UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age by Robertson David G

Author:Robertson, David G.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Figure 5.1 David Icke in The Guardian, 9 April 1990. Guardian News and Media Ltd. Reproduced with permission.

By the time Icke was able to visit Betty Shine again, he had begun to see an ‘eye’ everywhere he looked, and had furthermore begun serious reading of Edgar Cayce’s books (Icke 1991, 21). Wang Ye Lee, through Shine, made another series of prophecies:

He will write five books in three years.

Politics is not for him. He is too spiritual. Politics is very unspiritual and will make him unhappy.

He will leave the Isle of Wight. He will find closed minds there. It will become difficult for people who need to see him to get to the Island, and he will leave.

One man cannot change the world, but one man can communicate the message that will change the world. (Icke 1991, 22; emphasis mine)

Icke repeats sections of these prophecies in his current writings and talks, though notably none of the passages I have italicized above, all of which are patently falsifiable (e.g. Icke 2012, 9). This is a clear example of rolling prophecy, as I described in Chapter 2. Icke produces a number of date-specific prophecies, but those which are unsuccessful are quietly dropped – for example, Icke continues to promote Truth Vibrations as prophetic by only mentioning those passages of which have not been disproven. This process emphasizes prophetic successes (or often, merely potential prophetic successes) while de-emphasizing prophetic failures, thus increasing his epistemic capital within the field. Here, Icke is stressing the importance of the channelling epistemic strategy.

Icke then consulted an astrologer who confirmed Wang Ye Lee’s (or, arguably, Shine’s) predictions and went on to outline several of Icke’s past lives (Icke 1991, 32–4). His book about these events, The Truth Vibrations, was written in the latter months of 1990, while Icke’s public profile through the Green Party and the BBC was at its apex. It laid out Icke’s new millennial beliefs:

I have called these new energies the ‘Truth Vibrations’ because they will affect – are affecting – our consciousness and understanding in such a way that we will open our eyes to the truths about God and life, truths which have been forgotten for so long. (1991, 9)

In the book, Icke revealed that the presence which had contacted him was in fact only one of several Ascended Masters who were now guiding him, which he sometimes referred to as ‘the guys’.6 Many of the messages from ‘the guys’ came through a Welsh channeller called Janet (Icke 1991, 63). Chief amongst them was ‘Rakorczy’ (Icke 1991, 73), ‘Racorczy’ (1991, 74) or possibly ‘Rakorski’ (Icke 1992, 31), who was, in previous lives, Merlin, Joseph the father of Jesus, an Atlantean priest, Christopher Columbus and both Francis and Roger Bacon (Icke 1991, 74). This figure is clearly the ‘Rakoczi’ identified by Bailey in Initiation, Human and Solar (1951, 46, 49, 56–9, 61), The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (1957, 274, 304, 507–8, 644, 665, 667–9), and Discipleship in the New Age vol. I (1944 [1972], 730) and elsewhere referred to as ‘Master R____’ (1925, 455).

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