Brian Harper - The Biggest Secrets--The World of David Icke

DavidIcke was born on the 20th April 1952 in Leicester a city in theMidlands of England. His family were quite poor when he was young. Ickewas not a good student at school. But he was interested in football andshowed talent as a goalkeeper. In 1967 he was signed aged 15 byCoventry City. Unfortunately Icke suffered from rheumatoid arthritis inhis knee, which subsequently moved to his ankles, elbows hands andwrists. Thus meant that he could not continue in his career aprofessional goalkeeper in football. He did play part time for HerefordUnited. He made 37 appearances between 1971 and 1973. At the age of 21in 1973 he had to retire.
Icke said:
Im playing withthis swollen knee, but Im doing all right. We got to the final of theFA Youth Cup, played against Graeme Souness and Steve Perryman andthese sort of people in the final. Four games it took, before they beatus 1-0. And, I was going on fine. And then my right ankle started toswell, and then my left elbow, and so it went on, then my right knee. Iwas then told that youve got to stop playing because youve gotrheumatoid arthritis. At which point, I thought Id never play again.
Rheumatoidarthritis is an autoimmune disorder which affects the joints in thehuman body. The joints become swollen and painful. Thr immune system ofthe body attacks the joints leading to inflammation. The most commonpart of the body affected us the wrist and hand. This disorder ruinedIcke's sporting career, and also makes writing harder - so Ickesprodigious writing output must be respected.
As his footballcareer had come to a premature end, Icke moved into journalism findinga job with the Leicester Advertiser, a local paper in Leicester. Healso worked for BBC Radio Leicester reporting on sport. In 1976 hemoved to Saudi Arabia to work with the Saudi national football team,but returned to England after a few months suffering from homesickness.He resumed his journalism career on the Loughborough Monitor and theLeicester Mercury newspapers. Icke did some sports reporting onindependent Midlands radio station BRMB. He got a job for the BBC's tvprogramme Midlands Today, moving into television for he first time.This led to sports presenting roles on the BBC's Newsnight and Ickeappeared on the first ever BBC breakfast show in 1983 reading thesports news. Icke worked as a general sports presenter for the BBC,hosting coverage of sports such as snooker and bowls and working aspart of the BBC's Olympic coverage. He hosted the legendary 1985 WorldSnooker Championship final between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor, whichremains the most watched event in the history of BBC2 with 18 millionviewers watching. A book about pursuing a career as a footballer calledIt's a Tough Game, Son! was written by Icke in 1983.
In 1990 theBBC sacked Icke they did not renew his contract. Icke was opposing acontroversial new local tax colloquially known as the Poll Tax - theBBC wanted to remain impartial. He had an interest in green politics -in areas such as alternative medicine and animal rights. Icke hadjoined the Green Party and was one of its main spokespersons. He wrotea book about environmental issues in 1989 called It Doesn't Have To BeLike This. Green issues were becoming more popular in the 1980s. TheGreen Party was starting to grow as a political party, and Icke was aserious spokesman for the party. Icke left the Green Party in 1991 topursue his new career. He still spoke at some Green party meetings, butsoon the party severed all ties as his views were seen as toocontroversial.
Icke had a personal psychological and personalcrisis around 1989 saying "that he felt a presence around him". In ashop on the Isle of Wight he was drawn to a book by an unknown force.The book was called Mind to Mind and was written by English psychichealer Betty Shine. Betty Shine (1929-2002) was born in London.She was an opera singer as well as a psychic, medium and psychichealer. She wrote a series of Mind themed books - Mind to Mind, MindWorkbook, Mind Magic and Mind Waves. Her other books were My Life as aMedium (1996), The Infinite Mind, Clear your Mind, Free yourMind, A Mind of Your Own (1998) and A Free Spirit (2002).Mind to Mindand Mind Magic were both popular and were in the Sunday Times Top 10bestsellers lists for several weeks.
Betty Shine said:
"Itis up to every one of us to seek knowledge, improve the power of ourmind, and discover what we are really capable of. With the expansion ofthe mind come health, excitement and positivity and - very important -independence and self-reliance. Never give up. Keep trying. Life isfull of fascinating things waiting for you to discover them. Challenge!That is the word that has inspired me throughout my life. Why don't youtake up the challenge of helping to make this world a better place tolive in?"
The Sun newspaper claimed that Shine was "the World'snumber one faith healers". It was also said of her that everyone whomet her or used her healing services were shocked at her supernaturalpowers. One researcher claimed to have received hundreds of lettersclaiming Shine was a fraud, but this person may have had another agendaagainst her.
Shine believed in mind waves - an energy linkingpeople that could be either negative or positive. This belief plays apart in Icke's theories today. She also believes in psychic surgery.This is a controversial practice where people claim to perform surgeryusing their bare hands. Some fraudulent psychic surgeons have used fakeblood to give the illusion of performing surgery. The practice isbelieved to have originated in the Philippines among spiritualists inthe early 20th century.
In 1975, the US Federal Trade Commission said :
"'psychicsurgery' "is nothing but a total hoax". Judge Daniel H. Hanscom, whengranting the FTC an injunction against travel agencies promotingpsychic surgery tours, declared: "Psychic surgery is pure andunmitigated fakery. The 'surgical operations' of psychic surgeons ...with their bare hands are simply phony. It has been found that "psychicsurgery" is pure fakery. The body is not opened, no "surgery" isperformed with the bare hands or with anything else, and nothing isremoved from the body. The entire "operation" is an egregious fraudperpetrated by sleight-of-hand and similar tricks and devices."
Ickeread Mind to Mind and it provided answers to his personal spiritualcrisis. He contacted Shine about his spiritual experiences and problemswith arthritis. Icke had several meetings with Shine, and she said:
"....shehad a message from Wang Ye Lee of the spirit world. Icke had been sentto heal the earth, she said, and would become famous but would faceopposition. The spirit world was going to pass ideas to him, which hewould speak about to others. He would write five books in three years;in 20 years a new flying machine would allow us to go wherever wewanted and time would have no meaning; and there would be earthquakesin unusual places, because the inner earth was being destabilised byhaving oil taken from under the seabed".
He decided to visit anold burial site in Sillustanui, Puni, Peru in February 1991 to explorehis spiritual feelings. During his visit he had an experience by aselection of ancient stones, feeling as if electricity was flowingthrough his body. He said "ideas poured into him." A higher level ofconsciousness was triggered, and his chakras (something very popularwith Betty Shine) were activated.
Icke then embarked on a famousperiod where he called himself the "Son of God" and wore a turquoisecoloured shell suit. The colour was seen to be a positive one. Icke hasbeen channelling (other forces took control of his body and gave himmessages) and had received a message about him being a "Godhead" andthe "Son of God. He held a press conference in 1991n to announce he wasthe Son of God. Icke also made a series of predictions - he stated thatthe world was going to end in 1997, preceded by a succession of naturaldisasters, such as New Zealand disappearing under water.