Algorithms & The Mainstream Alternative Media

In recent months I have been observing what's going on in the Mainstream Alternative Media and specifically the way certain new characters seemed to have been pushed to the front whilst others who have been working in this field for much longer have been sidelined and marginalised. Two obvious examples of this are David Icke and Ian Carroll.

David Icke played a major part in my awakening and for that, I will always have a great amount of respect for him. I don't always agree with him and at times I've questioned him. In the early days, because my initial awakening happened at an intense speed, I went on a kind of 3 month crash course through the conspiracy field before moving on to the more purely spiritual. I think of awakening as a mixture of the two. You aren't truly awake if you only know about conspiracies and worldly stuff but not the spiritual and vice versa. I've found very few people are able to integrate both. David Icke presented so much valuable information about how the world is run, the corruption, the way various people and places are inter-connected and he also opened the door to the spiritual. I always favoured the last parts of his talks because that's when he went into our spiritual nature.

The next major figure to come into my path was Eckhart Tolle and that's when the spiritual moved more from a conceptual thing to an everyday reality in my life. Further teachers like Mooji, Papaji and U.G. Krishnamurti came in the years after. I often felt I was some kind of mix between Bob Marley and U.G. Krishnamurti. Bob, because he was a spiritual musician, and U.G. because he had rejected the usual way of addressing an audience, shunning going on a stage to do formal talks, to do things in a much more informal setting. U.G. also had a very blunt, direct, no-nonsense approach which didn't make him as popular as the 'friendlier' spiritual teachers like Eckhart and Mooji.

Since I am not a researcher or journalist of any kind, these kinds of spiritual teachers appealed to me more because with them it was more about energy than information. I felt a strong sense of peace watching and listening to them rather than having to concentrate on information. Being a musician, I relate to this because Music gives me something similar. I remember Neil Finn once saying he wasn't a huge Bob Dylan fan, although he respected him, because he felt you had to really pay attention to the words with Dylan. Like Neil, I tended to prefer more dreamy, abstract lyrics that allow the listener to drift off. I've never been a huge fan of storytelling songwriters. So once I had a general understanding of how the world was not what I was led to believe, I never felt to linger in the conspiracy realms. On the David Icke forum back then I encouraged certain people to move away from Icke and check out some of these spiritual teachers I'd found because I could see a lot of people were getting stuck in their minds there. This wasn't a slight on David Icke. I still had a great amount of respect for him and have continued to check in on what he is offering over the years but I had my own journey to go on and I always knew without a doubt it was Music. All that really changed for me was I began to integrate this new spiritual and conspiracy stuff into what I was doing musically. It was a natural progression and in hindsight, I could see it had always been somewhat there in my work unconsciously anyway.

During the SoulJahm years we never watched so much of any of these people because we were too busy with our own thing, but when I had to return to Edinburgh alone, I found myself around those who were still quite heavily into Icke and not so much the pure spiritual teachers. At times this frustrated me because I felt I'd moved on and wanted to dive deeper into Music but couldn't find anyone who shared my love for it. That said, David Icke was invaluable from 2020 onwards when the pandemic/scamdemic broke. So in recent years I've paid a lot more attention to him again because the information he has offered has been much needed in this world to counter the official narrative.

Something that became clear to me on returning to Edinburgh in 2014 was how the spiritual and conspiracy landscape was beginning to shift. I noticed videos from all the spiritual teachers I'd watched years earlier seemed to be getting buried on places like YouTube and new, younger 'spiritual teachers' were popping up. As the years went on it there were more and more of them. Where did these people come from? How were they suddenly shooting from obscurity to huge followings and thousands of views on social media?

At the same time, I noticed a lot of the rich, in-depth spiritual content I used to be able to google years earlier had vanished. In it's place were very generic, vague, cliched articles and blogs, looking spiritual but not really saying anything of substance. This is also what I found with the new breed of 'spiritual teachers'. They were very savvy at playing the social media, new tech game but they always came across as hollow to me. I didn't feel a strong spiritual presence or aura from any of them the way I had with the original spiritual teachers I came across. During this time I chatted to some of the younger generation and I remember specifically in 2016 one Indian girl I had introduced to David Icke saying to me "He is good but he is from the past" and how she felt I would carry on that legacy. I rejected this immediately explaining I am a musician first and foremost and not a researcher like Icke. I've always only scratched the surface with the information side of things, I've never professed to being an expert and could not do what Icke does. I always saw myself as working alongside him in my own way, in the sense, we are both working for freedom within and without, but in different fields.

Enter Ian Carroll. I first came across this guy last year when his videos started appearing on my Twitter/X timeline. As I do with everyone, I don't so much bother with what they are saying, but what vibe I get from them. I read their energy so to speak and that tells me immediately whether I want to go further in that direction or whether to stay away. Right from the start, I never felt right about him. As he has gone on to become more popular, so much so that Icke himself is now calling the guy out on Twitter/X, the comment the Indian girl made back in 2016 came to mind. I've been compared to so many people over the years, especially anyone with dark hair, dark eyes and facial hair, that I began to wonder if this was another of these cases of mistaken identity. Did the Indian girl pick up this Ian Carroll guy back in 2016 and mistake him for me?

The arguments in favour of him that I see again and again are that he is friendly, attractive, has a good way of presenting the information and is humble enough to admit he can be wrong and is still learning. All the things these same people feel the opposite about with Icke. This really sums up humanity's main weakness. It's why we're in this mess in the first place. So many politicians and leaders have had those same qualities Ian Carroll supposedly has and have fooled the public time and time again. David Icke, like U.G. Krishnamurti, lose out on an audience because they tell you what you NEED to hear not what you WANT to hear. This is the job of a true teacher. They can't allow themselves to be bound by popularity, by being nice, because that is a trap. Once you start pleasing your audience and giving them what they think they want you lose any true spiritual power you might have had. Whatever Icke has said over the years, whether I agree with it or not, I have never doubted there is some sort of spiritual authority there which is missing in most others. I always felt that was the difference between Icke and Alex Jones, even years ago, before Alex turned into a mouthpiece for Trump & Musk. Alex presented some good information, no doubt, but he always lacked that spiritual energy for me. Many people can talk spiritual but very few live it.

Of course, I've had people try to put me off Icke, telling me he is controlled opposition, 'one of them', etc but that spiritual energy doesn't lie. Most of these new breed of conspiracy and spiritual figures have assimilated information and may have a way of presenting it that is appealing to modern audiences but without the true spiritual roots their work won't be effective in the long-run. This is why recently Tristan Tate, the brother of Andrew Tate, made a scathing attack on Icke, saying he is finished and won't be remembered after he's gone. It's projection. I've had it done to me also. These kinds of characters are deeply insecure and they project their own insecurities on those who are for real because the energy coming from those who are real exposes what they don't want to see about themselves.

It saddens and angers me to see at this time when we need characters like Icke to be at the forefront that they are being marginalised, left out of the new club you could call the Mainstream Alternative Media. Notice how Ian Carroll, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk etc are all teaming up in various ways and yet they rarely want to interact with David Icke. It's no surprise to me because I have witnessed the same thing happen in the field of Music. The amount of times people have said to me I should be way bigger, have way more followers or more exposure. People wonder why I have no friends... take a look at my YouTube channel! Currently I have 289 subscribers but do you ever see any of those people commenting or interacting with me? Most of the likes I get come from non-subscribers. So what are those 289 people doing there? I'm not talking about those who just like to remain quiet or are shy but who do listen to the songs privately. I'm totally ok with that because not everyone wants to interact with the artist directly - that is a relatively new phenomenon. The point is all through my life nobody has felt this was important enough to want to stay and help me see this through fully. Yes, I also take into account my part in this. I am still working, developing, building so I haven't hit my full stride yet and there are reasons for that I may talk about further down the line. Yet still, even at this stage, you might expect more signs of success.

This is where the algorithms come into play. David Icke is always pointing this out on Twitter/X, how the algorithms are clearly supporting people like Ian Carroll and Alex Jones and Joe Rogan while at the same time suppressing him. I suspect that is going on for me also. These algorithms have been implemented to recognise when people are expressing the Truth in whatever field they may be in and denying their reach. Of course, they can only do that up to a point because the real deal, as I've pointed out several times in this post, is more energetic than it is information based. Algorithms can't read and react to spiritual energy and they never will be able to. Those behind them know this so what they have to do instead is try to brainwash the minds of the people using the algorithms to bombard them and numb them so the people are no longer even able to recognise true spiritual energy when they come across it. Hence, this is why so many fall for the Ian Carroll's and Alex Jones and Joe Rogans while attacking David Icke. In my case, I mostly get ignored. Yet they have underestimated us and underestimated the power of true spiritual energy. Just like Nature always finds it's way through the cracks Truth will prevail.