Mick Rooney | Journalist & Broadcaster

What David Icke said in 1996 - recognise the world he was describing then? - David Icke Website

I could go on through my twenties and my early thirties and talk about the things that happened, but for the most part, my spiritual journey simply became the accumulation of information, rather, the absorbing of it, like a body of a hibernating animal storing up fat and energy for the long winter, or a tree’s leaves absorbing the light and sunshine of the day for the cool evening. Around 2002, after a few barren years of writing, and in the throes of a stumbling marriage, I began to reach for the pen again. Odd, because I was becoming very comfortable with my move from a desktop computer to a laptop, and I had committed myself to writing and completing my novel, Trees. I knew Trees had a deep personal and spiritual meaning to me, and that it was as much my own renewed journey, as it was the novel’s main character, Carlos. I struggled for a while to work directly on the laptop, and soon found myself scribbling away with a pen in journals and kid’s copy books I found around the house. W...

Every person’s heart is surrounded by the shell of an egg. And though the shell of an egg may seem beautiful, but fragile, it is the symbol of all births and beginnings. Every woman wants to nurture the eggshell surrounding a man’s heart, but she must also want to nurture the eggshell surrounding her own heart even more, because there always comes a time for two lovers when only one eggshell remains intact. It is usually the woman’s eggshell that survives and grows stronger because a man is sometimes reckless with beautiful and fragile things. When a man is reckless, his judgement suffers, and when a man’s judgement suffers, he feels he is nothing, and he is sad, and his sadness continues to eat away at what is left of the eggshell surrounding his heart. A man judges the world with his eyes and he believes his vision is always straight and true. A woman judges the world with her mind’s eye, as well as her eyes, and so her judgement is more tempered and true. A man must know the value o...

I am not sure where I first heard or came across Remote Viewing (RV) . It could have been on TV when I was a child, but I believe it is more likely I came across it in my mid-teens (1981 - 1984) at a time when I was reading a great deal of books on astronomy and UFO investigation. I am sure I read about it in a book by writer, researcher and paranormal investigator Jenny Randels during the 1980’s about how the US government had dabbled for a time with it in their investigations into UFO’s and the abduction phenomena, before finally ditching the RV program after a brief affair with it during the grand search for Saddam Hussein’s scud missile launchers during the first Gulf War. Remote Viewing (RV) is the ability to gather information about a distant or unseen target using paranormal means or extra-sensory perception (ESP). I don’t strictly consider RV a field of extra-sensory perception—simply because it is too easy to lump it in with casual hokum like psychics, fortune-tellers, palm r...

People come into our lives all the time. Even on this earth—the physical people we know—they identify and understand us only when they share part of our journey and travel along the same path. Eventually, we may part company and all explore more distinctive paths, but still find a few souls to accompany us from time to time. But when we part company with someone we have previously shared so much; we still travel parallel to that person for a while, despite never meeting or knowing them ever again. We naturally become oblivious to the emotional existence they experience after parting. We are only left with our thoughts and memories of that part of the road we shared for a while. In many ways, they become our own ghosts. They are the people we knew—still remembered—always living physically on outside of our consciousness, even long after their possible demise. We have a much defined idea of spirits, created out of an historical culture of stories, myths and legends passed on by the huma...

My experiences of physical remoteness pretty much ended in my mid-teens. In a curious way, as an adult, I could deal with another spell; even understand better what physically and mentally happens a person when they occur. I do believe that many people experience this in their early lives, but like me, it eventually stops and later takes a different form, or a young person simply becomes less attuned, and naturally more distracted by what goes on around their world than inside it. My later everyday teenage years appeared to take on the normality of anyone. In some ways they were. Thought, I did develop a fascination with the odd—that is, with things outside of my practical learning and sphere of knowledge as a teenager—the extreme and the unexplained. I read extensively and avidly from fifteen, right through to my early twenties. I was drawn to particular subjects like UFO’s, Alien abduction, Philosophy, Criminology, Pornography, Eroticism, Classic Art, Paranormal, Futurism and Technol...

In the early 1980’s I spent many late evening’s watching the BBC’s Sky At Night , presented by British astronomer, Patrick Moore , and Cosmos , presented by US scientist and broadcaster, Carl Sagan . Moore was practical, but gregarious, Sagan was sincere and introspective and made you believe and dream of what could be. It came as no surprise when I discovered that Sagan played a prominent role in the US scientific program, SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). It did come as a surprise when I discovered that Contact , the film starring Jody Foster, was based his novel of the same name. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1934. His father, Sam Sagan, was a Russian immigrant garment worker and his mother was Rachel Molly Gruber. Sagan graduated from the University of Chicago with diplomas in physics, astronomy, and astrophysics. He went on to work at the famous Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and lectured at Harvard University. He worked as an adviser to NASA ....

From the age of seven, I began to have spells of what I would describe as moments of physical remoteness . My instinct tells me that somehow my experience of the old woman appearing in my house unlocked and opened a doorway. When the doorway opened, I was at once introduced to a different and altered form of consciousness. It started as a thin thread of connection to a world of spiritual existence. I believe my early experiences of these moments of physical remoteness are not exclusive to me and many other people experience something of a kind at some point in their lives. Certainly the mind of a child is more open but not exclusive to an altered experience or embracing the unknown. When you are a child, much is unknown. How a person relates to these experiences and positively uses them is an entirely different matter. The world of spiritual existence is as much inside me as it is outside of me in the physical world. As much as I took the first tentative steps to connect with this ...

My life was as ordinary as any ordinary life could be up to the age of about seven. I had an experience I neither had the understanding nor concept of that would unknowingly change the entire direction, motivation and course of my life. It was late summer, 1975, and I was home alone on an overcast afternoon. In 1975, the world was a very different place. Kids played for hours outside on the street. It was a playing field of innocence and adventure and the only thoughts of returning home was when you got hungry or you were looking for a few pence to go to the shop. My older sister was a thoroughly social child and she spent every waking hour on the streets with her gang of friends. I was a more introspective kid, and while I had my circle of friends, I was going through one of my  I need to be on my own  phases. They could last a couple of days, less often, entire weeks. I think I may have been in week two of one of those phases. My mother had headed out to the shop for a littl...

I remember following the footballing career of David Icke as goalkeeper for Coventry City before he moved into sports TV presentation with the BBC. He departed the BBC to investigate and develop his own spiritual journey to the echoes of considerable ridicule. We all had a chuckle at David throwing himself to the media lions, appearing in shiny tracksuits and espousing about great world conspiracies and reptiles in suits. Yet, ten or more years on and the diminutive Icke seems less the eccentric crackpot we first viewed him as. In an age when people are steadily turning to alternative methods of living and see personal spirituality and growth as much a part of their lives as working out in the gym or reading a good book, today, David Icke is less the 'doomsayer' and more the voice come in from the wilderness. Filmed in 2008, David Icke speaks candidly to Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot . You will find Icke, at worst, intriguing and perhaps having a the bones of ...