David Icke is a man whose name is often accompanied by controversy.
Once a professional footballer then sports commentator, David now focuses his energy on lifting the veil of perceived common knowledge.
After spending a quarter of a century researching and writing in excess of 20 publications, David is coming to Australia as part of his 'World Wide Wake Up' tour. “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,” David says.
“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."
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A crucial part of this for David, was delving into his research with a completely 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 argues that even alternative media only tentatively paws at the surface of contrasting perceptions. "My way of doing things is to start off with the premise that anything is possible," he says.
Some of Icke's ideas have been met with extreme hostility and condemnation. Perhaps most notoriously has been the concept of reptilian humanoids forming a secret and totalitarian society. While this is a lot to swallow at first glance, David is not one to make such claims without ample research. “I'm not ruling out anything, so long as it can justify itself by evidence and accumulation of facts. 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.”
David is acutely aware that not all of his theories are readily accepted. “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.
"When you look at a lifetime, you see that it's actually a lifetime of perception programming. 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."
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David proposes this is perpetuated at all levels of education through to the workforce, in a never-ending download of perceived norms as 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,” explains David.
"Because they've downloaded the version of normal, and you're challenging it.”
According to David the largest hurdle faced by society is this lack of perception. “We see an absolutely laughable, 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?”
Recently Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron mentioned David, in the accusation of a conspiracy behind keeping Britain in the European Union. Though not usually one to respond to critics, in this instance David could not resist. "I felt no hesitation responding to a political puppet, and I never will," Icke says. "People hold some of these political figures in awe. What are they? They're just puppets doing the job of a hidden force."
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Though David doesn't solely concentrate his focus on events within Europe. He argues that many of the issues society is facing are happening simultaneously and on a global scale. "If I come into any country, the same things are happening," David 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 David's 'World Wide Wake Up' tour is not to impose a sense of impending dread, but to allow people to perceive the world in a different way. "People shouldn't think that they're coming along to hear doom and gloom," he explains.
"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."
David also emphasises that he never tries to enforce his beliefs on others. "I'm not a teacher," he asserts. "I am a researcher who communicates information for people to make of what they choose.
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“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 Tour Dates
Sat 9 Jul - Perth RacecourceSat 16 Jul - Sydney Town Hall
Sat 23 Jul - Logan Metro Sports Centre (Brisbane)
Sat 30 Jul - MCEC Plenary (Melbourne)
