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The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World (Updated Second Edition)

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When I first picked up Mr. Icke's book I was a bit turned off thinking it just another conspiracy theory rambling. However, the information about Princess Diana intrigued me and eventually, I bought the book. I must admit I have never been so disgusted and enlightened by anything I have ever read. My life is a fully conscious, positive experience by choice and frankly, I did not want to give credence to the evil that exists in our world. For this reason the information in the book quite infuriated me, so I had to stop and ask myself why.

There is a saying, perhaps for a reason, that; "...truth is stranger than fiction". I don't agree with some of Mr. Icke's conclusions, such as Jesus having never existed and the negative allusions to Alice A. Bailey, St. Germain, the story of the Wizard of Oz, etc., since my personal experiences in relation to these are too abundant and profound to discount so easily. And with regard to these, I encourage Mr. Icke to make a deeper, inner investment to find further. However, I am not about to paint his entire discourse with a black brush simply because he is strongly opinionated in certain areas.

Having taken the time to digest all the reviews, I wondered: How many of these people actually read his book from cover to cover with an open mind and how many of them have personally visited the places he mentions in the book? In the course of my work, I am privileged to travel extensively and have been to many of these places a number of times. As a sensitive, before ever having read material of this nature, I had experienced physical and emotional negativity in such places (most recently) as Boynton Canyon and Huntsville, in addition to numerous places over the past 10 years throughout Europe and Mexico both mentioned and not, variously in his book.

For instance, each time I passed the mural in the Denver Airport I marveled at how such an abomination came to be displayed in so public an arena. With an influence of this nature in the general vicinity of Columbine High School is it any wonder why two young people would take it upon themselves to massacre their fellow students? Perhaps these two misguided souls had occasion to study the mural and took the symbology literally. Or perhaps, they were victims of mind control tactics, or both. Who knows? Don't kid yourself: symbology is very powerful and it permeates our world.

And what about Waco and Oklahoma City? It is Mr. Icke's contention that both of these events were mass ritual murders perpetrated by our own government. Look at the facts, a pattern is quite obvious: both took place on April 19 exactly two years apart and both events took the lives of innocent people, not the least of which were children! Look even closer on a map and you will see that Waco and Oklahoma City are both directly north and south of one another, with Dallas in the middle no less, the scene of yet another potential "ritual" killing, that like Waco, remains highly controversial to this day. And what do all of these events have in common? They all took place in the "heartland" of our nation and they wounded the collective psyche of people not only in our own country, but around the world. However, I believe it was the death of Princess Diana that proved the most effecting. Granted, the media coverage was grotesque in it's scope but even without it, it is my own experience that the ley line theory is more than mere speculation, and that we are each influenced on the subtlest levels.

The powers that be would love nothing more than to have us all debating the details indefinitely, keeping us distracted from what matters most. What they don't want us to realize is that each of us has massive spiritual power within and always have had. That is why there is so much deliberate misinformation: to confuse us. We need to move beyond pedantic ravings and experience this book as one that must be read between the lines. You can only do that by reading with the heart. Should there be a truly malevolent force that controls the innocent people of this world wouldn't you rather be aware of the possibility? Or will you be one who runs to the government out of fear to "save" you should something momentous occur? People who have cultivated a rich inner, spiritual life and consciously apply that energy in the outer world are the ones who are ultimately the most powerful. In the words of singer Jewel "...the Light is what the darkness most fears". As a collective consciousness we have the power to drive evil off the face of this planet in a tidal wave of Light.

So, if you are even a bit concerned about where our world is headed, do something about it. Learn to take responsibility for every thought you have. Find yourself someone who will teach you to meditate privately or participate in meditation groups and prayer vigils for peace. But please, do not stand on the sidelines wringing your hands ranting about how bad things are and how you wish it were all over because this behavior only compounds the problem. Get off your butt and influence the solution or shut up.

I challenge every person who is capable of reading to experience "The Biggest Secret". Read with the heart, it will serve to enlighten and empower. Read from the ego it will only serve to imprison you further. Therefore, ask for a blessing of genuine understanding in advance and read it if you dare.

David Icke with his horrid mullet haircut and his less than appealing fashion sense has long been a figure of fun in the UK. A couple of days ago I was browsing at my local bookshop when a middle aged couple asked a girl at the counter where they could find this very book. She and her colleagues burst out laughing before directing the blushing pair to the 'new age/occult' section of the store (Icke certainly does not belong to either of these fields). The couple fingered a copy of The Biggest Secret obviously embarrased. They soon left without making a purchase and with their tails between their legs. I had wanted to assure them that it was a worthy read but I stalled for fear of being ridiculed as well, and they had gone before I mustered the courage.

This is significant because believing in what you feel to be right and not being detered by fear of public ridicule is in many ways at the core of what Icke is saying. This is why a NOT impressively endowed Icke pictures himself butt-naked on the cover of 'I am me, I am free'. He is demonstrating that he has liberated himself from the derogatory value judgements of society and the media. They mock him and he happily supplies them with more fuel to continue doing so. For this alone he deserves respect! We all want to be free of the pressure to conform, don't we?

Icke doesn't profess to be someone special. He wants us all to be exposed to the truth, whatever that might be, and to make informed choices about our lives. Each of us can then choose our own individual path. Not some collective path that everyone must follow or suffer the wrath of the majority.

I have heard accusations of anti-semitism levelled at Icke. Well if 'The Biggest Secret' is anything to go by that notion is bollocks (as we say in England). Without question David Icke is an egalatarian, a humanist and a man who believes we should celebrate diversity and treat everybody on the planet with respect and love. The reptilians need love more than anybody he says!

A lot of the criticisms in the reviews below seem to come from defensive christians who feel threatened by Icke's theories. This is understandable. Nobody likes to have their belief system questioned. But Icke in many ways presents a christian point of view. He believes in the eternal soul, he is an incredible pacifist (which you certainly can't say about many christians, despite the teachings of jesus), he believes that god is everywhere, though to him God does not represent an omnipotent individual who requires obsequience and worship as the Gods of all the major religions in the world today do. According to Icke God (or whatever you want to call it) is simply a universal energy that manifests itself as all things tangible and otherwise (including us), and it is entirely neutral morally. This energy can be used in positive ways or negative (for good or evil, if you like). The only thing Icke leaves out is the dogma and the hierarchical structure that is a huge part of all the major religions.

Some of these same reviewers question the quality of his research and the reliability of his sources (I have to say I found his research exhaustive, and exhausting!) perhaps they'd like to challenge their bible on similar grounds?

Another christian reviewer rants that this book is fear based. Ahem, ahem, Hell? Lakes of fire? Eternal damnation? Not to mention all the religious purges and massacres that pepper history. David Icke's book is about freeing yourself from fear! Fear of failing; fear of being unaccepted by the crowd; fear of dying; fear of instability, financial and otherwise. He says the only way to defeat the brotherhood's plan to enslave humanity is to open your hearts to love and leave fear, hate, anger and all the other negative emotions behind. Someone below also suggests that if the reptilian brotherhood really wanted to destroy the world they could just nuke everyone as they are invariably in positions of global power. Did you even read the book? They want global domination, not global destruction. Who the hell are they going to dominate if the waste everybody? Read the book, you might find it interesting.

David Icke is a sincere fella. He asks not that you swallow his theories mindlessly (unlike some other belief systems) and only attempts to give everybody access to earth-shattering information. You can take away what you will. David Icke reiterates that everybody has the right to believe in what they choose as long as they don't try to impose it on others. We don't live in that social climate at the moment.

Personally, I don't embrace all his theories. What I do embrace is the possibility that they are true. I embrace the possibility that there are other possibilities besides those sanctioned by governments, religions, society and particularly the media. This is common sense to anybody, surely?

David Icke is a real humanitarian. The last couple of chapters are wonderfully inspirational. Read this book. It's valuable. It's amazing.

When I first read this book, I thought it was a hoax. Later, I realized that it was seriously meant. Since the book is completely insane, I find it hard to say anything objective about it. Yet, I will give it my best shot.

The author, David Icke, is British and used to be a sports commentator on British TV, commenting both soccer and snooker. Then, he became a spokesperson for the Green Party. Even later, he experienced a spiritual awakening or divine revelation, turning him into a New Age guru of sorts. He began writing books containing various conspiracy theories, including "The Truth Shall Set You Free" and "The Robots Rebellion".

Jewish organizations have accused Icke of anti-Semitism. Anarchists and Trotskyists see him as a fascist, and have busted up his meetings. In Sweden, anarchists abstained from protesting a meeting by Icke only because they regarded him as crazy. A Swedish anti-Semitic group, the Hylozoiks, translated at least one of Icke's books to Swedish. This group believes that Jews are controlled by evil aliens based at Pluto.

In this book, "The Biggest Secret", Icke implicitly distances himself from anti-Semitism by calling the evil force at work in the universe "Aryans". However, he still supports the Christian Patriot movement in the US. While the militias are not necessarily fascist, they are nevertheless a very problematic milieu. Icke might not be "far right", but his ideas can still be used in such contexts. Still, the Hylozoiks took a clue and stopped fronting for Icke.

What are the main ideas of "The Biggest Secret"? Essentialy these: In secret, Earth is ruled by multi-dimensional shape-shifting space aliens, whom Icke dubbes "Aryan reptilians". Tounge in cheek (Icke is one of the few conspiracy theorists with a sense of humor), one of the chapters of the book is titled "Don't mention the reptiles!". Icke believes that the British royal family, many US presidents, Henry Kissinger and even one Mexican president are reptilians who shape-shift to look human. He explicitly compares this to the TV show "V". These evil beings are behind all the world's religions, materialist science, most wars and financial crises, and globalization. The goal is to create a global, evil superstate. The space aliens thrive on hatred, conflict and guilt. Therefore, the solution to the conspiracy is not warfare against them, but a New Age message of Love and Forgiveness. Perhaps this will release even the reptilians in the end.

On one level, this is all wacked. On another level, however, Icke makes fascinating reading. Indeed, Icke has become a pop culture phenomenon. You simply cannot understand conspiracy theory or even New Religious Movements without reading Icke. What makes Icke unique is not so much this or that single idea. Rather, it is the fact that he weaves them all together. "The Biggest Secret" is a virtual smorgosbord of conspiracy theories, where everyone will find something he recognizes and perhaps already believes in, and much that is new besides. Perhaps this explains the stunning success of this book and its sequal "Children of the Matrix", which is very similar.

Some ideas of Icke are derived from established religion. The reptilians are presumably identical to the Asuras of Hinduism or the Archonts of Gnosticism, evil spirit-beings who out of envy want to hinder the salvation of man, keeping him bound in matter. But Icke goes one step further, claiming that the Archonts walk among us, like everyday men. That idea isn't new either. For instance, both Summit Lighthouse and the Hylozoiks claimed that certain people (read Jews) aren't real people, but robot-beings controlled from afar.

Such ideas can lead to genocide if left unchecked. By contrast, Icke is still a New Age guy who believes love is the solution. Thank you, David.

I give this book 5 stars, not because of its ideas, but simply because of Icke's tasty smorgosbord.

I first read this book a year ago. At that time I'd have given it 2 - maybe 3 stars. It was too "out there". I could see enough info I'd already learned from research to not dismiss it - but the ideas were ones I did not want to own. It would have been easier to think it wasn't true. Reptilians? Come on!

But over this year, I've investigated everything from ancient texts to modern news. (The ancient, buried texts are the most revealing.) I've put a million miles in on my cyber journey to study this. I now have two shelves full of notebooks with printed matter. I've spent 10 times the cost of this book in paper and ink and many, many late nights reading.

All that time, all that work, all that reading has brought me to the undeniable conclusion that this book is overwhelmingly true. Terribly true. I only wish we could get the rest of the thinking world to read it. Only armed with knowlege can we change it.

Get the book. Act on it. Finding out the real truth is one of the few hopes we have. Only then can we know the RIGHT direction to save ourselves.

As an Afro-American who has read this book, I thought this work by David Icke is absolutely brilliant! I always knew that the REAL TRUTH will be something that's beyond what we see on the surface level. Ever since I was young I always had this thought in the back of my mind which said "what I see couldn't be all there is" or "this can't be the norm; real life can't be this boring, there has to be more to it than this." Being brought up Christian, their explaination of God and the universe had to many holes in it; religion never answered any of my deepest questions. Even though the knowledge that reptilians are controlling the world is unsettling, it also makes you realize that this universe we live in is WAY more dynamic then we were taught to believe. Just think about it-reptilians from the lower fourth dimension-what else could be out there? Since the age of Aquarius is apon us we are gonna see some serious sh** take place, unlike any the world has ever seen. I don't know if David Icke is sincere or not, but he does give awesome information that every seeker of the truth must know.

David Icke is cool with me. PEACE!

I thought it was all a hoax until recently CNN and the news introduced to the world the Verichip, a microchip that is implanted in people. One expert says subliminal messages can even be sent to the person via such technology.
Many politicians on US tv are recommending people to have it implanted to fight those terrorists. It is said to be able to contain all data and history of the person. (What, every terrorist would have a history of being a terrorist? the govt would know who is gonna be a terrorist before the act happens?) Do they think we are that stupid? WHat a campaign.

One politician said on tv "is it possible some of our civil rights could slip just so we can GUARANTEE our national security? Maybe. Maybe."

Aww, don't try to be so subtle man. Go ahead and tell us "The government wants all of you to have the implanted microchip so we can control and track everything. You are all like slaves to the govt".

Now they are 'recommending' it to the people - for security reasons, for health reasons. When more people accepts the chip, then they will slowly pass(in 10 - 20 years) a law to make it mandatory as a form of ID and tracking. Goodbye privacy and freedom!

We have here an Author who has stepped out of the mainframe conditioning of hypnotized humanhood to give us a breathtaking panorama of spiritual and worldly comprehensionn heretofore unprecedented in detail, scope, and magnitude. To state simply, this is THE most awakening book the human race has ever been confronted with. Most people will of course reject the premises of this great Text for it is simply too hard a dose of reality at one shocking time to digest for a mind that isn't at some level already intuitively awake. As for myself my appreciation knows no bounds for I have been given the The Big Picture I have long sought yet have unconsciously known all along. This is my Consummate Confirmation. David Ikce is right on the Mark, as the world shall shockingly discover in very short order.

I enjoy this book. For most of my life I knew that something was wrong. I'd researched history, various religions, read Danicken and Moody in junior high, read Sitchin and Gardner more recently. I just couldn't put it all together. Where was the missing link. It's here in this book! I met David. I helped with a lecture tour here in Canada a couple of years ago. My first impression of him was 'he's just an ordinary guy' he is. An ordinary man with an extraordinary mission. Spooky things happened in the time I was with him that I won't go into here, but two things became very apparent. One: Something very strange is going on out there. The fourth dimension exists. I've seen it and it wasn't very nice. Two: David does seem to be protected even though he is under almost constant psychic attack. Read the book. Believe what you are able to believe, then leave it. Read it again in six months. You'll be surprised by how much your parameters of belief will have changed. with love to you all and the earth. Ruth

I was exposed to the works of David Icke through Chris Athanas and Jeff Contreras on Austin Public Access in the late '90's... I never expected how I would feel when I first read "The Biggest Secret".

Familiar with the scams of the IRS, fiat money, and the global government, I still was not prepared for the information, suggestions, and ideas presented in "The Biggest Secret". This book shattered my reality tunnel and I am still trying to pick up the pieces. I could not look at the world the same way again, and many events in the world become more clear, more obvious, more transparent in the manipulation.

We live in interesting times, and its time for all of us to have our belief systems challenged. If we want the world to change, it starts with us.

The most beautiful thing about this book is the final chapter. Despite the groundshaking opening chapters, the ending really brings it all together. Resonant energy, love, and fear are the glue of our universe, and the manipulation of those energies by people who would control us are very real.

Before "The Secret" was telling people about "asking and they shall receive", Icke was providing the same message. "The energy you send out will come back to you", with the crowning statement being "You create your own reality".

Its nice to see David Icke commenting on secret societies and other world issues on the History Channel and other mainstream sources. The word is out now.

Thank you, David Icke, for lighting that stick of dynamite and blasting me into the future for my continued emotional, political, and spiritual growth.

"The Biggest Secret" is better than "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper in explaining global political manipulations, flying saucers, the "new age", mind control, the income tax scam, freemasonry, etc. Before reading this book, I had read many books on these and similar subjects, but there was never a good explanation of what was behind it all. And most of the books were heavily biased by the authors' political and religious beliefs. I don't find that with David Icke, who is fed up with both organized religion and politics. He explains the above subjects and how they tie in to each other. He gives a rational, if somewhat far-fetched, explanation of the way the world works. For better or worse, things are now starting to make sense to me.

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