This has been extracted from the beginning section of David Icke's
recent subscriber's newsletter. We appreciated reading his heartfelt
words and thought you may also. (The original has pics also).
Best wishes,
Theresa

[from DAVID ICKE NEWSLETTER, APRIL 30TH 2006 www.davidicke.com]

"BORN TO 'DIE' ...

... AND 'DYING' TO BE BORN ..."


'What is death but a passage to life.' - Travis M. Farnsworth


Hello all ...

My mother died last week after a long and painful deterioration of
her mental and physical health over nearly 20 years. She struggled
through it all with great fortitude until so many compounding
problems meant the body computer could no longer function. It was
the point we call 'death', the most feared of all experiences
throughout human existence.

It is the most extreme of the fears that keep us enslaved - the fear
of the unknown. Fear of death keeps people quiet when they could
reveal great secrets that would unveil the conspiracy; it makes
people slaves of the medical profession and the priesthood who they
look to keep them alive or ensure they are not heading for some
eternal 'Hell'.

Any form of fear is limiting, but fear of death is spiritual and
emotional Alcatraz.

I was frightened of dying when I was a kid and, even more so,
frightened that my mother or father would die. My mother's ill
health would leave me sick with worry when she was having one of her
coughing fits that had to be seen to be believed when I was young.

My father was certainly frightened of death through fear of the
unknown. He had been in the medical corps with the troops that moved
up through Italy in the Second World War. In Naples, especially, he
saw the abject poverty of the people amid the fantastic wealth of
the Roman Church. It made him fiercely anti-religion for the rest of
his days.

Unfortunately, he equated any idea of life after death with the
religions he so despised and he missed the point that life after
death is not connected to any religion. It just is, whether you wave
a cross, pledge your life to 'Jesus' or think that religion is a
load of old bollocks. We have no need to seek eternal life, we
already have it. It's a gimme.

What kind of eternal life is the question, and the answer is down to
us, not some angry, vindictive, judgemental 'God'.

The time was that my mother's death would have been devastating to
me, the same with my father. But as I awakened to the reality
of 'life' and this illusory reality I began to change my perception
of this vibrational passing, or transition, that we call death. The
true nature of 'death', in fact a seamless transition from life to
life, was portrayed so well in the Robin Williams film, What Dreams
May Come.

Our attachments to people and memories cause us to grieve and that's
understandable. My mind is full of re-emerging memories of my
mother. I remember when I was small how she used to sing a song
called 'The Little Boy that Santa Claus forgot' while she was
polishing the stone floor. I would always cry and tell her that he
could have my presents. She would laugh and say it was just a story.

I remember when I was small how my mother would usher me to hide
with her behind the sofa when the door knocked sometimes. She would
indicate me to be quiet and still - 'Shhhhhhhhh!'. After a while,
for a reason I didn't understand at the time, she would say it was
okay now. I later found out that those knocks were the rent man who
we didn't have the money to pay some weeks. When he didn't get a
reply he would look in the front window - hence the need to hide.

I remember smacking the school dentist and making a run for it when
he was about to apply the gas mask and how I was a hundred yards
down the street with my mother in pursuit, shopping bag soldered to
her arm as always, shouting for me to stop.

I remember the way she would step from the bus, her legs already
moving before they touched the ground, to rush off through the town
from shop to shop as if someone had just shouted 'fire'. Whenever
you went shopping with my mother you spent the entire time in her
slipstream, hair trailing backwards by the speed of movement.

I remember when I phoned, she would announce to the room that it
was 'our Dave' and how she never really mastered the art of leaving
answerphone messages. Three times I pressed the button at home to
find the message go 'Beep, beep, Yar'. What? Yar? What was 'Yar'? It
was then that I realised that she had started to speak before the
recording began and what she actually said was 'I'm just ringing up
to see how y'are.'

Yes, there are so many memories and there will be many more. When a
loved one goes they take something of you with them because of the
vibrational connection. There's a hole in your life that they once
filled just by the knowledge that they were there.

'Birth and death are not two different states, but they are
different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to
deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.' - Mahatma
Gandhi

So I grieve for the loss of the mother I have known for exactly 54
years this very day, April 29th 2006. But what am I grieving for,
what do we all grieve for in these circumstances? If we understand
the nature of eternal 'life', or eternal 'awareness' as I prefer to
call it, we grieve for ourselves that the person is no longer with
us. We may know that they live on, but they are no longer in the
same vibrational field, no longer sitting in the chair next to you
or on the end of the phone.

It is only when we misunderstand the nature of 'life' that we grieve
for those who have left us. For they have been released from the
limitation of bodily illusion and they are re-born into the realms
of limitless freedom. In truth, they never left it, the sense of
division is part of the illusion in this bewildered reality.

My mother suffered from severe arthritis pain for decades, and I
know myself what that is like. She suffered from a stream of serious
health problems, especially after she was struck by a speeding
driver some years ago. In latter times her body was constantly
failing and her conscious mind flipped between awareness and
confusion.

Why would anyone grieve for her when she has left that suffering to
re-emerge in Paradise? I don't, for one. I am relieved that her
battle is over and that she suffers no more, much as I will miss her
presence.

I have never met or read of anyone who has had a near-death
experience who wanted to come back. There are now fantastic numbers
of documented accounts of people who have left their bodies
at 'death' and witnessed reality beyond this realm, only for their
body to be revived.

Dutch cardiologist Pim van Lommel produced a massive study of near-
death experiences that supported the whole concept of life after the
death, as well as raising questions about DNA, the collective
unconscious, and the idea of 'karma'. His findings were published in
the British medical journal, The Lancet.

Van Lommel's interest was sparked 35 years ago when a patient told
him about her near-death experience. But his serious study only
began after he later read a book called Return from Tomorrow, in
which the American doctor, George Ritchie, detailed his own
experience of 'near-death'. Van Lommel began to ask all his patients
if they remembered anything during their cardiac arrests. These are
just some of the accounts he recorded:

'I became "detached" from the body and hovered within and around it.
It was possible to see the surrounding bedroom and my body even
though my eyes were closed. I was suddenly able to 'think' hundreds
or thousands of times faster - and with greater clarity-than is
humanly normal or possible. At this point I realized and accepted
that I had died. It was time to move on. It was a feeling of total
peace-completely without fear or pain, and didn't involve any
emotions at all.'

..................................

'I was looking down at my own body from up above and saw doctors and
nurses fighting for my life. I could hear what they were saying.
Then I got a warm feeling and I was in a tunnel. At the end of that
tunnel was a bright, warm, white, vibrating light. It was beautiful.
It gave me a feeling of peace and confidence. I floated towards it.
The warm feeling became stronger and stronger. I felt at home,
loved, nearly ecstatic. I saw my life flash before me. Suddenly I
felt the pain of the accident once again and shot back into my body.
I was furious that the doctors had brought me back.'

'This experience is a blessing for me, for now I know for sure that
body and soul are separated, and that there is life after death. It
has convinced me that consciousness lives on beyond the grave. Death
is not death, but another form of life.'

..............................................

'The body I observed laying in bed was mine, but I knew it wasn't
time to leave. My time on earth wasn't up yet; there was still a
purpose.'

..........................................

'I saw a man who looked at me lovingly, but whom I did not know. At
my mother's deathbed, she confessed to me that I had been born out
of an extramarital relationship, my father being a Jewish man who
had been deported and killed during the Second World War, and my
mother showed me his picture. The unknown man that I had seen years
before during my near-death experience turned out to be my
biological father.'

The tunnel, the bliss, being met by long-gone loved ones, and the
disappointment at having to come back are constant themes of near-
death experiences. Van Lommel said that when some people return they
often have a sense of being imprisoned compared with the freedom
they had briefly experienced. Others say it transformed their lives
and they all lose their fear of death. This understanding would free
everyone from this ultimate fear and that is why the Illuminati have
systematically suppressed this knowledge. They want the population
in fear of death, in fear of everything, because that way they are
easily controlled and manipulated. Van Lommel says:

'The most important thing people are left with is that they are no
longer afraid of death. This is because they have experienced that
their consciousness lives on, that there is continuity. Their life
and their identity don't end when the body dies. They simply have
the feeling they're taking off their coat.'

Exactly, exactly. The body computer is like a space suit that allows
our consciousness to experience this reality. If I don't have an
outer shell that vibrates within the frequency field of this 'world'
then I couldn't type these words. I would have no fingers and, even
if I did, they would pass through the keys as radio waves pass
through the walls. It is the computer that 'dies', not us - the
eternal consciousness that we are and forever will be.

What passes through that 'tunnel', what makes the transition, is our
consciousness, our awareness. The computer is buried or cremated,
not the awareness that lived within. Van Lommel says of 'death':

'At that moment these people are not only conscious; their
consciousness is even more expansive than ever. They can think
extremely clearly, have memories going back to their earliest
childhood and experience an intense connection with everything and
everyone around them. And yet the brain shows no activity at all!

'What is consciousness and where is it located? What is my identity?
Who is doing the observing when I see my body down there on the
operating table? What is life? What is death?'

All these questions can be answered in one short sentence: They are
different states of awareness, that's all. Van Lommel points out
that the brain does not produce consciousness or store memories. He
says that American computer science expert Simon Berkovich and Dutch
brain researcher Herms Romijn, both working independently of one
another, found it was impossible for the brain to store even a
fraction of our thoughts and experiences. And Van Lommel concludes
from his research what I detailed in my last book and in previous
newsletters. The body/brain is a receiver/transmitter of information
like a computer or television.

'You could compare the brain to a television set that tunes into
specific electromagnetic waves and converts them into image and
sound. Our waking consciousness, the consciousness we have during
our daily activities reduces all the information there is to a
single truth that we experience as 'reality.' During near-death
experiences, however, people are not limited to their bodies or
their waking consciousness, which means they experience many more
realities.'

All of which is precisely what I write in Infinite Love Is The Only
Truth, Everything Else Is Illusion. He even says that DNA, not least
the 95% of so-called 'junk DNA' that 'science' knows nothing about,
is a receiver/transmitter of information - the very foundation of my
last book and the explanation of the Matrix and how we connect with
it.

The DNA connects us to our eternal consciousness, awareness, which
perceives this reality through the filter of the body/brain.
At 'death' our consciousness withdraws from this connection, or the
connection is broken by a malfunctioning 'computer', and we return
to our out-of-body awareness. This disconnection is represented by
the 'tunnel' experience.

The truth is coming out at last. We are not our bodies, we are
consciousness, awareness. It is this that is released at what we
call 'death' to experience the limitless freedom that awaits us all
beyond the 'laws' of this manipulated illusion. Van Lommel says:

'I now see that everything stems from consciousness. I better
understand that you create your own reality based on the
consciousness you have and the intention from which you live. I
understand that consciousness is the basis of life, and that life is
principally about compassion, empathy and love.'

Yes it is. Infinite love is the only truth - everything else is
illusion.

My mother did not die a few days ago. My mother cannot die. Her
biological computer ceased to operate and her infinite, eternal
consciousness departed to whence it came. When her family's
computers do the same we will be reunited in awareness and have a
bloody good laugh at what we all did, thought and said while caught
in this web of illusory disconnection.

At the end of last week's newsletter, I used this quote by Chang Tzu:

'The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives,
the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable
death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for
what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future
makes him incapable of living in the present.'

How appropriate to repeat it here. Our fear of death, and the fear
of the death of those we love, ensures that we cease to 'live' life
and instead, consciously and subconsciously, fear the inevitable
death. But it's NOT inevitable, for it does not exist, except in our
deluded perception. There is only life, only awareness.

So do not thirst to survive, thirst to live, to be joyous at this
incredible revelation. In truth, there is only love. It is only in
untruth that anything else exists.

Bye, bye mother and thanks for everything. But, then, it's not the
long goodbye, it's the no goodbye. For I know you are there, but a
vibration away, and we will meet again awareness to awareness when
my work is done here. I know you are reunited with my Dad and he is
telling you that life is not like you thought it was. I bet you're
having a right old giggle.

As you would say in your unforgettable Leicester accent ...'Yer
what? Yer mean it wont real?'

But some things never change and I can see it now as I float along
that tunnel and a smiling face appears to me.

'Hey-up, it's our Dave, do you want a cup a tea?'

'Yes, mother, that would be great. How have you been?'

'Eternal, Dave, just eternal. Welcome home, mate.'

---------------------------------------------------------------------

More information on near death experiences see the International
Association for Near-Death Studies: http://www.iands.org
---------------------------------------------------------------------

That's it ... one week to Brixton [UK] now. The interest is terrific
and if you can make it, look forward to seeing you.

Best wishes,

David Icke
http://www.davidicke.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------