How were you introduced too Icke???

[third wave]

I met my wife 10 years ago and thought she was gorgeous. But she was into some wierd stuff.

But, hey, I fell in love and that was it and thought that someone so smart as her could not have got it wrong. So i read some of his books and I reckon the guy has something.

I have never seen him at a gig or nothing, just wandered how you guys got into him.

[horseflesh]

I felt in my bones that 9/11 wasn't right somehow, and started investigating, David's name came up a few times and then I remembered the famous Wogan interview were he appeared to be a bit mental. Now people say the same about me. :D

[sweet cheeks]

I met my wife 10 years ago and thought she was gorgeous. But she was into some wierd stuff.

But, hey, I fell in love and that was it and thought that someone so smart as her could not have got it wrong. So i read some of his books and I reckon the guy has something.

I have never seen him at a gig or nothing, just wandered how you guys got into him.

I stumbled upon him on the internet. :)

[nyte]

Through Google Video

[ah42]

Coventry city mate

[3ill]

I was looking for spiritual shit and found "The Biggest Secret" and "Infinite Love is the only truth..." Those books literally changed my life.

Peace,
3'LL

[lumukanda]

i was at a friend's house one day and was looking for something to read, i picked up a copy of "...and the truth shall set you free", and the rest is pretty much history.

[patwfan]

Vaccinations – I never believed in them and was coming under pressure to have my children vaccinated. His name came up on the internet when I was looking into the pros and cons of vaccines… purchased ‘and the truth shall…’ and never looked back.

[father ted]

My friend gave me a downloaded copy of Children of the Matrix. That's all you'll need as a great introduction.:eek: ;)

[howlingmad]

My friend gave me a downloaded copy of Children of the Matrix. That's all you'll need as a great introduction.:eek: ;)
Now that you have a downloaded copy, be sure and buy a hard copy from Bridge of Love. Please.

I briefly met David Icke in 1998 when I got involved with sort of a tax education/personal sovereignty group while living in Nevada City, a small town in the foothills of the Sierras in California. David was apparently on tour and stopped at nearby Grass Valley, with quite a turnout for the Grange Hall (maybe 200 or so; it was taped and played on local cable access). I was told he was going to be lecturing on banking and such. I had no idea what was in store. In fact, he didn't really go into the meat of his talks until the next night, at a very small gathering. At first I thought this was the "Mother of All Conspiracy Theories", but after reading The Biggest Secret, then Children of the Matrix, Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Centre Disaster, Tales from the Time Loop, Infinite Love is the Only Truth, Everything Else is Illusion—well, his work has definitely had an impact on my life, as well as my family. Once you're able to trace the true path of history, it becomes easier to see where it is all going.

[i_am]

I had been on a spiritual quest for sometime which had taken me into a lot of 'stuff'. I was involved with a group of other seekers and one day someone brought in 'The Biggest Secret'. I remember telling this person, who was very angry after reading it, not to give it energy, just take the information and be aware of the games being played. I actually refused to read the book after seeing the reaction of people and I had already come up with the same information from different sources.

I later went along, with a group of friends, to a talk given by David in Brisbane. This event was not advertised much so I was blown away by the crowd who just turned up, on the day. David had almost lost his voice but he still talked for around 7-8 hours. I was struck by how genuine he came across and then decided to maybe read some of his books. The spiritual aspect was always there but he has evolved so much in the five years since that day.

I was planning a trip to London last year so worked it that I could go the Brixton Academy. What an awesome feeling to sit in the crowd there. Two thousand plus, like minded people. If you get the opportunity to hear him speak, please, grab it.

I do not agree with him on everything but I do believe that he is the genuine article.

[jimijams]

I have never been introduced to David Icke but I do intend on meeting him someday..

[the king of the mountain]

I have never been introduced to David Icke but I do intend on meeting him someday..

I met David Icke whilst being given shock-therapy at the Three Bridges Regional Secure Unit in Middlesex. This was around 1997, just before he was released and published "The Biggest Bullshit" book (also known as "The Biggest Secret"). :D

[jimijams]

I met David Icke whilst being given shock-therapy at the Three Bridges Regional Secure Unit in Middlesex. This was around 1997, just before he was released and published "The Biggest Bullshit" book (also known as "The Biggest Secret"). :D
I hope you're feeling better now.

[snog]

The guitarist in my band told me about him just over a year ago. He mentioned the Bush family having ties with the Windsors....I had to know more. I started with free downloads, then purchased a few of his books. Free downloads are a vital component in waking people up.

You can bitch and moan as much as you like about how people get ripped off by it, but the exposure and effect it has on other people is invaluable. It completely changed my life, as it has many of my friends. I understand there is a loss of income involved, but in the end, that really doesn't mean SHIT now does it?

Let the information flow!!!! :p

[trotafox]

About 5 years ago, I was in the process of leaving Jehovah's Witnesses. I was doing some research on the meaning of the All-Seeing Eye that used to appear in their old literature. That led me to the Illuminati which led to Icke. Found him fascinating and I started reading all of his books. Been hooked since.

Glad to see he has started his own forum. :D

BTW, I found enough of junk on the JW's to leave. If only 10% of it was true, that was enough to leave. The members of their congregation really need to do research on the beginnings of that organization. However, they are taught that the Internet is "evil" so they won't touch it. Sad, really. :(

[the king of the mountain]

I hope you're feeling better now.

I'm great. But I cannot vouch for Icke. :D

[edelweiss pirate]

Found myself down a very queer street..... attended a government training programme where things where not quite as they seemed... Some kind of secret society shinanigans...

Wondered what in sweet Disney was going on? Some time later spotted The Biggest Secret in an airport bookshop and behold... all my questions were answered... Thanks David.

[eternal_spirit]

Back about 91. Me and a friend would read bizzarre, alternative books anything controversial. He had a copy of The Truth Vibrations, I read it to see what all the fuss was about David Icke.

Since then I have read most of David's books. The ones I remember best and with the most information are...Iam me I am Free....The Truth Shall Set You Free....The Biggest Secret.

Alot of good reading on The Archive section of this Site.:D

[lindaloo]

My son introduced me to David's books and website 3 years ago.

He has been into Icke since 1990 after reading his 1st book THE TRUTH VIBRATIONS.

We have all his books now and many dvds.

We have seen him twice at Brixton Academy London.
Wow 7hrs of ear bashing, mind enhancing enlightening info.

Highly recommended entertainment.:)

check out our 911 website
come and join the forum all are welcome

Linda

www.nineeleven.co.uk
www.julyseventh.co.uk

[akujin]

first heard of david icke from a video lecture on the internet a couple years ago. caught my interest and started doing research into everything he's published. now i'm highly addicted to digging up everything he's trying to expose and I want the same thing he and many others want, a global consensus of truth. :D

[clint eastwood]

Who the hell is David Icke?

[melbo]

I watched a documentary called the corporation about a year ago, then one called the fog of war and loose change and got interested in conspiracy stuff. I found a download of secrets of the matrix' and found David's website from there. I have since bought 3 of his books and found a host of other interesting websites. My eyes are now opened and I'm really depressed.

[jimijams]

I watched a documentary called the corporation about a year ago, then one called the fog of war and loose change and got interested in conspiracy stuff. I found a download of secrets of the matrix' and found David's website from there. I have since bought 3 of his books and found a host of other interesting websites. My eyes are now opened and I'm really depressed.
Don't be depressed, waking up is empowering and your now in the drivers seat of your own personal destiny - enjoy!

[uncle rico]

I was introduced to David's work while in my local library. Most of my life I have been looking into things beyond 'reality' and happened to be looking in the 'paranormal' section in the library, next to computer books. I started to look at the section and grew bored of the same old books. As I walked away I felt pulled towards a book and I (seemingly) automatically picked the book off the shelf, read the blurb and never looked back.

The book was '...and the truth shall set you free' and that was over 3 years ago. I wasn't really ready to discover what I did but I am glad that I did. Someone mentioned about being depressed and I can relate to that because work like this destroys basic lies that you thought were truth, thereby casting doubt upon your entire life (and that of fellow humans). Living in truth is better than living in ignorance but sometimes you need a support network to take you through the 'awakening', just like the character Neo did in The Matrix.

Long may David continue to do his thing.

[london_lad_84]

I used to listen to James Whale quite frequently and he conducted an interview with David Icke, i dont believe in every theory that DI presents, but i dont know of any other author that has a theroum on life as close to mine as Icke does.

[mari]

I stumbled over DI back in the 90's when our local press were giving him a hammering over his 'I am the son of the godhead' quote on the terry Wogan prog.
I KNEW he'd been quoted out of context because I watched that show, & his meaning at the time was that we are ALL sons/daughters of God/head.
So, I knew the press, (who I detested even then) were out to 'get' him, because he had also touched upon a few very uncomforable truths which could damage the 'reality' web being spun around us.

My ears were well & truly pricked, so I hunted this 'lunatic' down & fell upon his book 'The Robots rebellion'. Wow! What an eye-opener..........
Not sure about the 'reptillian' thing, though. Does anyone here know when he'll be giving any more talks in the Uk, as I missed the Brixton one.
Cheers
Mari

[albie]

I went mad around the same time Icke did. I recalled a dream I had of a boy in strange blue trousers that came true.

Then I saw him on TV and was convinced by his "I'm normal but I'm saying weird things" cyclical logic.

Then I bought his wildy varying themed books.

Then I wised up.

Then I had sex with a women and found drink and dope.

[str8blast]

About two years ago I followed a link from a conspiracy website and landed smack in the middle of Ickeland...and been coming here ever since.

[seamus]

I was lookin for art bell material on edonkey. I kept seeing Icke's name come up on the same line. I thought, "who's this Icke fella?" and DL'ed some book scans and saw some Youtube stuffs, and so found out that Art's purely "lobby foddy" :D

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[dmessick]

I was attracted to The Children of the Matrix at a book store. Bought it, read it and jumped head first into truth.

[annabelle]

afriendofafriendofafriendofafriendofafriendofafrie ndafriendofafriendofafriendofafriendofafriendofafr iendofa.............:D

[hagbard_celine]

Believe it or not it was that apalling piss-take by Jon Ronson, "Secret Rulers..." I could see that there was a lot more to discover about David than the tomfoolery portrayed.

Who was it who said "there's no such thing as bad publicity"?

[tinmenace]

All my life I've felt that something wasn't right with the world. A nagging discomfort that I could never quite understand or describe. It drove me crazy.

One day I was watching the History Channel. The next program up was 'Secret Societies'...and there was David, making perfect sense and unraveling the tangle in my brain so effortlessly.

It said he was the author of 'The Biggest Secret'. I couldn't wait, I drove to the book store immediately after the show and bought the book. That book set me free. It allowed me to shed fear and as I've read more of his books and done more of my own research, I feel as though I've evolved further than I ever thought I would. The best gift I've ever received. Thank you David.

Knowing the truth and seeing it play out predictably before your eyes is unbelievable. I just shake my head at all the transparencies and wonder why so many people just cannot see it. I have to admit that my upbringing was not as regimented as some. We had no fixed religion in our home, and my father taught us to think for ourselves from a very young age (he didn't force his opinion on us, and disallowed others from doing so also). So, maybe my awakening was easier and I suppose it's not fair for me to wonder in bewilderment why so many are unable 'wake up'. The information is right there in front of them. Why do they reject it....?

Some have more tightly bound programming that others, I suppose.



David Icke....a gift to mankind.

[cmdr_sabbathius]

I stumbled upon him on the internet. :)

Same here. I'd say about 2000 or so. Then I bought Children of the Matrix in late August 2004 about the same time I bought the Evanescence Fallen album. That book and that CD together and a lot of good beer for weeks on end pretty much blew my mind! ;) :)

I think Icke's onto a lot of things, but naturally that doesn't mean he's right about everything. Nobody is. But Icke is far more enlightened and 'tuned in' than most!

[roxanna]

I came about him and really awakening with a special friend of mine. That person introduced me to it and at the time I was wide open for information as I wanst buying this reality anymore. I am eternally grateful as it has opened me in many ways and I think the person who shared the information with me both courageous and kind for doing so. Im on the way I hope, not long to go though soon will shatter for all as time draws nearer, still im on the way. Blessings to my loved one who shared this and to all who share. Bless you very important do not be descouraged by losing friends and/or loved ones part of the price. Sharing is very important.

[bumble]

I first heard about David a few years back. I was told that he was a nutter.
But it was not untill resently that I saw a DVD of one of his lectures, that is when I realized what is going on around me and everyone of us. Since then my eye's. ear's and mind have been opened. I now tell people to listen to what he is saying, and not to knock what he is saying, but to understand what he is saying. Thank the f*** we have David Icke telling us what is REALLY happening around ALL of us.

[albie]

All my life I've felt that something wasn't right with the world. A nagging discomfort that I could never quite understand or describe. It drove me crazy.

One day I was watching the History Channel. The next program up was 'Secret Societies'...and there was David, making perfect sense and unraveling the tangle in my brain so effortlessly.

It said he was the author of 'The Biggest Secret'. I couldn't wait, I drove to the book store immediately after the show and bought the book. That book set me free. It allowed me to shed fear and as I've read more of his books and done more of my own research, I feel as though I've evolved further than I ever thought I would. The best gift I've ever received. Thank you David.

Knowing the truth and seeing it play out predictably before your eyes is unbelievable. I just shake my head at all the transparencies and wonder why so many people just cannot see it. I have to admit that my upbringing was not as regimented as some. We had no fixed religion in our home, and my father taught us to think for ourselves from a very young age (he didn't force his opinion on us, and disallowed others from doing so also). So, maybe my awakening was easier and I suppose it's not fair for me to wonder in bewilderment why so many are unable 'wake up'. The information is right there in front of them. Why do they reject it....?

Some have more tightly bound programming that others, I suppose.



David Icke....a gift to mankind.

HAHAHAHAHAH!

You mean you're a snob? Yes, we all feel superior. That's what religion is designed for. Designed to channel that "I feel more real than everyone else." feeling and use it to destroy your individuality.

Of course conspiracy is the new religion. It requires all the same factors: blind faith and a hatred for others.

Welcome to the robot universe

[edelweiss pirate]

Please Sean, a ban for this mason shitstirrer ASAP!

[albie]

Hah. What did I say?

Look at you, only been here a few weeks and already you are a hitler.

What a lovely person.

[thoth]

Its funny. I knew about reptilians because they kept coming up again and again. I knew that the secret societies were 'Satanic' in nature, but it was only a cover for the real shit. I came to find out through their own literature that the old 'Gods' and names like Bel or Moloch were names for ancient ets and bloodline personnel. But I looked at some stuff on Icke and I was interested in hearing his viewpoint. Something about the presidents being all related. I ordered the Biggest Secret in 2003, and all the pieces I had started fitting together. But then in later books, he opened other avenues. Let me get this straight, Icke is just one man with info, just like billions of others who have some kind of info. I respect what he does, but I follow info, not a man. But he is still cool with me, I like what he does. There are others though, and what I have to add is just as good. Just like anyone else who understands these things.

Peace and love yo!

[notaslave]

First heard of him many years ago - after the Wogan show. Think again I heard of him right after Princess Diana's departure, which I just felt was not an accident. More recently on researching the 9-11 thing I came upon his site.

[21_12_2012]

1999 it was, just surfing the internet asking 'deep questions' on 'askjeeves.com'....stumbled across David Icke's information...blew my mind....started to wake up....the rest is history.

But also, since around 1982 i have been reading about psychic/ufo/alien/paranormal subjects

[warrior]

I have never seen him at a gig or nothing, just wandered how you guys got into him.

His name came up when I was researching Bohemian Grove and what exactly went on there. I like what he is doing, but I do switch off when I hear the reptilian stuff. The NWO discussions are interesting and everyone should learn about them.

[2013]

i saw the wogan interview back in 91 ,around the time when george w bush had announced the start of the new world order! I moved to the isle of wight in 1995 and the first books i read were his books from the local library .Not so much a spiritual awakening at the time more the next step up for me .You encounter the right people books thoughts etc when you are able to be in the present moment .Each one leads onto the next .
Wisest is he who knows he knows nothing :D

[2013]

Interestingly people i spoke to about the books said to me you dont believe him do you he lives on the isle of wight.As if that somehow made it impossible for him to be truthfull, or taken seriously !! A Prophet is never accepted in his own country ,unlike bush and cheney who think its acceptable to make a profit in their own and everyone elses .

[misscpb]

Hi Everyone

I initially could not remember, then another post got my memory going and I remembered it was after experiencing the very negative effects of vaccinations that nearly killed my dogs. I started researching online I think around 2002 and must have came across his web site or name mentioned.

[amar7]

I have to admit that my upbringing was not as regimented as some. We had no fixed religion in our home, and my father taught us to think for ourselves from a very young age (he didn't force his opinion on us, and disallowed others from doing so also). So, maybe my awakening was easier and I suppose it's not fair for me to wonder in bewilderment why so many are unable 'wake up'.

David Icke....a gift to mankind.

well my upbringing was very very regimented, but I learned to think for myself and now i got my own thinking unaffected by upbringing or media (still alittle influenced I admit must mostly not)

[tinmenace]

Good for you Amar. At least you found a way out of it.

[schism]

I first heard about David in the spring of '92 when a friend of mine, at the time, had seen David being slated on the Wogan show. My friend bought the book "The truth vibrations" and suggested that I read it as I had other views contradictory to the norm.
I read it and didn't understand it - or couldn't agree to much of what David had written. However, I bought a variety of autobiographies written by several mediums, psychics & astrologers - all with slight to very different perspectives on the nature of reality depending on their interpretations.
A month or so later, I re-read The Truth Vibrations and was astounded at what David had actually written. His alternate - yet simple interpretation came into focus and has since then, through his other works, has made more sense than most.:D

[terry wogan]

I saw David on many ocassions, walking the corridors of our beloved Aunty Beeb, but we never spoke until around 1991, when he appeared on my very successful BBC1 television chat show.

Ha! That was one oil never ferget.

[astral_girl]

7 years ago my mate lent me a copy of her book the biggest secret.......we was both spiritual folk who swapped different books now and then..........i still remeber being blown away whilst reading it....so much so that i hanged on to her book for several years before remebering to give it her back..........:)

[joe_soap]

First knew of Dave when he was presenting the Snooker...

Then he genuinely frightened the life out of me on the infamous Wogan show....the man is a fascinating character.

[johnpeters]

I saw the infamous Wogan show and the Littlejohn one too when David walked off. Strangely enough I knew then that we would work together and I would learn lots from him.

Strange how it all works out.

[tinmenace]

"Strange how it all works out."

Indeed...connecting the dots. Did you ever read Steve Jobs commencement speech about connecting the dots? If not, here it is.....inspiring!

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005, at Stanford.

"I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much."

[misscpb]

I saw the infamous Wogan show and the Littlejohn one too when David walked off. Strangely enough I knew then that we would work together and I would learn lots from him.

Strange how it all works out.

Hi, What was the LittleJohn one?

[king]

I have met Mr. Icke at a pub in London.
We started convo. After a while, (more than a few pints)
we became kind of wasted.

Amongst others stuff, David started talking about reptilians.
I could not just believe him at that time and I told him that he is a crazy drunk.
But now that I have seen a reptile I know he was right.
How did he knew that reptilians are real when he never seen one?
He must have good nose for good information.

[karenmoore1979]

I was in Blackpool with some friends last year and we were drawn to the "Conspiracy Centre" (or something) on the promenade (well worth a visit btw) as I am interested in such things ;)
Anyway we got chatting to the guy in there and he showed us some bits out of a book which seemed really interesting. After our visit I asked him what the book was and if I could buy it - it turned out to be "Infinite Love....." and I read it and loved it. Since then I have read quite a few of his books.

Interestingly I had never heard of David prior to that but when I told friends/family about my book they gave me a few odd looks and said things like "isn't he crazy?" but now I have managed to get most of them to read some of his stuff and they now realise he ain't so crazy after all.............

[johnpeters]

Hi, What was the LittleJohn one?

It was a tv chatshow in the 1980s hosted by Richard Littlejohn. Dave stood up and walked off after Littlejohn said he was as "daft as a box of frogs".

Dave replied with "if you had a braincell it would die of lonlieness" and walked off.

[sunstone]

I was introduced to David by a friend........she loaned me some books of hers more than a few were by David. Never been the same since, get the same shit as David..........your nuts, your weird, your a strange one...........latest one is You tried to cause mayhem, you are a troublemaker, and just the other day ......you are the ring leader! :rolleyes: I did meet David once at a talk he was giving back in 1996..........I was with my husband eating a bag of chips outside the venue when he came along, he came over and spoke to us and asked for a chip! :o :) A Beautiful Spirit!

[synchronicity]

I remember seeing him on the original Wogan show in 91 and he was talking about how the earth would be bombarded with freak weather in the encroaching years.

I didn't pay much mind to him after that until, well, 9/11. I remember feeling that day something wasn't quite right about what we were being told and David was one of the very few dissenting voices at the time. Now of course it's almost cool to be a 9/11 denier.

Anyway, I was studying philosophy at the time and was impressed with his logical reasoning in discussing the situation. He always says he's not some kind of mystic, but only goes where the facts lead him. After reading "Alice....World Trade Center Disaster" I read most of his others up until the latest one.

I have to say as a free thinker myself, I dont agree with everything he says, but I don't need to. As he says himself, he just presents the evidence and you have to deduce where it leads.

On the whole though, my life has been enhanced by his work; it's good to have this background in the current climate of fear, control and what passes for "news" these days.

[astral]

I too read the 9/11 book and then went on to the others.

I like the way he has progressed onto the nature of reality, I'm really interested in all that stuff and it's still relatively new.

[graflok]

I've had a lifelong interest in UFOs, cryptids and other paranormal subjects. I've also witnessed some UFOs and other strange stuff. I had a "thirst for knowledge" to learn what was going on with all this weirdness. I had also been dimly aware of the illuminati scene since the 70's but I made no connection with it and the paranormal stuff.

I'd briefly read some Icke material on the net but rejected it at first as too fantastic. I also thought the various "conspiracy theories" had some merit but went too far and were too "paranoid."

Then, thanks to a friend, I began reading "Children of the Matrix" and got "hooked" right away. Couldn't put it down. I was both exhilarated and disturbed at the same time (shock and awe?). All the paranormal stuff I'd wondered about began to click into place and make sense. All the conspiracy stuff too. I had a complete "paradigm shift" and viewed the world in a completely new way.

I couldn't help being reminded of the movie "They Live" when the lead character first puts on the sunglasses. I was dumbfounded.

Still am.

graflok

[anoninnyc]

a friend of mine and i were had a silly contest to find the wackiest website on the internet. laughed at icke at first but it was soooo funny so i read more. then i realized that he was actually right about most things. guess the joke was on me.

[thirdwave]

I never really heard much about him when the whole wogan interview kicked off and so on... I was just getting more and more into all this info and his name popped up all the time and I though he was really really good and explaining stuff and when i was trying to tell people stuff i was like... "oh sod it just check out this David Icke book, that should sort you out"

when i got into Davids stuff and heard all about the Wogan times... although i did not recall hearing all about him at the time I did remember when he used to be a presenter... was like "oh yeah, i remember him"

[davelove]

the daily star!! thanks daily star!! although im not sure it was quite what they had in mind.

[quelyn]

I had the standing in a bookstore experience with the Icke book about the Matrix fall off the shelve into my hands.....literally! I had a few other books and was just standing/previewing. A couple walked up and the man said, "You must read that book [Icke} you will see what he writes all around you". That did it! The couple just walked off...................felt like I was in a movie.
When the student is ready the teacher appears.

[freethinker]

David was portrayed by the media as mentally ill and not quite with it back in 1990

i saw a TV program a few weeks ago by chance "Was David Icke right"

he certainly was !!

i'm now hooked

[graflok]

I had the standing in a bookstore experience with the Icke book about the Matrix fall off the shelve into my hands.....literally! I had a few other books and was just standing/previewing. A couple walked up and the man said, "You must read that book [Icke} you will see what he writes all around you". That did it! The couple just walked off...................felt like I was in a movie.
When the student is ready the teacher appears.


Love it! :D

graflok

[rasnalgoul]

Its funny this thread popped up because I was just thinking about how I found out about Ickes works. I can say that ever since I was a kid, I was very interested in strange things like crop circles, ufos, area 51, secret government projects and what not. Being a little kid my research into those topic back then wasnt very in depth and usually invovled history channel documentaries and basic internet searches. Starting around my senior year I began to look into this stuff more seriously and I started to see the name David Icke frequently. What really sparked my interests was an interview of David on Above Top Secret .com. Having no idea what he was talking about one day I decided to go buy his books and read them. I have to say those books, well Ickes work has changed my life very much. Im so glad i decided to buy them that day.

[tru3]

i had just come back from hawaii, where i saw one of david's videos. several days after, i was in a bookstore and found a copy of the biggest secret in the business marketing section. go figure! :rolleyes:

[paulski]

I've followed his work for 17 years now since the Truth Vibrations.
I was 17 and looking for something more, when he appeared on Wogan, I was immediately drawn to some of his concepts. I later studied Publishing and decided to do some research into 'Mind, Body and Spirit' for my thesis, this led me to interview and meet the publishers behind the book that blew my head off-The Robots Rebellion.

I've followed his work ever since.

[limelady]

We're old friends - I knew him in my last lifetime. ;)

[stan]

I Got introduced to davids work through a good friend and her family. Thought he was pretty out there at first but something just felt right about everything he was saying.

[lacey]

I first heard about David Icke in the 90's
when he was being slated as 'mad' by
the media. Then in 2002 a friend lent
me The Biggest Secret which helped my
'awakening'. I've since brought and read
most of his books-I think his info is spot
on especially world events.
Went to the Brixton lecture in May last year-
was great

[lottie]

I just happened to pick up a book one of my partners friends left at my house (alice in wonderland+the wtc etc) and began reading out of interest into the 9/11 disaster, from then on its been one hell of a journey of 'awakening' as i call it!! ive read a further 4 books of Ickes (infinite love being my favourite ) and had a truly enlightening experience- im not the same girl who picked up that book (a year ago about now)- i have been through such transformations its turned my world upside down. The main frustration i find is that its so difficult to convey the message to others who have no idea what you are talking about- they cannot even comprehend what you are trying to tell them!! Although i talk to the chap who left the book at my house that day- i dont see him often and ive tried telling friends and relatives- ive passed on all my books to people - i take every opportunity to 'wake people up', but it seems very difficult- like everyone doesnt want to know!! i now have an idea of what Icke has gone through over the last 20yrs!! if its frustrating me after a year- god knows how he has remained sane- coz it drives me to the point of insanity when i can see it clearly and no-one else will even listen- let alone go look for themselves!! I have not only been into the conspiracy stuff but it has led me off in all sorts of directions- from michael tsarion,jordan maxwell,william henry,terence mckenna,ian xel lungold,arizona wilder etc, gregg braden,the nature of reality, spiritual stuff, ascension,mayan calendars,astrology,quantum physics,occults,geology, you name it- im enlightenening myself to it!! thats the great thing- if it really resonates well- you go off and do your own research and its amazing what you find!! A debt of gratitude to Icke for giving me a nudge in the right direction so i could go off and find out who/what i am- im no longer lost! i am me, i am free!! Just wish there were more people to talk to face to face about this stuff- the forums are ace and ive made so many friends through like minded forums but i'm yearning for a good old chin-wag about all this stuff, as much as i love my existing friends - they dont want to chat about this stuff- i think they think ive joined a cult!! LOL!! I'd rather sit and talk for hours about this sort of stuff than - whats the latest on celebrities and fashion:(

[father ted]

Welcome to the forum stan and lacey;
Lacey, what did you think when you first heard about Icke? How come only 2002 when you started taking note after hearing about him in the early 90's. I don't remember hearing about Icke at all, here in Australia, I had no idea, so it's thanks to the internet for me.:D :)
BTW, ultra cute avatar, reminds me of happy tree friends. :D

[llogun]

I saw David on the wogan show years ago and thought what a d--k head. It was years later when some one mentioned his name, i then went out and bought one his books as ive allways been looking for the truth. David you ain't no d--k head you have change my life for the better ,the truth is out there and you have it.

[i_am]

much as i love my existing friends - they dont want to chat about this stuff- i think they think ive joined a cult!! LOL!! I'd rather sit and talk for hours about this sort of stuff than - whats the latest on celebrities and fashion:(

Hi Lottie and welcome to our world. It is fun, it is exasperating at times but what a helluva ride. I had to laugh when I read the cult reference. I lost contact with a couple of friends and when I made contact again I found out that one had said to the other that I had probably gone and joined a cult. I thought it was hilarious. They don't want to know. They are happy in their materialistic world (well actually they aren't but that is their trip) We don't have a lot to talk about anymore. That is an inevitable part of this journey. You drift away from old friends as they don't have the same values as you. You still care about them but the relationship is changed forever.

[truthsupplier]

As well as being a "loudmouth on a soapbox", the education gifted me through myriad forms and resources once the introduction to I am me, I am free was made... and I have learned to not look back. There resides Dogma, Doctrine and unapproved indoctrination.

His was the first realisation I made as to the filtered bovine excretion fed us by our accepted "Media" and the Public School System (Politically Correct Indoctrination Centers... non mandatory).

The multiple copies of various Icke works, loaned in good faith, but with the comprehension I most probably would never see it again. Replaced so the introduction could be repeated, often.

These works (as well as many others worthy of mention), will possibly be the only recognisable means of correct interpretation (between the lines stuff) and the smoke and mirrors which have kept the populace at large ignorant of what is being done to not for them.

Ignorance is not to be confused with stupidity. Ignorance can be corrected, with work and a willing subject (or the synchronistic values of the Universe, weigh it as you will)... Stupidity is an accepted mutation of the Spirit attempting to be human, and missing the point.

I do humbly appreciate the effort and productions of those associated with David Icke... there are times when knowledges are not to be shown, the "dissenters" are being silently gathered or at least targeted as this is written.

I have learned to walk your talk, apologise if it is truly warranted, and only lie to liars... they are so arrogant, they refuse to hide.

[father ted]

Hi Lottie and welcome to our world. It is fun, it is exasperating at times but what a helluva ride. I had to laugh when I read the cult reference. I lost contact with a couple of friends and when I made contact again I found out that one had said to the other that I had probably gone and joined a cult. I thought it was hilarious. They don't want to know. They are happy in their materialistic world (well actually they aren't but that is their trip) We don't have a lot to talk about anymore. That is an inevitable part of this journey. You drift away from old friends as they don't have the same values as you. You still care about them but the relationship is changed forever.

Ironic isn't it, especially when these guys are religious.

[i_am]

Ironic isn't it, especially when these guys are religious.

Well these ones aren't particularly religious but yeah! That is more often than not, the case.

[lumukanda]

I had the standing in a bookstore experience with the Icke book about the Matrix fall off the shelve into my hands.....literally! I had a few other books and was just standing/previewing. A couple walked up and the man said, "You must read that book [Icke} you will see what he writes all around you". That did it! The couple just walked off...................felt like I was in a movie.
When the student is ready the teacher appears.

i've done that before, if i see someone looking at one of icke's books, i usually go over and advise them to get it, who knows, if you can get even one person to read one, the knock off effect can be quite big.

[h1s_l0rdsh1p]

After I had moved to the Netherlands, I was walking around the city (Rotterdam) with a friend, to get to know the place.

We had went to this spiritual shop, and I was looking at some of the books, and saw some David Icke books, and thought nothing of it, until I saw Alice in Wonderland and the WTC Disaster.

I just read the back of it, and put it back. I thought it was interesting, but decided not to get it.

Later on, for my birthday, that friend got my that book as a gift.

After I read that, I was hooked.

[tonto o_reilly]

I came accross David's work on the internet, whilst researching about ritual abuse and religions. I found that from that moment on I continued to be led back to his site with nearly everything I was researching, so it kind of became a 'one stop shop' as his articles and writing always seemed to contain just what I was looking for. I was shortly after, loaned a copy of 'tales from the time loop' a book that changed me and my view on everything, suddenly it dawned on me that I wasn't a freak after all.

Cheers David :)

[loveforall]

since my earliest memories, i always remember questioning authority. not till 2005 did i start wanting answers for all my questions. the synchronisity of it all has been astounding. so now that i have found a lot my questions answered, i feel that it is time to help other ask the questions and let them find their own answers. David Icke has been a def influence as have many others although I have not met him personally yet, I think it will only be a matter of time.

Thanks David, keep up the good work!!

[lacey]

Hi father ted,
nice to know u like my avatar :)
Went through an immense amount of turmoil in the 90's,
that's why I did'nt read etc any of David's books untill 2002.
My 1st thought's when I read The Biggest Secret was that
alot of the question's Ive had in my head were answerd-not
just taking his word 4 it;but researching 4 myself aswell.
Wish I had done b4 2002-anyway better late than never.

[intruder]

hmmmm....I had to think about this. I can't remember the date...yet, I'm SURE I heard it on Shortwave (mid- to late 90's) that a "speaker/author/lecturer named David Icke was barred from doing a speaking engagement in Toronto." WHENEVER I hear a report like this....My "spidey" sense starts tingling...WHOEVER he is, he's ON to something!!!...(or offending the Canadian Jewish Congress...same thing)

Ah yes..........welcome to Canada David, which I have renamed "The People's Republic of Absurdistan!!"

I knew that David stood for free speech (he had to!! that's why his gig was canned!!) and that he was more than likely APPALLED at the treatment he received...as well as being shated out of a gig. This compelled me to look into his work.
I LOVED him...I HATED him....(((LOVE YA' DAVE!!!))) yet I just knew there was MUCH more to come!!

People would say.."ah...he's a "new-age liberal...." or..."just another entrepeneur provacatuer.."

The Biggest Secret DID rock my world!!!!!!!!!!!

And ah....NO offence to the CJC intended....(although, the repetition of "anti-semitism" is becoming a bit tiring)

[sevenworlds]

Just new to this board...

I stumbled into all of this, funnily enough, through the Borat movie, last October I think it was. I was intrigued by the reference to "shape-shifting jews" (I had never heard the term before) and a search on the net led me to David Icke.

Since then I haven't looked back. Started with Secrets of the Matrix and spent most of the end of last year watching any docs I could get my hands on from Icke, Alex Jones, Michael Tsarion, etc. I was wondering what was happening to me for a while because something inside me couldn't shake it all off as nonsense yet it seemed so at odds with so called 'reality'.

At the beginning of this year I got more into the spiritual side of things (again, I wasn't seeking it knowingly) and discovering Eckhart Tolle seemed to be another big stepping stone for me.

I now realise I was going through the 'awakening' process and it's all starting to come together now. My past now makes more sense too from this perspective. I realise a lot of things that happened that I took as negative at the time were leading me to this point.

So yeah, I'm grateful that Icke played a big part in my awakening.

[i_am]

Just new to this board...

I now realise I was going through the 'awakening' process and it's all starting to come together now. My past now makes more sense too from this perspective. I realise a lot of things that happened that I took as negative at the time were leading me to this point.

So yeah, I'm grateful that Icke played a big part in my awakening.

Welcome to our playpen sevenworlds. You are going to like it here.

You will probably end up with brain fatigue because as you work your way through the threads, you are going to pick up soooo much information and useful links :D

I kinda think the awakening point is programmed into our DNA. Trouble is so many are fighting against it. It really shakes their world and denial is the easy option, or so they think. If they only knew. The Truth does set you free.

I am so glad David had Sean set up this forum. it has brought some wonderful people together. The old hands are helping the newbies and the newbies are bringing a new perspective and energy. Exciting stuff! ;)

[father ted]

sevenworlds Just new to this board...

I stumbled into all of this, funnily enough, through the Borat movie, last October I think it was. I was intrigued by the reference to "shape-shifting jews" (I had never heard the term before) and a search on the net led me to David Icke.

Welcome to the forum, THE forum.
Interesting that you got here thanks to the borat movie, something good might come out of that movie after all!

As funny as it is, I think it is being used so that people can't criticize zionists, you know, no freedom of speech, that sort of thing. I'd like to think cohen had done this innocently:confused:

[sevenworlds]

Hi I_am, thanks for the welcome. :)

Yeah, all the information I've come across so far has been pretty heavy on the mind and I'm sure it's gonna get better (worse?) lol At the moment I'm just trying to keep open to all the info and not get too caught up in it because the way I see it, the most important aspect is focussing on your own consciousness. It's the only thing you can be certain of, looking inside instead of getting too caught up on the external things.

Father Ted... I've since heard that about Sacha Baron Cohen and the Borat movie but do you really think he is in on it or is somehow playing a part?

Since I've been down this path, I've actually started to wonder how much he is into a lot of this stuff himself and whether he's trying to use his comedy to highlight it. Looking back over the old Borat and Ali G shows it does seem like he knows about some of things we do. Certain things he says (in a couple of his interviews he's mentioned the moon landing conspiracy and the JFK - he said JR lol - shooting), the reference to shapeshifting in the movie, dealing with the New Age in some of his sketches, Bob Marley and the 'erb with his Ali G character, etc...

Maybe I've got it all wrong, but I get the impression he's being very clever about it, disguising his characters as thick to get past the radar, saying things that at first appear stupid but are really not that far off the mark.

[seamus]

Another character who is portrayed as thick but puts out some of the best insights is Bubbles on the "Trailer Park Boys" canadian TV show. (gosh they say fuck a lot)

Here is an episode i saw yesterday. Absolutely brilliant!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2097317301915420187&q=Trailer+park+boys&hl=en

It's GREAT.

Bubbles is the guy with the glasses.

s

[chandrakavi]

"Strange how it all works out."

Indeed...connecting the dots. Did you ever read Steve Jobs commencement speech about connecting the dots? If not, here it is.....inspiring!

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005, at Stanford.

"I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much."

GREAT POST TINMENACE!
I congratulate you for your wisdom and courage!

[redman]

I went mad around the same time Icke did. I recalled a dream I had of a boy in strange blue trousers that came true.

Then I saw him on TV and was convinced by his "I'm normal but I'm saying weird things" cyclical logic.

Then I bought his wildy varying themed books.

Then I wised up.

Then I had sex with a women and found drink and dope.

And all this happened after you were 40... Wow I bet that screwed up your mind. :cool:

[tickles]

Google video about 8 months ago.

I think that having his videos up on google is going to really get the masses waking up and asking questions.
As more and more people move to broadband it's just going to take off.

The revolution has started.

[lightbeing]

Mine was when David did the second Wogan interview early last year(?), also a mate of mine found a article David did back in 1996, it was all relevant now:eek: Going back to the latest Wogan interview, this is where I first heard the saying, 'we have out sheeped the sheep', pure class!:cool::D

[chattanova]

When I bought my PC, 1,5 years ago.
I was looking for some ufo documentaries to download and there his name popped up everywhere.

They're also sending some documentaries (''was he right?'' etc.) on the TV over here from time to time.

[redman]

I first came into contact with Icke's work when I was sat off with my mate listening to tunes getting stoned and he was a keen reader. So I was looking through his books and came across Truth Vibrations and I seen it was written by David Icke and I thought were do I know that name from... So I said to my mate " isn't that that nutter who thinks he is Jesus " or something along those lines. :D

Anyway my mate told me the whole story about how he isn't nuts etc and he picked out a few chapters of the book to read, so I sat there with a fat spliff and read it and just discussed what I was reading with my mate.

Anyway it had a impact on me that day when I was stoned...LOL But it didn't really stick with me as in change my life or anything but I was only about 19 at the time. I ain't seen the lad who had the book for about 8 years I reckon, but he must of only been around 20 and he was one clued up cat for that age when I think back.

Anyway when I started to research 9 11 on the net, as everyone will know who started off just researching 9 11 its inevitable that you are going to stumble across David Icke.. So when I first seen his name.. I thought Oh I remember him and was intrigued to see what he was saying these days... I wasn't disappointed.

[synergy777]

it was a long journey. first when i was a kid i always read illustrated childrens bible by hamlyn, it had great colourful pictures, a great book. also the brittanica enclyopedia when i was 8/9. then i started to read the sci fi stuff, fantasy eg dungeon and dragons. later i got into science, ancient history eg egypt, von dainken, graham hancock, richard mooney, francis hitchin. after this computers and ufo stuff, timothy good, alien liason etc. then i went to uni.at uni messing about on the new inertnet, we had access to a t3 line, the quickest thing i have ever seen. i just started searching, shit life before google, lol altavista, etc. the dead sea stuff, then masons, always wanted to join them. then i started to realise it went back ages. started to find out robert anton wilson, wes penre etc. icke i never really paid attention to. its only after 911, i thought, this looks fishy, "controlled demolition" really was the lifting of the veil, eve of the feast of trumpets/british israel timeline, the masonic pillars. then its just started from there.

[lifeofbrian]

Telly.

[synergy777]

he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy, lol

life of brian, my neighbour had that on video.

[lifeofbrian]

Groovy baby.

[synergy777]

austin powers, lol england is the best for comedy, with this shit weather, you need to keep happy, lol although even today people have lost this great quality, everybody's too sensitive about casual things, and yet not serious about important issues, its all gone pete tong. etc.

[lifeofbrian]

Aye.

[ashyr]

i'll keep this short and sweet.

1997-8 ish.

[dmessick]

I actually was into the power of your subconcious mind kind of books and just starting with all of the global conspiracy stuff when I bought Children of the Matrix about 4 years ago on a 'gut feeling'.

[chappel]

I came across the history channel's program about secret societies. I found it really interesting and when David Icke appeared in the show he sounded like he knew a lot about what he was talking about. So I searched him in google video and was changed ever since :P.

[ichi wa zen]

4 months ago i started by reading the book "Bloodlines of the Illuminati" after being introduced to them in some Alex Jones flick.

More and more reading on secret societies & occult doo doo. Then stumbled upon D. Ickes theories online and started reading The Biggest Secret to see if he had any truth or was just one of the NWO making fun of the ones who are trying to awaken.

To this day, i still have a lot of questions about Icke and some of his theories, but he is waking people up, which is mucho great :)

I guess its innocent till proven guilty.

[saturn]

in 2004 i saw his book 'children of the matrix' in a bookstore. i thout it was science fiction and about the film 'the matrix', so i bought it. got a bit of a shock when i read it. at first i was dismissive and thought this guy is a loony and put the book aside with no intention of finishing it or thinking more about it. but i found myself speculating nonetheless. despite my scepticism i had to admit to myself that alot of the things he said made so much sense. so i went back and read it again, this time with a more open and analytical mind. though it took me quite a while to believe the things about reptiles and bush snr and co. being paedophiles and serial killers and blood drinkers, i haven't looked back since. but i can't say i agree with his stance on jesus. i've since read alot of books by other authors and watched documentaries, e.t.c.

[nuit]

i met him when we both appeared on the james whale show on men and motors years ago, thought he was a bit of a jack the lad with attitude to match, but had some very interesting points of view

[greenleaf]

I got into listening to David through a dislike of a radio DJ who plays on words like a twister..called 'Terry Wogan'...through naturally disliking this man, I found an old interview of the ridicule (all must have seen the clip by now) he put David through and didn't like it one bit...I was deffinately not laughing AT david at the time...and I was only young
I always suspected Terry Wogan as some kind of dodgy medium, playing on words and making issues seems pointless unless it's to do with his own agenda..one eyed teddy and personal greed!..to me he is too involved with the elitisms of control...always lookin down on people.

When I was younger I was walking through Leeds centre with my older brother and I bumbed into David by accident..I didn't recognise him even though i'd seen him on TV (I was too young), but my brother did and told me afterwards I had just walked into a massiah!.. and would be lucky for the rest of my life through passing energies... I know this is just something of a joke/trick that older brothers and sisters do everyday, but It made me in a weird way take it on board.. and now I admire the man through choice.

[greenleaf]

BTW...lovely dress NUIT!..;)

[steppewar]

Six years ago I was in Waterstones bookshop looking in the Mind, Body and Spirit section and felt in overwhelming urge to pick up and buy a copy of Childern Of The Matrix which I then did. I have since read that Icke had a similar experience years ago with a book by a psychic.

[de_shit]

I got into his work after downloading a copy of Infinite Love off of a weird guy I talk to on the internet. Ive bought 5 of his books so far man.

[octopusrex]

Long history of reading Icke myself. Down from his first book.

Especially during my seriously anti-semite period, when I was still thinking nazi like.

[de_shit]

I was racist at one point too man. It started as a joke between me and a friend at my school. We said "fuckin' naygerz" all the time and I soon took it to heart and I started fucking reading up on KKK shit. I was a hateful fuck back then man. Ive made one hell of a turnaround though. I'm completely the opposite.

[megafish33]

I had absorbed bits of Icke material here and there. Someone spoke of And The Truth Shall Set You Free as if it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, so I checked it out. I liked his bits about reptiles in later books. :cool:

[octopusrex]

White Mexican kid growing up in the rural south of USA needed to turn into a redneck to suvive.

[quintal]

beautiful thread, let's thank providence and its messengers (which we all are, all human kind).

i heard of david icke on the web not long after i got online in 97-98. Before that I was into esotericism (magic, occult, new age) but the web opened me to conspiracy stuff. David was a big inspiration and so were the christians (they're the ones who know most about the new world order, satanist cults and so on, believe it or not that's the conclusion i came to).
Since then I havent looked back and call myself a confirmed EX-newager turned into a conspiracy buff... until i work around this other circle and see its limits as well.
David is one among many voices in that field to me, but I'm fond of him (although I do criticize his work as well). I have a special fondness for his own story of his awakening in the peruvian desert;-)
Some are way more knowledgeable than he is but he is like the proverbial child who does it all because he tells everything about his own discoveries along the way, past and present.

[otto vollov]

I met David when he came to my area of the usa to talk with a friend of mine. Marshall Summers, www.greatercommunity.org , had been in communicatto with some off earthers and he wanted us to hear what David had to say. I liked the guy, thought he was worth checking into so I bought up some of his books. The first was the Biggest Secret. It blew me sideways and I lost my grounding on the planet for awhile. I'm back now so I can help out friends and family see things a bit differently. My information base has expanded exponentially which is why I thought about trying his forum. Its a good experience so far. There's a variety of ideas here. I'm learning more already.

[revolutionary_jam]

wow I've really enjoyed skimming through this 13 page thread!! :):):)
great experiences guys
For myself i got into david icke when my brother brought over a copy of the biggest secret which i red a fair bit of before getting a proper loan of it, in between had a browse of the old website and gradually eased my way into it

sadly can't remember the year i think it was 2000 or so might have been 99' or 2001 at latest


Ps.
everybody's too sensitive about casual things, and yet not serious about important issueswhat a great quote!

[paganus]

reading up on norse Paganism,i came across david lane and the militia movement.thats where D.I's name came up for me.

[arrowwind]

I came across his name on the ****************** forum. There was a video of him there recently talking about his new book so I got it and damned expensive it was to send to the USA! so it better be worth it! So far he hasn't said much that isn't already known to me except the lizard thing. I'm contemplating that, the possibility of a take over from an inter-dimensional race through possession and interbreeding.

One of my spiritual teachers warned of this but I didn't take it to seriously or give it much thought till now.

What I want to know is... if all these organizations are so screwed up who can you trust? Are there any religions out there, any spiritual groups that have knowledge that are worthy of attention? that are not taken over by this bullshit?

[cheeney1]

I came By david Icke Through Alex Jones Doco ,Then I Bought Two Of His Books Off Trade Me. Alice In Wonderland & The Truth Shall Set Me Free

Both Excellent Reads

[pri01]

I was at a really low time last January. My father had been badly injured in one of those care homes, and sadly he didn't recover. He died when my husband and I were away on holiday and its weird, because his injury was playing on my mind it was the second day into our holiday an I was dreaming about moving him to a better place. At exactly that time, the hotel phone woke me up and it was my brother to tell me that he'd died. Anyway, we arranged to get back as soon as possible and arrived home to find that while we were away, we had been burgled.

It was a couple of weeks after the funeral that I was visiting family and we were listening to garbage on the telly about global warming and our contribution etc. I was stilling feeling down at this time and said to my sister in law that life, no matter how good you try to make it is a struggle from start to finish. I said soomething abou the government wanting to tax us for everything even the air that we breathed. It just seemed to me at that time that everything we work for, earn and try to preserve to leave to our loved ones is taken from us as much as possible. My dad had to pay for the privilage of being neglected in the care home by the way. Any way it was my sister in law who said to me have you ever heared of David Icke. She didn't go into detail as she didn't know how I would respond but the very next day I went out and bought the Biggest Secret. From then on, I could make sense of some of the things that were going on and I havent looked back since. I look very differently at things now.

[drakul]

i recieved The Biggest Secret in the mail - out of the proverbial blue in 1999. Up until then I had never heard of D. Icke. Someone I have never met personally, but just knew through a mutual national organization mailed it to me. This was during the time of the demonization of the Serbs and the NATO bombing of Serbia. As we are both Americans of Serbian descent he thought I might be interested. I was stunned by the insights David provided. Not only did he get the hidden hands behind the breakup of former Yugo right but he did a great analysis on the history of RUSSIA - the Tsar's support of Lincoln during the US civil war and how this support resulted in the Russian Tsar's assassination, in addition to Lincoln. And ultimately the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, etc.

Let me add here that I'm not a naive person. I have a BA in International Relations. My parents were in the CIA and we traveled around the world living in mostly 3rd world countries - always under `cover'. So I was always aware of secret societies (what are the CIA or KGB now FSB but conspiratorial secret societies???). I knew about hidden Agents of Influence. As children when people asked us What does your father do? We always had a lie ready. Sometimes the most generic would do - `Oh he works for the government'. `He works for USAID...' etc and then change the subject.

So I based on my own experience I was aware that in effect aliens CAN live among us.

Icke's discussion of an alien/reptilian race that lives among us was also stunning on an intuitive level. Since childhood my most repetitive dream the one I could never forget hinted at something like an incredibly powerful and evil reptilian presence lurking in another dimension but able to burst through at any time. I don't know if there are actually reptilians. I wouldn't call myself a believer at all. However I don't disbelieve the hypothesis either. Just waiting to see...

[stinker]

I met David in the early nineties following a talk he did in a tent in the middle of nowhere.

In those days, only about 5 people would turn up to these things. I'm all for supporting people who have alternative viewpoints, so I turned up to as many talks as practicable around that time.

So anyway, that was the original thing.....how times change!

[uccomama]

I picked up and read a copy of The Robots Rebellion from a New Age bookstore in Hong Kong, it must have been in the early 90s. I was really into ascension and channeled materials at the time, and I honestly wasn't that impressed with the book. I remembered David from the BBC which was why I bought it.

first when i was a kid i always read illustrated childrens bible by hamlyn, it had great colourful pictures, a great book

I had a copy of that book too. I loved it.

[drakul]

Sorry people I have no idea why my post got posted 3 times.

[rossus]

I think I've found David Icke's name on a new-age disinfo site,
which in the beginning stages of "my awakening" I thought was a good site...

the site's at www.2012.com.au (!!disinfo warning :)!!)

[lottie]

Sorry people I have no idea why my post got posted 3 times.

No worries....Ive deleted two for you drakul! :)

[quester123]

Truth Vibrations was the first of David's
books which thankfully came into my life after a traumatic spiritual awakening
in my very early teens. Have also read & thoroughly enjoyed his other books too. (with the exception of his latest release, which I have to say, is on my every increasing "to do" reading list)

But it has been really very heartening to see how things have unfolded over the years. Especially since those earlier days, when there were more hecklers and rude people, quite literally shouting over him at his UK talks. Than genuine folks, who were actually there to listen, learn and awaken.

I decided to reorder Truth Vibrations over the web and read it through again last November. Simply because I was rather curious about something within this particular book that he had originally written about the Brigantia Tribe.
Totally amazing to see how far he has progressed since those early days!
and especially how many have since started to follow his work

[cowboy]

Well for me - My friend was into conspiracies a few months before me. He linked me to David Icke, i spent 10 minutes looking at his work. I was programmed, so I came to the conclusion he was a lunatic. After awhile i found out about 9/11 being an inside job, then the bilderbergers, CFR, etc..

Gave his work a shot, and realized he is right on 90% of what he says. The other 10%, im not sold completely, but it is very plausible to me.

[raffles]

I got into icke when i heard a couple of his interviews on the jeff rense show around 1999/2000.