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Summary: There is some truth in this book
Review: Some truth hidden here among a vast sea of
intellectual tumbleweed.
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Summary: good but hardly anything new
Review: The contents of this book that goes on to describe the most incredible things such as the illuminati, reptiles, satanic sacrifices and all the rest seems to strike some people as so incredible as to be fiction. However most of the book is nothing new and any researcher who digs deep enough will find such things and even stranger. Icke is to be commended because he is one of the few researchers who does what a researcher is supposed to do and that is to look at ALL the evidence and not just part of it to find truth. He presents the evidence and you decide the truth. I found his evidence compelling but there needs to be more to give it a probabilty of truth. Whoever said that truth is stranger than fiction surely knew how profound truth is. As fantastic as Ickes claims are they could be true and what a strange world if they are.
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Summary: Science Fiction
Review: Interesting concepts. Perhaps another version minus the lizards. This is about incredible (and believable as alien abduction and ufo's) It is an interesting idea but not necessarily one that I would subscribe to. Long!!
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Summary: No Lizards Please!
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it was hard to put down. Unfortunately, I cannot share this with my loved ones, as it would confirm their thoughts on my (in)sanity. I wonder if the author has considered publishing a 'no lizard' version of the book?! Great food for thought!
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Summary: Some of You Reviewers Are Using Your Reptilian Minds!
Review: Some reviewers who think they are debunking David Icke's work keep inadvertently reinforcing it! He states that among the characteristics of the reptilian brain are "slavish conformance to old ways of doing things," and "obesiance to precedent, as in legal, religious, cultural and other matters." So now we have reviewers in reptilian consciousness harrumphing and making a great flap over "references." Ever heard of a new idea, folks? Mr. Icke is deliving new, cutting edge ideas. They aren't in the moldy books in your college library yet. By the time they are, they will be obsolete because institutions are the last to embrace a new idea. It has to be an old idea by the time they "get it." Let's move out of that consciousness and evaluate ideas according to whether they make sense and resonate for us, instead of blindly relying on the existing system and automatically rejecting (generally via ridicule) everything that falls outside the tight confines of what little we already know, or has been force-fed to us by our educational system. Mr. Icke may turn out to be wrong in his interpretation of some of these matters, but he's had the courage to put his findings out there for us to examine, and it doesn't seem possible that this many coincidences could amount to absolutely nothing. He is following threads and discovering that they lead to an overall pattern or design. We need to start paying attention instead of fussing like a pack of old fuddy duddies over "references"! He may at times have drawn the wrong conclusion, but there's little doubt that something is going on here. Let's work on figuring out what it is, instead of indulging in automatic reptilian rejections of anything new or different from what we already know. The whole point of Mr. Icke's work is that we must stop doing this because it's exactly what makes us easy to manipulate. We believe that, to be valid, any idea has to be bolstered by a bunch of old ideas. This is fallacious. We find out every day that some old idea accepted by the establishment has turned out to be completely wrong. People used to fervently believe that using leeches for bloodletting was the way to cure disease. This was staunchly supported by the medical establishment, and everyone could validate this idea with "references" in libraries. Was this a valid idea? No. It was ridiculous. So let's evaluate this information on our own, think for ourselves, and stop assuming that every old idea is right and any new idea must be wrong. Equally childish is the uncritical acceptance of every new idea, simply because it's new. Let's take a mature, balanced look at these new possibilities. If they are true, more evidence will emerge to support them. If not, they will fade into oblivion. So be alert to what's going on in the world and see what's emerging that might support or refute Mr. Icke's ideas. We may find that he is right on some counts but has misinterpreted or misunderstood his findings in other areas. I feel certain that Mr. Icke himself will correct his course as new information surfaces should it turn out to negate any of his present suppositions. Right now, he's an explorer in brand new territory and, as such, is bound to take a few missteps. He is to be lauded for daring to venture into new territory and forcing us to expand our current perceptions and see new possibilities. Even if he should turn out to be wrong, a mind, once expanded, never returns to its original limits. He's making us think! This is a rare event these days, particularly in our schools. David Icke isn't asking us to believe, just to think. If you are uncomfortable with thinking, then you are part of the problem Mr. Icke is detailing for us in his books. If so, you need to think about that, about a system that has you so conditioned to never going outside its boundaries that a new concept is instantly rejected because it doesn't fit into your current programming. If you got nothing more than this important bit of self-knowledge from reading Mr. Icke's books, your money has been well-spent. Ridicule is fear. Considering new ideas, no matter how far-out, is not dangerous, but being afraid to do so is, because you can easily be controlled whenever you're operating in the reptilian part of the brain that governs fear.
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Summary: Good information, but some misplaced conclusions
Review: This would have been a much better book if Mr Icke could keep a rap on his emotions and explitives (if you know what I mean) and just kept to facts. The later chapters of the book are very interesting and I somewhat agree with what I have personally experienced spirituality. However, there are certain parts of the book in which I think Mr Icke has got some of his conclusions (based upon his speculation) wrong, especially in regard with the formation of Christianity. Christianity was mainly formed under the reign of Constantine in order to help unite the Roman Empire together since the various religious groups were tearing the empire apart. Christianity was a meld of a whole lot of religious pieced together so as to satisfy all religious groups (except for the radicals, but Constantine supressed them). Initially, the role of the messiah was to be named 'Zeus', but the Jews were against this, so a common name (a roman word meaning he/she), was chosen - hence Jesus (yes, I also know there is an aramic origin to this word as well). Much of the story of Jesus was in fact based upon a person known as 'Appolonius of Tyana'. Though the story was also based a whole lot on mythology of varying personalities put into one individual. So not everything is necessarily entire created (or based) entirely upon this secret brotherhood that he keeps talking about. I still think it is at least worth reading for the last 2 chapters. Especially if you're into spiritual concepts.
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Summary: not letting the facts stand in the way...
Review: The author has taken a very serious subject (the secret government, which is indeed quite real), and made a mockery of it by repeating any outrageous, ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous story he has heard as if it were fact, without any concern about documentation of such accounts. Let's look at some of these claims: Hillary Clinton and other top politicians are shape-shifted, blood drinking, child raping reptilian aliens (couldn't Hillary have created a better body for herself?). The federal building in Oklahoma City was blown up by the FBI to sacrifice the children in a satanic ceremony (I guess the deaths of the adults and destruction of their own building were simply "collateral damage"). JFK was alive as late as the spring following his assassination (his grey matter seen flying through the air in the Zapruder film must not have been enough to kill him). Hitler was alive and well in the United States as late as 1960 (need anything more be said?). The Disney Corporation is a satanic organization that uses its parks to abduct children for satanic sacrifice (are there any statistics to show that any more children disappear in their parks than anywhere else?).The reader using critical thinking processes can easily prove many of his assertions to be preposterous. For example, he states that Pike's Peak, Colorado is in Jefferson County, named for Albert Pike, and lies just across the border from Arkansas. Pike's Peak is in El Paso County, is named for the explorer who discovered it, Zebulon Pike, and Colorado does not share any border with Arkansas. He states that once Phillips Labs created a hand-held laser, cattle mutilations increased. As a cattle mutilation researcher who has seen this laser operate, I can tell you that it does not have anywhere near the power to make the incisions I see on the cows. In fact, it would take a generator the size of a refrigerator to power a laser strong enough to make such incisions in a cow's tough hide. He repeats the ridiculous Dulce alien base rumors as if they were fact, mentioning a "gate guard's" story. I have done extensive field research in the area, and can tell you there is not a shred of evidence of any such base, and there is certainly no gate to any underground facility there. In my research, I adhere to the strictest standards of documentation, which is of course absolutely necessary when extraordinary claims are made. I have indeed seen evidence of an organization that was described perfectly by President Woodrow Wilson: "some of the biggest men in the United States...are afraid of somebody, afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." As long as people like Icke write such nonsense, the public as a whole will be offended by the notion of such an organization.
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Summary: David Icke: The P.T. Barnum of Conspiracy Theory!
Review: There is an interesting phenomenon occurring in the field of conspiracy theory akin to that of Hollywood Blockbuster Releases: in order to draw as many people in the seats as possible, the suits of tinsel-town have adopted the process of 'bigger is better.' Thus, the special effects explosions get grander and louder and the story theatrics become more obvious-or 'dumbed down', if you will-so that the Joe Six-Pack audience is not lost halfway through. A direct comparison can be made with those who consume a steady diet of conspiracy theory: jaded by the usual Atlantis/Aliens/Big Brother rhetoric, the readership seeks bigger and better methods for their paranoiac fix; the authors have to formulate facts and accusations of increasingly shocking manner-go _way_ over the top-in order to garner the largest percentage of an especially fickle audience. David Icke is probably one of the biggest purveyors of sensationalistic counter-culture (dis)information out there. With a pearly grin and a twinkle in the eye, he relentlessly pursues the dark and dirty truth about out world leaders...truth, that is, according to people with confirmed clinical mental diseases and fellow conspiracy theorists...and ties them all together in one enormous plot of fantastic proportions. This one's got it all, folks: JFK (the standard), The Illuminati, the symbolic circumstances of Diana's death, the Great Seal, thousands of years of "higher intelligence" influence, and so forth and so on. Not all of what Icke presents here is false; it's fairly obvious that the world is run by a group of wealthy individuals intent on maintaining the current status quo of privileged few/poor junk-glutted masses. But the sheer ludicrous lengths that Icke reaches for-such as the whole 4th dimensional reptilian aliens/servants of Satan meld-and the overall gleeful tone of his expose brings this dangerously close to the level of supermarket tabloids. The largest part of Icke's appeal, I think, stems from his efforts to bring it all together, condensing hundreds of years of historical paranoia into one fat text that explains (almost) everything all at one, in one thorough volume: The Biggest Secret, the bible for the victim consciousness. I've noticed that Icke's loyal readers share similar traits, those being privileged, educated, and rabid consumers of 'out there' material. Having for the most part abandoned the conventional securities of mainstream society (religion, belief in a fair government), they are still seeking some sort of validation method to explain the unexplainable; make perfect sense of human chaos & cruelty. Thus Icke's all-inclusive tome against propaganda and programming is an attractive belief-structure, especially to those who have childhood abuse/post-traumatic syndrome issues; the rampant discourse on pedophilia and power-abuse brings in the flock of hurt and bewildered survivors. You can't fool 'em all the time, but you can get the suckers, and so we have that grinning man in the charlatan's spotlight, the P.T. Barnum of conspiracy theory. Take a bow, Mr. Icke. Three stars for imagination, amusement-factor, and the amazing chutzpah of the author.
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Summary: Can be read two ways...
Review: The first way is to take it seriously. While this will certainly give you insight into how some of the more extreme thinkers operate, it will cause all sorts of confusion as the author blends every conspiracy theory from Velikovsky's "cometary Venus" to what sounds like ideas lifted right from H.P. Lovecraft's mythos. The evidence rests on anecdotes from people who are often of dubious reliability or whose area of knowledge is admittedly story-telling. There are many odd things in this universe, and I am not saying that this is all fabrication, but to take the prevalence of the serpent in mythology/philosophy and use it as "proof" leap to the idea that we are being manipulated by reptiles from outer space and/or other dimensions is a bit much. And like the rallying cry of all good paronoids, if you don't believe it on the strength of his word; you are either deluded or part of the plot. The is very little other concrete evidence for many of his claims other than first person stories he has collects and the Dainakan-like use of images from pre-history. Still it is an interesting look at the flip side of reality. The other way to read this is as a sort of fiction, and as such, I really enjoyed reading it. Not since The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Shea & Wilson) have I seen such a well crafted blending of sheer paronoia on such a scale. I would like to think that the author is having a massive joke on us all, but I know that he is serious. While not dismissing all of his claims, for the power elite do strive to keep us in the dark on most things, the idea of mass human sacrifice is a bit hard to swollow. The leaps of logic and the weak, suggestive evidence, combined with the rough style of writing make this a difficult book to take seriously. And if THEY are so powerful, and have been so entrenched in the basic fabric of our existance-How was this book published and why are any of the participants still alive? Either it is not as damaging to the "Brotherhood's Agenda" as the author believes, or....
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Summary: Forget the Lizards
Review: David Icke's book perhaps would have been better served if he had NOT mentioned the Lizards...as suggested by many of his friends...and all that 'Satanic rites stuff'. It might have shifted the focus to the real issue ... of the total manipulation and exploitation of the whole human race by a select few. The book contains enough well documented evidence to perhaps lead us to our own realization...that not all is right ? My previous (unpublished) review made reference to just a couple of items which we should all be gravely concerned about - including the real ownership of the US Reserve Bank - which 'dictates' Wall Street and US Economy, Membership of the WEF and IMF, ownership of the IRS which brutally collects illegal taxes (at unknow commission rates) ... and in the still bigger picture - the real origins and global influence of the Rothschilds? Perhaps therein lies the reason for the continuing prominence in your revies of the 'Lizards' ? Makes one wonder how many other reviews, that also point to some of the far more disturbing issues as raised in 'The Biggest Secret', have similarly been ignored ? And why ?
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