Reverse Speech Going Strong: 17 Years After The Infamous Judas Priest Trial in Reno
Many of the Generation-Next people won’t remember that in Reno nearly 17 years ago the families of two teenagers who committed suicide became the first to sue over alleged subliminal messages in Judas Priest’s lyrics. “It was the first time there had been a judicial determination of whether subliminal messages were or were not protected speech under the First Amendment,” former Washoe District Judge Jerry Whitehead said,” after he ruled that there was no conclusive evidence of subliminal messages. Actually, people were getting “backmasking” (intentional messages) mixed up with Reversed Speech (non-intentional messages). There was also a whole lot of controversy over backmasking messages in Stairway To Heaven by Led Zepplin, which Oates addresses here.
Most Reno-ites don’t remember that David Oates, the Australian guy who founded Reverse Speech after he accidentally dropped a tape recorder into the toilet and began reversing audio, visited Reno at that time and did interview after interview trying to educate the public that subliminal messages do occur in song and in speech. Well, David Oates is still going strong and is teaching RS to students in Australia these days. He has written several books.
Oates has competition coming out of Canada, though, from Jon Kelly of Your Inner Voice.com, an ex-student of Oates, who also regularly posts his reversals on his website and plays them on the radio. Oates used to be a regular on Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast” late night radio talk show back in the late ’90s until there was a feud and a lawsuit between them. Art Bell is still on the radio and is reportedly “looking for a new RS expert” for his show.
Most recently, Oates seems to have enraged televangelists with one of his videos, most especially Rev. Robert Tilton, whose lawyers forced Oates to remove it from You Tube. You can see that video here on Oates site and it’s one really worth seeing if you favor televangelist jokes. Here is the obligatory RS video; of Anna Nicole Smith drunk at the Oscars.
Oates has used his Reverse Speech technology to try to solve such crimes as the Jon Benet Ramsey and Natalie Holloway mysteries. Oates’ site states about Reverse Speech, “It has been called the discovery of the 7th sense….If human speech is recorded and played backwards, mixed amongst the gibberish at regular intervals can be heard very clear statements. These statements usually appear in short sentence form and are nearly always related to the forward speech. It appears constantly throughout language, so much so in fact, that it is believed to be a natural part of our speech processes. ”
Of course, Reverse Speech is not without it’s critics. Here is what one sound studio engineer has to say about it:
Reverse editing in relation to studio engineering:
~if you play alot of tape in reverse you will develop ‘an ear’ for recognizing “words”
~if you listen to enough ‘white noise’ you will begin to hear “words”
~reverse audio: power of suggestion~ if you suggest a “word” that is close enough to the sound, others will hear it upon repeated listen
~reverse vocals have a ’sucking in’ (breath of air) quality
~most words have a ’sharp attack’ and decay out. In reverse the decay part rises out of the noise (sucking sound)
~most people not used to hearing decay of sound first, unable to recognize “words”
Reverse Speech remains a fascinating phenomenon. As a convinced former RS student, I like to think of Reverse Speech as a form of “mental post-it notes.” For those wishing to delve deeper and see what may lie within your own reversals, Jon Kelly of Your Inner Voice.com offers a free voice analysis to get you started. He has posted one of Yours Truly’s reversals on his site here. (”The Deva Healer”) Both Kelly and Oates claim that from the deeper levels of the subconscious, there will occur metaphoric language, all of which has the power to lead us to our own hidden truth and secret messages. You can find a multitude of videos at You Tube on Reverse Speech here.
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I don’t truly buy into the reverse speach thing, but I was particularly interested in the televangelists video, especially Billy Graham.
While it’s not a core science like EVP or remote viewing, I think there’s still something there.
Yikes, its just creepy listening to the voices in reverse. Reminds me of the Exorcist.
How is EVP and remote viewing a “core science”? Because Hollywood made a movie about it?
RS is not listed in all the usual lists of paranormal phenomena, such as at about.com, and in Wikipedia. That is probably what Johnny meant by core [paranormal] sciences.
Some people think that RS is actually a form of psychokinesis - in which the RS listener transfers his subconscious thoughts onto the recording tape.
Actually, I was joking; riffing on the Art Bell reference.
The idea of an expert anything on Coast to Coast is a joke. Unless it’s someone talking about the extensive mining operations we have had on the moon since the 1960s. Then, it’s science.
Oates’ stuff is just plain nuts.
I had brief dialogue with him on this, during the soap opera he had going on with Art Bell, and none of it rang true. Plus, Bell himself promoted this at first only because it was entertainment.
Junk science.
BTW, remote viewing is legitimate.
Check out the beginning of my series of articles (re: its history) at:
http://www.realityuncovered.com
Ingo Swann was a nut. He “remote-viewed” the dark-side of the moon and saw:
…”towers, machinery, lights of different colors, strange-looking buildings. Bridges, a lot of domes, things like saucers with windows … stored next to crater sides, sometimes in caves, sometimes in what looked like airfield hangars. Long, tube-like things, machinery, tractor-like things going up and down hills, straight roads extending some miles, obelisks which had no apparent function … large platforms on domes, large cross-like structures.” His mind was boggled at the sight of lights and activity on the Moon’s dark side - rows of tall stadium-like light stands providing a greenish illumination, large structures, big as a 40-story building, and naked workers.
“I saw some kind of people busy at work on something I could not figure out. The place was dark. The ‘air’ was filled with a fine dust, and there was some kind of illumination - like a dark lime-green fog or mist. The thing about them was that they either were human or looked exactly like us, but they were all males as I could well see, since they were all butt-ass naked. I had absolutely no idea why. They seemed to be digging into a hillside or a cliff,” Swann recalled.
Only George Noory would buy that as science. Maybe Major Ed Dames…
Funny. I remember hearing about this case on TV, I think. I may have been 12 or 13 at the time. No idea it was in Reno. Didn’t they sue because backwards it said “Do it. Do it. Do it.” Funny to think that anybody today could actually say “Go ahead and kill yourself,” and it wouldn’t even go to trial. Funnier: Anybody actually thought that Rob Halford was straight. He looks like some bathhouse fascist holed up in some filthy basement bunker. Also, it’s a shame about Judas.
Take me out, Mr. Dylan…”Well, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest…”
Johnny, I’m aware of that Swann
“report” (it’s from some expensive book, hard to get). If all that
activity is in some artificially
created “dome” (or something like that), then who knows? Let’s just say that it wouldn’t be prudent to take a naked stroll on the moon’s
surface (without an artificial form of protection and artificial atmosphere).
Ed Dames is a joke. Everyone knows that. Remote viewing itself
is not a joke. There’s a twenty year history that is more and more available to the public as stuff gets declassified. Already, there are tons of declassified documents on this previously covert DIA effort.
I wasn’t aware that the Natalie Holloway mystery was solved. Go figure. Well, Mike, as long as you don’t start quoting Richard C. Hoagland, you’re probably okay.
Oh, mentioning Hoagie just makes me want to scream. Or, laugh like a hyena.
I laugh like a small child on whippets whenever I hear George Noory say Hoagland is his “science advisor.” He needs to be chloroformed and driven out to some junior college in the mountains and given forced tenure.
kooks