Viewers
of the Ancient Aliens cable TV show will recognize David
Wilcock from his frequent appearances on that show. Wilcock is the
author of the very entertaining books The Source Field
Investigations and The Synchronicity Key. Now he's back
with a new book entitled The Ascension Mysteries. On page 15
of the book David tells us, “In this book I will combine the
testimony of multiple whistle blowers who have information that makes
Snowden's revelations seem like kindergarten class.”
A
large part of the book consists of autobiographical recollections,
which are mixed with historical accounts of what was going on at
various points in his life. We hear about various psychic experiences
David has had. Unfortunately, these recollections of youth spend
quite a bit of time talking about drug use, which puts a question
mark next to the psychic recollections.
Later
in the book David gets into a discussion of various types of
anomalies, such as strange unexplained things on the moon, including
what is supposedly an obelisk in the Valley of Monuments region of
the moon. Such a discussion involves publicly available knowledge.
The really unique part of the book comes in its last third. David
starts discussing some spectacular claims about UFOs, secret space
programs, and extraterrestrials. What is his source for this
information? It is a few people who have talked to David and made
these claims. These people David calls his “insiders.”
According
to these sources, David tells us on page 18, “we find out that
there are good ET's and bad ET's, and they have been warring with
one another in our solar system for hundreds of thousands of years.”
On page 305 David tells us about an insider named Daniel who claimed
that “a crashed and recovered ET craft was hooked up to a massive
power supply at Montauk,” a town in Long Island, New York. Then,
according to Daniel, a room was set up so that “any object the
operator thought of, such as a wooden chair, could be made to
physically materialize in the room.” On the next page, David tells
us that he was told this apparatus eventually led to the creation of
a time machine, and that “one man was crazy enough to go back in
time and kill his father.”
On
page 312 to 316, David describes a man named Henry Deacon who
“claimed to have personally seen approximately forty-three types of
extraterrestrial species.” The man claimed to have worked on a Mars
base with 200,000 personnel, only 10,000 of them from Earth.
On
page 328 a source named Pete claims that there are 250 secret
underground bases, each built to hold 65,000 people. The next page
tells us that some group called the Cabal had a plan to move
themselves and their friends into these bases in case of a nuclear
war. That page also tells us that “a vast system of underground
passageways called the 'sub-shuttle' system interlinks these cities
together, even underneath oceans.”
I
have seen too many incredibly strange things in my life to
categorically rule out most of the claims in David's book, but I think the
evidence value of the more spectacular claims is probably rather low.
Very avid UFO buffs and conspiracy buffs may greatly enjoy David's
book, but I don't think it will persuade people who are skeptical
about such things. The problem is that David relies way too much on
secondhand accounts from his small band of shadowy “insiders.”
David does little to validate these sources, so we have no way of
knowing whether they are just a few guys who spun tall tales to him.
What little validation he provides isn't terribly convincing.
For
example, on page 343 David tells us that one of these “insiders”
named Jacob “claimed to have personally traveled to about two
hundred off-planet bases, including many that were far outside our
solar system.” This Jacob also claimed to have blueprints of a vast
underground base that was planned but never built. David tells us on
page 337 that Jacob showed David hundreds of blueprints that would
have taken “over a million dollars” to have produced. But why
hasn't David provided us with a single photograph of such a
blueprint? The only photo he produces relating to this Jacob is a
photo of the dinner plate he used when eating with this person, along
with a strange claim that his food on this plate was probably
disrupted by particle beam technology (page 343).
Another
thing David could do to help validate these shadowy “insiders”
would be to present transcripts of interviews with them. That way we
could at least make some judgment such as “they sure don't sound
like psychiatric patients who are off their medications.” But in his
latest book David has no such thing. We seem to never hear directly
from these “insiders,” but only hear David's summary of what they
were saying. David does mention some pay-TV subscription channel in
which he interviews one or more of them, but I am too much of a
cheapskate to evaluate that.
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