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Who controls the world?, May 20, 2003
This review is from: David Icke: Freedom Road [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This three-part video by David Icke is an excellent introduction to the theory that the world is controlled by a wealthy elite known as the Illuminati. As far as so-called conspiracy theorists go, Icke is one of the most radical. Rather than presenting his ideas in the purely materialistic realms of politics and economics, Icke looks at it from a spiritual perspective. Life, after all, is ultimately not about money, nations and governments but about energy and consciousness. According to Icke, the Earth has been under the control of a hybrid race (a mixture of a reptilian alien race and humans) for thousands of years. This control is ensured by the maintenance of "bloodlines" that have continued from ancient times up to the present. Icke claims, for example, that almost all American presidents can trace their ancestry back to European royalty. I would like to do more research on this; for if this is true, it would definitely be a strong piece of evidence in support of the Illuminati theory. In some ways Part Three of the video is the most valuable, as it describes ways we can take back control from the manipulators. Although Icke says these ideas and techniques have been widely suppressed, the fact is most of what he presents in this section of the video can be found in many new age and channeled books (e.g. Seth, Wicca, creative visualization, affirmations, etc.) that are otherwise tamer and less provocative than Icke's material. People who come from a conspiratorial point of view tend to be invested in the idea that everything they say is highly controlled and secret.The basic idea is that we, through our thoughts and emotions, control our own reality. While this is hardly a novel idea to anyone familiar with the new age or human potential movements, if you agree with it (as I do), you can hardly object to hearing these crucial truths repeated in an original way. I find Icke to be a very persuasive and authentic lecturer (I have also seen him speak in person). I wonder if the idea of a vast conspiracy is wholly compatible with the premise that we create our own reality. If we create everything (or if "we are everything," as Icke also says), then we are also part of the manipulation that is supposedly being inflicted upon us. I actually think David Icke is wise enough to be aware of this paradox, especially compared to some of the ideologues and fundamentalists you find on the conspiracy circuit. The final part of the video, where Icke discusses the significance of the year 2012 is also fascinating, and makes me want to learn more about this. All in all, Freedom Road is an educational, informative and highly original video. Watch it with an open (if also skeptical) mind.
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Problem and Solution, May 28, 2005
This review is from: David Icke: Freedom Road [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Before this set of DVDs, I've seen Secrets of the Matrix set and even though the information is practically the same, I liked the presentation in Secrets of the Matrix better.
In both sets, the first two DVDs deal with information that could partly be called conspiracy, and a whole bit of information that has actually become part of our present reality. Once something happens, it's no longer "well, maybe, who knows, or it's ludicrous", when it happens - like micro-chipping people as if they were cattle - it has definitely become, at least some people's, reality.
The third DVD in both sets is designed to teach people to reclaim their power. It has become popular to say that certain information has been "suppressed" and in these conspiracy theories that Illuminati and people belonging to different secret organizations have kept from people. This is true, in a way, that such information is not taught in schools, but on the other hand, such information has been available for a very long time to people who desired to know. The information may have been coded with language and symbolism throughout thousands of years, but it was there and whoever wanted the meaning of it to be revealed to him, and whoever turned within and asked that the information be revealed to him - had the information revealed (from within).
What is different these days is that this information is widely available (even though it is still not taught in public schools). Those who desire to know - can. It is not enough just to read books or watch videos - one has to apply this knowledge and this also implies taking responsibility for one's thoughts, emotions and life - instead of blaming the events on someone else. Ouch, this is painful to some people - being conscious of the thoughts they think, accepting the fact that our thoughts create our reality.
On this third DVD - David is explaining the mechanism of how our thoughts create our reality - from our bodies to our environment and providing some sort of scientific analogies - though without your own personal experience - just reading about the law of resonance, about vibration, about the fact that everything is made out of energy (it's both the spiritual viewpoint and the viewpoint of quantum physics) - won't be of much use to you. Yes, you should read about it and get all the information you can, but then you'll learn and discover how it really works through daily application.
The third DVD in Secret of the Matrix set deals more with the holographic model of the universe.
Since his main topic of this last segment is transmuting fear into love - I'd personally recommend working with A Course in Miracles, though you could also read Kybalion (just for the sake of working with different universal laws) and check out Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding. In the end, we all attract into our life - or rather create experiences - we contemplate and entertain in our thoughts and emotions on daily basis.
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