In shows from previous years, David would spend a portion of the production describing his earlier transition out of the normal bloke, he once was, into the new shell. A new shell who saw another version of existence. David is now confident enough in his established presence, that he no longer needs 2 hours to explain who he is and how he got here. This opens up more time for him to present the information the audience wanted to hear.
The astounding thing about David, for me, is his unrelenting drive and compulsion to tell people the truth as he sees it. Not only that, but the lengths he has gone, in terms of time and travel, to leave no stone uncovered in his research into his subject.
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I am happy to admit that I listen to David for hours on end. His style is engaging, and his vibe is always based in the a positive outcome for people. In his books, David goes into incredible detail about world events that have shocked huge numbers of people. He also describes his own path the present day. What amazes, perhaps more than the subject matter, is the unrelenting energy and drive that David seems to have.
As I sat and listened to David talk on Saturday, as I have sat and read his books, for hours on end, the lingering question in my head is overwhelmingly "why bother" and "what keeps you going?"
The simple answer could simply be genuine enjoyment. It could be a bitter revenge complex against the agitators during his early renaissance - Wogan etc. As it turns out, David was well on his way long before Wogan invited him on his vehicle. David was already in full flow by then, having released a book to which he still refers in his most recent speeches.
This is the other thing with David. I am a complete sceptic about everything. I always have been. I take nothing at face value, and never did. At school, I always wanted to question the teacher on everything I heard. In a class at university in 1994, I asked the teacher why all computers had to be a grey white colour? What's wrong with blue, yellow, pink and red? Nobody else was asking that question. As I discovered, scepticism and questioning - an open mind - was not the best mindset on which to base an attempt on successful exam grades. While others around me worked studiously in pursuit of top grades, I would find myself seated in my exams, without a pen in my hand for most of the time, looking down at the exam paper, looking around the room contemplating "what am I doing here?", and feeling a compelling sense that this is all wrong. I'm sure others felt the same, only, I was the only one sat back in my chair while everyone else held their heads down and vigorously scribbling their answers.
My experience of education fizzled out towards my mid-teens. As I matured, my scepticism increased, and my desire to pause on one thought, to wander off, left me behind the rest. Again, in A-Level maths, while the others were taking it all in and racing through the theory, my wandering mind was slowing me down.
"Sir, could you go back over that again? I was thinking about something more interesting."
"There's no time..." replied the teacher.
Asking questions was not encouraged throughout my school days. And certainly not during assembly. I was, by all accounts, never afraid of the god presented to me through occasional church visits and school assemblies and prayers. I found prayers and hymns a chance to make jokes and snigger at the ceremony of it. I always found the lyrics at best, old fashioned and, mostly at worst, ludicrous.
"Ev'ry knee shall bow" and "Onward christian soldiers". In fairness, I quite enjoyed singing in groups, but this was all about the noise and the harmonies, and the sharing of an experience. That is my abiding memory of school. The banter, the friends, the team sport, the jokes and the characters you met along the way. I enjoyed learning until my scepticism stepped in, and stopped me accepting what I was told to do, and questioned every step. This would cripple my education.
When I picked up on David Icke's work around the year 2000, I had already been searching for answers to my scepticism. More and more, I felt strong in my opinions and my philosophical stance, yet I was acutely aware that they didn't flow along with most people. In my view, most people were, to a great extent, flowing along, ticking over, and seemingly enjoying it as they went. At the same time, I was still feeling crippled by this ingrained scepticism and desire to question. A general dissatisfaction until I found a way to understand a thing, a thought, a decision or an action. It would be easy to say that my scepticism has at times brought my life to a standstill, as I hesitate at each minute junction of life, before proceeding.
In David Icke, I find an outlet for my scepticism, in a chap who seems to have unlimited scepticism in all that goes on around him. A man who will not take things at face value. A man who wants to dig into a subject, as far as it goes, before deciding he is satisfied that the random dots are starting to connect.
At this point, I want to define scepticism, as I am using the term here.
"generally any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere"
Or, in terms of philospohical scepticism
"an overall approach that requires all information to be well supported by evidence.....Sceptics may even doubt the reliability of their own senses."
I also add that David is a man who chooses to make up his own mind about everything. It may be argued, by his critics, that David himself lays down a dogma which he asks people to "believe" ahead of anything they hear from the mainstream. In doing so, he would be contradicting his own mantra. The fact is, that David clearly states that he couldn't care less what you think, he only asks you to listen to what he has to say. As such, there is no consequence, no contract, no conditions and no behaviour - ritual - to which one must commit in order to listen to David. It is up to you.
- Alex Collier speaks in 1996 about his knowledge gleaned from people from the Andromeda system during a meeting with them. This is an another account of an otherwise normal, busy, hard working man, running a successful accounting business, who, after an experience, walked away forever, realising how futile his life had been up to that point, and started recounting his experience and new knowledge. Click the pic to go to the presentation.
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