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Review of "The Ascension Mysteries" by David Wilcock (Part One)

9/24/2016

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I received an eBook copy of David Wilcock’s newest book, The Ascension Mysteries: Revealing the Cosmic Battle Between Good and Evil (Dutton, 2016), which sold more than 5,000 copies in its first week and became a bestseller on the Nielsen BookScan sales list. I believe it is a public service to provide a review of a book from a major publishing house that outsells most major nonfiction hardcover releases. Just so we’re clear: David Wilcock’s publisher is a division of Penguin Books, one of the largest publishers on Earth. Penguin is in bed with a vile, reprehensible snake-oil salesman who feeds his audience a diet of paranoid fear trussed up in the glittering garments of Elohim and is happy to lend his dubious credibility to the most loathsome Russian anti-American propaganda. Penguin should be ashamed of themselves, but so long as Wilcock can push 5,000 books a week, Penguin is happy to give him a platform to spread his message of fear, anger, and hate. 
The contents of Wilcock’s book rather give the lie to the publisher’s claim on the copyright page that “Penguin is committed to publishing works of quality and integrity. In that spirit, we are proud to offer this book to our readers…”
 
But I am skipping to the end. Wilcock’s book is more than 500 pages long, so it will take a while to plow through its dense web of autobiography, conspiracy theory, and paranoia.
 
The book opens with Wilcock reminding the reader that he or she is likely in existential despair, weighed down with the burdens of climate change, political and social unrest, and the failures of traditional religion. He argues, however, that fringe science—specifically psychical research—can restore hope by opening up possibilities that modern society has closed off. “The candle flame of infinite potential is snuffed by the cold, hard wind of reality—as most now see it. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be that way.” Wilcock says that he can teach the reader to make contact with “spiritual” beings, which are also space aliens, and this will counter the materialist narrative of evolution, which he says imagines millions of years of “spectacularly boring” lives.
 
This is only the first of many poorly considered opinions and outright lies.
 
Wilcock follows this by lying in claiming that Ancient Aliens is the History Channel’s “number 1” show. Nielsen ratings records show that it attracted only a fraction of the viewers of powerhouse shows like Vikings or The Curse of Oak Island or Pawn Stars. Ancient Aliens also routinely fails to win its Friday timeslot against competition from the Discovery Channel.
 
He then alleges that skeptics must be “confused” because they appeal to science as the “ultimate authority” but science believes that aliens are real. Wilcock seems to think that doubting the claims of ancient astronaut theorists that space aliens played an active role in human culture is the same as rejecting the possibility that space aliens could exist somewhere in the infinity of stars. Scientists have accepted the possibility of the “plurality of worlds” for three hundred years, with greater or lesser enthusiasm. Wilcock, however, wants to discredit science while simultaneously cherry-picking scientific data he likes. To that end, he argues for intelligent design of the whole cosmos, arguing that the universe is alive and aware based on quantum research he tells the reader to buy his other books to better understand. He is nothing if not an efficient salesman. The long and short of his argument is that he believes that human DNA is encoded into the quantum fabric of the universe and will emerge wherever there is water and electricity. Thus, the aliens (or, rather “40 percent”) are just like us.
 
Wilcock also plays on his readers’ paranoia from the opening pages, passing off government indifference and incompetence as evidence of forbidden truths: “Ask yourself this: Isn’t it strange that we had the technology to land on the Moon as early as 1969, and then we never went back? Isn’t it strange that the space shuttle program was completely discontinued, as if there was nothing out there worth seeing?” Ask yourself this, David: If they really wanted to keep it all secret, why bother telling the public we ever went there at all?
 
But Wilcock’s main thrust is that he, Wilcock, should really be given as much credit as Edward Snowden for exposing the “truth” about the government, and he’s mad that people “online” aren’t giving him all of the credit he believes he deserves, which has led him to withdraw from evaluating UFO whistleblowers’ stories:
My policy has never been to accuse anyone of making up stories. I try not to say anything about the suspected fakes one way or the other. I discovered a long time ago that this unleashes hordes of angry followers who will then do whatever it takes to try to destroy you and your reputation online. There are dozens of examples of people who pretend to be insiders, and then come out with “new information” a week or two after I release a little more of what I was told. Then all the emails come in from people who are excited about what they just heard, and they do not realize that I had already leaked that exact same information a week or two before.
Wilcock goes on to discuss how his “high ranking” sources have disclosed so much to him and him alone that no one else knows. This is where I find it strange. I have known “high ranking” people in my time, including very high level Executive branch and U.S. Senate staffers, and I once had a conversation with a Senate staffer with top level security clearance about space aliens. Now, sure, you can say that he lied to me when he said that people like Wilcock’s (possibly fictional) “insiders” are full of it, but what makes my “insider” less credible than Wilcock’s? It reminds me a bit of the paranoia that surrounded GMO vegetables and bovine growth hormone in the mid-1990s. It was a bit hard to consider them nefarious conspiracies when one of the developers of BGH was one my own (distant) relatives, and in my youth one of the scientists working on GMO vegetables was my neighbor. As a result, I was one of the first people to eat one kind of GMO vegetable they developed, and I lived to tell the tale. (Don’t tell anyone, though… I don’t think it had been approved at that point!) So, unless everyone has been lying to me throughout my whole life, for no clear purpose, it’s rather hard to envision such a vast, all-encompassing conspiracy. Corporate greed? Sure. Space aliens? Not so much.
 
Wilcock’s Manichean view is so close to science fiction cliché that I can’t resist quoting it in full. You’ll recognize in it elements reflective of August Derleth’s revision of the Cthulhu Mythos, elements of social class resentment designed to flatter the lower middle class reader, and more than a little hangover from Judeo-Christian moralizing by way of the New Age:
To begin with, we find out that there are good ETs and bad ETs, and they have been warring with one another in our solar system for hundreds of thousands of years. Both types of ETs are making direct contact with certain people on Earth who are receptive to the messages they have to share. The negative ETs are apt to contact those who already have great money and power, and will give them tools to further enhance their control. The positive ETs are far more apt to contact private individuals who are judged by the quality and virtue of their character—their forgiveness, acceptance, patience, and love.
You needn’t doubt, though, that Wilcock is literally borrowing from science fiction. He next asserts that both groups of aliens are “bound” but the Prime Directive “just like” the one from Star Trek! (Wilcock, like Helena Blavatsky before him, believes science fiction is secretly encoding hidden truths, which is convenient because he gets to steal shamelessly and pass off unoriginal borrowing as revelation.)
 
Replaces “good ETs” with “angels” and “bad ETs” with demons and you have Christianity’s view of supernatural intervention from Jesus down to the advent of the so-called Prosperity Gospel. Heck, Wilcock even concedes that his ideas are “right there in the Bible” and that the “bad ETs” are actually an “embodiment of pure evil.” They are, in other words, indistinguishable from Christian demons except in the name Wilcock profitably attaches to them. He also endorses Jesus as the way and the truth (a “master” of evolution!), but renders him scientific by making the Second Coming into a giant solar flare of unidentified energy that will purify the Earth at a spiritual level.
 
This effort to dress up borrowed stories in the clothes of science makes it all the more bizarre that Wilcock spends so much time trying to defend religion against science, arguing that scientists are arrogant and wrong. He cites those scientists who doubted that heavier than air flight was possible as proof that scientists are too dogmatic to understand reality, neglecting to note that the opinion was never universal and none who held it doubted the evidence of their own eyes to the contrary after 1903.
 
And that, sadly, was only Chapter 1.
 
Wilcock’s style is both vapid and dense at the same time, saying nothing but using an enormous number of words and larding them with non-sequiturs and half-baked references to real and imagined facts to do so. I don’t know how I’ll make it through 450 more pages of it. But I will give it one more chapter today.
 
The second chapter makes plain whom Wilcock thinks his audience is: people in their late middle age. It is devoted to the 1960s and discusses various references to Satan and the occult in the era’s pop culture. This material is not part of either of our living memories—Wilcock was born in 1973—but he speaks of it as though he expects his audience to have lived through and remembered the daily travails of the Rolling Stones and Charles Manson. This outburst of Satanism is, for Wilcock, proof that a Cabal of worshipers of Fallen Angels were making their power known, and he claims that more unnamed “insiders” told him that the Manson murders were staged to discredit hippies.
 
This all leads up to the most important event of the book, the glorious birth of David Wilcock at the height of the Watergate crisis, brought into this world to undo the Satanic horror of the 1960s and return humanity to the divine perfection of the 1950s. Yes, Wilcock presents his own birth as a sort of divinely ordained culmination of a cosmic battle fought on the streets of America and in the corridors of power.
During her pregnancy, my mother had dreams and visions telling her the baby she was carrying would be a spiritual leader, and that she should raise him as if that was what he would become. She withheld this information from me until the late 2000s, and felt that unless I was humble enough to hear it without getting an ego, she would take it to the grave.
Unfortunately, Wilcock’s mother was wrong, and her egomaniacal son has taken for himself the mantle of prophet. He claims that even as a child, he would cry at the sound of the Watergate hearings, indicating his close connection to world-historical events. He claims that he only cried when Nixon hearings were audible, and never any other time, not even when he needed his diaper changed. Perhaps Wilcock’s mother is a liar, or perhaps Wilcock is, or perhaps baby David just didn’t like the gruff sounds of angry congressmen. My cat does not like the sound of David Wilcock and leaves the room during Ancient Aliens​, but that does not make him a messenger of God.
 
Whatever the case, this second chapter confirmed Wilcock’s breathtaking audacity, and I can only speculate what made Penguin “proud” to publish this false prophet, except for the profit involved.
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29 Comments
Gunn
9/24/2016 11:25:06 am

Great article, Jason.

From my own somewhat narrow perspective (to the scientific world), a great harm is being done by Wilcock by encouraging people to make contact with aliens, for whacked-out information. This is where the lies so easily enter the picture.

So, people with a knowledge of demonology instantly recognize that an impersonation is taking place here, whereby demon spirits are pretending to be info-dispensing aliens. Isn't this just about perfect from the evil side? Next, ouija boards for further exploitation and mischief. Well, heck, why not just jump to automatic writing, with inaccurate and creepy info being dispensed even more freely? I think Satan must enjoy this kind of space-age confusion.

Of course, there is the other, preferred side to relish in. It's called God's Plan.

God, in the end, will utterly destroy every trace of evil.

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A Buddhist
9/24/2016 11:58:32 am

It is better to have contact with a Bodhisattva than with any god or demon. For those gods and demons who have not converted to Buddhism are foolish at best and evil at worst - fools such as the so-called Mahabrahma, or evil such as YHVH.

It is true that contacting beings may lead even Buddhists to mistakes, such as Je Tsongkapa. But no true Bodhisattva has said to anyone: "Kill even the babies!" Alas, YHVH fails even that test.

You claim to know the truth, yet you quote only the Bible!

I claim to know the truth, and I quote from an arrowmaker!

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The Translator
3/10/2019 05:31:37 pm

And what is this ‘truth’ you claim to know?

seamus
12/18/2016 11:50:28 am

well said. i saw the plonker for the first time today on youtube and first impression was......so i turned the sound off to check the body language. check out the way he compulsively pulls his nose! the pinocchio syndrome. you couldn't make these guys up. HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all TRUTHSEEKERS

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Mike Smith
8/9/2019 12:49:58 pm

David Wilcock is the greatest superhero the planet has ever seen. Star Trek and They Live were documentaries. And Satan’s Bad, Mmmkay!

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Only Me
9/24/2016 11:39:26 am

I suspect Wilcock's "insiders" are his imaginary friends, conveniently found in the vast emptiness of his head.

Obviously, Jason, Penguin is proud of successfully trolling its customers with the release of this nonsense.

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Jason Colavito link
9/24/2016 11:47:12 am

After you see what Wilcock says in the next section of his book in tomorrow's blog post, you'll see that you are likely quite right but that the story is much sadder and more depressing than I realized.

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A Buddhist
9/24/2016 12:03:23 pm

In all fairness, the mind can reveal interesting fictions that contain truths - why else are the Plays of Shakespeare so popular?

But great care must be taken to distinguish the truth from the falsehood within the mind, as Wilcock seems unable to do.

Colavito and others, with their work on the psychosocial explanation for UFOs/Aliens, reveal a truth much more beautiful and meaningful than 84,000 images of aliens exalted as gods.

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Gunn
9/24/2016 05:19:07 pm

A Buddhist, I wholeheartedly agree with you about the mind sometimes revealing interesting fictions that contain truths. I believe this is the way it is with the Norse Sagas, and possibly even with the myths (for now) connected with Henry Sinclair. There seems to be good arguments for believing details in both circumstances, but there emerge the unfortunate questions about how much credibility should go to original, word-of-mouth histories turned into written source material.

I think the psychosocial explanations for UFO's and aliens are mostly insufficient, in that both are in reality purposeful illusions. I must say I believe that there aren't really UFO's and aliens...only pretensions. Science has already proven that nothing physical can dart around on a radar screen the way some of these UFO's are purported to do.

Illusions and pretensions come easily from demonic puppeteering that goes unseen. Communicating with aliens can seem real to people like Wilcock, as real as communicating with demons, say through a ouija board. Victims will possibly see some truth, but then lies will muddy any drink of supposed truth. All one needs to do is take a look at some of the nonsense connected with the highest levels of Scientology, to see demonic voices revealed.

Ultimately, I think Wilcock is in grave danger, and not from those who expose his wrongdoing as a public service. I think it's likely that he was first fooled himself, before now being used to fool others.

Shane Sullivan
9/24/2016 01:13:26 pm

"During her pregnancy, my mother had dreams and visions telling her the baby she was carrying would be a spiritual leader, and that she should raise him as if that was what he would become."

That funny, when my mother was pregnant, the naked-eye visible light of a supernova first reached Earth. I wonder what *that* means.

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Clint Knapp
9/25/2016 01:57:44 am

Absolutely nothing, because as his own jumbled text demonstrates: David Wilcock is a solar flare of undefined energies!

Seriously. He's the second coming, but so is a magical flare from the sun... sooooo, obviously we should shield our eyes from his radiance and do our best to hide underground whenever he's around.

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nomuse
9/24/2016 03:18:02 pm

I misread a word in the third paragraph as, "autohagiography" (which I am pleased to note is already a word, because if it wasn't, we'd certainly have to create it.)

Not prophetic on my part. Just experience.

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Jim
9/24/2016 03:35:13 pm

Can we just call the good ETs Gets and the bad ETs Bets from now on ? Gets and Bets.
Also, when he claims the Gets contact people for their forgiveness, acceptance, patience, and love, this is wrong. I have been contacted plenty of times and it is because I am strikingly good looking.

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Uncle Ron
9/24/2016 03:52:49 pm

“Scientists have accepted the possibility of the ‘many worlds’ hypothesis for three hundred years.” If Wilcox thinks that “many worlds” refers to the idea that there are many worlds out there that might support intelligent life he doesn’t understand the term. Plus, it’s only been in use since the 1960s.

“There are dozens of examples of people who pretend to be insiders, and then come out with ‘new information’ a week or two after I release a little more of what I was told. Then all the emails come in from people <who do> not realize that I had already leaked that exact same information a week or two before.” So, David, stop leaking and TELL people what they need to know.

“The negative ETs are apt to contact those who already have great money and power . . . The positive ETs are far more apt to contact private individuals who <have> forgiveness, acceptance, patience, and love.” No wonder things are so screwed up! I’ll bet on money and power over forgiveness and love any day. :)

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Jason Colavito link
9/24/2016 05:05:37 pm

Sorry... I meant to write "plurality of worlds," the historic belief in other inhabited planets. Wilcock bounces between other planets and other dimensions so much that I ended up writing the wrong thing! I fixed it.

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Neall Calvert
3/3/2017 01:41:59 pm

"It's all Wilcock's fault."

Ken
9/24/2016 08:37:41 pm

" human DNA ... will emerge wherever there is water and electricity."

Are you sure he doesn't quote "Frankenstein" as a reference?

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Kathleen
9/24/2016 09:58:07 pm

Let's drop a toaster in my bathtub and see what happens.

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Clint Knapp
9/25/2016 02:04:09 am

Exactly that sort of occurrence would explain both David's mother's visions AND David's own short-circuited neurons... I think you're onto something.

Killbuck
9/24/2016 10:20:39 pm

Wilcock is playing his own messiah game in the classic cult leader fashion. He says all you know and have learned is a lie, and he will show you the truth, if you are brave enough to hear it. He instills his followers with secret knowledge then heaps praise upon them for seeing through the lies of history and institutions. He gives them a special place... a special feeling of knowing what the foolish and blind cannot see. They are inoculated against the lies of the skeptics and shills.

Wilcock is the worst sort of opportunist. Without principle or apparently conscience .

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Jean Stone
9/25/2016 12:42:11 pm

"My cat does not like the sound of David Wilcock and leaves the room during Ancient Aliens​, but that does not make him a messenger of God."

I dunno, we're talking about cats here. I've yet to meet one that doesn't give the impression that it thinks of itself as a god.,,

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SouthCoast
9/26/2016 09:24:56 pm

"The book opens with Wilcock reminding the reader that he or she is likely in existential despair, weighed down with the burdens of climate change, political and social unrest, and the failures of traditional religion." Well, he lost me there. Now, admittedly, I may be profoundly irritated by some of those things, but "existential despair"? Nope.

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Bart Stuck link
10/2/2016 10:32:00 am

Great review; I got Ascension Mysteries when it first came out on my Kindle and read it, and find your comments spot on. I honestly felt like asking for a refund.

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Daniel Djadan
10/2/2016 01:00:55 pm

David Wilcock is burdened by the cold wind of reality. But I disagree on one thing: David Wilcock may have helped Russian propaganda, but he's not anti-American. Th United States is responsible for enough international crimes to make a hundred documentaries, but Wilcock prefers to invent imaginary ones, which he can blame on a secret clique that has subverted the legitimate government, when in fact it is the legitimate government that has been implementing very real imperialist policies.

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Christopher j Loren link
10/15/2016 08:30:47 pm

Thank you thank you....I referenced this article on my morning show and put a link on my website....well done....PLEASE send me links if you have more on the channelling/new age delusion.

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Holly
11/30/2016 01:55:52 pm


What does this sound like Eve? Need your opinion!


How SAD that there are actually people in this world who write silly idiotic books such as The Ascention Mysteries!!!!! AND these people are making a FORTUNE from people who don't know better than to NOT buy these kinds of books!!! If anyone wants to know about GOOD versus EVIL.........read the BIBLE!!! You will gain more knowledge, insight, BLESSINGS, TRUTHS, history, facts, and most importantly they will learn about SALVATION by reading this wonderful book....the Bible! Do you want to know about the past....present and the future? Read the Bible!!! Do you want to know exactly what was and what is and how everything came about? Read the BIBLE! To think that there are books like The Ascention Mysteries out in this world is scary! Why? Because there are people out in this world who will actually believe this garbage and that.....is scary!!!!
I am a born again Christian....not a fanatic.......and I love my Lord and Savior! The most important thing in this world is that a person needs to know is the Lord. To believe that He died on the cross for us so that we will have ever lasting life! And in order to attain everlasting life we must ASK Jesus to come into our lives and believe that He died on the cross for our sins. When a person accepts Christ as their personal savior is when they will have the scales of good versus evil lifted off of their eyes and will see nothing but TRUTH. And truth isn't in the form of an author named David Wilcock.
Thank you for reading my post with hopefully an open mind as to what real truth is!!!

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sean
10/19/2017 09:57:25 am

....hes cherry picked some interesting ideas,and pearls do come from the minds of egotistical swine,but he's does this field of study a disservice ,as proof loving people are inclined to reject all his ideas as a result.........personally i like to be a bit more open minded on some of the future science stuff.

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Krysia
11/15/2017 10:35:42 am

Thank you for the review. I had enjoyed David's first book of the series, "The Source Field investigations", but this was such garbage I don't know how they could have published it. Luckily, I got it from the library only. After reading a few chapters of his boring, revengeful, sophomoric bio I just skimmed through some of the rest, which wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Clearly, David's ego has run away with him. If he really is Cayce's reincarnation, I'd say he's de-evolving in this lifetime.

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Brian
9/28/2019 12:21:45 pm

Wilcock is unfortunately at first sight, and this is sophomoric of me, a weasel. He looks like a weasel. Edgar Cayce’s son or grandson met Wilcock and listened politely to his extraordinary claims to be the reincarnation of his either father or grandfather depending upon whether it was Hugh Lynn Cayce (Edgar’s son) or his grandson whose name I cannot recall. Either way the Cayce Family who run the Cayce Foundation known as the ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment) in Virginia Beach VA, have publicly stated that David Wilcock IS NOT a reincarnation of their famous father/grandfather.

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