David Icke – Saturn Isn’t What You Think It Is Either.
David Vaughan Icke (/aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker. A former footballer and sports broadcaster, Icke has been known since the 1990s as a professional conspiracy theorist. He is the author of over 20 books and numerous DVDs, and has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to 10 hours to audiences.
Icke was a BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the Green Party when, he claims, a psychic told him, in 1990, that he had been placed on Earth for a purpose and would begin to receive messages from the spirit world. The following year he announced that he was a “Son of the Godhead”, and that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes, a prediction he repeated on the BBC’s primetime show Wogan. The show changed his life, turning him from a respected household name into someone who was laughed at whenever he appeared in public.
Over the next 11 years he wrote The Robots’ Rebellion (1994), And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and Children of the Matrix (2001), where he developed his worldview of New Age conspiracism. His endorsement of the antisemitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in The Robots’ Rebellion, and in And the Truth Shall Set You Free, led his publisher to refuse to publish his books, which were self-published thereafter. Icke has gone on to lecture around the world, frequently selling out venues, and his books have been translated into eleven languages.
At the heart of Icke’s theories lies the idea that the universe is made up of “vibrational” energy, and consists of an infinite number of dimensions that share the same space. He believes that an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings called the Archons (or Anunnaki), have hijacked the Earth, and that a genetically modified human/Archon hybrid race of shape-shifting reptilians, also known as the “Babylonian Brotherhood”, the Illuminati, or the ‘elite’, manipulate global events to keep humans in a constant state of fear, so the Archons can feed off the ‘negative energy’ this creates. He claims many prominent figures belong to the Babylonian Brotherhood, and are propelling humanity towards an Orwellian global fascist state, or New World Order; a post-truth era where freedom of speech is ended. Icke believes that the only way this ‘Archontic’ influence can be defeated is by humanity waking up to ‘the truth’, and filling their hearts with love. Critics have accused Icke of being a Holocaust denier and his “reptilians” and other theories of being antisemitic, claims he denies.