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Reverse Speech - Voices From The Unconscious By David John Oates

Ever since the late 60s when the Beatles first experimented with a
recording technique known as backward masking, people have had a
fascination with recordings played backwards. In the late 70s and
early 80s religious fundamentalists preached from the pulpits that
occultic forces were hiding sinister backwards messages in rock and
roll records. In the early 90s their cries reached the US courts
when the rock group Judas Priest was sued by distraught parents
whose teenage sons had suicided whilst listening to their album,
Stained Class. They claimed the album contained subliminal backward
messages that encouraged suicidal behaviour. Judas Priest prevailed
in the case with the court ruling they had not intentionally placed
these messages on the album but the Judge also concluded that the
backward messages did exist.

So what are these backward messages? Do they exist and if so what
do they mean and how are they getting there?

In early 1984, while I was running a halfway house for street kids
in rural South Australia, I first heard about this phenomenon when
I had several frightened teenagers in my office saying they could
hear the voice of devil talking backwards to them on their records.
Naturally I was sceptical, but my curiosity was sufficiently aroused
to explore further. I have always had an interest in electronics
and audio. I was (and still am) a licensed amateur radio operator
with a good ear for sound, so I went home that night, rewired some
audio equipment, and started to play some of the suspect records
backwards fully expecting to hear nothing but gibberish.

Much to my surprise, from the very first record I listened to I
began to hear clear, grammatically correct sentences, mixed amongst
the backward gibberish.

My first thought was the sound track must have been altered but
subsequent tests revealed no manipulation. Suspecting an over active
imagination I asked friends if they could also hear the backward
messages. Most of them could with no prior prompting on my part.
This was indeed most curious.

Over the next few weeks, I had reversed most of my musical collection
finding these backward messages to be prolific, occurring in almost
50% of all the records I looked at. The messages they contained
were not necessarily evil, as the fundamentalists had claimed, but
rather covered a wide range of subjects such as love, politics and
other general topics.

Shortly afterwards, my little hobby took a dramatic turn when I
accidentally stumbled across the phenomenon in normal human speech.
One of the first examples I found in speech was in Neil Armstrongs
famous first words as stepped onto the lunar surface. Forwards he
says, Thats one small step for man, and when this same track is
played backwards, the words Man will space walk can be clearly
heard. Another early example found occurs as a live commentator is
describing the scene in Dallas Texas 1963 when President John F.
Kennedy was shot. Forwards he says, Parkland hospital, there has
been a shooting, Parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for
a severe gun shot wound. When this same track is played backwards
the words, Hes shot bad, hold it! Try and look up, can be clearly
heard.

Suddenly my little hobby had turned into an obsession. I began
taping as many people as often as I could and I found backward
messages to be prolific, many of them as clear as the forward
dialogue, occurring in grammatically correct sentences that often
related to what was being said forward. I searched libraries and
bookshops trying to find any other work on the subject and could
find none. It then became obvious to me that this was a field that
was totally new.

Then in 1987, I was encouraged by my good friend, Greg Albrecht,
to write a book about the topic. Together we worked on the project
and gave the book an initial working title of Beyond Backward
Masking. We complied backward messages from both music and speech
and found many common trends, most principally the fact that these
backward messages usually related to what was spoken forwards. We
found that if a lie was spoken in forward speech, the backwards
speech would often correct that lie and speak the truth instead.

Additionally, we found that if pertinent facts were left out of the
forward speech, the backward speech would often put them in. We
also noted that the backward messages occurred approximately once
every 15-20 seconds of normal relaxed conversation and less often
in a public speech, maybe once every 60-90 seconds. Greg and I
became convinced that we had discovered something extremely
significant. We needed to call it something and explain it in simple
terms.

The answer came to me at 3 oclock in the morning sometime in April
1987 when I work up with a jolt with 2 words burning in my mind.
The words were Reverse Speech. I got up immediately, went to my
computer, and wrote the very first draft of what was later called
The Theory of Reverse Speech and Speech Complementarity.

In short this theory states that the process of spoken communication
is two fold, forwards and backwards. As the human brain is constructing
the sounds of speech, it is putting those sounds together in such
a way that two messages are communicated simultaneously, one forwards
from the conscious mind and the other in reverse from the unconscious
mind.

The theory also stated that Reverse Speech was a communication
process. The backward messages can be received and understood by
the human mind. We know this because many instances of reversed
conversation have been found in Reverse Speech, where questions are
asked and answers subsequently given, all in reverse. Also, EEG
testing that was undertaken in 1988 showed the brain clearly
responding to backward messages.

I later theorised that the existence of Reverse Speech may explain
many aspects of human intuition, why we can often get a gut feeling
when talking to someone that they can or cannot be trusted, or that
there is more to the conversation than they are telling us.
Unconsciously, we are receiving the reversed messages and recognising
the feelings they create in us as human intuition.

We released our book late 1987 with the subtitle of Reverse Speech,
The Voice Of The Inner Mind. Within only a few weeks of its release
we were approached by the Aussie press and did several TV current
affairs programs and dozens of radio interviews. Greg subsequently
went onto other affairs and I continued the research alone. In 1989,
the initial media coverage reached the United States and I was
invited for a lecture tour. It was an outstanding success and I
moved there to live shortly afterwards and stayed for 10 years,
lecturing, teaching and continuously researching this amazing field.
I returned to Australia in late 1999 with several trained Reverse
Speech Analysts continuing the work in the U.S.

Since 1987 my understanding of Reverse Speech has grown considerably
and its practical applications have become very apparent to me.

On the surface level Reverse Speech acts almost like an ultimate
truth detector. Its uses in law enforcement alone are awesome. It
can reveal the guilt or innocence of a suspect. It can reveal the
location of missing evidence and the motives for a crime. Certified
Reverse Speech Practitioner, Jack Johnston in Ashland Oregon, has
been using Reverse Speech in investigative work with several
attorneys. His results have been amazing. In one case, he found
information in reverse that was subsequently verified by DNA testing.
So impressed have the authorities been with Jacks work that Reverse
Speech training has been added to the Oregon Polices training program
as an optional extra in their course of study.

My own personal love of this technology, however, is in the therapeutic
area.

Much of the messages contained in Reverse Speech come from deeper
areas of the human mind. In fact less than 10% of all reversed
language is from the conscious mind. By far the vast majority of
backward messages are coming from either the unconscious mind, or
what Carl Jung coined as the Collective Unconscious. When they come
from these areas they can often reveal information unknown to the
conscious mind. This can prove to be extremely beneficial in working
with psychological or physical illness.

In one case a client who came for Reverse Speech session work to
discover the cause of her asthma, talked forwards about unusual
mould smells in the house.

She had a reversal on this section that said, Under the floor, puss
in my head. We were all puzzled about the meaning of the reversal
until the husband, out of curiosity, looked under the floorboards
of the house only to discover 18 inches of mould growing under the
house. He cleared out the mould and within a couple of weeks the
womans asthma had completely disappeared.

Why did this information appear in reverse even though the conscious
mind did not know? Because the unconscious mind knew. Using traditional
therapy this might have never been discovered.

In another case, when a woman was talking about depression and her
need to get her life in order, a reversal appeared that said Need
more sunlight. The woman subsequently took the curtains down from
her windows, cut down the trees around the windows, and let more
sunlight into her house. Within a couple of weeks, her disposition
had considerably improved and her life began to shine again. The
reversal accessed unconscious information that provided her with a
solution to her problem.

According to my discoveries with Reverse Speech, the unconscious
mind contains a wealth of information. It knows all about us, what
we need, our wants and desires, and often the solutions to many of
our problems. Reverse Speech directly accesses this information and
hence can shorten the therapeutic process by months if not years.

In a case I recently worked on, I found a reversal that said I have
been molested. This was information known to the client but not
told to me. It revealed an event that was extremely important to
the whole therapeutic process. This knowledge was obtained with
just one tape recording and may not have been revealed for a long
time using traditional therapy. Another case had a reversal that
said Hid the bad orphan. This reversal prompted my clients memory
of an event in her childhood where she had been naughty, punished,
and her father had subsequently died of heart attack a few days
later.

Unconsciously she had blamed herself for her fathers death and this
blame was affecting her to this very day. With Reverse Speech we
were able to isolate this event in just one tape recording and make
appropriate corrective measures.

The above are just a few of the 1000s of case studies that I have
in my files.

In my practice as a therapist and hypnotherapist I literally see
miracles unfolding before me as Reverse Speech reveals the amazing
gems contained in the unconscious mind. This makes my work very
effective and extremely rewarding. Every day I am eternally grateful
for my discovery of this magnificent phenomenon.

In recent years, I have taken Reverse Speech one step further than
this by developing a technique that is very effective in changing
human behaviour.

A significant proportion of speech reversals speak in metaphoric
language, using phrases such as The wolf has fallen in the lake,
or My goddess has a spear in her heart. At first the meaning of
these phrases were a mystery to me but as the years of research
passed I began to notice a trend with these metaphors. For example,
every time someone used the word wolf in reverse, they were usually
talking forward about motivation or the desire to get ahead. The
word Goddess often occurred when someone was talking forward about
hope for the future, and lake frequently occurred when they were
talking forwards about emotions.

As time went on I discovered that many of these words were universal
in their meaning from person to person and even (as I began to train
bi-lingual students) from culture to culture. I started to compile
a reverse speech metaphor dictionary which today has more than 2,000
references documented of common metaphors that occur in reverse
speech.

Of even more significance I discovered that not only were these
metaphors Universal in their meanings but they also represented,
and even caused, certain aspects of human behaviour. I theorised
that at the deepest levels of the human psyche the human mind thought
in pictures or metaphor. When I was working with clients who used
metaphors that were not conducive to their behavioural outcomes, I
wondered if it was possible to change the metaphor, hence the
behaviour.

Thus was born a brand new therapeutic technique that I entitled
Metaphor Restructuring. It went something like this.

First I would conduct a reverse speech session with my client and
find the metaphors they were running. In a subsequent session I
would ask my client how could these metaphors be changed to achieve
their desired behavioural outcomes. Much to my amazement, speech
reversals would come back that would tell me exactly what to do.
For example, the man whose wolf had fallen into the lake might
produce a reversal that said Give the wolf a stick and pull him
out. I would then place my client in a light meditative state and
ask him to visualise the wolf in the lake. Then, following the
instructions contained in the follow up tape, I would ask my client
to take the wolf out the lake. I called this metaphoric journey a
Metawalk.

The results I obtained were amazing. Firstly the client experiences
a very vivid metaphoric journey. Many times they would see the
images before I suggested them. For a few days following the Metawalk,
they would experience a sense of relief and lightness of mood. This
mood would then gradually fade and 2-3 weeks later the real changes
would begin. They seemed to start deep down inside and gradually
grew in intensity until the behaviour they were seeking to change
had almost completely vanished.

Thus I had developed a very powerful technique that was completely
free of operator bias. It used the unconscious mind itself to both
show us what was wrong and also how to rectify the problem.

This is where the research now stands after almost 20 years of work.
Reverse Speech is an awesome discovery that has the potential to
revolutionize our understanding of how the human mind works, and
possibly bring society into an age of truth and awareness. I am now
looking for enthusiastic people with vision and courage who can
learn these techniques and take them out to the world. You can also
experience this process for yourself with our special introductory
offer of a 5 minute recording for $49. To arrange a five minute
recording email David Oates
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further information you can contact our offices in Adelaide Australia
at (08) 8382-4372 (International 61 8 8382-4372) or visit the website
(which contains 1000s of examples of speech reversals) at
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