David
Icke Satsang Sep 7, 2003
(Satsang of the Tyrant Lizards)
This past Sunday (Sept. 7) I attended a lecture given by David
Icke (pronounced "Ike") in Seattle. Though most on this
list would not accept him as a spiritual teacher giving Satsang, I
found that this 7-hour lecture to his adoring local fan-base was
basically just a form of Satsang (to that audience).
Maybe we need to open our brains further as to who constitutes a
spiritual teacher.
High-level summary for those not familiar with Icke: He is a
British former athlete and media personality, who underwent a
personal spiritual transformation and shed his lite-weight
establishment career and identity and shape-shifted into a New
Age/Conspiracy luminary. He basically champions a fairly standard
theoretical line involving a Babylonian (or earlier) religious
cult whose symbols and purposes are said to underlie all current
major human events. The cult has been carried forward over
centuries by various (human) secret societies, fitting the
standard paranoid typologies (Knights Templar, Illuminati,
Freemasons, etc.) The uber- puppetmasters said to stand behind the
foregoing human initiates are alien reptiles based in an adjacent
non-physical dimension who are really calling the shots and ruling
via the Illuminati etc. insider/elite human proxies. The
motivation is said to be simple survival, and they (the
inter-dimensional reptiles) are said to believe that achieving
total control of humanity will assure them a good energy source
(low grade emotions such as guilt, fear, stress, anger, hatred,
envy, and what have you) for eons to come.
Based his championship of the forgoing analysis, Icke has
frequently been accused of being anti-Semitic, and that perception
has led to occasional rowdy protests and scattered violence and
police actions at some of his venues, particularly in Canada. I'll
say up front that in his 7 hour presentation, there was no overt
hint of any form of anti-Semitism, at least as superficially
understood. Of course, anybody can treat any term X as a coded
cover term for Y, so ultimately it's an impossible charge to
refute.
In style, Icke is extremely attractive and likable. He's an
energetic, humorous, unpretentious and engaging speaker. He was
brimming over with material, and he practically had to be dragged
off the stage by the organizers after having run overtime by more
than an hour. He comes across as a passionate and sincere believer
in his own theories and as someone deeply morally outraged by the
predations of the powerful on the weak (e.g. Afghan children
who've had their brains sucked out of their skulls by USA ordnance
- of which he served up plentiful photos). But he has an
appealingly genuine sense of humor and a lot of perspective on
himself (joking casually about how silly he appears to
intellectual sophisticates). He's his own man, attractively
undefensive and unconcerned with what others may think of him.
The talk itself, while unfailingly entertaining, was hardly a
model of clarity, originality, deep thought, or basic logic. Some
of the graphics were interesting, but the intellectual content was
mostly a pastiche of recycled New Age and conspiracy stuff taken
from a large variety of pre-existing sources.
In the first major segment, he traced the history of occult
symbolism from Babylon through Medieval and Enlightenment Europe
to Colonial and present day America. A few interesting factoids in
that. In the second segment, he reviewed clear and nearly
incontrovertible evidence that the events of 9-11 were an inside
job staged by the USA's military-government for their own goals
and aggrandizement. That stuff is for real, and appeared to shock
a big portion of the audience apparently hearing it for the first
time. But I've been aware for quite a while that the standard
official cartoon narrative of "Boxcutter 9-11" with its
19 insane, freedom-hating Arab villains, opposed by various
hapless American Heroes, is just pure Hollywood, all fiction.
Cleary 9-11 was an inside job, perpetrated by the American black
ops community. We don't need Babylonian lizard bloodlines to see
that one a mile away! The final segment covered more details on
the whole Lizard/Reptile thing, and its apparent recurrence as a
strong theme in many world cultures (such as the ancient Zulu
tribe of Africa, etc.)
Well! What can one say? One thing I can say is that most people,
whatever their religious/political/spiritual orientation are not
too strong when it comes to basic logic. This audience was no
exception. For example, Icke traced the elite
"bloodlines" of the semi- reptilian human in-between
aristocratic families who supposedly have a specialized DNA
enabling them to straddle dimensions and achieve extraordinary
powers and influence within, in fact total mastery of, the human
world. The strongest specific example given is supposedly the Bush
family, one of the purest of these alien/human hybrid DNA
bloodlines. OK supposedly these bloodlines lead to the very
highest capabilities of intellectual and practical mastery of the
world, right? No small achievement, and bespeaking a kind of
brilliant (though evil) intelligence, one would suppose. Yet Bush
(W) was also constantly ridiculed throughout the talk as having
the intellect of an empty beer can or a chimpanzee. Is that the
culmination of 10,000 years of careful prime breeding? There are
many other such inconsistencies Somebody needs to reconcile all
the loose ends in these theories.
Overall, I felt the presentation (leaving aside overt
anti-Semitism) gives rise to a strong mentality of "Us (good)
vs. Them (bad)". Again there was no overt anti-Semitism, that
isn't the point. The point is that it is SO easy to get any group
of humans feeling "we are good, they are bad". And this
was no exception! Everybody laughing at Bush and the evil
controlling reptiles for having fucked up the world so much, and
nobody looking in the mirror to ask themselves Do I eat?
(agriculture has despoiled the planet); Do I use petroleum in any
form? (energy demands motivate wars); etc.
In any case, why did I say it was a form of Satsang? In his last
hour or so, Icke transitioned to a higher-order theme, saying that
he's just recently come to understand that all regular people,
human elites, and even inter-dimensional reptile puppetmasters are
all just forms of illusory individualized consciousness, temporary
waves of mental form surging briefly from the ocean of
undifferentiated awareness (sound familiar?) And that deep within,
all the forgoing are basically good, just ignorant. He went on in
this vein every powerfully, the hall grew even more still, the
emotional tone of the crowd really resonated. It was a spiritual
experience; I felt it as such myself.
He ended on an emotional peak, with a final simple slide that he
feelingly read to us, repeating three times as follows his most
recent realization:
INFINITE LOVE IS THE ONLY REALITY.
EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING ELSE … IS AN
ILLUSION.
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