Books Your Parents Warned You About: David Icke's Time Loop
Book Review: Tales from the Time Loop by David Icke
The Most Comprehensive Expose of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free. Even the subtitle is verbose. David has a lot to say.
David Icke is a polarizing figure who’s been called a lot of names. The New York Times recently referred to him as “infamous,” and, “a notorious British serial conspiracy theorist.” Despite the wealth of aliases, we think it’s time Icke added a new moniker to his list: herpetologist. A herpetologist studies reptiles, and after writing multiple books over 25 years detailing the ongoing plot by interdimensional reptilians to control the minds of the population, David should at least qualify for an honorary degree.
Tales from the Time Loop is one of Icke’s early books — a wordy presentation that divulges the disingenuous nature of existence and identifies the hidden reality-manipulators’ plan for enslaving humanity. The book suffers from redundant information and superfluous paragraphs, but does a splendid job uncovering the players and methods behind the human-sacrificing, shape-shifting, inbred space-serpents that are a mainstay in the Icke-ideology.
Time Loop was published in 2003 — a year defined by the events of 9/11 and a questionable war in Iraq. This context explains why the first 225 pages read like a novelization of the anti-Bush Michael Moore film, Fahrenheit 9/11. Icke’s offering starts off with few mentions of the Reptilian shape-shifter conspiracy and instead focuses on the shady deals and crooked politicians involved in the early 2000’s wave of military excursions into the Middle East.
While other writers in the same conspiratorial ballpark remain vague about the actors behind the schemes — broadly accusing shadowy groups like the Council on Foreign Relations or United Nations — David prefers to name names. Both Bush presidents along with their administrations are called out for their roles in fomenting the Gulf Wars. He neatly summarizes how Saddam Hussein provided the “Illuminati controlled US government” with a convenient puppet and part-time patsy to justify their operations in the region.
Icke must have used a lot of yarn when connecting the many accomplices, dates and associations involved in his global conspiracy. For example: “...the records implicating Bush in deals with Saddam and former Panama President Manuel Noriega were in the hands of the Bank of England and the money was channeled through BCCI and BNL branches in the USA.” The analysis is refreshing in a genre that suffers from a lack of definitive and confirmable sources. Even if Icke’s theories aren’t always accurate, at least they’re testable due to their specificity.
While he tends to fixate on Republicans, the author dishes it out to all sides of the political spectrum: “I have seen few more glaring examples of cold Reptilian eyes than those of Hilary Clinton.” He judiciously concedes that all politicians “are just lackeys for the same one-party state,” arguing that social or religious differences don’t truly matter — they are simply manufactured divisions meant to keep humanity locked in a perpetual mind-prison called the Time Loop (more on that later).
David “the Reptile Hunter” Icke finally shows up halfway through the book in a chapter titled: “You didn’t mean reptiles? Er yeah.” This is where the story is most engaging as he brings his explicit level of examination to the scaly underbelly of this vast conspiracy.
Icke’s basic premise is inspired by ancient alien pioneer Zacharia Sitchin, but with an Illuminati twist. He tells how extraterrestrial ‘gods’ came to Earth, arriving in Sumer (present-day Iraq). These ‘gods’ were an alien reptilian race that soon spliced their genes with humans to create a breed of hybrid offspring containing both human and reptilian DNA. This lineage eventually spread outward from the Middle East to establish powerful ruling families across the globe. According to Icke, today’s world leaders are directly descended from these hybrid bloodlines and share a common goal: total domination of humanity's “five-sense reality.”
The Gulf War takes on a fresh significance after these secret Illuminati connections to ancient Sumeria are revealed. The conflict was not about WMDs — that was merely a cover story for the systematic looting and plundering of significant Reptilian/Illuminati artifacts from Iraqi (Sumerian) museums. Icke insists that the US military was given information about which institutions held certain artifacts under the guise of preventing their destruction. Instead, the data acted as an Illuminati treasure map, leading George Bush and his “satanist” entourage directly to Reptilian-relics of “historical and ritualistic” importance.
Icke emphasizes the unique tampering that Homo sapien DNA endured — chapters are spent unwinding the complexities of “the reptilian genetic network.” Icke states bluntly and disturbingly that in order to keep the hybrid bloodlines pure, “incest is a fundamental part of life for the Illuminati families.” He goes on to reveal that the Reptilians are not entirely “physical” — they are ethereal beings spawned by our controllers in the fourth-dimension. They can only assume physical form in our dimension by inhabiting the bodies of humans who harbor hybrid ancestry. The creatures remain imperceptible to our five-senses in the third dimension unless one “walks-into” a genetically compatible human container. Maintaining these mixed-bloodlines is vitally important to the Illuminati because only individuals with this pedigree can be used as Earthly vessels by Reptilian “other-dimensional entities.” With the right blend of DNA present, these non-physical beings can “possess certain hybrid bloodlines” that have been “manipulated into the major positions of power.” This is why so many world leaders are in the club — they have the ideal genetic combination for a Reptilian to occupy.
Anyone who knows anything about Reptilians knows they are renowned shapeshifters — possessing the uncanny ability to change their physical form at will. Icke delves into some of these mechanics, explaining that Reptilian hybrids need to fuse their genes with other races in order to “operate in this reality,” and maintain a stable physical body. Icke claims that was precisely the reason why ‘outsider’ Princess Diana was brought into the royal family. (Did we mention he likes to name names?) According to David’s research, “the Windsor line had become so Reptilian with its interbreeding that it needed a massive infusion of (non-Reptilian) genes to maintain an apparently human form.” If their genetic-cocktail isn’t correctly balanced, it becomes difficult for a Reptilian to maintain a human-looking appearance — sort of like Bruce Banner trying to suppress his transformation into The Hulk. In these unfortunate cases, “they consume human hormones, flesh and blood to compensate.”
Icke also references biological traits in humans such as the “reptile brain” and caudal appendages (the “tails” that babies develop in utero) as proof that our DNA has a tinge of Reptilian legacy. He cites a quote from astronomer Carl Sagan as further evidence of our lizard-ness: “it does no good whatsoever to ignore the reptilian component of human nature.” Icke agrees and relates witnesses’ accounts of Reptilians shedding their human form in secret sacrificial ceremonies and blood-fueled orgies. The Illuminati observe this ritualistic bloodsport because it “allows other dimensional Reptilians and other entities to manifest before them.”
David pretends to be unbiased for a few pages to remind us that not all reptiles are terrible energy vampires by introducing the story of Pamela Stonebrooke — a woman who famously admitted to having sex with a Reptilian and “enjoying it.” No word on how the Reptilian felt about the encounter.
It’s also important to keep in mind that David held most of these beliefs before he took drugs in the rainforest.
Icke spends the last portion of his book recounting how he obtained a deeper knowledge of the multi- dimensional mind-captors while taking the hallucinogenic ayahuasca in Brazil. Through multiple nights of conversation with a disembodied voice he calls “the One,” David learns the truth about the nature of our Matrix-like existence. His tale reminded us of when a friend tells you a story about “that time they tripped on drugs” — usually a profound event only to the experiencer.
Icke also learned what the Reptilian entities really want: Food. The interdimensional interlopers have a distinct agenda “to create a structure in which every child born into this five-sense world is immediately micro-chipped and turned into an externally manipulated and controlled battery to provide an energy source for the inter-space entities that are running the show by occupying physical bodies.”
By keeping us suspended in a state of fear, we generate negative emotions for them to consume. This is the motivation for most of the “duality and division,” orchestrated by the world’s rulers.
The Reptilians inhabiting human bodies control the masses by assaulting the subconscious with a barrage of subliminal messaging. This constructs a counterfeit, “consensus reality” that humans accept as authentic — thus ensnaring us in a perpetual energy-draining 'Time Loop.' This “collective hypnosis,” works to subconsciously indoctrinate and condition people into sharing the same conscious illusion. The more humans buy into the illusory “collective mind projection,” the denser and more solid it becomes.
Icke quotes a section of Dr. William Sargant’s book The Battle for the Mind (1957) to highlight techniques used by the Illuminati elite to instill a sense of unease in the citizenry.
Sargant explains how “belief can be implanted in people after … deliberately induced fear, anger, or excitement.” This results in “heightened suggestibility,” and a willingness to defer to the authorities for protection — a carefully crafted feedback loop of obedience. This effect is observed “most spectacularly in wartime, during severe pandemics, and all similar periods of common danger, which increase anxiety, and so individual and mass suggestibility.” Sounds familiar.
Waging traditional war against the prison-wardens of our fabricated reality will do no good — it amplifies the “patterns of disharmony” upon which they feed. The only way to escape our fake reality is to create a vibrational imbalance within the Time Loop through embracing “Oneness, harmony, and love.” For a guy who has been banned from YouTube and the continent of Australia for his unorthodox views, Icke preaches a lot of unity in this book. He says that the key to unplugging from the system is to reject our divisions and recognize that all humans are “expressions of the One and need to be observed and treated the same.”
Icke does have his fair share of cringe-worthy moments. Tucked into a paragraph about the Reptilian’s secret agenda is this one-sentence gem that is sure to elicit groans from Darwinists: “many extraterrestrial groups have been involved in seeding human races for aeons and this has given us the diversity of forms.” Can we get a fact check?
Another gripe: the book’s length dilutes Icke’s message instead of reinforcing it. Fewer pages would help him state his positions succinctly, making them more impactful.
Ultimately, Tales from the Time Loop stands as an interesting look into the dogma of David Icke. His message has remained remarkably intact and unwavering over his decade-spanning career. With plenty of original analysis, intriguing connections and hilarious allegations strung into a cohesive (if not rambling) narrative featuring off-world Reptilian tyrants, this classic Icke work is worth the price of admission.
