The Big Picture and the Battle Ahead: Two Reviews
by Nowick Gray
While the pandemic blankets the news — as well as the economy, and normal social interaction, and cultural life — worldwide, we have time to reflect on bigger pictures, endemic problems, and hidden solutions. Leading into the crisis I happened to come to the end of two large books representing months of slow reading — both masterpieces of scholarship and insight into big pictures and personal profiles of courage and perfidy, respectively.
I’m speaking of David Icke’s all-encompassing 2018 tome, Everything You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told; and David Talbot’s landmark historical biography, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government (2015). Reading them together as I did, Talbot’s portrayal of evil personified serves as a case study bringing to vivid life the sweeping gaze of Icke in his broader picture of the eternal history of human malfeasance.
But let me qualify that key modifier, “human.” Most readers familiar with Icke know him as the purveyor of the notorious “lizard people” theory, which has earned him mockery by the mainstream media (MSM) since back in the ’90s, continuing to this day. Icke shrugs it off now, since his live events fill arenas (when they are not cancelled by censorious authorities fearful of his all-too-truthful revelations). To chalk up human evil to reptilian genetics or bluebloods is too pat, anyway, as Icke in this book delves far deeper into Gnostic territory — with explications of an original Fall from universal consciousness into materialistic, even artificially “intelligent” thoughtforms that are but poor, error-ridden copies of the original template of the good life.
Metaphysics and origin legends aside, the long history of mind control by religious and political authorities is then detailed in inverted pyramid fashion, so that we see every aspect of contemporary global life cast in this light of perverted truth, false narrative, manipulated consciousness, and engineered evolutionary detour to a transhuman dystopia.
Is there any hope, then? In true nondualist spiritual fashion, Icke reminds us, especially at the end when his most complete picture is most bleak, that the solution of universal consciousness is always ready at hand. It only means accepting the gift of clear seeing, of recognizing where we came from (in the beginning beginning, before separation), which is where we still are, at heart.
Which is not to say, roll over for the likes of Allen Dulles and his ceaseless crew of Luciferian agents. The issue of 5G, for example, is one highlighted by Icke as central to the transhumanist agenda, which is to say, anti-human. So with our ability to see clearly, comes the responsibility to speak and act accordingly — so that our lives may be maintained in whatever semblance of authentic humanity we can still recover and reassert.
Let me now retrace a step to qualify that judgmental modifier, Luciferian. Could we not invoke the Quaker phrase “that of God in every one” to allow that even psychopaths are real humans at heart, simply misguided, or traumatized, or themselves mind-controlled, or blackmailed into service of self? The genius of Talbot, besides his impeccable painting of historical context, is to personify Dulles and his ilk, his corporate controllers and allies, in their own words and visions.
The “capitalism-good, socialism-bad” paradigm, after all, has ruled the roost in the West since the close of WWII… which, not coincidentally, happens to mark the advent of the CIA itself, and Dulles’ donning of the covert crown of empire. We see clearly in this book how in fact the CIA positioned itself to carry out that very task of purifying the world (through assassinations, covert funding, media control, false flags and assorted assets of ex-Nazis and active Mafiosi) on its terms. That is, to eradicate what it called evil (socialism) in the sole interest of what it deemed good (unbridled capitalism).
So how is it that the masses of citizenry in the West have come to embrace so thoroughly the above dualism, not just as a private agenda of the overlords, but as our own collective value system? The campaign has been so relentless, comprehensive, well concealed, and effective, that Western nations strongarmed by the US (and by extension, its client states worldwide) have been programmed to internalize those values as natural, as free, as sacrosanct, as human nature; as the “good life” we believe in, as if by divine providence. And failing that, when our own enacted evil stares back at us naked and unadorned (as it did so glaringly during the Vietnam War), we fall back on “my country right or wrong.”
Dulles and friends, the CIA, the media moguls, the banksters and their puppets, the technocrats and masters of the digital universe, seem to genuinely believe in their mission to remake the world in their own self-glorified image… ruled by those, what the heck, urges of the reptilian brain undeniably within us all. But the power of their self-belief and the corresponding worldly power they have amassed does not make it ultimately real; for in fact they miss their own mortality, their own limitation of consciousness, their own separation from the mammal and spiritual comforts whole humans enjoy.
Yes, we all prey, and fear, and procreate, like dinosaurs; but we humans have evolved to love and feel joy and connection, too, and it is this undying spirit of oneness and togetherness that will see us through the ultimate battle looming ahead. May we see ever more clearly the one light of our origin and destiny, and celebrate in solidarity this most ancient, and most enduring heritage.
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Nowick Gray writes from Salt Spring Island, BC. View his blog at AlternativeCulture.com, and his fiction and creative nonfiction writings at NowickGray.com. Download his latest book, My Generation: A Memoir of the Baby Boom, for free from Amazon, April 3–5.
