David Icke - Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told

First published in November 2017.

Copyright 2017 David Icke

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the Publisher, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism

Cover Design: Gareth Icke

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ISBN 978-1-5272-0726-4
eISBN 978-1-9447-8190-3

Dedication:

To Jaymie and Gareth for their brilliant work in support of what I do.

To experience what I have liked and what I have not liked. It all leads to wisdom if we allow it to.

Contents

Ive looked at life from both sides now

From up and down and still somehow

Its lifes illusions I recall

I really dont know life at all

Joni Mitchell

And now I understand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps theyll listen now

Don McLean

Pity the nation ...

Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force and by torture. Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own and no other culture but its own. Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed. Pity the nation oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away. My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like robots. They will assert their individuality. They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them. They will like to live in freedom. Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically. They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free.

The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian no society would like people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous dangerous to the Establishment, dangerous to the people who are in power, dangerous to the haves; dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression; dangerous to the churches, dangerous to the states, dangerous to the nations. In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.

Osho

Title Definition

I want to make it clear before we start what the title represents. Everything You Need To Know, But Have Never Been Told does not refer to all that people need to know in terms of information and knowledge.

How could you put that between two covers? Religious books claim to do this but they are works of self-delusion and perceptual imprisonment.

Everything You Need To Know in this case refers to the information necessary to open entirely new ways of thinking and perceiving reality, both in the seen and unseen, from which everything else will come.

This book is a start not a finish.

It is written in layers with information placed upon information that together reveals the picture by connecting the parts. The parts are fascinating, but the picture is devastating.

Prepare for a perception reboot ...

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wont come in Isaac Asimov

I am closing in on 30 years since I was first dubbed the maddest man in Britain and most other places come to that. Newspaper headlines delighted in my alleged madness and I was a comedians dream. Mention of my name was enough to get a laugh with no joke necessary. I was the joke.

But, as it turns out, they were the joke all along.

They didnt know (and neither did I) that what they perceived as madness was a mind emerging from the collective madness which is called normality ... the madness that masquerades as sanity ... the coma-sleep that believes it is wide awake. There are none so enslaved as those who wrongly believe they are free, and none so crazy as those who wrongly believe they are sane. Today as truly intelligent people look in my direction from literally all over the world it can safely be said that rumours of my madness were greatly exaggerated. For what is the perception of madness, but the perceivers perception of sanity? What is that perception, but what collective society has decreed sanity to be? And what is that collective society, but they who control, influence and police opinion to manipulate the norms that they then decree? Sanity and insanity are defined by perception and not necessarily by reality. Human history is awash with those dubbed mad and dangerous who were to be feted as ahead of their time often long after they had passed. Perceptions of sanity and insanity are not even static and they change as knowledge moves on. Tell a caveman that its possible to fly to the Moon and he would call you crazy. Tell someone today that its not possible and they will say the same. It is an extraordinary and incredibly debilitating human trait this cognitive dissonance between what we call past and present. People are so willing to mock and condemn those long gone who ridiculed or even murdered the visionaries who could see then what is now considered to be obvious. But the same people are so un willing to acknowledge how they themselves react the same way today to those who see the world differently to them and the norms that mould and solidify their sense of reality. Minds that genuinely seek understanding come from the immoveable foundation that they dont know it all. They are humble and wise enough to realise that humanity knows an almost incomprehensibly small fraction of what there is to know. Thus their minds are open at all times to all possibility. I dont mean only the possibilities that never challenge and expose ingrained religious, cultural, scientific and societal beliefs; I mean all possibility with none excluded. To consider all possibility and not only belief-system possibility is, to much of humanity, like garlic to a vampire. Unyielding perceptions are recycled and confirmed by sheer unquestioned repetition. While newspaper headlines told the world of my madness I was, ironically, becoming sane. Amid historic levels of ridicule and abuse that I faced in the 1990s I was walking into the light of freedom real freedom where I could think the unthinkable and say the unsayable and not give damn what people made of it. How many allow themselves that priceless gift? And yet it is there for the taking whenever they choose. If I can do it, so can everyone. Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said: Care about peoples approval and you will be their prisoner.