David Icke

Sometimes even the kookiest conspiracy theorist stumbles upon something important. This isn't one of those times.

American presidents, European royals, the wealthiest of the world's families, all are tied together in this book through their bloodline. Of course, it isn't news that most of the royal families in Europe are related, or that most US presidents can find distant blood ties to the English royal family. But did you know that the reason they're all related is because they are all show more space aliens? Shape-shifting reptilians, to be exact, who participate in human sacrifice and other blood rituals. And they're planning to take over the world! That's why the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers are in on this - he who controls the world's gold can make the world's rules.

Oh, I can see you rolling your eyes. You aren't taking me seriously, are you? Okay. Fine. When you stop laughing, let me know and I'll dig another choice nugget out of the book.

Some books are so bad that you can't bring yourself to let anyone borrow your copy; you would feel guilty after they soiled their mind on the garbage. This book is one of those. A used book store might give me a couple of dollars for it, but then the book is available to spread. I'd rather keep it harmless in a box in my attic. show less

The 3 stars is more because it was compelling to read for a conspiracy theory fan like me. It's definitely not for how believable I found it. I also get how he got condemned for using the discredited Protocols of Zion, (for which he doesn't blame Jewish people but the shadowy Brotherhood who control the world, where goyim is a word for those who do not belong, rather like the way knitters sometimes use muggles to refer to non-knitters)

Yes, there is a core of interesting ideas about how we're show more unthinkingly walking into a world of being controled by the 1%, where we look to today and not to tomorrow and the damage being done. Where Walmart employees have to rely on handouts to survive instead of having a living wage. Yes these things are not good, but I don't think there's an alien race imposing this on humanity, I think we need to take ownership of the situation and actually do something about it rather than trying to blame someone else.

Yes, there is probably propaganda and people who work at keeping people accepting of the status quo, and there are always going to be people who want others to make their decisions for them, whether that's through religion, science or whatever but there are also a lot of frustrated people who are too tired to make changes.

Made me angry where it needs citations, he makes claims or uses the phrase "I believe..." and doesn't offer expliantions, he's saying throughout that you should questions received wisdom but then saying that you should trust him. I really did want a "citation needed" stamp throughout. He also has a bibliography that doesn't reflect the book, text that appear in your work should be in the bibliography, otherwise it's "extra reading" or "recommended further reading" or "recommended reads". In many instances there are quotes from people that lack sources which is just not good enough. He also talks about religion as being wrong and evil but fails to see the people within many of those religions who have strived for good.

Interesting, wrongheaded, with some food for thought and eyerolling moment as well. show less

As so often is the case, I didn’t manage to get through this library book, since I wasn’t able to renew it, and it’s a weighty tome.

David informs/reminds us that we are programmed by the System and thus are only Phantom Selves.

We sleepwalk through life believing ourselves to be wide awake and look through blindfolded eyes believing we can see.

“Phantom Self lives in the subconscious and dictates conscious behaviour, responses and perceptions which the conscious mind falsely believes show more it is instigating.”

Phantom Selves get their views and opinions from other Phantom Selves programmed by the System.

Education is acquiring knowledge, but this knowledge is not necessarily true. It is only what you believe is true and what others have told you is true.

David Icke’s books are refreshing reading because he writes just like he talks. Here he shows us how the lives we live constitute madness. He quotes Ellen Goodman as saying: “‘Normal’ is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car you’ll still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”

He calls human society “cuckoo-crazy”.

Mainstream religion condemns anyone suggesting that we are ‘God’. “We are told to believe that we are inferior, subordinate sinners that must worship ‘God’ when, in fact, we are a point of attention within ‘God’ as ‘God ‘experiences itself; but this ‘God’ is not the ‘God of religion – it is Infinite Awareness.”

This is a typical Icke book – exciting, erudite and well-written (though he mixes British and American spelling); it includes material about the Archon-Reptilian elite. We’re told that the Queen’s grandmother, Mary of Teck, is descended from the family of Vlad the Impaler – “one of history’s most infamous human sacrificers and blood drinkers.

Actually, I’m in part glad I wasn’t able to finish the book, since Icke’s books, though imparting valuable information, are invariably depressing, and I recall not being able to complete the last one of his I attempted to read for that very reason.

On glancing through the book I see a wealth of interesting, though abhorrent, information, for example personal stories about the paedophile and Satanist Ted Heath ( a witness describes how he was also a shapeshifting ‘reptiloid’). show less

"When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
– Criss Jami

“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, he also believes to be true.”
– Demosthenes

David Icke is surely a controversial speaker.

Icke’s work has come to be known as fascinating as it is wide-ranging, and for good reason. The man will leave no stone unturned. He’s not afraid of heading into places other people can’t even fathom, and many have come to appreciate this.

In show more Phantom Self, David Icke does a resounding job of not only showing various methods the system employs to carve out the consciousness from individuals, but he also shows the numerous facets the system has that play a role in making this process possible.

Throughout the book, Icke makes it a point from differentiating that we have two selves, the more superficial version of us that goes through life unaware of the deeper structure of life and reality, and the deeper level of conscious awareness that holds our unending potential, which is rarely tapped by individual.

Phantom Self showcases some of the previous information that Icke has shown, with good reason. Much of this information is just as vital now, if not more so, as it was in the past. And things have only gotten worse globally.

Readers of his previous work will be familiar with some of it. Still, the information that Icke provides and how he distills it is vital to understanding how individuals and society will shed its shackles from the control grid as long as they take the appropriate action.

Issues such as education, media manipulation, propaganda, technology, genetically modified foods, bloodlines, depopulation/eugenics, Agenda 21/Agenda 2030, weather modification, et al are addressed quite extensively throughout. The push for a transhumanistic future is also saliently detailed by the author.

As an avid researcher, my one qualm with the book is that Icke doesn’t source all of his statements. He does provide quite a few sources, but a lot of the information that he writes as ‘matter of fact’ would be much stronger if he at least buttressed those statements with how he came to those conclusions. There’s nothing wrong with giving your opinions about a matter, and they surely might be facts mind you, however, in order for some people to visualize the extent of control and corruption they will need to see a roadmap. A roadmap is made up of those signposts, and those signposts in research are sources.

Be that as it may, that last fact doesn’t detract from the book. Phanton Self provides more than ample information for it to be worth one’s money.

How icke chose to conclude the book resonates quite well, and certainly makes a lot of sense.

Its through individual self awareness and realization of our deeper conscious state that we as individuals will be able to see that we are the solution to the system.

Aggression will not be the solution to overturning the system. In fact, the opposite is the case. The system is ready for aggression in more ways than most realize. Once we realize the depth of the power of our true selves – the power of the love for another – we will be able to detach ourselves from the meaningless and head on a new path.

The system will be changed only by people removing their support from it in every way shape or form. Then, and only then will we be able to birth a new process and reign in the beginnings on the morrow.

As Ghandi once said:

“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of this evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her own soul.” show less