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- A BRIEF HISTORY OF REVERSE SPEECH
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- For those readers who are new to this entire Reverse Speech
- phenomena, here is a brief history of its discovery and growth over
- the years.
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- Like all new discoveries in the history of humanity, the growth and
- realization of Reverse Speech has been a gradual process. It first
- began back in the late sixties when The Beatles placed hidden
- backward messages onto some of their albums hinting that Paul
- McCartney died.
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- Excited teenagers around the world began to play records backwards
- to find these messages. Before too long other backward messages were
- found that had not been placed deliberately but occurred as a result
- of a reversal of the sounds of speech.
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- The scene was set. A fad started and it wasn't too long before many
- other people claimed to be finding reversed messages (or Backward
- Masking) in recordings.
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- These included TV technicians, sound men AND religious
- fundamentalists. With no explanation for these messages, most wrote
- it off as either imagination or too 'weird' to spend any time on it.
- But not the fundamentalists.
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- They claimed it was the work of the devil possessing the musicians
- and manipulating their voices so that subliminal messages could be
- placed onto rock and roll records so that youth of our society could
- be 'programmed' into the devil's way of thinking.
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- They had a field day for a while, conducting crusades against the
- devil's music together with record burning parties and hate books
- against the entire rock and roll industry.
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- In 1982, their cries reached the US senate and The United States
- House Of Representatives passed 'House Resolution 6363', a bill
- introduced by Robert K. Dornan that called for all records suspected
- of containing Backward Masking to have a warning placed on the front
- cover of the album.
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- Then in November 1983 some bloke from Australia dropped a tape
- player in a toilet bowl. This useless piece of machinery, which now
- played only backwards was promptly thrown in a junk box and
- forgotten about.
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- A few months later this bloke (David Oates) was running a halfway
- house for street kids when one of the youth asked him what he
- thought about "all these Satanic messages" on rock and roll.
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- Being somewhat of an electronics buff with a keen interest in the
- unknown, David retrieved his broken down tape player and began
- experimenting.
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- It wasn't too long that he realized that there really was something
- there. He ran numerous electronic tests and discovered that the
- messages did actually exist and it could be proven electronically
- that they did.
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- His curiosity was aroused and over the next two years playing tape
- recordings backwards became quite a fervent hobby for him. He found
- numerous reversed messages across a wide cross section of
- recordings, ranging from songs to advertisements to political
- speeches to normal conversations.
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- In 1987 he was joined by his life long friend Greg Albrecht and for
- the first few months of '87 they worked furiously to try and unravel
- this mystery.
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- They came up with the theory of "Reverse Speech" and isolated many
- common patterns to this strange new phenomena, at the same time
- compiling a book "Beyond Backward Masking". Then in November '87,
- their book all ready, they officially announced to the Australian
- public that they had discovered another form of human communication
- or "The Seventh Sense".
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- Media interest was intense and their work was featured on numerous
- current affair TV programs, magazines and radio broadcasts.
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- But it was not all an easy road. They were either met with ridicule
- or "Who cares" attitudes. It became obvious to both of them that if
- Reverse Speech was ever going to be accepted then a lot of hard work
- was in front of them.
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- At that stage Greg Albrecht pulled out of the research, his own
- career beginning to suffer, and David continued alone with a fervent
- zeal to understand Reverse Speech more and to have their findings
- accepted and recognized.
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- Things moved fairly rapidly from there. EEG testing indicated that
- the brain responded to, and understood, reversed messages. Reverse
- Speech was used successfully by the Australian police force to solve
- a crime.
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- Well known American linguist and co-founder of the Neuro-Linguistic-
- Programming (NLP) techniques, Dr. John Grinder, endorsed their
- findings at a conference in Sydney and David was offered a job in
- Brisbane to use Reverse Speech in a therapeutic situation. He
- accepted this and began to experiment with Reverse Speech even more,
- refining procedures and theories, and collecting massive amounts of
- information that supported the hypothesis of Reverse Speech.
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- In 1989, the first official research institute for Reverse Speech
- was formed (in association with Martin Stiles and John Suess), David
- was approved for a research grant and the train kept on moving. He
- began to lecture on the topic extensively across Australia,
- conducting training and instigating further research programs.
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- In June 1989, he applied for trademarks, patents and intellectual
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- property rights for Reverse Speech and travelled to the United
- States to lecture on Reverse Speech there. The reception he received
- was overwhelming and, as a result, he moved to Dallas, Texas in
- August 1989 to conduct training, lectures and prepare Reverse Speech
- for its launch onto the world scene.
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- Now, in March 1990, after many frustrating months, Reverse Speech is
- prepared and all ready to go. David has established an international
- organization for the public dissemination of information and set
- strict research standards for its location and analysis.
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- Reverse Speech is on the launching pad, the countdown has started,
- the spectators are in position and the world waits.
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- What will happen? History will tell the tale.
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- Reverse Speech is about to see life.
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- SOME COMMENTS ON REVERSE SPEECH
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- Newsletter for the Australian NLP Society (Dec. '87):
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- "...This may turn out to be discovery that could turn our
- knowledge of languages, and how the mind works with language,
- into a world shaker!"
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- People Magazine (2/1/88):
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- "They can prove they have discovered the seventh sense - a way
- to read people's minds ... It's a totally new area and there
- are no experts, but the influence of this discovery could be
- enormous."
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- Brisbane Sun (March '89):
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- "he makes serious claims to support his theory ... a pioneer in
- linguistic theory ... anyone prone to criticism of the Reverse
- Speech theory would be advised not to have their comments
- recorded."
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- Dallas Times Herald - USA (June '89):
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- "As Oates played some famous speeches you could hear audible
- gasps of recognition in the audience ... Think of the fun
- journalists will have next time a politician says read my
- lips."
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- "I believe that his work is of the highest importance -
- breaking entirely new ground and with significant implications
- for the way we understand and utilize our human capacities for
- communication ... David is single minded and relentless in his
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- pursuit of the field he has developed."
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- Dr. Timothy Pascoe PhD (Cantab.), M.B.A. (Harvard), B.E., B.Ec.
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- "In September 1989, I began a study of reverse speech under
- the direction of Mr. David Oates ... Using Reverse Speech as
- a tool to allow the client to communicate with self can
- significantly reduce the length of client therapy time ...
- Reverse Speech is a major breakthrough in communication ."
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- Dr. Merle McElroy PhD (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)
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- "David Oates brought his genius, skill and determination,
- displayed in his pursuit and development of Reverse Speech,
- to his therapeutic work. With his unique investigative tool,
- David is able to engage the therapeutic patient very rapidly
- and intensely. This can produce rapid change quickly, even in
- chronic situations."
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- John Suess (Founder of Myndslink, Hypnotist # 4, NLP Trainer)
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- "I refer to your request for advice on legal implications of
- reverse speech. I have heard your tapes and am personally
- satisfied that it does clearly exist ... It would seem quite
- clear that it is open to the police to use tapes to search
- for reverse communication which may help them with their
- investigations ... It seems it would have significance to
- finding out information of a sensitive political, military or
- industrial nature ... I think it is such a can of worms that
- it will be dutifully ignored by all and sundry with a desire
- that you will just go away and hide the research."
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- James Rossiter LL.B, B.A., G.D.L.P., Dip.Ed.
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- "Your interpretations of the reverse speech found on the
- television interview with a high ranking corruption suspect
- have paid off ... Armed with this information the
- investigative team was able to identify a geographical
- location to investigate. They found substantial real estate
- property belonging to the suspect which he had earlier denied
- owning ... Congratulations David it works."
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- Michael Wearing (Unison International)
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- "David is at this point entirely satisfied that he has many,
- many examples to demonstrate the phenomena ... The notion
- that language can carry extra secondary and tertiary messages
- as well as the overt manifest content is well know to many of
- you who have studied the works of Dr. Erickson, where double
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- and triple messages are the standard practise in such a
- device."
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- Dr. John Grinder (At the Sydney NLP convention June 1988)
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- "The interest in reverse communication has been growing and
- it is fast becoming known internationally. To this affect I
- have invited David to present his work at the International
- Experiential Psychotherapy Conference to be held in Germany
- in 1990."
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- Yaro Starak (University of Queensland) BA, BSocWk, MSW, AdvDipSW
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- for more information, two groups are available
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- The Society for Reversed Communication Research (Australia)
- The Reverse Speech Education and Research Institute (USA)
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- "Backtalk" is the Reverse Speech newsletter and is available for $26
- per year.
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- You may contact others interested in the study of Reverse Speech by
- writing to :
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- The Editor "Backtalk"
- PO BOX 181862
- Dallas, TX 75218-9998
- USA
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- or call (214) 324-3216
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