosions on the Moon to record how long it would take for the concussion wave to travel to the centre and back again, and how the results where startling. “It rang like a bell for thirty minutes,” Icke exclaimed (he didn’t froth at the mouth: indeed, there was no frothing at all during the day). Icke rightfully points out this stumped the scientists, but that the answer is simple: the Moon must be hollow. However, what Icke fails to point out (and perhaps this is because he isn’t aware of it, given that once he finds a supporting reference to one of his claims he doesn’t really look for countervailing evidence) is that the result was striking because it didn’t fit with the then current model of how the Moon was thought to be composed. The result meant that that model had to be revised and a new model formulated. The new model doesn’t say the Moon is hollow, though7.

Other planets also have non-natural “moons:” Icke seemed to suggest that Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, has also been placed there artificially8. What these non-natural satellites do is amplify a signal that emanates from Saturn.

Icke’s theories on Saturn are all rather new and I (and my colleague in crime) rather felt that it was apparent that Icke was still formulating how to talk about this whilst he was on stage. He started off by pointing out that worship of the Sun was really worship of Saturn (a claim which seemed implausible when I heard it but seems impossible now I’ve written it down: the Sun can be easily seen by the naked eye and plays a very obvious role in the day-to-day life of most human beings. Saturn: not so much) and that Satan and Saturn (the god Saturn) are one and the same. Not only that, but Santa is also Satan: because Christmas occurs in the traditional period of Saturnalia, and worship of Saturn is actually worship of Satan, it is obvious, in retrospect, that Satan is Santa9.

Anyway, Saturn is sending out a signal, a sub-Matrix, which gets amplified by our Moon (and presumably by Phobos to whoever it is who lives on Mars) and has been since the Moon first appeared10.

The signal sent from Saturn, and amplified by the Moon, affects our DNA. Icke makes a lot out of the claim that scientists don’t really know what a lot of our DNA actually does (he claims that 98% of our DNA is unexplained) but that the answer is simple: through interbreeding, the reptilians have control over our genetic characteristics and thus the signal allows them to control us. They have built up our civilisation to allow them to control and use us for cattle.

As to who “they” are, exactly… Well, more on that soon.

Next time: Freemasons, Satanists, Child Abusers and Jews… Sorry, “Rothschild-Zionists.”

Notes

  1. There’s also an interesting problem here about conceding too much to Icke and his views. At one point, when Icke was waxing lyrical on the evils of paedophiles, the Freemason’s and the like, I ended up thinking “Surely these people can’t be responsible for all of this” (“this” being “The evils of the prison planet”). It was only a few seconds later that I realised that I had just implicitly accepted the existence of a conspiratorial group and was merely denying that they were as bad as Icke made them out to be ((Maybe, in retrospect, making my example here about paedophiles was a bad idea: I don’t want to make it sound like I’m not denying that paedophiles are bad people. They are bad people. I’m just not sure they are conspiring against us.
  2. Which, I would argue, it isn’t. If the number of controlling interests had turned out to be a small band of, say, 12 companies, that might have suggested tight collusion amongst a set of people with shared interests, but the number of interests the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich reports indicates controls a chunk of the world’s finances looks more like the normal operation of capitalist interests: big companies like to invest in other big companies just in case mistakes are made at home.
  3. Icke’s view of the world is oddly Euro-centric. Whilst he talks about how world cultures share common traits and thus show that the reptilian shape-shifters have been interfering in all of out lives for the a very long time, he also seems to think that the Illumanti’s control of world politics is relatively recent.
  4. One dastardly thing these reptilians did was to forbid artists from depicting them in their reptilian form. Icke believes some artists tried to get around this by giving the shape-shifters reptilian features when they depicted them, and some radical artists just drew other reptiles as placeholders for the public figures they wanted to expose or lampoon. Any image that is even slightly reptilian, then, could be an image of the reptilians.
  5. Which means it might not be synchronic at all: if you accept that there are alien entities putting thoughts into peoples’ heads, then the fact that Icke found supporting evidence might well be evidence of a conspiracy by those entities. Why are they trustworthy? Who do they work for?) and had even written books about it (and Icke does seem to treat publication as showing that the idea has passed the process of peer-review (well, independent publication. Obviously academic publishers are just in it to help the status quo keep pushing out disinformation
  6. The Moon has other secrets: the dark side of the Moon (the side we don’t see) is apparently covered in bases. Icke showed a series of images of what he claimed were badly doctored photos released by NASA of the dark side of the Moon as proof that NASA is trying to hide something. Now, it is true that the photos he displayed looked badly doctored, but they also looked as if they were digital images that had been spliced together, with all the attendant faults and distortions you would expect from such a process. Whilst the photos might be doctored, the job is so bad that it seems much more likely that the images have errors in them. If NASA can’t afford to doctor an image properly, then I don’t want to be in league with them.
  7. So many footnotes. Icke also believes the moon landings were faked and that Stanley Kubrick was responsible for the footage. As my friend Isaac pointed out, this was the only time in the presentation that the audience seemed to laugh at Icke rather than with him. Kubrick, apparently was a Hollywood insider and thus was aware of the Illuminati and their plots/capers. Icke suggested that Kubrick used his films to reveal how the Illuminati worked, so “2001: A Space Odyssey” was made to reveal things about NASA and the space programme, whilst “Eyes Wide Shut” was meant to show how Hollywood is infested with Satanists (Icke believes the Hollywood execs killed Kubrick so they could edit out twenty-eight minutes of Satanistic revelation from that film). Not only that, but the “Star Wars” films of George Lucas also contain clues about the real nature of the Moon. I kid you not: Icke showed an image of the Death Star and an image of the Moon side-by-side and claimed that one was meant to symbolise the other. It gets better, though: one of the people who worked on the “Star Wars” films was director John Carpenter, and his film “They Live,” Icke claimed, was proof positive of the existence of the reptilians. Now, why Hollywood lets these films play is anyone’s business. They do seem to be giving the game away.
  8. I’m a little confused about Icke and his contention that the universe is teeming with life. He claims that if we were able to see the other vibrational realities we would realise there is life everywhere. So, presumably, there is life on Mars but it is invisible to us but is being controlled by a visible moon. Whatever it is these Illuminati are up to, it’s very confusing to someone trapped in five-sense reality.
  9. There you go: if you want to explain why you aren’t giving Christmas gifts this year, all you need to say is that you don’t engage in Satanist festivities.
  10. Icke has a number of theories as to when the Moon first appeared, some of which don’t fit in with the conventional wisdom of its necessity for the evolution of life on this planet. Icke is also a subscriber to the “Words in Collision” thesis that states the solar system is in a different arrangement now to the way it formed. So, basically, he can explain away any discrepancy between his view and the theories about abiogensis and the subsequent evolution of life by claiming that whatever role the Moon might have played was played in whatever arrangement the solar system was in prior to that Moon arriving in orbit.
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Naomi Wolf on #OWS

by Matthew Dentith Posted on 26 November, 2011

Jake Pollock, over at Facebook, asked me for my opinion on this Naomi Wolf piece on Occupy Wall Street (which, because I am addicted to Twitter, I think of as #OWS). My comments were as follows (with quoted text from the article as context for those of you who can’t be bothered opening another tag):

I’m less than impressed. 2 things to note:

1. Wolf claims the oppression of #OWS can only be an organised activity emanating from the top, but given the causal and sometimes unorganised way in which it is going, it seems equally likely that its people in authority acting in similar fashion with similar goals without necessarily colluding towards those goals.

In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.

To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Our system of government prohibits the creation of a federalised police force, and forbids federal or militarised involvement in municipal peacekeeping.

I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors’, city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.

2. Wolf’s list of what the #OWS people want is a bit weird: she’s presenting her findings as somehow being a definitive and exhaustive list of what the protestors want, but other journalists and academics have come up with different lists (or come to the conclusion that there is no one set of take home messages).

That is, until I found out what it was that OWS actually wanted.

The mainstream media was declaring continually “OWS has no message”. Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online “What is it you want?” answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.

The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.

I’ve actually become increasingly wary of Wolf post her support for the claim that Assange’s sexual assault allegations are a honeytrap. This seems like more of that kind of analysis.

Our discussion then went on to the topic of Denver Airport (which apparently lays out, in the artwork on its walls, the New World Order’s plan for human domination), but it set me to thinking. Wolf is engaging in the same kind of joining the dots that people like David Icke engage in. Indeed, she even makes this explicit when she writes:

So, when you connect the dots, properly understood, what happened this week is the first battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for now, only one side is choosing violence.

Note how she says “properly understood:” like Icke, she is claiming that if you don’t connect the dots the same way she has, then you don’t have a handle on what is really going on. This is, as some writers on conspiracy theories will remark, the thesis of hidden history. Things are not what they seem, they will say: only when you wear the right kind of conceptual glasses can you see what events really mean in the grand scheme of things.

Now, some theses of hidden history will be correct (for example, my beloved Moscow Show Trials example is a classic case of there being a hidden history behind the official explanation of what happened in 1930s Soviet Russia), but you need more of an argument for such a claim than the one Wolf is offering. Her argument seems to be the standard “America is an awful place, one under the thrall of the monied classes: therefore, the oppression of #OWS must be a conspiracy to shut up the 1%,” which may be true but also might not be. You could run an institutional analysis here which explains the same set of data but doesn’t mention conspiratorial behaviour. To warrant the inference to the existence of a conspiracy you need to show that conspiratorial activity is the most likely explanation of the event.

Wolf does not do that. Indeed, she seems to not only present a simple answer to the question “What is going on with the crackdown on #OWS?” as the explanation but also claims that it is the only candidate explanation worth considering. That is, frankly, not good enough. Yeah, sure, I agree that America is a terrible place and the monied classes have far too much power. I agree that it’s possible that, at some level, there is collusion going on to stop the #OWS protests. That doesn’t mean I think the crackdown is necessarily conspiratorial: there are a host of rival explanatory hypotheses which are consistent with those beliefs in which the people in power are acting in their own interests without necessarily having to organise a co-ordinated response, in secret.

And, most importantly, I’m willing to debate some of my assumptions about America and its internal power dynamics.

Claims of conspiracy are not just hard to prove but they should not be made lightly. Especially when you have a recognised pulpit and an adoring crowd.

Message ends.

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The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 2

by Matthew Dentith Posted on 24 November, 2011

Table of contents for The Lion Sleeps No More

  1. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke
  2. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 2
  3. The Lion Sleeps No More – My Life with Icke – Part 3
  4. My Life With Icke – Part 4
  5. My Life With Icke – Part 5
  6. My Life with Icke – Errata

Infinite Consciousness and the Subjective Experience – Eastern Mysticism-cum-Phenomenalism by another name

As section titles go, the one that belongs to this section is both very long and very very wanky. It is, however, much shorter than Icke’s three hour introduction to his philosophical (not necessarily, at this stage conspiratorial) position and, despite the wank inherent in the language I have used (and will continue to use in this post), it is, I think, a succinct and accurate take with respect to the general tenor of Icke’s thesis about how the world is (and why it looks different).

Now, if you’re reading this series of posts expecting talk of reptilian shape-shifters, Zionist conspiracies and why the Moon is both a spaceship and a radio amplifier, then you might want to skip to the next part. That exciting material was the subject of sections two and three of Icke’s eleven hour talk, and they will be the subject of the next two posts.

If you only like reptiles and don’t like philosophy, skip ahead.

I won’t be offended, honest.

And what teachings they are. Icke’s philosophical thesis about what constitutes human identity and potential is a kind of co-opted Eastern mysticism, of the type that littered other such conspiracy and UFO theories in the 60s and 70s (such as the Hidden Masters thesis). It’s also similar to the phenomenalism that was popular at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th Century.

Icke believes the world in which we live is illusory and that there are multiple levels of existence:

  1. The Vibrational,
  2. The Electrical,
  3. The Digital and
  4. The Holographic/Hologrammatic (Icke used both terms interchangeably)

Each level of existence sits on top of another, so the hologrammatic is above the digital, the digital is a level above the electrical and so forth.

These levels have different vibrational frequencies and densities (ala the theory that drives most of the Hidden Masters thesis) and having limited access to just one of these levels means we cannot see how the world is really constituted. For example, we are stuck, perceptually, in the holographic level of existence.

The different (nested) levels of reality allows Icke to tell a story about the existence of other entities, life on other planets, the non-existence of resource scarcity and the like, as well as explain how some entities can control how we perceive the world.

For example, the hybrids (more on them next time) can look both human and reptilian due to the holographic nature of the reality in which we live. Paranormal activity, for example, is activity from one reality being decoded by entities in this reality.

Icke’s use of terms like “hologrammatic,” “digital” and the like seem like buzzwords designed to add a technologic gloss to what is a rather old-fashioned perversion of Eastern-style mysticism, but they do play a functional role in his theory. Icke’s theory of the prison planet (the limited holographic perception of reality we labour under) is based upon us not being able to see the more fundamental layers of reality/what is real. He argues that the physical world is illusory and everything is just the expression of an infinite consciousness which is engaged in having subjective experiences. We are all one but we do not realise that we are all one because we are imprisoned in a holographic version of reality controlled by outside forces (those pesky lizards and their kin).

What is real (which is a problematic concept for Icke, as we will see), is energy, pure and simple.

Energy comes in many forms, but fundamentally it’s a vibration (or so it is alleged), and a more limited form of that kind of vibrational energy is electrical, and so forth, eventually producing the holographic (and illusory) world in which we live.

These vibrations makes up the appearance of an external world, in which we live.

Now, it’s hard to reconcile his talk about there being an external world which is illusory and thus the result of an act of willing (i.e. a subjective experience) by some aspect of infinite consciousness with his constant talk about particular scientific claims supporting his views (such as the smiliarity between the arcs of lightning in a plasma ball and the structure of some nebulae). If the external world is illusory, why should:

a) it be so consistent and

b) “facts” about an illusory world provide support for Icke’s ontology about how the real world functions?

Indeed, the problem seems to be even more fundamental: people like Icke, who are holistic thinkers, can piece together the information present in the illusory world to discover the truth of how things really are. But how? We live in not just an illusory world, but one that is a sensory prison? Why think that anything in the illusion resembles a fundamental truth?

Now, Icke has an answer to this, which is based in his quite archaic and frankly weird physio-epistemological theory, about hearts and minds.

He claims the heart, for example, is the vessel for knowing things (well, the true nature of things) intuitively, whilst the limited brain/mind (which is not consciousness, which is infinite and unlimited) merely believes things. This is an interesting model because Icke buys some version of the justified belief model with respect to knowledge, in that the mind can be justified in its beliefs but cannot know in the sense that the heart, which is an intuition-pump (a philosophical joke. Thank you), can know. Icke’s argument must be, if his notion of being able to know the truth of what is beyond the mental prison of our five-sense reality is in any way meaningful, that intuitive knowledge (of the heart) gives us knowledge claims about the other realities, whilst the justified beliefs of the mind are limited to beliefs about the holographic level (the prison planet).

His notion of the heart intuitively knowing is some kind of notion that the heart has direct connection to the truth. You could say that Icke is a Foundationalist (in re epistemology) about the heart and a reliabilist about the mind1.

Icke extends his skepticism of the external world to belief in the existence of temporal states: he believes only the present exists (he is a presentist, in Philosophy of Time style talk) but he allows that some entities can see how future present states will be because the present extends to all moments in time. Icke extends the now to encompass all events at all times, which is how he can reconcile the claim that the past and future do not exist yet refer both to past events as suggesting his thesis is true and claim that the Illuminati (those shape-shifting reptiles I keep promising to talk about) can see the future. His analogy (and he is fond of illustrative analogies masquerading as arguments from analogy) is that of a movie on a DVD: all the information is encoded on the DVD but we only see it frame by frame. The Illuminati (and their ilk) can see it all at once (for time, in a future/past sense, is an illusion of the holographic layer of reality).

In essence, Icke’s thesis about time is both functional and consistent (because it fits in with his notion of infinite consciousness: the experience of time as a linear thing is a limitation of our experience rather than a fact about how the world is) but also useless: his thesis about time does not tell us anything particularly interesting because all he has done is move the past and the future into a vague notion of the “present.”

You could ask how Icke knows any of this? Well, aside from being a holistic thinker of the heart, Icke also believes that synchronicity is an important factor in working out how to break free of the prison planet. Icke places a lot of importance on events being meaningfully connected: he reads a book on psychics and then have a vision. He wonders whether the moon is a spaceship and then reads an article the ext day which says that it must be: these events are not just coincidental but connected in a meaningful way.

Icke’s thesis of synchronicity is hard for a skeptic like me to comprehend, because coincidences are meaningless if you don’t have a theory which connects them to the truth or reliability of some process. Icke, admittedly, has such a theory (intuition gives us knowledge beyond that of the prison of our five-sense reality), but I’m not convinced by this theory, so the synchronicity between Icke having an idea and then finding out more about it (or that someone has been there first) is not, in itself, a case for the idea being true (nor is is proof that there is something linking the two events: you can’t use synchronicity to prove the existence of synchronicity as that is viciously circular reasoning).

There is another issue: Icke seems to be satisfied to find one supporting reference for his idea as being reason to consider the idea seriously. There are multiple problems with this. The first is that he often finds quite old supporting literature (his anthropological support for a universal snake worship in early human societies comes from the 1930s: surely if the idea has merit there would be more recent publications?), he often finds one dissenting view (which shows, it seems, that everyone else was either told to shut up or actively engaged in shutting up the dissenter), he’s inconsistent with his use of science (anything which support his view must be true and anything which goes against his views must be scientists either engaging in or having the conspiracy used against them) and he often misrepresents (I think unwittingly) positions (his theory of there being no physical existence and everything being EMF is only superficially similar to the quantum story about the existence of physical objects in the realm of the macro). For example, he presents the results of stage hypnotism as proof positive that hypnotists can change our perception of reality, which would support his theory if there weren’t a fairly good rival explanation, which is that stage hypnotism isn’t hypnotism in the sense of mesmerism but rather people pretending to be persuaded they are a chicken because acting up under the guise of being hypnotised.

He tries to have it both ways: science fails to see the whole picture and is part of the plot to dumb us down but this bit of science here… that shows that what he is saying must be true.

Of course, that could be considered unfair: Icke can have it both ways. It is possible that some scientists, thinking in part with their hearts, can see the bigger picture. Some scentists might, albeit it unwittingly, be seeing the bigger picture. However, this does seem to make Icke’s unfalsifiable thesis all the more unfalsifiable, as I will talk about later. He wants to use science when science serves his purpose and he criticises any science which doesn’t adhere to how he thinks the world works.

I am certain that Icke not only believes that his theory sounds mad, bad and crazy to know, but that if you bothered to investigate it, you’d agree with his many weird assumptions, because he is sure, because of the synchronic connection between all things, that the only way to explain such connections is because they are meant to be that way (as opposed to my thesis, which is that you can always connect two events if you are creative)NAND thus they are axiomatically true. Scientists, who think with their heads and rarely with their hearts, are unable to connect the dots: they are not holistic thinkers. Indeed, science solely exists to control, manipulate and eliminate imagination (except when it describes findings consistent with Icke’s views).

One thing I should note (and perhaps I should have mentioned it earlier): Icke made a point very early on in the lecture that he was only presenting what he suspects to be the truth. This is important, because prior to seeing Icke speak I assumed he was a mere aggregator of conspiracy theories but now I see that he has a research programme (albeit a degenerating one) and he is willing to admit (like he does about his views expressed in that famous Wogan interview) that he might (and has been) wrong.

Icke spent nearly three hours on this material, and the basic thesis is fairly simple: the physical world is illusory and what really exists is just an aspect of an infinite consciousness which is having/undergoing individuated and subjective experiences. Whilst he also talks about there being levels of existence/reality, these just exist to explain why it is people, like me, can’t see what is really happening behind the scenes. I am a prisoner of five-sense reality, a slave to the hologrammatic representation imposed upon us by the Illuminati.

More on them, a lot more on them, next time.

Notes

  1. Knowledge is not just located in the brain and heart, however: Icke also claims that we can inherit information via organ transplants (and presumably blood transfusions), which either means the mind or heart is extended over the body or organs store particular information (Does the liver, say, store cocktail recipes? The feet your favourite walks? The hand your favourite crushes?).
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