David Icke is a man whose name is often accompanied by controversy.
Once a professional footballer, then a sports commentator, Icke now focuses his energies on lifting the veil of perceived common knowledge. After spending a quarter of a century researching and writing in excess of 20 publications, the British conspiracy theorist and speaker is coming to Australia as part of his Worldwide Wake Up Tour.
Some of Icke’s ideas have been met with extreme hostility and condemnation. Perhaps most notorious has been his concept of reptilian humanoids forming a secret and totalitarian society that has already exerted its influence on major governments around the world. Icke has also developed a theory that the Moon is an artificial construction designed to help enslave the human race. These might be far-fetched ideas, but Icke stands by them.
“What I’ve been doing for the past 26 years is communicating information, having researched it, that people won’t get in the mainstream media,” says Icke. “I set out my journey to find out what was going on in the world. What was going on behind world events, and behind the direction the world was taking.”
A crucial part of this has been delving into research with what Icke says is an open mind.
“Once you start to research or uncover something and you have preconceived ideas or places that you won’t go, or things you won’t talk about, you’re not going to get very far,” he says.
In Icke’s view, even alternative media only paws tentatively at the surface of contrasting perceptions. “My way of doing things is to start off with the premise that anything is possible.”
It can be a lot to swallow, but Icke says his theories are based in evidence. “I’m not ruling out anything, so long as it can justify itself by evidence and accumulation of facts,” he insists. “I not only look at what’s happening in the world and why on the level we can see, but at what’s happening behind that – what’s in the hidden and what produces the events that we see.”
Icke is acutely aware that not all his theories are readily accepted by the mainstream. “When I’m talking about the non-human manipulation of human society, people have a bigger problem with that than about the whole world being manipulated in terms of secret societies and political cartels,” he argues.
“When you look at a lifetime, you see that it’s actually a lifetime of perception programming. And it’s perception programming within a tiny, pea-sized range of possibility. Children come out of the womb and immediately are influenced in terms of their perceptions of everything by their parents.”
Icke proposes that this ‘perception program’ is perpetuated at all levels of education through to the workforce, in what he sees as a never-ending download of perceived norms dictated by the state. “If you start to question this version of normal, immediately your peers, parents, people around you start to either ridicule, dismiss or condemn, or think you’re strange,” he says. “Because they’ve downloaded the version of normal, and you’re challenging it.”
It follows that, according to Icke, society’s biggest obstacle to enlightenment is its lack of perception. “We see an absolutely laughably tiny range of frequency, which we can perceive as a visual world. The entirety of what mainstream science says exists in this universe is matter and energy we cannot see. Is it more credible there are endless forms of life that don’t look like humans, that exist outside of the fraction we can see? Or is it more credible that humans as we know them on this one little tiny planet in this great infinity are the only form of what we call intelligent life?”
In the recent debate over Britain’s membership of the European Union, Icke drew the ire of UK Prime Minister David Cameron. (“I felt no hesitation responding to a political puppet, and I never will,” says Icke.) However, the issues Icke addresses stretch beyond his home continent. “If I come into any country, the same things are happening,” he says. “I follow the news in Australia and I’m shaking my head. What’s happening there is happening in Britain, in the United States, in France.”
However, it’s not all bad news. The main goal of Icke’s Worldwide Wake Up tour is not to impose a sense of impending dread, or even to convince every audience member to subscribe to his theories, but simply to encourage people to see their world differently. “People shouldn’t think that they’re coming along to hear doom and gloom. The whole day ends in a tremendously positive way, in terms of what we can do about this and how we can change it. What people must realise is that one of the great solutions to what is happening is to know what is happening.
“I’m not a teacher,” he concludes. “I am a researcher who communicates information for people to make of what they choose. I’m not going around standing on a stage saying, ‘I’ve got all the answers, you must believe me.’ I’m saying, ‘Here is 26 years of full-time research, and all the evidence unfolding to show that it’s true.’ The world doesn’t need anyone else to stand up and say that – we’re drowning in those people. That’s how we got into this mess.”
David Icke ’s Worldwide Wake Up tourtakes place atSydney Town Hall onSaturday July 16.
