-Caveat Lector- The "Reptiles Rule the World" Theory of David Icke, and An Alternative View --A review of David Ickes' The Biggest Secret (Scottsdale, AZ: Bridge of Love Publications, 1999). $25.00. __________________________________ by Dr.Theodore Hall David Icke and I are kindred spirits in many ways. As researchers, we have both been tracking the "Conspiracy" for some time, and we've worked hard to get a good fix on it. "If we can see the enemy, we can win," the poet Leo Connellan once wrote. Seeing the Conspiracy has been something of a problem, as it is invisible to most eyes. It is cleverly concealed, for instance, in some of our most common concepts and paradigms. Most of us assume, for instance, that the American system is "democracy," and that democracy is a truly progressive, libertarian form of government. Not so. In fact, the American system is egalitarian republicanism, which translates, government of, by, and for the people as a whole. Democracy is, in theory, government by the majority of the people, i.e., a part of the people and not the whole. In practice, however, democracy usually turns out to be government by an elite in the name of the majority. In the early nineties, Icke tells us, his eyes were opened to the fact that the entire planet is being dominated by a small and nasty elite dedicated to turning Earth into a prison planet. In 1995, Icke published a "must-read" run-down on the Conspiracy titled (optimistically) ... and the truth shall set you free. In the same year, I published a Leading Edge monograph on the Conspiracy called Avoiding Extinction. Main idea: The drive behind history is consciousness; as we believe, so we create. At the moment (1859-1999), the history of our species is being driven by unscientific evolutionary theory (need I name it?) which maintains that "life is incessant struggle" and "war is the mother of evolution." In the very same year, the channel Barbara Hand Clow published her magnum opus, The Pleiadian Agenda--A New Cosmology for the Age of Light. More about this important "Agenda" book later. Back to Ickes' theory of the New World Order conspiracy.... Icke calls the alleged Conspiracy the "Babylonian Brotherhood" and claims that through a sinister secret network, the Brotherhood "now spans the globe and operates in literally every country." [57} In "exposing" the Brotherhood conspiracy, Icke rips into virtually every important Western institution, and concludes that most of them are implicated in the Conspiracy.... The Roman Catholic Church and the Brotherhood are one and the same, Icke declares. [53] The Christ story is in fact a fiction written by the Roman philosopher Seneca [4 B.C.--65 A.D.]. Christianity, "a farce founded on a fantasy," [103] has served the conspiracy as a "major vehicle for the removal of vital information from the public domain." The Knights Templar and other soldiers of Christianity are nothing but henchmen of the Brotherhood. As Jesus Christ never existed, all claims regarding his "bloodlines" are a hoax. What about the Eastern religions? Also indicted. Hinduism, for instance, is reptoidal to the core: "There is also the Banyon Tree under which the Hindu 'Jesus,' known as Krishna, sat upon a coiled serpent and bestowed spiritual knowledge on humanity." [21] Ickes' hit list goes on: Ben Franklin ["Imitate Christ and Socrates"] was a "Satanist" who, with other Masonic/Brotherhood members, conspired to steal the Sceptre of political power from traditional authorities. Sir Francis Bacon, the greatest intellect England ever produced, was a conniver who invented "this-world-is-all-there-is" science in order to "play two sides against each other to create an environment in which another, unspoken, Agenda could flourish. Certainly this [Baconian] period produced the classic control system of divide and conquer. Mass slaughter erupted across Europe in the Protestant-Catholic wars, while, at the same time, both creeds were being challenged by the emerging 'scientific' dogma." [162] Abraham Lincoln was an "American cousin" of the Rothschilds. Mention any power-wielder of the twentieth century; chances are he or she is on the list of conspirators. So what's the "biggest secret?" To summarize the Icke theory: The New World Order is the final world-enslaving program of an invisible elite that has governed the planet, by governing the minds of humans, since ancient times. This elite, known as the "Anunnaki," are reptilians who have a certain claim to rulership on Earth, as they created Homo sapiens (the "human-reptile lines" at least) by blending their genetics with those of Homo erectus. The human-reptile lines "carry the reptilian genetic code and thus can be far more easily possessed by the reptilian [over-lords] of the lower fourth dimension." These bloodlines, Icke says, "became the British and European aristocracy and royal families, and thanks to the 'Great' British Empire, they were exported across the world to rule the Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand .... These genetic lines are manipulated into the positions of political, military, media, banking and business power and thus these positions are held by lower fourth dimensional reptilians hiding behind a human form or by mind-puppets of these same creatures. They operate through all races, but predominantly the white one." [27] White supremacists please note: The Aryans are the chosen people of the reptilian elite because they taste better. Yes, indeed, reptilians prefer blondes. Icke distinguishes between three types of reptilians: "There are the 'full- bloods,' who are reptilians using an apparent human form to hide their true nature, and the 'hybrids,' the reptile-human crossbreed bloodlines, who are possessed by the reptilians from the fourth dimension. A third type are the reptilians who directly manifest in this dimension, but can't hold that state indefinitely.... Leading Brotherhood families like the Rothschilds and the Windsors are full-bloods, reptilians wearing human physical bodies like an overcoat in the full knowledge of who they are and the Agenda they are seeking to implement...." [31] What is the "Agenda" the reptilians seek to implement? They seek the "Satanization" of the planet. Icke tells us that "Satanism," as he uses the term, has nothing to do with the Christian Satanism. "I use it only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as it may seem to most people, is commonplace all over the world today...." [288] This "system" is an invention of the reptilians, and is based "on the manipulation of energy and consciousness. These deeply sick rituals create an energy field, a vibrational frequency, which connects the consciousness of the participants to the reptilians and other consciousness of the lower fourth dimension. This is the dimensional field, also known as the lower astral to many people, which resonates to the frequency of low vibrational emotions like fear, guilt, hate and so on...." [289] The reptilians' intention, in other words, is to degrade, to "dumb down," the human consciousness to the level of their own negative consciousness. You can't eat folks who are out of your particular frequency range. The political objective of the reptilians is the "Stalinization' [my term] of the planet. The film "Stalin" is highly recommended for those wanting a brief introduction to Joseph Stalin, father of the Soviet Union and murderer of sixty million people, and Stalinization. In a phrase, the objective of those at the top of the New World Order power pyramid, the "Apex" reptilians, is "Stalinization in the service of Satanization." In monosyllabic terms, the aim of the NWO is to turn Earth into a food farm for the "Dracs." Aryans are the food of preference--the "chosen grub." Sounds pretty wild, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the Icke theory has more than an element of truth to it. The truth, however, is admixed with a great deal of mis- and disinformation. In order to find and appreciate "the truth that'll set us free," it's necessary to put the Icke book through a little de-tox process. The first stuff that needs to be flushed is most of the data provided by "Arizona Wilder." The Wilder Factor Icke relies heavily on the testimony of one Arizona Wilder in presenting his theory. Indeed, he put together a video interview with Arizona that he regards as an important "companion piece" to the book. A week before his book went to press, Icke says, he was contacted by a friend in the United States who was in the process of deprogramming one "Arizona Wilder," who had been (programmed as) one of the world's most powerful "Mother Goddess" leaders of Satanic rites. Arizona had some awful things to tell David about the Apex people [people at or toward the top of the NWO power pyramid], especially the royal family. The following tid-bit on Prince Charles is illustrative: "'I've seen him shape-shift into a reptilian and do all the things the Queen does. I have seen him sacrifice children. There is a lot of rivalry between them [Charles and his Mum] for who gets to eat what part of the body and who gets to absorb the victim's last breath and steal their soul....'" [454] On the very last page of Icke's book, you'll find an "Ivan Fraser" and his "Truth Campaign" magazine cited. Fraser, a long-time supporter of Icke who feels Icke went off the deep end in his latest book, wrote a very interesting critique of The Biggest Secret, which was reprinted in issue #124 of Leading Edge [trufax.org]. Fraser is of the opinion that at one point or another, Icke's manuscript fell into the hands of the Intelligence people, who did a little disinformation dance on his head. "Before long David was meeting even more people all over the world telling him that they had seen people shapeshift into reptiles. David took this as confirmation of his theory and continued. Then he met a woman name Arizona Wilder who claimed to have performed Satanic rituals for the 'reptile-Aryan' elite such as the Queen and Queen Mother, various royals and nobility. With amazing 'synchronicity', as David considered it, Arizona went on to state much of David's thesis back to him with all of the attendant demonisation of Isis, Osiris, the Druids, the equinoxes and solstices etc., and several factual errors which were present in David's book. In fact one could say that it was almost as if she were reading from David's book!" [LE, 69] But why would the "Intelligence people" plant an Arizona Wilder in the Icke Expose Project? For several reasons, my dears. (1) To discredit two very learned authors, Zecharia Sitchin and Sir Laurence Gardner. The work of Sitchin and the latest work of Gardner, Genesis of the Grail Kings [1998], provide, for the first time in modern history, a real window on the origin of Homo sapiens in ancient Sumer, the gods of Sumer (the "Anunnaki"), and the true history of man in Biblical times. In Ickes' theory, the Reptilian Rulers are latter-day Anunnaki. This theory gives the reptile-parasites far more prestige than they are entitled to. Sitchin advised Icke that there is no real evidence of a serpent race. Gardner acknowledges that some figurines from about 5000 B.C. give the Anunnaki serpentine features, but, for the most part, he says, "the numerous Sumerian portrayals of the gods and goddesses are ... quite human in appearance...." [69] The Anunnaki were real; they created modern man and laid the basis for civilization; they were humanoids and not reptoids. If they were reptoids, you and I would have snake eyes. Sitchin and Gardner provide us with very intelligent, carefully researched perspectives on the Anunnaki. Sitchin and Gardner are learned liberators of the human mind. "Learned people," writes Gardner, "are the greatest of all threats to governmental thraldom...." [66] (2) To discredit Icke himself. The major conspiracy writers have a relatively small audience. They've been largely neutralized by being labeled "anti-Semitic" and/or "far right." David Icke is, or was, dangerous to the ruling powers because he's none of the above. He's an attractive, convincing, well-meaning guy who's been fairly successful in making his case, especially in his video presentations. Now, it looks as if he, too, has been neutralized. (3) To generate fear and terror in the masses. New Physics tells us that everything in the universe is made up of frequencies. Every thing has a particular "frequency signature." Fear, guilt, terror have very low frequency signatures; courage, self-worth, love have high signatures. The only really effective way to "overcome" the reptilians is to jump--jump out of the snake pit of guilt and fear and into the love & light frequency range. The NWO is happy to assist Icke, or any other writer creating "frequency anchors" that hold people down in the pit. The Arizona Wilder testimony must be dismissed as unreliable, even if it contains some truths. By her own admission, her two children are in the control of the "MCD" [Mind-Control Department] of the government. She is a hostage of the Dark Side. The Conspiracy as Reptilian Juggernaut "Juggernaut" is a term from the Sanskrit meaning "lord of the world." It is the name given to a deity of the Hindus, whose representation appears in a shrine in Bengal. "The idol is a carved block of wood, with hideous black face and distended blood-red mouth, and with eyes made of precious stones. The idol rests on a throne between two others--his brother Bala-Rama and his sister Subhadra." A major premise of The Biggest Secret is that the reptilians, whom Icke identifies as Anunnaki and whom Wilder declares an extraterrestrial species, constitute a kind of Juggernaut conspiracy that has manipulated the human species since the days of Babylon. The reptilians, in other words, are the real, if unrecognized, lords of the world. Is this major premise correct? No. Though I believe there is some basis for belief in a reptoid race and reptilian influence in our civilization, Icke fails to substantiate both the existence of the reptoids and the hypothesis of a reptilian Juggernaut. In his attempt to prove the existence of the reptoids, Icke relies heavily on ancient records and on interviews with Wilder and others who claim to have had direct encounters. "Where David [says] that ancient texts record mankind's interactions with reptilian races through arts and myth," Fraser writes, "he doesn't state that there are actually very few instances of such in the ancient texts, especially the Sumerian, which he uses as the prime case. He also does not state that 'dragons' are created in the Sumerian texts by combining animal characteristics such as lions and eagles into one creature to convey archetypal principles, such as royal strength (lion) with spiritual/godly nature (eagle). Therefore, the earliest dragons were not even dragons at all, making the idea that the ancients were recording the physical demeanor of actual reptilian gods a non-starter [a concept without validity from the start]." Icke is overly quick to suppose that certain artifacts constitute evidence: "Author and researcher Andrew Collins," he writes, "says he has a Canaanite copper figurine depicting one of their gods of around 2000 BC. It has a serpentine neck and a head shaped like the hood of a cobra which curls over to form a snake-like headdress...." [42] How do we know this figurine is, in fact, a depiction of a "god"? A figurine such as this might represent one of a dozen different things. Or it could be a whimsy. The ancient peoples had a sense of humor, too. My suspicion is that this figurine represents a kundalini energy stream that has burst through the crown seal, or chakra. Recall the film "The Little Buddha." The cobra head that hovers over the Buddha is a physical representation of the "liberated" kundalini. Icke does not mention this film. If he did, he would no doubt interpret the cobra a clear case of a reptilian "over-shadowing" a human being. In Genesis of the Grail Kings, Gardner has this to say about the symbols of serpent and dragon in ancient times: "In the earliest schools of mysticism, the symbol of the 'Word' (or the Logos) was the serpent: the venerated emblem of the Holy Spirit--the dragon that moved upon the face of the waters." [130] A primary thesis of the Gardner book, which is sub-titled "The Pendragon Legacy of Adam and Eve," is that the dragon is associated, from the time of the Cainite kings of Mesopotamia with the Messianic bloodline,--from Adam and Eve to King David to the Egyptian pharaohs to Christ and so on into modern times. The term "Messiah," meaning "anointed one," derives from the Egyptian word for crocodile. The Egyptians venerated the crocodile and anointed their pharaohs with an oil derived from crocodile meat. "The serpent has never had any dark or sinister connotation," Gardner writes, "except for that imposed on the Genesis text by latter-day church doctrines...." [92] Ickes' reptilian Juggernaut theory is also built upon the testimony of a number of people, the principal witness being Arizona Wilder. Another supposed witness is Christine Fitzgerald, who was a confidant of Princess Diana. "I was astonished to hear someone else talking about these subjects, which I knew from my own research to be true," Icke writes. "She was not aware when she told me this of my own research into reptilians. Christine Fitzgerald, thanks to her insider contacts and her knowledge of metaphysics, had been able to grasp the biggest secret: that reptiles on another dimension are controlling the world by working through physical bodies which look human...." [482] Icke goes on to quote Fitzgerald at length, but, curiously, there's not a single direct quotation supporting his statement that Fitzgerald agrees with his reptoids-rule-the-world hypothesis. What gives? Further, if Icke is correct in maintaining that reptoids have been running human politics ever since the days of Babylon and preying on humans, etc., then we'd expect to find a fairly large body of folklore, among the Aryan peoples especially (blue-eyed Aryans are supposedly their favorite food), that would point toward that reality. The existence of a sinister reptoidal people-eating elite is something that couldn't have been hidden from human consciousness for thousands of years. Only in recent decades have predator reptoids entered into popular culture, especially comic books and films. The concept of Earth as a prison planet, which is basic to Ickes' theory, originated with the prolific science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. This concept has been promulgated far and wide through Hubbard's Church of Scientology. The concept of reptilian over-lords running the prison planet emerges full-blown in channel Barbara Hand Clow's The Pleiadian Agenda (1995). Chapter four, titled "The Lizards and the Roman Church," contains a long monologue delivered by "King Lizard." Here are a few of King Lizards' remarks: "I am King Lizard, and we lizards love your spines. That is all we are really interested in. We are specialists of the spine, along with our brothers--the blessed snakes.... These days we have to struggle to stay in incarnational form, much more than you realize. For some strange reason, you think we are invincible because we are so good at eating you up whenever we get the opportunity.... When the Anunnaki visit Earth, they wear various costumes over their bodies, since otherwise they would look like reptilian robots to you.... These metallic essences, the Anunnaki, receive electromagnetic kundalini energy from us reptiles,... and we resonate with Draco, the source of dragon legends on Earth.... One of our finest achievements in the twentieth century was when our Komodo dragon ate up a Rockefeller!... I wonder if you've noticed how backward, how stupid you are? You think you are descended from apes because an uneducated country parson, Charles Darwin, said so.... you humans are descended from us lizards!..." [114-115] And now, "Dr. Lizard": "The original evolution of the genetic matrix of humans and Saurians on your planet occurred under by natural circumstances. All the Anunnaki did was make the mixture out of primordial Earth elements using silica-based clay for humans so they could read the program your minds.... When the Bible says you were made in God's image, it actually refers to reptiles! They were the Anunnaki's first experiment, and our species failed them from their point of view.... As I see it, the most potent killers of all time are the Christians, because Christianity assumes humans are superior to animals. Other religions value mysticism, a feeling-based approach, but Christianity has become so mental it is lethal to all life.... [116-118] It would appear that Barbara Hand Clow's light-hearted and instructive reptile fable became converted, in just a few years, into a supposed "true history" of man's life on Earth. As Oscar Wilde once said, "Life imitates art." As indicated earlier, I believe there may be some basis for belief in the existence of a terrestrial reptoidal species. It is conceivable that such a species had been created by the Anunnaki, perhaps as bio-robots to assist with underwater work or work in deep mines. Sir Laurence Gardner suggests that the serpent (of Garden of Eden fame) was created by "Enki," famous Anunnaki genetic scientist. [93] In the Biblical story of Adam, Eve and the serpent, God punishes the serpent for his role in the conspiracy by removing his legs. Interesting. Was the Genesis serpent a walking, talking reptoid? Ickes' Iconoclasm & Uncloaking the Conspiracy Almost as shocking as the reptilian over-lord hypothesis is the frequent "culture bashing" the Icke book displays. Many examples are cited in the opening pages of this review-essay. Ickes' iconoclasm comes not from the heart, but from logical necessity. Once he bought into the idea that reptilians from South Fourth Street ("lower fourth dimension," that is) are running the world and have been running it for thousands of years, he had to construe every significant movement in the post-Babylonian world into a product of the reptilian tyrants, e.g., the Roman Catholic Church and the Brotherhood of R eptiles are one and the same; the American Revolution had nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with forging even heavier chains for the hapless masses; the so-called "New Age" was invented by Henry Kissinger in the 1970s, and so forth. The Nazarene, aka Jesus Christ, does not fit easily into the dark paradigm of David Icke. What is Ickes' solution to this little problem? He denies that Christ even existed! One very interesting contemporary witness to the life of Christ is the "Bible Code," which declares that Jesus Christ is indeed a true Messiah. No doubt Icke would interpret the Code as just another reptilian mind-control game. Study the works of important conspiracy writers systematically, first to last books, and you'll find the same pattern emerging time and again. The earlier work tends to be quite balanced, and the later work seems to "go off the deep end." Conspiracy writers work in a most dangerous genre, and for this and other reasons, they are readily susceptible to what I call Conspiracy Writer's Syndrome (CWS). The typical CWS sufferer is one who has worked diligently, for years, to uncover and expose the principal culprit behind the Conspiracy. The search takes the writer into a ghastly labyrinth, to which there seems no end. The deeper the journey into darkness, the greater the desire to identify, once and for all, the culprit. Sooner or later, patience and balance give way, and the writer plunges into totally obsessive conviction that such-and-such or so-and-so is the Diabolical Cause. "It's the Jews." "No, it's the Catholic Church!" "It's the Dead Hand of Anselm Bauer." "No, it's the Devil." "It's Reptiles from outer space!" I have great compassion for the conspiracy writers, as I've been in the labyrinth myself. What saved me from CWS was New Physics, specifically the holographic theory of the universe. Once I accepted this theory as my own, I could no longer view the Conspiracy as something apart from me. I was, in other words, directed to look for the Culprit Cause within. "In me? I'm opposed to the Conspiracy! How could it exist within me??" Once I had posed that question to myself, the answer popped into view immediately: The cause of the Conspiracy is the spirit of opposition. Then... It hit me like a ton of bricks: The Conspiracy, like the Beast of Revelation, does not have a "positive identity"! It is only really definable in terms of what it is against. Christ is pro-God; the Beast is anti-God. Christ is pro- Nature; the Beast is anti-Nature. Christ is pro-Humanity; the Beast is anti- Humanity. The essence of the Beast is oppositional movement. As the Beast is a cunning opponent, it knows it cannot gain converts by declaring its essence openly: "I'm against God and Nature and Mankind. Won't you join me in my crusade to destroy all three of these things?" Consequently, the Beast disguises itself in movements of positive identity, e.g., the Roman Catholic Church, which was founded on the intention of establishing Heaven on Earth; Freemasonry, which originated in the desire to recover ancient wisdom and to liberate the world from narrow religious dogmas; Zionism, which sought to create a safe haven for the much-persecuted Jews. In other writings, I discuss the matter in these terms: "The pirates fly many flags--the flag of the Glorious Revolution, the flag of Scientific Progress, the flag of Masonry and Zionry, even the flag of the U.N. By flying all these flags, the pirates keep the little people confused. They would be in big trouble if the little people saw the only real flag of the pirates--the Skull & Cross-Bones." Everything the pirates possess has been stolen, even the phrase by which they are known, "New World Order." Interesting, no? The New World Order is not the real New World Order. The real Order is the American System, as it was established in the Constitution. The American System recognized, for the first time in history, that "sovereignty," the ultimate power, is the property of the people in general. The Old World Order system was based on the idea that the sovereignty is property of the king; and the reactionary New World Order system, i.e., socialism, maintains that the proper owner of sovereignty is the State. The correct name for the American System is egalitarian republicanism, not democracy. "Egalitarian" translates "all are equal," i.e., no section of the general population is to be given special considerations by the government. In other words, the commitment of a truly American System government is to the "general welfare," and not to "special interests" of any kind. The term "democracy" means "rule by the majority," by a section of the whole rather than by the whole, and thus does not truly describe the American System. "What about the historical origin point of the New World Order. Was it in Babylon? as Icke suggests." No. As Icke fails to make a good case for the existence of reptoids, and of a reptilian conspiracy originating in Babylon, his hypothesis that mankind has been afflicted by a single conspiratorial movement over thousands of years, cannot be regarded as valid. What is continuous in the history of conspiracy is "form," not content. The human quest to dominate and control others takes the same form time and again. A priesthood, or "brotherhood," arises and soon establishes an "orthodoxy." When the priesthood is powerful enough, it declares that all "dissidents," all who do not accept their orthodoxy as Truth, must be dealt with severely. Then the priesthood wars ruthlessly against dissenters. In time, karmic law catches up with the priesthood, and an opposing priesthood challenges and defeats it. The new priesthood then plays the same old game. The above dynamic became very clear to me when I realized that the so- called New World Order is built on the model of the early Roman Catholic church. The NWO has its own Vatican (the City of London, according to Icke); it has its own unquestionable, sacred scriptures (the Darwinisms--classical, social, and neo-). It has its own high councils and seminaries and missionary programs. Now, it would appear, it even has its own armed forces--the U.N. and N.A.T.O. The New World Order originated shortly after the American Revolution when George III commissioned British Intelligence to find a way to subvert and destroy "independent republicanism," which he viewed (correctly) as a tremendous threat to the political order dearest to his heart--monarchism. British Intelligence had a few chats with some very important families in Europe, and thus began the conspiratorial, reactionary "New World Order." There's no need to go looking in ancient Babylon for the birthplace of the Conspiracy. The birthplace is right next door--London in the early 1780s. The Agenda, Contra Naturam When the illogical, superficial and unsubstantiated stuff is flushed out of The Biggest Secret, what's left of value is Ickes' very correct understanding that the power of the Apex people of the Order, aka the "rulers of the world," is based on a multitude of little people on the lower levels of the pyramid, and that if enough of these little people just say "No, ain't gonna work for the Order no more," then the whole nasty NWO pyramid scheme will crumble and fall. Can't be any tyrants if there aren't any folks willing to be victims. Icke is also basically correct in his defining the NWO Agenda as "Satanic," though this is not the term I would prefer. Icke himself is not comfortable with the term, and thus he insists that what he means by Satanic has nothing to do with the Christian understanding. "I use it [Satanism] only to describe a system of ritual sacrifice and torture which, staggering as it may seem to most people, is commonplace all over the world today.... Satanism is just another name for the worship of a highly destructive, negative force which has been given endless names over the centuries...." [288] The term I would prefer is "Bestial," after the infamous major Beast of the Revelation. Bestial means base, ruthless, inhuman. When one thinks of the enormous human and natural destruction wrought by national, international and global socialism, the epithet "Satanic" seems quite insufficient. Yeats had it right: "What great Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" We're talking the materialization of the Antichrist-- a brutal order that is anti-God, anti-nature, and anti-humanity. Consider the NWO's anti-nature (contra naturam) "population control" agenda, which is based on two false sciences--Darwinism and Marxism. The great threat to the planet is "over-population," Orderites believe, and thus the NWO agenda calls for reduction of the planet's population to one billion. In fact, according to real science, the so-called "population explosion" isn't a problem at all. It signifies that our planet, as a super-organism, is moving toward evolutionary climax. The planet is built on the model of the single cell. Human beings are the planetary equivalents of the frequency receptors of the single cell. The more frequency receptors any given cell has, the smarter the cell. The more people on the planet, the smarter the planet. In sum, the population control programs of the NWO amount to an effort to dumb down the planet, to keep the planet and its peoples from following the natural course of evolution. What's the solution to the present dilemma of our species? Icke provides a good answer to this question: Get rid of fear, embrace love. "The reptilian vibrational connection to humanity is through the emotion of fear. They are themselves consumed by fear, which is why they behave as they do. If they can manipulate humanity into a state of fear, as they have, they make the vibrational connection which allows them to control the human psyche.... If we seek to stop the reptilian-Brotherhood with a confrontation on their home ground of fear by using hatred, aggression and violence, then forget it. The game is already over. But if we meet this challenge from a frequency range the Brotherhood cannot even conceive of--love--we will transform the world and reptilian control will be no more...." [491-91] I disagree with Ickes' reptilian control hypothesis. Reptilian control of the world may be a reality, but Icke doesn't make a good case in support of the hypothesis. His conclusion, however, is valid. The best way to deal with enemies, reptilian or otherwise, is love them. "Love your enemies," Christ once said, "and you'll pour hot coals on their heads." Love your enemies, and you'll confound them, send them running the other way. They can feed only on fear. Love, for them, is poison. And by the way, New Agers ... you needn't worry. The New Age wasn't invented by Henry Kissinger. In America, the New Age began in the 1840s, with the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. ____________________________________________________________________ Dr. Ted Hall, a long-time associate of the Leading Edge Research Group (trufax.org), is author of Beat the Beast--A Y2K Preparedness Guidebook [1998] and The Prospero Project--A Theory of Human Evolution, Western Civilization, and Reality Creation [1999]. Books may be ordered through the Survival Center at 1-800-321-2900. We are about to go on a Journey. 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