David Icke's conspiracy theories might grab the attention of some, but there's so much New Age and occult garbage in his books (i. e., And the Truth Shall Set You Free) that extreme caution is advised. Each new book that he writes becomes more far-fetched, disturbing and wackier than before. Here's a short run-down on what he believes. All has been taken from his own words.  

• Believes the earth is being held captive. (Herbert W. Armstrong, false prophet and founder of the Worldwide Church of God, wrote a booklet entitled "A World Held Captive.")

• Believes there are "wavelengths." (Herbert Armstrong also taught about "wavelengths.")

• Uses the phrase "higher self." (This is a New Age term for deity.)

• Went to a [psychic] "healer" in 1990.

• Said he was guided by souls from other dimensions.

• Stated at first that he was the "Messiah," but no longer says this.

• Has involved himself in channeling.

• Believes in breaking free of all dogma, including religious "dogma."

• Believes in reincarnation.

• Believes in expressing physical love to all those that we love.

• Strongly disagrees with "Christian patriotism."

• Believes we "create our own reality" and we "chose that which has happened to us," even though we can now turn it into a "positive experience."

• Doesn't identify the majority of his psychic sources, but instead calls them "an excellent source."

• Believes in "following what your heart and intuition tells you."

• Believes we are "constantly absorbing magnetic energy from the cosmos, mostly through the chakra at the base of the spine." [This is similar to belief in the Kundalini.]

• Believes we are all "healers and all psychic."

• Believes we are "all each other, all part of the same whole."

• Believes we should "all be working together."  

• Believes the New Age has made "a positive contribution," but we shouldn't be "sucked into their dogma."

• Believes there is a "never-ending flow of knowledge that is ours for the taking."

• Believes the planet earth is going through a "transformation."

• Believes in "positive extra-terrestrials and negative extra-terrestrials."

• Believes the occult is "not negative in or of itself." "It is just the knowledge of the potential to harness the energies of Creation for good or ill..."

• Believes that we are all "aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and creation."

• Believes that "we can do anything we want to do and be anything we wish to be by just believing it and making it happen."

• Believes that "the vibrations of the planets affect us very powerfully."

• Believes in astrology.

• Believes in psychics.

• Believes that it is possible to "think ourselves ill and think ourselves healthy."

• Believes aging is only the "reality programmed into the human mind."

• Believes "we are our own saviors."

• Believes "the planet [earth] is the physical body of a consciousness with a mind and emotions." "She thinks and feels just like we do."

• Believes "we are all God." [New Age thinking]

• Believes "everyone at death withdraws from their body, their eternal spirit moving on to another wavelength of reality and another world to continue its evolution."

• Believes we should "love everyone."  

• Believes we can "project love." (This is another way of saying "visualization works.")

• Believes if we "heal ourselves, we heal the world."

• He goes with "his intuition" and "what feels right."

---

NOTE: We encourage our readers to check out David Icke's earlier book, Truth Vibrations, which will verify to what we have said. It can also be used as a good study to show his connections to the New Age and the occult.

---

Icke proclaimed himself the "reborn Messiah":

From a Web forum post, April 29, 1996:

To: psychoceramics@*** (Psychoceramics)
Subject: psychoceramics: More about David Icke

Here's some more info about Mr. Icke.

Basically, after years of commentating on middle-of-the-road sports events, he went off to co-found the British Green Party. Then he disappeared. Then, he returned dressed all in turquoise, proclaiming himself the Reborn Messiah. Apparently, he first suspected he was something pretty special when he realised he could always find parking spaces in central London. I can buy that.

Then a little while later, after many many talk show appearances (which were quite excruciating. He said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not really the Messiah, I was mad then." Now he's brought out a book (this is for real) proclaiming the horrors of the Illuminati conspiracy (can't remember the name of this book. Probably brainwiped.)

Jim

NOTE: David Icke fosters many harmful ideas, including the belief that the discovery of a "1958 manuscript" (Gnostic gospel) discredits the Bible. This and other agnostic/Gnostic beliefs have been thoroughly disproved on sites such as Christian ThinkTank.   

Recommended books:

Between Christ and Satan by Kurt E. Koch (The dangers of occultism and the victory that Christ has won.) 

Occult ABC: Exposing Occult Practices and Ideologies by Kurt E. Koch
Discusses 71 occult practices and ideologies of today in light of Scriptural principles. Includes the effects of occult practices and how liberation comes through Christ. Also covers extreme movements of today. Numerous case histories.
Read a number of excerpts from the book. [offsite link]
 

Report on David Icke

Confession and Freedom From Specific Occult/Cult Strongholds

The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow by Constance Cumby (book)