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« on: August 17, 2007, 11:47:54 AM » |
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Renegade UK spy believes he's Son of God
Says psychic channelled spirit of Mary Magdalene, anointed him messiah
David Shayler is sitting before me - slim, tanned, sockless, dressed from top-to-toe in white and very, very chatty.
"I am the messiah and hold the secret of eternal life," he starts excitedly. "It all came about quite suddenly.
"First I started meditating, then I learnt how to channel the "light", and the more research I did - into Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, Kabbalah - the more convinced I became that I was the Christ."
Jesus Christ? "No, Jesus of the New Testament is an archetype," he explains patiently. "His name derives from the 13th Name of God in Kabbalah, which helps activate the Messiah consciousness within us.
"I was, though, crucified with a crown of thorns and nails then incarnated as Astronges, a Jewish revolutionary put to death by the Romans at around the end of the last century BC ...It explained why in this life I had funny shaped wrists and ankles..."
Had? "Yes, look," he says, proffering his tanned arms. "They've pretty much corrected themselves now I've acknowledged the crucifixion - but there used to be big hollows where nails had been bashed in."
The last decade has been a tough one for the former MI5 officer.
Ten years ago this month, he gave a shocking whistle-blowing interview in the Mail on Sunday accusing both MI5 and MI6 of mismanagement and illegal activities and alleging that MI6 had been involved in a failed assassination attempt on the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi.
The story caused a national scandal. David fled to France with his girlfriend, fellow intelligence officer Annie Machon, and finally, after three years in exile and four months in a French jail, returned home in August 2000 to public vilification, threats, a court case, six month jail sentence and a ruined career.
He was bright, unafraid, articulate, angry and, in his decision to breach the Official Secrets Act, either terribly stupid or terribly brave.
Today, he is still bright and articulate and seems terribly well. Until he opens his mouth.
"It was in June that a psychic channelled the spirit of Mary Magdalene and anointed me the messiah and, finally, my whole life made sense.
I realised why I seem to get such a strange deal from the universe, when I've spent my life trying to tell the truth about everything."
He also claims he can affect the weather, prevent terrorist attacks and influence football results. Oh, and that the Rod of Aaron - the staff said to have been carried by Moses's brother - has an anagram written on it in Hebrew which translated says: 'David Shayler, Righteous King'.
"I was decoding it - after all, that's what I was trained to do - and I suddenly realised it goes David S, H, A... and that someone's trying to tell me, because this is the ineffable name of God, someone's trying to tell you you're God..."
And in recent years he's been scratching a living giving talks to conspiracy theorists about the September 11 attacks - last year he was ridiculed for insisting that the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre were brought down by a U.S. Government conspiracy using "missiles surrounded by holograms made to look like planes".
But this is on a whole different scale. It was back in April that he performed what he calls his first and greatest miracle - securing his beloved team Middlesbrough a place in the UEFA Cup Final.
"It was the quarter-final against Basle and we were 3-0 down after the first leg and needed four goals in the second match to win. I sat there, said to the creator, "give me a sign" and meditated - which is tricky at a football match, because every instinct is to abuse the ref and the opposition and, instead you have to shower them with unconditional love. But I managed to focus and we played like we'd never played before, winning 4-0."
He did it again in the semi-final, against Bucharest.
"Again we were 3-0 down, again I meditated and, bang, we won - a real miracle."
So what about the final, when Middlesbrough lost 4-0 to Seville?
"Ah... interesting question," he says, looking sheepish. "I got drunk and it turns out it doesn't work if you're drunk. You can't focus."
After that, he claims the 'creator' informed him that influencing football results - however dear to his heart - was not an appropriate use of the light. So he changed tack.
"On 28 June, I was told I had to remove darkness from London. I wasn't sure what it was all about, but I stayed up all night meditating and, the next morning, I heard a bomb had been found but no one had been hurt. That was my miracle."
I look up sharply, but he is deadly serious. He claims to be under enormous pressure from his 'higher self' to spread the word. "Suddenly I knew that my mission was to inform humanity about the changes in the universe and spread the spiritual rules of unconditional love, unconditional sharing, never judging and having faith in the universe. If I can convince just one person, it'll be worth it.
"It's hard sometimes, when people say things like, "gosh, he sounds quite articulate, but he's totally mad", but the message is too powerful to ignore."
He has certainly been under a lot of other pressure in his life.
On his and Annie's return to the UK in 2000, he was arrested and held in Belmarsh prison for three weeks before being charged with three counts of breaching the Official Secrets Act. In November 2002 after representing himself in court, he received a six-month sentence.
He was released after just seven weeks, but his life was in tatters.
"It was a nightmare. It'd taken enormous courage to go on the record and I'd risked everything for the truth - my family, my girlfriend, my life - and ended up with no job, no future, no money. I was blacklisted by the secret service and no one would employ me."
None of his 1997 allegations have since been proved wrong.
Rather tellingly, he claimed that Britain's spies were unable to deal with the growing threat of global terrorism, that MI5's obsession with bureaucracy and secrecy prevented crucial information being used to stop bombings and that insufficient agents and inept decision-making meant that terrorist groups were not properly monitored.
"At the end of 2004 I tried meditation - I was so desperate, I'd have tried anything - and my life began to change for the better."
Sadly, his 14-year relationship with Annie could not weather the strain. They split last year and, last week she wrote in a newspaper article that he was a changed man, obsessed with Kabbalah, deeply paranoid, had shaved off his hair and eyebrows, spouted wacky theories and shunned family and friends.
David, however, is having none of it.
"She basically told them I'd gone mad, which was very hurtful. Obviously, my mission is to forgive people and channel unconditional love, but it can be bloody hard sometimes, I'm telling you.
"A lot of what she said wasn't true, including - and I'm not just saying this to score points - how our relationship ended. It was me that finished it, not her. All I can say is she's got a lot of soul searching to do."
While he is likeable, well-spoken, beautifully mannered and very clever, it's all very disturbing.
Particularly when he rattles through his past lives - along with Astronges (the crucified Jewish revolutionary) there's also George Washington, Pythagoras, Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mark Antony and Lawrence of Arabia.
And the all-white wardrobe - is that a Kabbalah thing?
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