David Icke
<table class="infobox biography vcard">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th colspan="2"><span class="fn">David Icke</span></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img src="/a3ff762d-eeea-425c-a95b-dbd3f6627ce0.jpg" />
<div>Icke in June 2013</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">Born29April1952</th>
<td><span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 66)</span>
<span class="birthplace"><a title="Leicester" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester">Leicester</a>, England</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">Residence</th>
<td class="label"><a title="Ryde" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryde">Ryde</a>, England</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">OccupationWriter</th>
<td class="role">, public speakerMovement</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"> </th>
<td class="category"><a title="New Age" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age">New Age</a> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Conspiracism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracism">conspiracism</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"><span class="nowrap">Spouse(s)</span></th>
<td>
<div class="plainlist">
<ul>
<li>
<div>Linda Atherton
(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> <span title="September 1971">1971</span>; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2001)</div>
</li>
<li>
<div>Pamela Richards
(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2001; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2011)</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row">Children4Website</th>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th scope="row"> </th>
<td><span class="url"><a class="external text" href="http://davidicke.com/" rel="nofollow">davidicke.com<wbr /></a></span></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p><strong>David Vaughan Icke</strong> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a title="Help:IPA/English" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English">/<span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪk</span>/</a></span></span>; born 29 April 1952) is an English writer and public speaker. A former <a title="Association football" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football">footballer</a><sup id="cite_ref-stuff_1-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-stuff-1">[1]</a></sup> and sports broadcaster, Icke has been known since the 1990s as a professional <a title="Conspiracy theory" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory">conspiracy theorist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> He is the author of over 20 books and numerous DVDs, and has lectured in over 25 countries, speaking for up to 10 hours to audiences.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis2010p75_4-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Lewis2010p75-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup></p>
<p>Icke was a <a title="BBC" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC">BBC</a> television sports presenter and spokesman for the <a title="Green Party (UK)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_(UK)">Green Party</a> when, he claims, a <a title="Psychic" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic">psychic</a> told him, in 1990, that he had been placed on Earth for a purpose and would begin to receive messages from the spirit world.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkun2003p103_6-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Barkun2003p103-6">[6]</a></sup> The following year he announced that he was a "Son of the Godhead",<sup id="cite_ref-stuff_1-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-stuff-1">[1]</a></sup> and that the world would soon be devastated by <a title="Tsunami" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami">tidal waves</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" title="Earthquakes" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquakes">earthquakes</a>, a prediction he repeated on the BBC's primetime show <em><a title="Wogan" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wogan">Wogan</a></em>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> The show changed his life, turning him from a respected household name into someone who was laughed at whenever he appeared in public.<sup id="cite_ref-Channel_5_12_Dec_2006_00:02:20_9-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Channel_5_12_Dec_2006_00:02:20-9">[9]</a></sup></p>
<p>Over the next 11 years he wrote <em>The Robots' Rebellion</em> (1994), <em>And the Truth Shall Set You Free</em> (1995), <em>The Biggest Secret</em>(1999), and <em>Children of the Matrix</em> (2001), where he developed his worldview of <a title="New Age" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age">New Age</a> conspiracism.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup> His endorsement of the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> forgery <em><a title="The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion">The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</a></em> in <em>The Robots' Rebellion</em>, and in <em>And the Truth Shall Set You Free</em>, led his publisher to refuse to publish his books, which were <a title="Self-publishing" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-publishing">self-published</a> thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-holocaust_11-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-holocaust-11">[11]</a></sup> Icke has gone on to lecture around the world, frequently selling out venues, and his books have been translated into eleven languages.<sup id="cite_ref-Alexander4Dec2011_12-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Alexander4Dec2011-12">[12]</a></sup></p>
<p>At the heart of Icke's theories lies the idea that <a class="mw-redirect" title="The universe" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_universe">the universe</a> is made up of "vibrational" energy, and consists of an <a title="Infinity" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity">infinite</a> number of <a title="Multiverse" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse">dimensions</a> that share the same space.<sup id="cite_ref-WardNH_13-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-WardNH-13">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Doyle17Feb2006_14-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Doyle17Feb2006-14">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Biggest26_15-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Biggest26-15">[15]</a></sup> He believes that an <a title="Interdimensional hypothesis" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdimensional_hypothesis">inter-dimensional</a> race of <a title="Reptilians" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians">reptilian</a> beings called the <a title="Archon (Gnosticism)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon(Gnosticism)">Archons</a> (or <a title="Anunnaki" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anunnaki">Anunnaki</a>), have hijacked the <a title="Earth" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth">Earth</a>, and that a <a title="Genetic engineering" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering">genetically modified</a> human/Archon <a title="Hybrid (biology)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid(biology)">hybrid</a> race of <a title="Shapeshifting" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting">shape-shifting</a>reptilians, also known as the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#reptoid">Babylonian Brotherhood</a>", the <a title="New World Order (conspiracy theory)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order(conspiracy_theory)#Illuminati">Illuminati</a>, or the '<a class="mw-redirect" title="Global elite" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_elite">elite</a>', manipulate global events to keep humans in a constant state of fear, so the Archons can feed off the 'negative energy' this creates.<sup id="cite_ref-WardNH_13-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-WardNH-13">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lewis2010p82_16-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Lewis2010p82-16">[16]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup> He claims many prominent figures belong to the Babylonian Brotherhood, and are propelling <a class="mw-redirect" title="Human beings" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_beings">humanity</a> towards an <a title="Orwellian" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian">Orwellian</a> global <a title="Fascism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism">fascist</a> state, or <a title="New World Order (conspiracy theory)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order(conspiracy_theory)">New World Order</a>; a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Post-truth" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth">post-truth</a> era where <a title="Freedom of speech" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech">freedom of speech</a> is ended.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkun2003p103_6-1" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Barkun2003p103-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WardNH_13-2" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-WardNH-13">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Neil20May2016_18-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-Neil20May2016-18">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LEPredpilled_19-0" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-LEPredpilled-19">[19]</a></sup> Icke believes that the only way this 'Archontic' influence can be defeated is by humanity waking up to 'the truth', and filling their hearts with <a title="Love" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love">love</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WardNH_13-3" class="reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke#cite_note-WardNH-13">[13]</a></sup> Critics have accused Icke of being a <a class="mw-redirect" title="Holocaust denier" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_denier">Holocaust denier</a> and his "reptilians" and other theories of being antisemitic, claims he denies.</p>