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David Wilcock is a conspiracy theorist, narcissist, new age movement member, alien theorist, psychic, Coast to Coast AM guest, lecturer, grifter, spiritual cult leader, Qanon believer, business owner, and all around lolcow who looks like he’s a grey alien in a skin suit. If you’ve been at all tuned in to the various alien conspiracy theorists, chances are you’ve heard some of his stuff or had it referenced in the past. He’s got a long, long history of activity in this community, and it’s a wide variety of crazy in type and intensity. Buckle in, because we’re looking over twenty years of grifting, insanity, strange statements, crazy books, and more. If you’re here just for ‘well what the fuck does he believe’ or the crazy highlight reel then skip to part 2.
PART 1: Just The Facts
David Wilcock went to college at the State University of New York at New Paltz, graduating with a BA degree in Psychology in 1995. He spent the following couple years working with mental patients in hospitals and doing stuff for the developmentally disabled or mentally disabled. In 1997 though, he quit this, or was possibly fired. I haven't found much more information about this.
In March 1998, he published an article online called ‘Convergence 1 - The 1999 Cycle.’ This would later be renamed, but from my understanding had a bunch of predictions within it regarding the future. I am unable to find the original article, likely because he deleted it and rereleased it later in an edited format. This article was renamed to Convergence II, and would be contained in a volume of published work. He also started conducting ‘personal readings’ for people - basically psychic predictions and stuff about the past - and getting more and more active in the channeling community. He’d release three volumes of work in this convergence cycle, and name his website after it - Divine Cosmos. He really hits national attention though with the release of a book named, “The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce?” in 2004, which sold a decent amount of copies. This would also be the year he made his first Coast To Coast appearance of many, talking to Art Bell, and sliding into the UFO community as well. He's also trying to get a movie made based on his convergence books.
This adventure got him into YouTube, a platform which he’s been active on since around 2008, and his current official YouTube account was created in 2010. This is when he started to hit the big time. Why? Well, there’s a show you might have heard of - Ancient Aliens. Yeah. That one.. He’s made 81 appearances on the show, and was a consulting producer for 26 episodes over 3 years according to IMDB. He’d also get started on a vast array of shows, probably the biggest of which is Cosmic Disclosure, with Corey Goode. There’s a lot of publicly available information on him during this time period, and a vast amount of material released by him on various streaming services and YouTube, along with network television. He’d also publish a lot of books during this time, several of which would hit the New York Times best seller list one way or another.
PART 2: The Eras of David Wilcock or “JESUS CHRIST HOW MUCH MORE DO WE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THE LAW OF ONE”
Like a lot of other long term grifters and people involved in the alien truther community, David Wilcock has had his views and claims evolve over the years, and published troves of information on the topic. There’s months worth of video content alone in sheer runtime to dig through, plus audio recordings, plus books, plus appearances on things he didn’t publish himself. This task is simply put, impossible to perform for a single person in a reasonable amount of time. For the sake of sanity then, I’ll split up his history into smaller segments. Each of these eras have a different sort of focus to them, and the transition from one to another is a bit fluid.
The New Age Era (Pre-96 to About 2005):
David’s first movements into the cray-cray bullshit sphere is best defined as either a result of mental breakdowns or an onset of schizophrenia. It’s somewhat honest, in that while I’m not sure how much of it he actually believes, he’s earnest enough about it to quit his job, move around the country, and put himself out into the community. David’s stuff in this era is focused mostly around channeling, psychics, the turn of the age, predictions of the future, out of body experiences, millenarian beliefs, new age concepts and interactions, and fits right in with the new age movement of the time. Here’s a quick highlight reel of his claims/what he was up to at the time, conveniently still up on his website and timedated to 2006. (Archive) Also there's a whole thing for his credentials (Archive) there as well.
- He’s claiming to be the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce
- A series of ‘intuitive psychic predictions’ about everything from the death of JFK Jr, the 2000 NASDAQ crash, other economic crashes, and fucking 9/11
- Religious studies and claims
- Releasing a few CD’s of his readings
- His first Coast to Coast AM appearance
- Firm believer and user of automatic writing and channeling
- Spiritual beliefs first, alien stuff second
The Coast to Coast AM Era (2004 to about 2013)
David Wilcock would really lean into the UFO community during this time, and it would start to influence his other beliefs on a greater scale due to interaction with various theorists. He’d also start his research into other cycle of awakening claims, such as the famous December 2012 Mayan Long Count turnover. More and more though, he was getting into the UFO community. The Edgar Cayce stuff starts falling away, and the psychic ability mentions decline as a leader. Money starts to take a center stage as he’s trying to get some of his books made into movies and is writing scripts. His primary interaction with the world outside of the new age community is through Art Bell/George Norrie on Coast to Coast (Archive), as he’d make predictions here and there about the future along with popping up as a guest, mostly with George Norrie. Highlights of his activities as follows:
- His first New York Times bestseller
- Getting involved with Graham Hancock, of Ancient Aliens fame
- Appearing for the first time on Ancient Aliens
- The start of his love affair with YouTube
- Grifting really begins with lectures and book sales
- Starting to get into cognitive dissonance with himself
- Bringing aliens firmly into his focus for his works
- Mayan Doomsday predictions and shilling.
Ancient Aliens Era (2012 through 2018 ):
Really, this is the high point of his stuff. He’s all over Ancient Aliens, consults on the show, rakes in money from convention appearances, starts his own shows on streaming services, and just keeps going. He’s entered an echo chamber he’s constructing and towards the end starts to branch back into the spiritual aspect he’d dropped after the flop of 2012. Highlights as follows:
- Corey Goode comes to his attention
- He begins his relationship with Gaia TV
- David centralizes ancient aliens into his spiritual stuff
- David starts bringing back more and more of his spiritual new age stuff from earlier eras, slightly modified
- He really, really starts making money. Lots of money.
- His relationships with other communities start breaking down a bit
- “Discovers” he’s also part of the secret space program
- Fuckload of content, exposure, and crazy. Really gets into producing shows.
The Crazy Grifter Era (2017 through Today):
The collapse really starts happening. First off, he splits off from Gaia TV, threatening legal action, and goes heavily into Christian spirituality. Donald Trump’s election sends shockwaves through the new age and alien disclosure communities, with them projecting all over him and buying all of Trump’s comments and conspiracy theories around him hook line and sinker. David is no exception, leaning heavily into Qanon and Deep State talking points. If he believes it, he’s not above using it to try and get into other communities to grift, and he gets into legal actions. Highlights are still ongoing.
- Public breakup with Gaia TV. Accuses them of being Satanists.
- Firmly enters the camp of Corey Goode, boosts whatever he’s saying and Corey in turn boosts him
- He got married
- Releases more books
- Firmly falls into Qanon belief. Integrates Q as part of the whole disclosure movement (Archive)
- Opens up a Nonprofit ‘spiritual school’ that charges $533 bucks for a course
- Starts talking more about Ascension (a concept he's recycled for decades), and recycles his Mayan Doomsday stuff
- Grifting is almost open and blatant as he charges for appearances and pictures
- Ancient aliens start to become various religious figures and bleed into Corey Goode’s Secret Space Program bullshit
- Starts regularly streaming on YouTube
- Public appearances begin declining after 2020 election. Currently going full on TRUST THE PLAN
PART 3: How to Catalog Crazy - Please Help!
There’s still more ground to cover, and still more work to be done. Archiving all his YouTube content is going to take forever. His social media interactions are still ongoing, but tracing down recent content is getting more and more difficult as he's taken some hiatuses. In my opinion, David Wilcock believes very very little of what he’s saying at this point outside of maybe the Qanon stuff, and has firmly moved into the grifting camp. His following is pretty loyal, and also crazy. Some claims of his have fallen out of his normal repertoire, but others have stayed pretty consistent. At the end of the day though, with so much out there, getting a firm grasp of anything is surprisingly difficult, probably intentionally. I’m reserving the next couple of posts to update as needed with various segments of crazy, and host links to other posts over time. Getting through all his stuff is going to take time, effort, and copious amounts of alcohol to slog through and catalog, without getting drawn into his bullshit.
I really, really need help from other Kiwis with this. This is not a task that one autistic individual can or should do alone. Dig into the weird claims with me. Find gems of content amid piles upon piles of bullshit. We can get this done together.
PART 4: Where’s the Milk?
Part of the issue with any deep dive on a conspiracy theorist is that it’s hard to extract milk from them, unless they’re pure schizoids. They either produce so much content that it’s hard to process (like David), or what they make is pretty dry and takes itself 100% seriously. They’re not cows for everyone. They don’t go around shouting about their insanity usually, and they repeat themselves a lot. As such, keep an open mind going into this, and look for articles from outside of his circle of people for highlights to zoom in on. I'm currently working on this myself. Otherwise, the milk comes from this simple fact - dude looks like a fucking alien, and can't shut up about aliens. That's funny as hell on its own.
EDIT: David has started streaming again. His streams are up on YouTube still.
LINKS -
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DivineCosmosConvergence (Archive)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/david_wilcock/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/david_wilcock
Website: https://divinecosmos.com/ (Archive)
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dwilcock
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqObSfoC2hZh0SmQFMHLdJw
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3675855/
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