HEAVEN'S GATE AND SAN DIEGO'S SIGN MAN
"You won't even be able to fool yourself"

Date: Sat, Jun 21, 1997
From: density4@cts.com (Blue Resonant Human)

HEAVEN'S GATE AND SAN DIEGO'S "SIGN MAN"
by Blue Resonant Human, Ph.D.
 

...read the large sign proudly displayed to all passersby. What a delightfully surprising and pleasantly synchronistic encounter with San Diego's legendary Sign Man, David Wilcox, we happened to chance upon today -- for there he sat on his makeshift stool in the dirt strip which crept boldly up to the dangerous asphalt of the busy Miramar street of Mira Mesa Blvd.

This was simply too good to pass up.

We parked our truck at the gas station across the street and made our way over to the enigmatic gentleman, sitting down in the dirt next to him; whittling away our lunch break while sipping from the well of refreshingly Strange Water he offered:

"I bought an old black leather recliner from the Salvation Army, then took it home and fell asleep on it. Problem was, it was full of black widow spiders. I got 18 bites. Went to the VA and they misdiagnosed me. Later I died.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a giant party where everyone has parked their cars in a huge parking lot at the foot of the hill. You think they won't invite you in so you go around and slash all the tires in the lot. Then you go up the hill and knock on the door and when they open it up and you are blown away by all the bright lights and stuff, they just pull you right in, sit you down and give you a glass of wine.

"They know what you did to their cars. In fact, EVERYONE knows EVERYTHING -- there are no more secrets. You see EVERYTHING in panoramic vision and everyone knows everything that everyone has ever done; all the ripples and far-reaching effects of all that was ever done are in plain sight for all to see. You won't be able to fool anyone any longer. In fact...

"YOU WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO FOOL YOURSELF.

"Yes, they know what you did to their cars but they smile and invite you in anyway. And when they give you that glass of wine, you want to sit there and enjoy it with them but you can't because you feel too guilty. They do not judge you at all -- you judge yourself. You are perfectly welcome to stay if you like.

"That is what the Kingdom of Heaven is like."

Since that time -- for the past 13 years -- Mr. Wilcox (now 46) has faithfully kept his vigil, sitting at busy San Diego intersections from 6 or seven in the morning to 9:30 or 10 at night, displaying thought-provoking signs intended to provide food for thought to hungry passing motorists. "Here in California, people do their deepest thinking when they drive," he remarks thoughtfully.

Some of his other signs have poignantly questioned:
 

  • Why Do You Dump No Hope On Your Kids?
  • Why Should I Ask All Your Questions?
  • Who is Raising Your Children?
  • Never Trust Loyalty to a Bully
  • If You Think Without Question, Will You Not Be Lied To?
  • Hold Your Own Leash
  • See With Your Ears
  • Answer Your Mother -- Have You Got No Respect?
  • Dr. Seuss for President


    • A native San Diegan and Vietnam vet who has attended Southwest College and SDSU, he is surprisingly articulate and refreshingly iconoclastic, choosing, as our Beloved Fox Mulder, to trust no one -- keeping everything he owns in an army green duffel bag and sleeping anywhere there are no No Trespassing signs.

    When asked where he's from, the reply is often, "I'm from the 60's" and queries about any conceivable head injuries incurred during the war have been known to elicit the odd reply, "I am not a veteran. I am not a woman either."

    "Some people ride by and do this," he said, twirling his index finger around his temple. Those people, he figures, especially need his message. "Before you can believe in anything, you have to stop being a jerk."

    "You've got to watch out for the bad boys. They'll mess with you no matter how broad the daylight or how heavy the traffic." Bad boys hate his questions. "One time this bad boy in a purple 'Vette started screaming at me 'Get a job,' and threw a beer can at me. Then his foot slipped off the clutch and he rammed into a Jeep."

    There are, of course, many analogues to his metaphor. Yet we were most perplexed by his elusive avoidance of our questions regarding the space aliens. We were not even going to bring this up initially yet his mention of "creatures from distant galaxies" in the context of his purported NDE caused a light bulb to fire in the deep recesses of our highly inquisitive noggin.

    Three times we asked specifically if he'd encountered any of the Clever Strieberian Space Aliens while OOB yet each attempt was met with only tactically vague remarks. Finally, a most pointed and earnest question; "Did you see any space aliens when you were dead?" caused him to reply almost guardedly that he would not say that he had not seen them, but that God was God of ALL creatures everywhere.

    .:oOo:.

    SPECIAL REPORT: MASS SUICIDE

    Cult Members Sought Out the "Sign Man"
    by Harry Brooks, North County Times

    Heaven's Gate members apparently felt a bond of exotic spiritual eccenctricity with wanderer Dave Wilcox, whose often seen around North County displaying signs with moral or advisory messages about human conduct.

    But after talking with him daily in December and early January, they must have realized his views were far different than theirs, Wilcox said. In fact, his outlook on human life and the future is nearly opposite of that espoused by Heaven's Gate.

    "They didn't try to recruit me," Wilcox said after spending a typical 12-hour day displaying signs along Via Rancho Parkway in Escondido. "They were asking me questions and I noticed that I had a similar belief that real wealth wasn't in the world."

    To better underline their concepts, Heaven's Gate members gave Wilcox reading material, including the cult's "1995 Statement By An E.T. Presently Incarnate," updated in May 1996, and a three-page document titled: "Crew From the Evolutionary Level Above Human Offers Last Chance to Advance Beyond Human."

    Wilcox reviewd the written materials Friday, noting the fatalistic portions, along with the repeated references to the tainted, soul- inhibiting existence of being trapped in a human body and society. The cult members, however, never indicated a natural occurrence, like the passage of the Hale-Bopp comet, would trigger any drastic action.

    Pointing to the section No. 9 in the cult's updated statement of "exposure and disclosure," Wilcox said, "I think this is the reason they talked to me so much."

    The section reads: "Humans with deposits containing souls can likely be identified at this time as some of those who are rapidly losing respect for this world or it's 'systems.' They are likely, from the establishment's point of view, being irresponsible or antisocial, and will be seen by the world as duped, crazy, a cult member, a drifter, a loner, a dropout, a separatist, etc."

    Wilcox, 46, has focused the past 13 years on exhibiting his messages in painted displays at more than 120 street corners, he said.

    Wilcox said he talks of personal responsibility and independence when approached by those attracted by his signs.

    "That's what reeally made me sad when I heard what happened," he said about the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate members. "They allowed themselves to be led. Strength comes from being out from under the wing of those trying to control you."

    One of Wilcox's signs advises, "Hold Your Own Leash." It was among those he displayed when talking with Heaven's Gate members on Manchester Avenue, near Mira Costa College's San Elijo campus several months ago.

    "They were looking for God but never found God," said Wilcox, who recalled throwing off a mainstream lifestyle when he received his spiritual calling in 1984. "If they found God, they would have been told to go back and help the weak."

    Instead, cult members talked about "Luciferian space races that are humans' greatest enemy, holding humans in unknown slavery only to fulfill their own desires," said Wilcox, quoting a passage in the materials he received from cult members.

    "What they really were looking for was safety and acceptance of direction by someone else," he said. And they fell under the wing of abuse."

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