Let them shake their group think heads at you.  They will call you names and you must let them. Let them cheer, let them point, let them laugh. Be resistant to their mockery. Be the fodder for their jokes. Be a magnificent failure in their eyes. A tiger does not lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. Go ahead. Be the scar tissue of their worldview. Their normality. They will loathe you. They will fear you. They'll wish they were you. That's David Ike speaking to a huge crowd that gathered to see him at Wim Leirina. That is before he was banned from YouTube and Facebook for advocating non-violence, freedom of speech, free thought, and love your neighbor. Here he is in today's interview on Skeptico talking about science and consciousness. You were one of the first people to really blow the whistle on this fake scientific understanding of consciousness and its insistence that we are biological robots in a meaningless universe and we should accept our empty lives and just get on with it. What you've just described is the foundation to mass human control without which mass human control cannot happen because if you know that you are in your true eye an expression of consciousness, a point of attention within an infinite flow of consciousness, then there's no way that a handful of psychopaths and idiots, which is basically the combination that runs the world, can impose themselves on your life in the way that you will acquiesse to whatever they tell you.  You know you are an infinite expression of consciousness and that will never allow itself to be subjugated and intimidated into submission. Welcome to Skeptico where we explore controversial science and spirituality with leading researchers, thinkers, and their critics. I'm your host Alex Caerys and every year Time Magazine publishes a list of the world's 100 most influential people. Of course it's Time Magazine so it's a farce but the professed criteria that the editors use is actually quite beautiful. Here's what they write. They claim to look for people that in one way or another embody a breakthrough. They broke the rules, broke the record, broke the silence, broke the boundaries to reveal what we are capable of. Boy oh boy today's guest David Ike, although he's never appeared on a Time's list of the world's most 100 influential people, based on those criteria he certainly should be. He should be one of those people that year after year is on that list. When you look at the amazing achievements of David Ike over his 30-year career he would certainly fit those criteria. But instead we're faced with an Orwellian banning on YouTube and Facebook, but the deep admiration, appreciation, respect of all of us who've benefited so much from truly one of the bravest thinkers of our time. David has a very important new book out called The Answer. We're going to dive into that and hopefully talk about some other things. It's just a real pleasure to have you on. David welcome. Thanks for being here. Thank you Alex. I've got a black shirt on today for one reason. I'm not in mourning. It's the only color that won't show me pouring the sweat out because we're going through a real heat wave in Britain at the moment and my lighting system is the window. So it's hot in here, but it's hot in the world at the moment. Hey David, you're rolling out this new book. There's a ton of buzz about it. It couldn't have been a prophecy. I don't know how you did it, but tell people about the answer, what you're trying to get across, and what's it about? Well, you talk about prophecy, but synchronicity has been remarkable because I started writing The Answer in October 2019 and we came up with the title, The Answer, because that's basically what the whole book's about, and we decided a publication date, which is now, and then I wrote 85% of the book and I was just rounding off the end and bang, then came the pandemic hoax, as I show in the book, totally hoax, and I watched over the months that have followed the first 85% of the book where I said this is what the plan is, and this is where they want to take humanity, unfold before me eyes. And that period also gave me the opportunity to take apart the official quote virus narrative, which if people would prepare to do their own research and talk to doctors and virologists and other medical professionals who would never get on CNN or MSNBC or the BBC, they would realise that this narrative coming out of the World Health Organization and being defended by Silicon Valley in the mainstream media is so nonsensical, it's so unsupportable by the facts, and this is the point of the censorship, that the only way you can protect it from being dismantled is by censoring those who are seeking to do that. So this is where the censorship, the theory of censorship through Silicon Valley and the mainstream media has come from, particularly Silicon Valley these days, it's not primarily being done because, oh look at the power we have, we are going to censor. They've got no choice, they have no choice but to censor, because unless they do, their official narrative will be in pieces on the floor. Can I ask you a couple of questions here? Man, I am so with you in terms of what you've revealed and what you've told us about the pandemic and how it fits into this overall plan, and you talk about prophetic, it's unbelievable. I listened to an interview you gave in 2007 when the swine flu came out, and it's like you're listening to the interview today, so many important, you know, step by step, how they're going to run it, how they're going to do it, and let's just give credit to Nicole Marie from the News for the Soul show if anyone wants to check out that interview they should. But here's the thing, here's what concerns me a little bit. David, I've done a ton of debunking of fake science on this show, I've been at it for 10 years, you've been at it for a hell of a lot longer because you just do this stuff and I don't know how you keep your energy up in your work up, but to me, and I hesitate to even say this because in some ways this isn't even central to your thing, but when you say, let's get down to specifics, when you say that they've never isolated the virus, I want to know what you really mean, because when I look at the science behind it, I think they've isolated the virus, I don't think that's the deal, I think the deal is whether they engineered the virus in the first place and whether they already engineered the vaccine to it, which is what you revealed in that 2007 interview that Baxter Labs in the prior case, so I'm sorry, go ahead, please tell me what you think. Well two things, on the second point we agree, they have already, and I said this in an interview way back even before the lockdown kicked in, that the contents of the vaccine, the Gates vaccine, will already be in place because they're playing the hoax in part to get the vaccine inside every man, woman, a child on the planet, which would, people's alarm bells should go off with that immediately, but on the other side, there is not a scientific paper or a scientific study that has been revealed, and I've been saying this, and people like Dr Andrew Kaufman in America and others have been saying this for months now, that isolates the virus as a only in and of itself with no other contamination whatsoever, and we've now reached the point where people are doing Freedom of Information Act requests, asking for government agencies to reveal any papers that do that and they can't. Look, I think that's not even central to the most important part of what you're revealing, but like here's a paper in nature, and like when I look at fake science, they don't roll out fake science in nature usually because there's real labs, there's real people involved, but I mean here's where they, you know, kind of lay out exactly the... Yeah, so they say, what I would say to people is to go to the videos of Dr Andrew Kaufman, who's been on this from the start, and also look at those websites that have gone to the studies themselves, they've gone to the scientists themselves, and they've asked the question, did you purify this virus? And the answer is always no.  And the other thing is you see, if you have a real virus and you have a virus that is, quote, deadly, and you have a virus that is very sinister in terms of human health, then what you don't have to do is tell doctors to put Covid-19 on death certificates all over the world when people have died of other things, and you don't have to invoke financial incentives in America to get hospitals to diagnose respiratory symptoms as Covid-19 and not something else. What we also have is the RT-PCR test, which is not testing for a virus. When you've got people like Kerry Mullis who invented the thing, I've got the Nobel Prize for it, saying that this test should not be used to diagnose infectious disease, and that's where the cases are coming from.  David, I don't want to get too far on the weeds on this because the overall picture that you're painting in terms of the ability to shift the numbers, shift the deaths, shift the testing, all that stuff, I'm totally down with that. All the research I've done confirms that. I just want to know if you're open to the possibility that, you know, you mentioned the postulate that we can isolate the virus and test the virus, and are you open to the possibility that they have done that, just like they did it with the SARS virus, but I mean virologists, this is what they do all day long. They do it for chickens, they do it for cows, they do it for pigs, and they also do it for human beings. They isolate viruses, they culture them in labs and stuff. First of all, we can go to and fro on this forever. People should read the answer and look at the evidence put forward there, which is immense. They should go to the videos of Dr Andrew Kaufman, and they should look at other people who are challenging this, and you'll see how they explain away this claim to have been isolated. I mean, if you're going back, as many, many people have now, to the original scientists who claim to have isolated and purified the virus, and you're going to those that have produced these papers, and you're asking them a simple question. Were you dealing with a purified, isolated virus, and they say no?  No, I hear you. And I don't even want to, I don't want to hammer in any more. Like I said, go to the answer, read the book. There's tons of stuff on your website as well. It's great. Your time is limited. So you are the man on consciousness. That's been the main focus of this show. Hundreds of interviews with some of the leading consciousness researchers on the frontier of that technology or that science, I should say. But you take it at such a deeper level, and you connect it in some really important ways that I think are central to, if you will, the answer through all of this. But where I wanted to start on the consciousness question is you really truly were one of the first people to really blow the whistle on this fake scientific understanding of consciousness and its insistence that we are biological robots in a meaningless universe, and we should accept our empty lives and just get on with it. And I think that is one of the central, central conspiracies to this whole thing. And you've completely deconstructed that and destroyed that from the very beginning. Do you want to talk about science's claim that you are nothing, you are a meaningless robot in a meaningless universe, and how that fits into the overall plan, the overall agenda? Well, two things. First of all, if we're talking about, quote, COVID-19, I think there is a virus, but it's not a physical virus. It's a mind virus, a mind perceptual virus, and it's taken over vast ways of the human race. And that's what's driving this thing. And on the other side, what you've just described is the foundation to mass human control, without which mass human control cannot happen. Because if you know that you are in your true eye, an expression of consciousness, a point of attention within an infinite flow of consciousness, and that your point of attention can be the size of a P or it can be infinite. It's just how open and what level of consciousness you want to choose to allow in. Then there's no way that a handful of psychopaths and idiots, which is basically the combination that runs the world, can impose themselves on your life in the way that you will acquiesce to whatever they tell you. You won't do it. Because you know you are consciousness.  So what you have to do if you want mass control, this has been going on for a long time, you have to isolate what I call in the answer, five sense mind, from the infinite level of consciousness. So five sense mind should be an expression of a greater self. But once you isolate that into what I symbolise in the book is a bubble, you can isolate five sense mind in this symbolic bubble, and then within the bubble feed that isolated mind a sense of reality by controlling the education system all the way through the formative years, by controlling the mainstream media, the Silicon Valley media, and so on. Then you can first of all isolate mind from expanded consciousness, and then you can program that isolated mind with a sense of reality, which is all about little me. It's all about self identification with labels, what I call IMR. I am a man, I am a woman, I am a black, I am a white, I am this sexuality, I am that sexuality.  Once you lose the understanding of that, now you are at the mercy of those that control the information in society, and we talk about being in the information age, and who controls information, it runs everything. Well there's a simple reason for that, because from information received comes perceptions formed, and from perceptions formed comes behavior played out. So controlling information overwhelmingly manipulates perception, which then leads to behavior. You control information, you control behavior. David, can you add, because I've heard you talk about this before, and it's been a hot button for me, can you speak more about how science in particular, as we've come to understand it, psychology, biology, neurology, how all that has been wrapped up in what you call this five senses kind of bubble and isolated, and this idea that never will extend beyond that, will never consider the kind of extended consciousness experiences that you had that were so transformative to you, that thousands and now millions of people have had and said, hey I had this near death experience, or I had this out of body experience, this shamanic experience, and it totally transformed me, and then we have science as an institution saying, no that just never happened, it's impossible because you are merely your brain. Yeah, well if you chart back into the ancient world, you had a widespread perception that we are consciousness, you know, different names, different descriptions to an extent, but basically there was a widespread belief that we are consciousness, and that there are other worlds that there is an infinite experience. But like I said earlier, if you have people in that self-identity, they become a nightmare to control. So what happened is the global cult, as I call it, I explain what that is in the answer, created mainstream science, as it created mainstream medicine through the Rockefeller family, and the foundation of cult science shall we say is basically, can I see it, touch it, say, taste it, hear it, okay exist then, and if I can't then it probably doesn't. And what I've just described is exactly what I described a few minutes ago about the five sense mind. Science itself is an institutional expression of the five sense mind, and if therefore your only tool is a hammer, every situation looks like a nail, and that's what has happened with mainstream science, but there's also talking of the hammer. The way these institutions are policed, the way the medical profession with regard to this quote virus is being policed now, I can tell you I haven't talked to enough of them, is by the carrot and the stick. That is if you parrot the official narrative, then you'll get letters after your name, you'll get faded, your peers are in awe of you, and you will become a celebrated scientist, or at least you'll survive in the scientific profession. But as we've seen through so long, if you are a maverick, and what is a maverick, it's someone that wants to think outside of the box, and go into places that the institutions don't want you to go because if you do, you might find something out that they don't want the people to know. And so you have this self policing mechanism whereby you benefit if you sing from the song sheet, and you take the consequences if you don't. Try getting funding if you're challenging human cause climate change. Try getting funding if you are singing from the song sheet, no problem, easy. So this is how it's self policing. And so there's a reason for that. And the reason is science in its true nature, in its true expression, which is the unbridled pursuit of knowledge would come across this stuff.   But they crack on with their own discipline as if there is no quantum physics.  Hey, can I shift gears though? Because there's so many topics I want to talk about. You just mentioned the cult of science and everything you said that I thought was just so beautiful. And there's so many subtleties there that I hope people can pull out of that. But the cult word is such an important word, you know, a couple of years ago, you wrote a very important book, The Trigger, that not only provided probably the most complete breakdown of 9-11 act as a part of this control process, but you also connected it to a deeper cultish connection of the Sabatian Frankish death cult. And this idea that if we can't all be saints, then let's all be sinners, which was the go to ideology of the Sabatian Frankish. Can you review that for us and connect it to what you're talking about in the answer? Because I think people really struggle, you know, what you do, that no one else does, is you connect all these dots. So you just can lay it out on the science side. And now you can, you're going to talk about the cultish death cult and its connection to religion, which is the other, the twin pairing of that. And then you can even go, hopefully, we'll be able to get to the ET and the UFO phenomena, which everybody always wants to stove, you know, stove pipe this stuff and treat them like they're separate. And you're the only guy who can kind of do full spectrum, but talk for a minute about that, that Sabatian Frankish death cult transgression, do the opposite of what the right thing in your heart is to do, has been this ongoing recurring theme of these folks. Well, I do talk, I do talk about the Sabatian Frankish cult in the answer and weave it in with current events as well as much else. But you know, to break this down into a simple explanation, I've been writing for a long time, decades really here in different books at different times, about what I call a mind virus. And when I say mind virus, and I mentioned it already in our chat, I'm not talking about the kind of virus that people say is a physical virus. I'm talking about a computer virus, or the equivalent of a computer virus. And it basically works in the human mind in the same way that a computer virus works. So if you think of a computer, that's the five cents mind. And then you've got the person on the keyboard with the mouse, that's expanded consciousness. Now when there's a virus that takes over the computer, if it's bad enough, the person on the keyboard and the mouse is banging away and the computer is not reacting, it's now gone its own way, something else has taken over. And I say, and I've been saying for a long, long, long, long time, that there is a consciousness that is in a very distorted state, and that distortion makes it malevolent in its intent, which attaches to the human mind, particularly because it's of a frequency in and of itself, and not a high frequency either. If you get pulled into low vibrational emotional states like depression, and anxiety, and fear, and resentment, hatred, all these low vibrational emotions, then you are basically moving your frequency state into its stadium. A drug taking and stuff like that can pull you into its stadium. And what I was reading the other day, and I've just got a book which I've quite a way into already, was the Native American concept of what they call Wateco, which is in the way it's described in many, many different Native American groups have different names, but Wateco is one of them. What they're describing is what I've been describing in my books over the years as a equivalent to a computer virus. And so if you take that symbolism of the computer and the guy at the keyboard, the guy at the keyboard being the symbolic of expanded consciousness, what this mind virus does is get into that gap for want of a word between the five sense mind and expanded awareness, and it can isolate you in these bubbles that I'm talking about. And the whole thing takes place in the subconscious mind. This mind virus operates in the subconscious mind. The conscious mind believes it's making its own decisions and coming to its own conclusions and perceptions, but actually they're being fed out of the subconscious mind. And I have seen this such a tremendous amount in the last few months where I've seen people who have concluded their perceptions of this quote virus situation and what should happen and all the rest of it. And these are my opinions. This is what I think. And then you listen to them, and they're simply repeating the official narrative, which they've taken to be their own perception. And one of the concepts of what he called is that it's a mind blindness, which convinces the conscious mind that it's not blind. Thus, people are operating in a state of mind blindness while thinking they're not. And it's it works in the subconscious in a very similar way to subliminal inserts in advertisements, whereby the conscious mind looks in a divertisment, and there's a subliminal insert there, subliminal below threshold, below the threshold of the conscious mind. And he won't see it. But once someone points out the subliminal insert, and I've experienced this, this absolutely happens, from that moment on, the conscious mind, every time it looks at that advert, the first thing it will see will be the subconscious implant insert. And one of the concepts of what he called is that when the conscious mind becomes aware of this mind virus, when it becomes aware of its influence, that its influence wanes and goes. And for me, a quick way to bypass this mind virus, which goes under endless different names in endless different cultures, the same concept, is basically a simple redesignation reevaluation of self identity. Because while we are self identifying with our labels, what are we self identifying with? With five sense concepts. And thus, we're pulled into the five sense realm by our perception of that being the eye. But when you reevaluate your self identity from I am my labels to I am the consciousness having the experience called the labels, then immediately your perception of self expands. You no longer eff along the checkout or bill at the call center. That's an experience you are the consciousness ultimately infinite in nature that is having that experience. And as you expand your self identity, you expand your consciousness, your consciousness moves into higher frequencies of resonance, and you are leaving the realm of what he called the mind virus, the mind blindness. Look, that is outstanding. And there I want every bit of that in there. But I also want to return you particularly because there's like a number of different plays in the playbook, right? So the what Tico is one, but in the mind virus is one. But I really think what you tuned into with this sabotein frankis cult of evil, and which is only available to us because of the cult of religion. So we take a cult like the Jewish cult, just like the Christian cult, just like all religions taken up escape our true relationship to the largest, to the larger consciousness in order to kind of create this control mechanisms. That's what religions do. It doesn't mean that some spirituality can't come through them. But what I think is particularly important that you point out is this idea of transgression, the idea of redemption through sin, the idea that it's best to do the worst. And that will somehow, so that is another, it's almost like a different mind virus that gets played out. But what I thought you did such a beautiful job of explaining is I think a lot of people have a trouble understanding how these folks could do such horrible, horrible things. And I think you really tuned into it there is that they are raising that horror to something that they celebrate as being their highest form of their spiritual expression. And as twisted as that might be, they've made that their religion. Do you have any thoughts on any of that? Well, I was just going to complete the sequence of what I was talking about, which was going to bring me into sovereignty and frankism was going to bring me into this global death cult that I expose in the answer. Because having described what he called this, this deeply imbalanced deeply distorted state of consciousness. What this death cult is, whether it's the sabotee and frankis part of it, or whether it's other expressions and the global cult as a whole, it is a completely vertical controlled state of mind, state of consciousness, state of perception. So when you look at sabotee and frankism, for instance, one of the things it does is invert everything. And what is this distortion, this distorted consciousness that the Native Americans call vertical, I call the mind virus, it is a distortion of balanced, love based reality. And, you know, if you look through through history, wherever you go, whether it's a religion or whether it's a native kind of culture, you have this constant theme of good versus evil and all that stuff. And I would suggest this comes from this distorted consciousness that seeks to manipulate and assimilate other consciousness into itself. And that which is love, which is balance, that which is harmony, etc. And so you have this mind virus, but this cult is its human expression. Because their whole perception and behavior is based on its distortion. This is why this death cult is connected, and I had connected it so many times, to Satanism, to pedophilia, to the banking system, crushing human lives, all these things that have gone on, all the things that we'd rather like the world to be rid of, including current events I would strongly suggest, are actually expressions through this cult of this mind virus. And it's seeking to manipulate the general population into these low states of emotional frequency. I mean, look around, Alex, at current events. What level of anxiety and fear is coming off people? What increasingly I see, what level of hatred is coming off people? All these divisions in society. This is classic expressions of this mind virus. And this cult, which in its physical human form, is structuring and manipulating human society to generate these low vibrational emotions. So what does that do? It starts to make a vibrational fusion between this distortion and the increasingly distorted human perceptual states caused by the way that society is manipulated. So the answer, the answer is not to find a solution. It's to go the other way to stop getting pulled into these low vibrational emotions because, again, you go back to the Witeco concept, the Native Americans and others who have different names for the same concept talk about the fact, I've mentioned it already, that once you identify its influence upon you with the conscious mind, it loses its power. When you read articles by psychologists and you see various studies that have been done, they estimate that 95% of human action, which is usually reaction, is subconscious in nature. You can see that actually the conscious mind becomes a spectator to the subconscious mind. And it's in the subconscious that this mind virus operates, and thus is hidden from the conscious mind. But when it ceases to be hidden, then it loses its power. David, what is part of your daily process, your practice to return to that larger consciousness? I don't do anything. I don't do anything, except one thing. I always do what I know to be right, what I feel to be right. So, for instance, if I feel, I know, not least through endless scientific studies, that wearing a mask is a bad for your health, and b, it is actually not about health at all, the masks. It's about subjugation. It's about submission. It's about a symbol of submission. If I believe that, and I do, if I know that to be right here, then I'm not going to wear a mask. Whatever the consequences are of that, well, they'll have to take their course, because I'm doing what I know to be right. If you're in a state where you feel that, but what are the consequences for me, then Witeco's got you. So righteous action is? It's heart. See, when you open your heart, it's not, you know, the love of pure attraction, which is associated with the, again, the distortion of what love is. What we call love is innate intelligence. Why? Because it's a massive connection to expanded awareness, which is why this cult wants to shut the heart down. My heart aches. My heart is broken. Look at all the associations of heart to states of human perception and states of human emotion. It's not just attraction. It's innate intelligence and something else. It is without that which enslaves humanity more than anything else. It is without fear. Because this knows, it doesn't think, this thinks, it knows that we are an expression of infinite awareness that is on an infinite journey of explanation of forever forever. So what is there to fear from that state of self? I wrote to somebody today, I said life starts when fear of death ends. It's one of the great, if not the greatest fears, fear of the unknown, which is it's an expression of. And so this does what it knows to be right. So if you open your heart, first of all, it takes you beyond the Witeco frequency. Witeco can't influence that. It could close the heart, can close this heart vortex, but it can't influence what this heart vortex in an open state is connecting with. Because it's out of its frequency range. And if you are without fear, then you are without intimidation. And without intimidation, the few cannot possibly control the many. One of the things Alex that's come out of this is putting to bed, at least in a vast number of new people, the idea that I've been told again and again in the last 30 years, a few people can't control the world. But they can. Because you've just watched it happen. You've just watched billions under house arrest because a tiny few people said that it should happen. Now how does that happen? It happens because those who are told to submit to it acquiesce to it. It's a whole sequence of imposition by the few acquiescence by the many imposition by the few acquiescence by the many. Now, when this opens, when you connect with that, what we call love, but that's been so discredited in its real meaning. We have to use things like unconditional love or infinite love to try to get anywhere near it. Once that happens, you're not in fear. Thus, you're not intimidated. Thus, you will always do what you know to be right. And if enough people did that, then it would be game over because the few can only control the many if the many acquiesce to it. David, you give me chills.  It's so eloquent. And now we understand why you fill up Wembley Stadium, why you fill up when you're allowed to travel and be in other countries, why you speak to thousands and thousands of people, unprecedented really for someone in the lane that you're riding in to do that. But I want to return to a question I asked kind of at the beginning because I think it's also something that people struggle with. People who are spiritually minded struggle with. And that is the action versus being part. Like I need to just be my spiritual self and evolve my spiritual self versus I need to take action. And sometimes that action might be in conflict ultimately with someone else, even if I don't seek that out. How do you balance that action versus being, the doing versus being part that you get when I'm saying in terms of those are common terms or common questions inside spiritual communities? But your being becomes your doing. Your doing is an expression of your being. And I do find Alex and you know I've been on this journey a long time and I've seen a lot of things that met a lot of people. The height of what was called the new age movement. I saw, I met some lovely people, but I saw an enormous amount of denial and escapism mascarading a spirituality whereby I'm just working on my being, that being an excuse not to express a doing. Because you'd rather not face the consequences of doing it. And so they used to say about, because when I started going around America in the early 1990s or mid 1990s, I was invited to speak here and there at those big whole life expos they used to have. These one out of Los Angeles, one out of San Francisco. And I would be the strange conspiracy guy at 10 o'clock at night when everyone had gone home. And they used to say, but what you're saying is negative. And well, two things to that. They also used to say you're getting people to go into fear. Well, two things. Well, a number of things, never mind two. One, if you are spiritually kind of open as you say you are, so why are you talking about fear? Fear should not be affecting you if you're really connected. And this is the other point. I used to hear them say people have to wake up. Yes. But in that case, wouldn't it be a good idea to address what is keeping them asleep? Because if you if you read my books, Alex, I never cover in a book the names, dates, places, nature of the conspiracy without doing the going to the spiritual nature of reality. Of course, the two are not apart from each other. They are expressions of each other. And, you know, I don't think myself that we come into this reality as it is to then try to convince ourselves that we haven't. And therefore, we don't have to go into areas that we'd rather not go into. True spirituality. The great spiritual people of history were not necessarily and overwhelmingly were not those who went to church. They weren't those who who ran some some coven or cult. They were the ones that actually said this is not right and I am going to do what I can to make a difference about it. And they didn't call themselves spiritual. They didn't call themselves religious. They just did what they knew to be right. And they're the people that change things because they face head on what needs changing rather than trying to find an excuse not to go there. I'll give you an example just a quick one. There's someone in Britain who kind of claims to be part of the alternative media. But when the mass came in for mandatory masking shops, they said that they had made a decision that they were going to wear a masking shops because they said they didn't want old people to feel unsafe, right? So you're listening to that and you're saying, no, let me just translate that. You want an excuse not to disobey authority. That's what you want. And so you've come up with that. And this is what I mean about finding an excuse not to do what you know to be right. And for me, once you do this, everything changes. Not least because as this takes you out there to levels of perception, levels of awareness that are not within this bubble, but are well beyond the bubble, you can observe this reality from outside this reality. And so instead of within the bubble, everything's random dots, what's going on, you see the picture when you go into this expanded state of awareness.  This is, this is our natural state. Is it okay for the Buddha to sit on the mountain? Is it okay for that yogi to sit in the caves in the Himalayas? Is he maybe doing his right action? Because I love what you're saying. I totally you're so totally congruent on what you're saying. Can people express that differently? Or is non-action always an excuse? But of course they can.  But then again, you know, when you take the story of the Buddha, it wasn't about non-action. Sharing knowledge is not non-action. Action doesn't have to mean that you grab a poster and go out on the street. In fact, I think that's a waste of effort in so many ways. Because, you know, I see people mistaking, in my view, I can only come from where I'm coming from. Other people have a different view and they're entitled to it, they're right to it. But I see people going out on protests. I'll give you an example. We had a protest in Britain against the government, against the establishment, right? It was basically an anti-establishment protest. But everyone was wearing a mask or vast numbers were wearing a mask. So you're going on a protest against the establishment, yeah? Are you wearing a mask? Why? Well, well, because they told us, we have to. Yeah, okay. So how does that work out?   Okay, that's no problem with that. But then what? Or you're going to, we're going to fight the enemy. Oh, yeah, we're going to fight the enemy. We're going to stop our weapons. We're going to fight them. And yet none of that is necessary. All that is necessary is I'm going to do what I know to be right. Different people will come to different conclusions, but you're doing what you know to be right. And therefore, you're not just in that perceptual state, you are going to express it. It's not just a being, it's a doing.  And collectively, you are making a transformation of society with a simple one syllable word. No. David, no. No, he's not negative. No can be an incredibly powerfully positive word. You are going to do this because we, the few, have said you will do it. No. Won't do it. No. No panna. No protest. No stockpiling weapons. No. No, not doing it. And when ever thousands of people have refused to acquiesce, refused to obey, the all powerful state doesn't know what to do with them because the state power and cult power behind the state depend on human acquiescence. It depends on people saying yes, sir, when they really would rather say no, but what are the consequences for me? The heart would never do that. That's incredible. Two, maybe three more questions if I can squeeze it in. One, could you speak to religion because many people get offended, they feel like religious beliefs are somehow protected beliefs. And to many other folks, it just looks like a complete another aspect of this social engineering project. It's a way of getting between us and our connection to that ultimate extended consciousness. It takes many forms. It has many of the aspects of control that you've talked about. Speak to religious beliefs and whatever you have to say about that. Well, I call it in general the God program. And we have all these religions, Alex, but when you break it down, when you break the God program down, it operates the same. It's a blueprint. And all the different names and different rituals, they kind of obscure the fact that actually it is a very simple blueprint. And you've mentioned part of it there in that, you know, I talk about this Witeco virus, mind virus, wants to get in there in the spaces or make spaces between the five sense mind and expanded awareness. Well, look at the blueprint of religion. Okay, so what are you? I'm a Christian. What does that mean? Well, I go to church, and this man in a frock, women often now, tells me what God wants me to do. Okay, well that's interesting. And he tells me the consequences of me not doing what God wants me to do. Okay, you? Oh, I'm a Muslim. What does that mean? Well, I go to the mosque and this man in a frock, he tells me what God wants me to do, and what God will do if I don't do what God says, which is what this man in a frock tells me he says. Okay, you? Oh, I follow Judaism. What does that mean?  And that's what Judaism is.  And what are those people in frocks actually doing, Alex? They're getting in the spaces between the five sense mind and expanded consciousness. They do not want a direct connection. And even the word connection is not correct. And it's only a human language, because it's not even a connection, because what is all one does not connect, it just is. And what happens is that we get a disconnection of influence. Doesn't mean we're not still part of the great forever. We always are and always will be. It's that it's not influencing us because of this perceptual isolation, which religion has played a major, major part in. So what you had originally was a forms of culture that for all their flaws and there were many, they practiced a direct connection with what they perceived as the creator or what I call the one. And then religion came in and it created that blueprint, and we got the only through this can you get to God. Only through me, only through me, only through believing me in what I say, can you get there. And by the way, we're going to give you a story. We're going to give you a series of rules and regulations. And if you don't follow them, well, you, well, you ever stoke the fires of hell? Well, that's where you're going, mate. And then as the impact of that, and what was that? It was a, was a tiny, tiny perceptual state that's being sold here.  You're not one of us anymore. But as people started to reject that, then in came mainstream science. And we went from a situation where you can only get to the state of expanded consciousness, as I would call it. If you do what we tell you, because we know what God wants, we went to, actually, there is no state of expanded consciousness.  So, and now basically, you've got these two working simultaneously with the, the science through technology and the technocracy that's developing control by technocrats, not politicians is now becoming more and more and more dominant. And there's a common theme. I mean, just look at the common themes everywhere that this system, this cult behind the system, is emphasizing everywhere. And that is you, you cannot have a direct connection with expanded states of consciousness. You don't have that direct connection. And I wonder if you could tell us how that informed this whole process, because a lot of people go back, they'll look, they'll read in your books, and maybe you want to mention the books that actually detail you being on the mountain and having that experience, direct experience, personal experience, and then interacting with nature in a strange way that we hear so often, you know, the cloud comes over, I can only tell you how many times I've heard that from other people who've had these shamanic journeys, but you experienced this extended realm. It even changed you in this transformational way where a lot of people struggle reintegrating that and you did for a few months, but then you just explode in terms of your knowledge and what you've been able to bring forth with that. But I also want you to explain if you can what you learned about the other realms of that extended realm, in particular, maybe some of the darker aspects of it. Can you tie that into it, your direct experience, and where we can learn more about that? Well, I mean, what happened to me is, just very quickly, I was a television presenter with the BBC and a national spokesman for the British Green Party at the time in the 1980s. I had this strange experience over a year where when I was in a room alone, it seemed like there was someone else there that's got more and more tangible, more and more powerful, and eventually I spoke out into an empty hotel room, if you're there, would you please contact me because you'll drive me up the wall. And a few days later, not many days, I was in a bookstore just down the road from here, still there, not a bookstore so much as a news shop, news agent. And I had this experience where suddenly my feet were stuck to the ground, I was standing at the entrance, like magnets were pulling them down to the ground, and I had this, it wasn't a voice, it was a thought form, a strong thought form. It said, go and look at the books on the far side. Now, I'm new to all this at the time, this is 30 years ago, and I'm bewildered of what's going on. And I start walking towards the very few books in this shop, because it sold tourist things, buckets and spades, newspapers and stuff, very few books, and they were romantic novels overwhelmingly. I knew this shop well, I thought, what the hell am I going over here for? But something was leading me there. And I got there and there was one book in among the romantic novels, and it was a book called Mind to Mind by Betty Shiney, who was a professional psychic, and a vitro psychic. But I just had a year with this presence around me, and it was getting more and more powerful, so I read her book, I went to see her, not telling her anything, except that, you know, maybe her hands-on healing might help, because I had arthritis. And in the three times, three times, four times I went over a period of a month, she went into psychic mode and said I was going to go out on a world stage and reveal great secrets. And basically, she described what has happened in the last 30 years in a few minutes. And then, in a bewildered state, because my life was dramatically changing, my awareness, my perceptions were dramatically changing through 1990, and into early 1991, and suddenly I had this overwhelming feeling to go to Peru. And I got on a plane to Peru, purely on, I know I need to go there, you know, this intuitive knowing that we have when we open our heart. And so I went there and lots of amazing things happened, but I ended up on a hill at a place called Ciustani, not far from Puno in near Lake Tetecharcar. And I was in a taxi bus, which I'd hired to take me there, was out of season. And as we were driving away, I looked at this hill, and all I could hear in my head was, come to me, come to me, come to me, come to me.   And as I was standing there, under a piercing hot Peruvian sun with no clouds, what came through my head was, they'll be talking about this 100 years from now, it will be over when you feel the rain, which was a ridiculous thing under a piercing hot cloudless Peruvian sky. But anyway, this energy started to go into the top of my head and through my feet and then come the other way. Now my arms went out at 45 degrees without any conscious decision to do it. And the energy was building up and building up, my body started to shake. And I was going in and out of consciousness, like when you drive in a car and you forget where the last two miles has gone, your subconscious has been driving the car. Thank goodness. And it was a bit like that. And one of these times I came back to a conscious state, I saw that there was a light grey mist over the distant mountains. And as I watched it, it happened ever so quick, ridiculously quick, like a video on Fast Forward. And it got darker and darker and I thought it's raining over those mountains. And in the next little while I watched this, well it was just stair rod rain coming towards me. And as it got towards me, it was straight out of some B movie that no one would ever believe. It was a wall of rain coming towards me. And eventually it hit me and I was soaked in a second. And by this time my body is shaking crazy with this energy. And as soon as the rain hit me, the energy went stopped. And now my arms, which didn't hurt before, agony. My legs were like jelly. And my life changed then. I came back to England. Concepts and things, insights were pouring into my conscious mind. Far, far too many to process. And it was like pressing too many keys on the computer. The computer froze. Couldn't process it. And I went through three months of almost not knowing my name, not quite that, but you get the point. I didn't know where I was, what I was doing, what was happening to me. And then it was like the computer unfroze after about three months. And the unfreezing happened very quickly. And suddenly I am who I was before, but not. People who I met were saying, well, I thought you'd supposed to have gone crazy there because it was in all the media I'd gone mad because I was a television presenter at the time or in that period. They said you'd gone mad. You're the Dave I've always known. And I kind of was outwardly like I am now. But I saw the world completely differently instead of seeing the dots, I saw how they connected. I would see what was really being said as opposed to what the word said. And what happened was my life became the synchronistic journey of meeting people running into experiences coming across documents and books. And it was like some force was handing me puzzle pieces to put into the picture. And I've got a stream of books here. A lot of them are very considerable because they cover so many interconnected subjects. And I would never have been able to produce those books if I was just using my conscious mind. And there wasn't some other force that was, it was like walking through a maze, Alex. And someone was opening and shutting the doors. So you went in the right direction. Without that, and that was coming from some other level, then you couldn't be done because what is being uncovered and what I uncover in the answer does not want to be uncovered. And without support from other levels of consciousness, reality, whatever you want to call it, you couldn't possibly have unraveled it. I mean, it's taken 30 years as it is. But without that support, that guidance, you couldn't be done. David, final question. The new book, The Answer, that is out just now. It's just coming out today or tomorrow, I think, as we speak here. What does it have to say about a topic you've covered more thoroughly and before anyone really was on it again? I mean, it's like a repeating story about our connection to the UFO ET phenomenon. And in particular, I wanted to hone in on a couple of points. You know, in the last couple of years here in the United States, the Department of Defense has taken hold of that narrative as co-opted, have spun it into this political, in my opinion, what is a political psi-opt disclosure, and it has very much of this is a national defense issue. So we have that on one hand. It's almost like a parallel of what you're talking about. We have science and religion, each sandwiching us into disrupt our understanding of the consciousness. Here we have the good ET, bad ET, and we have both narratives existing at the same time where the DoD is continuing to spin the ET is going to, it's a national defense issue, so give us all the power to go and deal with it. And then at the same time, we have folks in the UFO community, the ET experience or community, are saying, no, these are actually bringers of spiritual transformation, and it's a good ET, and they're trying to protect our environment. And so in the process of, if you can, covering all that, I also want you to touch on the fact that we are almost certainly looking at many, many species with many, many agendas with many from different places. So we can't automatically just say ET either, can we? So I know I laid a lot on the table there, but if anyone can handle it, you can. Where do you start? Well, I come from that angle from a different point of view. Just after the turn of the millennium, I thought about it before, but just after the turn of the millennium, I concluded that we live in some kind of virtual reality, well, matrix to use the name in the movies, but a virtual reality, which was part of the disconnecting of our perception of reality from the greater reality. And when I was a kid in the 1950s, my father had no interest in astronomy before this incident or afterwards, and I'm still bewildered about what the heck happened. We had no money. We never went anywhere because we had no money. And one day it would have been about 1958-59. My father walked down the stairs one morning and said, we're going to London. And I was shocked because I'd never been to London. It was a long time before I'd go again. And what, 1958-59, I would be six or seven. We're going to London. And I remember we went on a steam train and my father said, we're going to the planetarium. Now, I didn't know what a planetarium was. I wouldn't bother. I just wanted to go to London. I'd heard about it or so much about it. So we got on this steam train to London. We got to a planetarium, which I know the date because it had just opened. It opened in 1958 in London. Next to Madame Tussauds in London, in Baker Street. And so I didn't want to expect. So we walk into this planetarium and I sit down at the seat. I don't want to expect. And then suddenly the roof, the ceiling, dome ceiling, became the night sky. And it must have been about midday or we were sitting there. And I looked at it and something hit me that never left me. That even at that early age, that could be the night sky. It looked like it was midnight and the roof had come off. And that never left me. And when all this started for me that I've just described, I looked up at the sky one day and it appeared to me as a gigantic dome, like something out of the Truman Show. And that all came back to me when I started to go down this road. This is some kind of holographic projection. And this comes into your question because, of course, we know about this whole concept of the, was it the Fermi paradox of how there can be so many planets and so many stars and yet the amount of conscious ET activity is ridiculously little compared with that potential out there. And for me, the lack of ET activity against the potential of it is part of isolating human perception. You imagine if there were other races, what we call ETs interacting with the earth, you imagine what would happen to human perception would be dramatically different. We would be getting access to tremendously different perceptions of reality, perceptions of possibility, how to look at life, how to look at this and look at everything. We would be in a completely different knowledge base. But if you can isolate or perceptually isolate people to the point where there is no out there or perceived to be no out there, certainly no conscious interaction, then you can isolate this bubble again and you can control what. You can control the information that the target population receives, which leads to its perception, which leads to its behavior. And I'm not saying, if not for a second, and I wouldn't, because I don't believe it's true, that what we call ETs can't come into this projected reality, both malevolent and but the other kind. But it's my feeling that this reality, this astronomical reality, is not teeming with life as you would probably expect it to be. Because if it was, the ability to control would not be a tiny fraction of what it did, it would be impossible in fact. There would be too many sources of other information. And I see this one planet, this one green from a human physiological point of view inhabitable planet, which according to mainstream science anyway, compared with the projected size of the universe is about a billionth of a pinhead. And then I see all this, all this other potential for life planets, stars, et cetera, that appear to not, certainly within within the frequency band of human sight, not to be inhabited. And it makes no sense to me whatsoever that a planet so small should have this phenomenally beautiful environment, very unique environment, and then you look out and there's nothing else certainly within interaction range that's anything like it. So you've got humanity, many people within humanity do actually believe that there is nothing out there. And it's another part of this isolation. And I wonder what it is that we're looking at when we look at the night sky, because that experience when I was six or seven years old in the planetarium hit me so powerfully. I never forgot it. Basically, well, if I can see the night sky on the top of a ceiling, then what is the night sky? And I'm still thinking like that now. And so, like everything in all reality, there are benevolent expressions of all that is, and there are, shall we say, vertical infested expressions of all that is. But I just wonder what this night sky really is, what this space that we perceive really is. And whether it is what we think it is, or actually just a holographic perception, projection rather, which to our senses would seem incredibly real, as it does. Our guest again has been David Ike. Truly, as I said at the beginning, one of the bravest, I would say one of the most important thinkers of our time. He's never going to make it on that time's list of one of the top 100 most in the world. Thank God, Alex. Thank God. Be sure to check out this new book, The Answer, and hopefully it's an entry point if you haven't to checking out his other books. I think Trigger is super duper important book if you haven't looked at that. But his website is fantastic too. I'm a member many, many videos, blog posts, valuable stuff. Well, well worth it, iconic.com. And we have to support even more. We have to support this kind of work because part of the process is to put this boa constrictor stranglehold and gradually try and cut off the money that this important research deserves. So David, truly, truly wonderful having you on. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. And we started iconic. We should know it's about 750 videos and series and podcasts and full length feature films because we could see this severe censorship coming and we wanted a place where this could be available. And some great news. I think it's great news. Anyway, we've just licensed Vax, you know the movie Vax? Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah, about vaccinations, which are a lot big controversy with De Niro's film premiere, if you remember. We've licensed that. So that's on iconic very soon. The only place you can see it streamed. You know what I'd like to do? I'd like to offer. If anyone's stuck around this long, I'm going to purchase for you, for listeners, 10 copies of the answer. Okay, and I'll assign those randomly for every 10th person that gets to me. Okay, so the first 100 that email me every 10, 1 will receive a copy of the answer complements of the show because it's so, so important. And I hope when you receive that, the one thing I'd ask is that you do check out iconic and at least sign up for a month and see if it doesn't provide the kind of value that I'm talking about. Okay, so just email me and I'll be honest about it. Every 10th one, I'll give you a copy of the answer with the hope that you'll check out iconic. So David, thanks again. Good luck with the rollout of this and all the terrific work that you're doing. Real pleasure, Alex. Really lovely talking to you. Thanks again to David Ike for joining me today on Skeptico. I'm probably going to be diving further into this topic because I'm not so certain about some of the science he's referring to. But again, as I tried to make clear in the interview, the overall lay of the land that he's describing is so incredibly on target and way, way too close to the truth. I mean, scary close to the truth. So I guess that is the question to tee up from this interview, and that is, what do you take from David Ike's view of the COVID-19 pandemic? And what do you leave behind? Love to hear your thoughts. They will inform me. They will drive me. They will direct me in how I move with this. So please let me know what you're thinking. And thanks as usual so much for joining me and for being a part of this. I have some good ones coming up. I did slip David Ike in here ahead of some other ones. I have some ones that are going to be really delayed, but that's okay. They'll all get out there and the book will get out there too, and it'll all work out just the way it's supposed to. Until next time, take care and bye for now.


So, we thank you so much for coming here. Can you please begin with telling us your name and where you're from? I'm Savanthi Dharvaraj from Toronto. And can you tell us the problem that you were facing and the great testimony that you have for us? Yeah. Two years ago, I had pain in my left tummy for a long time. It was almost one and a half years I had. I had, I had taken medication from doctors and that was also, and it doesn't heal me continually very often it come and go. After one and a half year, I had a chance to go to know about Emmanuel TV through YouTube. I start to watch Emmanuel TV and pray with Prophet TV, Yosha. And immediately I start within few weeks, the pain disappeared. Almost one and a half or two years I didn't have any pain. So, you said that you were experiencing on the left side a severe pain. How was that affecting your life? I really afraid about it in my mind. It might be different disease or sickness or something. But anyway, I believe God will heal me but one day he healed me. And Emmanuel, then this is a great big testimony that I had asthma more than six years. Continually I suffered from asthma and I using two inhalers for control my asthma. You had, so you're saying that once you were healed from the pain but you also had another problem that you were carrying which was asthma and you had it for six years. And you said that you had two inhalers that you were taking. How often were you taking those inhalers? Every day I take inhalers in the morning and night, same inhaler. If I can't control my asthma, I have to take another inhaler, ventellin inhaler also, simprecote and ventellin. And after six years, one day, before four months ago one day I had a severe attack that I never had in my lifetime. It was very serious. I couldn't breathe. I thought I am going to die like that. I really feel like that. I don't know what to do with my husband also, not at that time. I called my son to call 911 and in the meantime I remembered to send prayer request to Emmanuel TV and ask him to stop. First send prayer request to Emmanuel TV and later you can call 911 like that. I told him he sent prayer request to Emmanuel TV. Immediately I tried to get my inhaler but it also finished that inhaler. I couldn't take it. At that mean time I was got little relief and later I fully healed. And from that day onward until today for almost four months I did not take any inhaler. I believe I am healed. Amen. So to summarize what she was saying is that you were saying that you had asthma for six years. And because of that you had to take an inhaler once or twice a day due to the severity. And you never really had an asthma attack but you had it at that one point in time. But before and it was so bad that just for those that know that when you get an asthma attack you get into cardiac arrest. So it's very dangerous. And so you were about to go and call 911. But something reminded you to have your son email Emmanuel TV a prayer request. And right there it just ceased. Yeah. Within a few minutes I ceased. I'm healed. Wow. Give God a round of applause. And now that you are here are you taking those medications anymore? Those inhalers? I believe I will not take anymore. Have you been taking them since that moment? No. And how long has it been? Four months. Wow. So from six years to four months you haven't been taking it. Once you receive that healing you have not touched them. That is amazing you guys. When something in your life is taking over you where you have to take that medication every day to nothing at all. That's when you know that God is a healer. That God sees your issue and that he wants to take care of you today. Amen. And so I want to also just to kind of rewind back for maybe some of you guys that missed it. When you were saying that you had pain on your left side and also with the asthma situation. You were introduced to Immanuel TV and you were watching it. And when you were introduced to it how many prayers were you... What did you do when you were introduced to Immanuel TV? I started to pray with Prophet TV Yosha every Sundays. And also sometime I go to YouTube and pray with the healing videos. And when you were watching it how many weeks you were saying that you had that pain for your left side for about a year and a half? Three or four weeks. I started to watch Immanuel TV. Within three or four weeks I'm fully healed. Wow. That is amazing. So she was having pain on her left side if you guys remember for a year and a half. So to the point where even doctors didn't say they didn't know where it came from. Is that correct? Yeah. And she was watching for three to four weeks and just believing and declaring with God that God is a healer and it was gone. That's amazing. Come on give God a hand of applause for that. So now that you're standing here and people are watching here and those on live stream and there might be you know in a situation or in a challenge right now. What would you tell them? What would you advise them? Yeah you can watch Immanuel TV every Sunday and pray with Prophet TV Yosha. And if you unable to heal you can send prayer request to Immanuel TV. God is the great healer. He will heal you. Amen. Praise God. Thank you so much for your wonderful testimony. Thank you so much.


It is 2020. Where did 2019 go? I'm not really sure but it was a whirlwind and it was ultimately a disappointment especially for me and my channel. YouTube went over a lot of changes in one year. It decided that at one point it was going to be monitoring every video. If there was some swear words you would get demonetized or you would be flagged and wouldn't be seen by a lot of the general populace. Then they decided let's do this copa thing and now videos can be rated are again but we won't show any kids them because you have to mark your videos for adults only. There was a lot of changes and I rolled the dice incorrectly and decided to move a lot of my content to my second channel Adam Olinger. You should check that out for sure because this year in 2020 I have new promises. I have new goals to not achieve and not attain and I'm going to give them to you now. On the main channel Adam does movies. We're going to be talking about movies only still but I'm going to get rid of car side reviews. I was knocking out those pretty frequently once a week at least for quite a while. I just don't like them and it has nothing. If you like them I'm sorry that I'm getting rid of them but I just didn't like them. They were too kind of low budget for me even though I have no budget on my show. They just felt very cheap for what I want to produce. I know that ultimately it's like who cares. It's just about the opinions and about the quick insight if you should see the movie or not but ultimately my goal with the channel is twofold. It was to talk movies because I have a passion for them and the ultimate goal is to entertain to make you laugh. I try my hardest to come out with original material make it funny make it clever and I thought the car side reviews just were bland and they were maybe too much of me which can ultimately be kind of lame. So I'm going to focus again on movie feuds, Adam Rantz movies. They're coming back. I pulled all the videos off put them on the second channel now I'm going to put new ones here. They are going to be like the one I just showed with the more fun background. I'm not swearing up a storm. I want them to be somewhat inclusive to everybody but still have a lot of jokes and make them kind of concise and fast and the ones that are pulled on my second channel will stay there. They're a lot of swearing. There's a lot of over-the-top nonsense and they can stay there. I don't need to keep moving them.  I'm going to be putting my Adam Rantz issues there which are anything that's not movie related. The cringe probably my favorite show to do not to edit but my favorite show to record is exclusive to my second channel because that one's just I learned that people that would come to this channel Adam does movies were often confused when I would put out these character videos where I play Khaleesi Grimes 82 who's this over-the-top fake super nerd that loves everything corporate and you know just jumps on the bandwagon of what to hate just on a whim. So those are staying over there. Any sort of character show is over there. Movie boss season two if you like season one it was kind of this fun experimental show me and some buddies did. I really want to do a second season and maybe when it's not negative 20 out here in Minnesota we will we will find time to get together again and do more episodes. So the cringe Adam Rantz issues movie boss those are the shows over there and any one-off random kind of things I want to do I have I have these other shows that I have in mind that I just need to do that that's that's over there. Over here movie foods is the focus at least once a month try to do two or more a month maybe I can just kind of make them smaller shorter in length because there are a lot of work to do. The Adam Rantz series is definitely going to be a weekly thing when I see movies and I might go back and watch other movies just to do rants on them fun rants praises things like that and I don't know if I'm gonna really do anything else here I feel like what I learned more than anything the last nine years off and on on YouTube is that people want consistency. 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Hi everyone, my name is Saurabh Hirani and I work as a DevOps engineer at Bluejeans and I'm here to keep you awake for the next 20 minutes in case you're feeling sleepy. So the talk that I'm going to be presenting is about Inframer. It's an open source tool that we developed at Bluejeans networks to solve a very interesting problem. Okay, so let's get on with the problem statement. So the problem statement that I'm trying to address is, cool, thank you, all right, this does not count, hello, looks good, thank you, right, so the problem statement, okay. So the problem we are trying to address is how do I relate, how do I correlate information in my distributed infrastructure? Now that's quite a mouthful, but I'll expand on this. What I'm trying to say is that in today's world, when we are talking about a node, we are talking about that node's information present in multiple databases. And my database, I don't mean MySQL or Postgres, what I mean is any place where your infra information resides, that means it may be in Chef, it may be in VMware, right? So picture a scenario, you have been told to set up a web server. So what do you do in that?  Do you want Apache? Do you want Nginx or something else? Once that is decided, you decide the config, right? And once you have all of that sorted out that, okay, I'm going to go with this guy, then you have to set it up. But you just can't set it up manually, you have to do it in a way that is reusable by others also. Now you should be able to change the configs without just logging on to the server and doing 10 things, right? So for that, you use a config management system like Chef, Puppet, or something else. So the information about your software, what all configuration is going to be there, what things you are going to install that goes inside Chef, okay? Now we have got your machine up and running, right? So now you have to tackle the problem of monitoring, as in you have to see to it that you put in the right disk space alerts, the right CPU alerts, and so on. That information goes in Chingga, Nagio, Zabix, what have you. And now that, you know, and this machine can either be an on-premise physical machine or it can be a virtual machine. And if it's a virtual machine, you have to decide which host will it go in, which cluster will it go in, which data store will it connect to if you are talking about VMware, right? And it can be a local hypervisor also, but I'm just taking a scenario here. And if it's on the cloud, then you have to look at AWS, Digital Ocean, and the same questions here. And for those of you who are not familiar with Device42, Device42 is basically an inventory management system which provides you APIs to tell you information about where my node is, how is it connected to my networks, which is, and all those things. So we are talking about just one node, a web server. And you see the information about that node is distributed across Chef, teaching VMware, AWS, Device42, and this is just one part. You know, it can go beyond this also, right? So if we revisit the problem statement now, how do I correlate information in my distributed infra? This is what I'm trying to answer here, right? This is my distributed infra. Now, if you have distributed infrastructure, there are very good parts about it, right? Each of these databases does one thing and does it well, right? Chef does not mess with teaching, I Ching has not mess with VMware. They all do one thing and they do one thing really well. And all of these guys provide rich REST APIs for you to work with. I'm sure that most of you guys, when you have to provision a virtual machine, you don't need to go to the AWS console to do things, right?  And obviously, as in the open source community, there are really good projects like Boto, PyChef, which are libraries built over these APIs to give you a uniform, easy view to do things. These are the good parts. But there are some pain points associated with it. All of this knowledge about your node, about, you know, all of the knowledge about a particular node is distributed across all of these databases. So your knowledge is trapped in silos, right? Their APIs don't talk to each other, and they shouldn't because each database is supposed to do one thing and it has to do it right, right? So these are the pain points associated with them. But at this point, you have to ask yourself that don't you wish that these APIs could talk to each other? Don't you wish you could correlate that information? Don't you wish you had a tool which answers questions like this? Give me an IP and I will give you information about that node in Chef, itching AWS device 42. You shouldn't have to fire 10 APIs to get all of this information, right? You should be able to do it from a single point. You should also be able, now we are, till now we are just talking about the node. Now let us move on to a higher level about databases, right? You should also be able to answer questions like, you know, give me a tool which gives me information about all my AWS nodes in this region which are running but not yet monitored, which are running and monitored but not yet shipped, right? And these are just some of the permutations that I'm talking about. There can be n number of them. And then in the end, it validates your assumptions about your data consistency. What do I mean by that? Let's face it, as in, you know, in today's world, no matter how much automation you have in place, you will always have that one VM that someone created for a customer demo six months ago and it's still lying there, right? So how do you find out such orphan nodes? So if you are with me till now, these are the questions we are trying to answer. Information about your infrastructure from a single point of view rather than, you know, collating all the information in your single, single script APIs. So this is where Inframer comes into the picture. It was a tool that we created to scratch our own niche and it was built using Python, Flask and Redis, which are very cool open source projects in themselves and it was built over a period of two hackathons in 48 hours but soon we realized that this is just not a hackathon project. This has many more applications and it was incorporated in our DevOps roadmap and we have open sourced it today. So if I have to tell you one line description of this tool and how it's trying to answer these problems, it's, you know, this is the most simple view I can tell you about it. It's collect, store and analyze information, right? And when, if you have to look at the architecture of this guy, oh great, this showed up, right? So if you, if you can look at the diagram here, when I say collect, I mean these collectors, oops, not working. Okay, that's fine. These VMware collectors, Chef collector, AWS collector, these are just standalone programs that you've written using your favorite programming language, Python and you've taken those collectors and then you've captured all of the information and you're just exposing them. These are generic scripts, these are everyday scripts that you write, you know, to collect, to talk to VMware, to talk to AWS, to talk to Chef, all these things. You write these scripts and then you forget about them. These scripts dump their information in a store. This store is like a central repo wherein these guys will just blindly dump the information without doing any analysis. You get a big JSON, you dump it, that's it. And over these stores, we build a REST API which exposes the information present in these stores in a consumable way, right? And then once you have the information ready to be consumed, there are no limits on what you can do with it. You can write tools over it, you can build dashboards over it and you can do a lot of stuff. So if you look at each of these components now, collectors, stores, analyzers. So collectors, as the name suggests, they collect information from each database and return a JSON, right? And each of these databases has multiple views. For example, if you are talking about Chef, then if you look at Chef, Chef looks at your information from the viewpoint of hosts, from the viewpoint of environments, and so on. If you look at VMware, VMware will view your data center from the viewpoint of VMs, from the viewpoint of clusters, from the viewpoints of data stores, and so on, right? And obviously, these are extensible. You can write your own collectors in any way that you want. So collectors dump their information in stores. So at the top level, there are collectors. They dump their information in stores. And the current implementation of the stores is redis, but the collectors are totally decoupled from the stores and you can have your own implementation. If time permits, I'll talk about that. And once you have the collectors and stores in place, once you have the collectors and stores in place, you can have a REST API over these guys, which means all of the information that I've dumped show it to me in a consumable way. Now if you look at this REST API, this is just a URI sample URI, which is pretty simple. In Framework API V1, in all the databases, give me the AWS database. In the AWS database, give me the US East One region. And in that, give me a sample instance. So this will give you all the information about that database in that one shot. I'll explain this. This will be very clear when I show you a demo. And this is where I step in with this. So if you look at this dump, this looks familiar to you if you use BOTO or any other library that talks to AWS. What we are doing is simply connecting to AWS, getting the instance information, dumping it in JSON. All of this you've seen earlier. Now what if of all of this information, I just wanted to get the state of this guy? So I take this URL. I add a filter to it, key equal to state. So OK. I get the state is stopped. So what if I wanted to apply this key on all of my region instances? So I move up the URL, use the same key, and say target key is equal to state. So I get all the running VM, stop VMs on all of these things. And of all of these VMs, if I just want the running VMs, I add one more filter, which is target key is state and target value is running. Target key is state and value is running. So I get just the running VMs. Now at this stage, you are probably thinking, OK, this guy talked with AWS, got the information, dumped it in Redis, exposes it through a REST API. And all that he's doing is showing me all the running VMs. I mean, you could probably do it in a 10 line BOTO script. And you don't need all of this for that. But this is not for that. This is useful because if you look at the private IP of this guy, 10.1.1, and this is just dummy data, the information about this node is captured not from an AWS perspective, but also from a Chef and a Nagios perspective. As in, you can query the Chef database, and you can get all the Chef-related information about this node. You can query Nagios database, and you can get all the Nagios-related information about this node. What does this mean? This means that now, all the information about your one single node is aggregated in a central store for you to consume and make sense of it. This is where it all gets very interesting. This is where you write analyzers. And this is where it all comes together. Because without analysis, your data is totally lame. And without data, your analysis is totally blind. So what you can do with analyzers, they are command line tools that you write on top of these REST APIs. They query individual databases and perform any operation that you want. But for an example, I have taken set operations, which means you remember the question that we talked about earlier. Give me all the AWS nodes in US1 region, which are running, monitored, but not yet Chef. How do you answer these questions? So this is a very dirty script that I wrote, a very simple script, actually. What it does is, if you look at this URI that I talked about earlier, in AWS region, for this key, give me the state information running. So all this is doing is that it's getting the JSON, extracting the IPs out of it, and dumping it in a file, USVS2 running. So you've got all the IPs of USVS2, which are in a running state. Number one. Similarly, you can get all of your Nagios nodes. You can get all of your Chef nodes. So at this stage, you have three files. All of the IPs in USVS2, which are in a running state, all of the nodes in Nagios, which are there, and all of your Chef nodes. You have three data sets, and when you have three data sets, you can perform operations on them. You can say that take the data set of USVS2 running, and take the data set of Nagios, and do an intersection on them, which means give me all the running nodes which are monitored. Then you can take the output of that data set, USVS2 running and monitored, and then you can do an intersection of that guy on all the Chef nodes, which means give me all the nodes which are running, monitored, and shipped. And you replace the intersection operation. By the way, this has been written in Python. This is a set library. So any operation that you can do through set, you can do through this guy. So if you do a difference, you get all the running nodes and the monitored nodes, but which are not shipped. And there are no limits to what you can do with this guy.  And it is extensible, obviously. I mean, this would be customizable for you. Think about it again.  All of this was done through one script. All I'm trying to say here is that break that into manageable parts. I'll write a collector. I'll expose it to the community. You write an analyzer. You put it out there to the community. I can use your analyzer. You can use my collectors. And the secret ingredient in the end is you. I mean, this sounds very corny and cheesy, but this is not a self-help talk. So there are no two infra layouts in the world that will be alike. You will have more databases. So in that case, you write your own collectors. You will have more information and more view towards your analytics. You might just want to go beyond the usual difference and all these intersections, all these operations. So you write your own analyzers. And you fit the tool to your needs and not the other way around. And obviously this was done through a hackathon. And hackathons are great places where these ideas flourish. So obviously, participate in hackathons. So to conclude my talk, there is a growing need to correlate all of this information. And it has to be done in a generic way. Most of you guys, when you query AWS, when you talk to AWS, I'll take my example. I write, I am a Python guy, so I write Bota, and you might have guessed this till now. But I write Bota scripts, I get the information, I dump it out, and that's it. What do I do with it? Do I tell a newbie that you are new to AWS? This is a generic collector. If you talk to AWS, it will just dump out the data. You don't care. And there would be a data analytics guy who does not care. Why should he write Bota scripts to capture the information when all he needs is data to work with? He can use your collector, he'll have his own analyzer. He works in his area of strength, you work in your area of strength. Obviously we are collating information collected by all of these APIs, and we are trying to make sense of it. And if nothing else, this also serves as a central source of your examples. Which means that Chef, AWS, VMware, any database that you're using, any DevOps tool that you're using, which exposes an API, there should be a collector for it. There should be an analyzer for it. Your analyzers can be custom. As in, the code stays constant. Your collectors are generic, your analyzers are generic, but the output that they produce is specific to your organization, and that stays with you. But the code can always be exposed to others. That was about it, and I hope I could communicate my ideas in a limited time I had. We had great fun writing this tool, and we have open sourced it in our GitHub repo, BlueJeans Network. Catch me or my colleagues to talk about it anytime. Thank you. Questions? Hey. Hi. Just an idea, it's not a question. You could probably dump all this data on Elasticsearch and use Lucinsearch, and get all kinds of metrics out of it using aggregations and stuff. Great. I have never had good timing in my life, but for the first time I have had this. Right now, better search capabilities, full text fuzzy values. Right. So we dumped the information in Redis because as a startup idea, this was the easiest thing to do, but we need Elasticsearch, we need stores, and if you look at the image that we have here about the architecture, right, this may look at, this may seem that the collectors are dumping directly the information into the stores, but this is a simplified view. What actually is happening is that the collectors are talking to a central runner, which is talking to the stores, which is talking to the stores, class, or whatever it is, and then dumping information. So the stores are totally pluggable. As in you can have Redis and Elasticsearch running together, right? So Inframer is an open source project, right? So you can, as, you know, I hope this works, but you can directly write your Elasticsearch store, dump the information there, expose it to the API, and you're good to go. Thank you for asking that. Questions? Yeah, very good. Yeah, I think that's it. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you.