David Wilcock
{{Short description|American religious writer (1973-)}}
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| years_active = 2010-Present
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David Wilcock (born 1973) is an American paranormal writer, media personality, and YouTuber. He is a significant figure in the disclosure movement. Wilcock has suggested that he is in telepathic contact with space aliens; some of his adherents believe he is the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce.
Early life and education
Wilcock was born in Rotterdam, New York.{{cite book |last1=Robertson |first1=David G. |title=UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=1474253229 |pages=174-202}} His father, Donald, was a journalist and the author of a biography of Buddy Guy. David graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY, New Paltz) in 1995, where he studied psychology. He unsuccessfully applied to graduate school at Naropa University.
Career
Following his graduation from SUNY, New Paltz, Wilcock worked for several weeks at a psychiatric hospital, according to religious studies scholar David G. Robertson.
=Work in the paranomal=
Robertson reports that Wilcock's interest in the paranormal began in 1993 when he heard from someone who, in turn, heard from someone else, that it was "common knowledge at NASA that UFOs had been recovered from crash sites". He was later told by his girlfriend, Yumi, that a Shinto shaman said he would become a "famous spiritual leader", and, a roommate also told him he had a dream in which Wilcock appeared as a "wanderer".{{efn|The idea of "wanderers" are a theory described by writer Scott Mandelker that posits space aliens reincarnate into human forms to work toward the spiritual development of Earth.}} By the late 1990s, it had been suggested to Wilcock that he was the reincarnation of Edgar Cayce.
Wilcock has established himself as a significant figure in the disclosure movement, which advocates for the end of what it believes is United States Government secrecy about the existence of aliens and UFOs.
==Writing==
Wilcock has written a number of books.
In 2004, North Atlantic Books published Wilcock and Wynn Free's The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? which the publisher describes as presenting a theory that "Wilcock might indeed be [Edgar] Cayce’s reincarnation" and in which Wilcock and Free go on to posit that humanity would soon undergo a transformation from matter to energy.{{cite news |title=End of Time Stories are as Old as Time |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/285001896 |access-date=August 14, 2005 |work=South Florida Sun Sentinel |date=May 25, 2025}}{{cite web |title=The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce? |url=https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/the-reincarnation-of-edgar-cayce/ |website=northatlanticbooks.com |publisher=North Atlantic Books |access-date=May 25, 2025}} Eight years later, in 2012, E. P. Dutton published Wilcock's The Source Field Investigations: The Hidden Science and Lost Civilizations Behind the 2012 Prophecies,{{cite news |last1=Weiss |first1=Jeffrey |title=Apocalypse 2012 Explained |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2011/04/06/faq-apocalypse-2012-explained.html |access-date=May 25, 2025 |work=CNBC |date=April 6, 2011}} which Kirkus Reviews described as chronicling his prediction that the year 2012 would be "the start of an epoch that may usher in a higher state of consciousness".{{cite news |title=The Source Field Investigations |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/david-wilcock/source-field-investigations/ |access-date=May 25, 2025 |work=Kirkus Reviews}}
According to publisher Penguin Random House, Wilcock's books Awakening in the Dream and The Ascension Mysteries were both New York Times bestsellers.{{cite web |title=David Wilcock |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/231411/david-wilcock/ |website=penguinrandomhouse.com/ |publisher=Penguin Random House |access-date=May 25, 2025}}
==Film and television==
From 2015 to 2018 Wilcock co-hosted, with Corey Goode, a program on Gaia called Cosmic Disclosures.{{cite news |last1=Sommer |first1=Will |title=Inside the War Between a UFO Influencer and Alien-Friendly Streaming Company |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/ufo-community-explodes-in-lawsuit-drama-accusations-of-luciferianism/ |access-date=May 25, 2025 |work=The Daily Beast |date=May 16, 2021}}
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Wilcock's 2018 documentary style film Above Majestic, according to Vice, makes the case that "reptilian aliens occupy large swaths of Antarctica, are massing for an invasion, and control the world’s governments and banks". A review of the film on Movieweb describes it as advancing the theory that the September 11 attacks were an "alien conspiracy cover up".{{cite web |last1=Orange |first1=B. Alan |title=Above Majestic Trailer Exposes Craziest Alien Conspiracy of All Time |url=https://movieweb.com/above-majestic-trailer/ |website=movieweb.com |publisher=Valnet |access-date=May 25, 2025}}
In 2019, Wilcock produced the documentary style film The Cosmic Secret, which Vice described as predicting an upcoming global catastrophe based on information Wilcock purports to have received via telepathic contact with space aliens.{{cite news |last1=Banias |first1=MJ |title=UFO Conspiracy Theorists Offer ‘Ascension’ From Our Hell World for $333 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/david-wilcock-ufo-conspiracy-theorist-covid-19-deep-state-ascension/ |access-date=May 25, 2025 |work=Vice |date=May 13, 2020}}
Since 2010, Wilcock has run a YouTube channel that hosts his videos. He has regularly appeared on the History Channel program Ancient Aliens.{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Joe |title=UFO convention starts in Joshua Tree |url=https://www.sbsun.com/2014/08/08/ufo-convention-starts-in-joshua-tree/ |access-date=May 25, 2025 |work=San Bernardino Sun |date=August 8, 2014}}
=Aerospace engineering=
As of 2023, Wilcock is the "director of advanced technology" of Stavatti Aerospace.{{cite web |title=Stavatti Aerospace Briefing |url=https://www.stavatti.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/STAVATTI-AEROSPACE-BRIEFING-FEB-2023.pdf |website=stavatti.com |publisher=Stavatti Aerospace |access-date=May 25, 2025}}
Personal life
Wilcock is married and lives in Colorado.
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Category:State University of New York at New Paltz alumni
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