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Oct. 4, 1996 - Art Bell
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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Reverse Speech - David John Oates
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This is the CBC Radio Network.
art bell
It certainly is.
Good morning, everybody.
We'll turn now from the very serious to the lighter.
Or is it still the serious?
That's for you to decide.
It certainly is fascinating.
My guest coming up is David John Oates, the subject, Reverse Speech.
And believe me, you've never heard anything like it.
It is absolutely incredible.
We had David on several weeks ago, and we'll let him tell you what happened.
All right, I have the bio of David John Oates, but I've got something better.
I've got a letter from somebody he knows, and he has no idea.
I'm going to read this, but I'm going to read it.
Art, I've had the privilege of being a private client of David John Oates since September 26, 1995.
I was referred to David by my former osteopath who sensed I had some major unconscious blocks to my healing.
I was poisoned from ingesting contaminated and a certain contaminated drug in January of 1990, and my life has been a downward spiral of constant pain, illness, abandonment, medical bills, insurance hassles, maltreatment from dozens of various professionals in the medical field since such time.
This brief background of my life circumstance is what led me to open my mind to work with David at an unconscious level.
After reading the cover story article on David John Oates in a holistic newspaper last September, I went to hear a lecture he gave in San Diego, when intending to only briefly stay as my pain level is such it makes sitting for extended periods hard.
However, I sat mesmerized in my chair for the entire three hours, and at the insistence of the awestruck, eager crowd, David generously gave us an extra hour of his time and expertise.
From the first moment I saw David and heard his genius discovery of reverse speech, I knew I was destined to work with him.
Aren't I been seen by some of the big-name doctors at prominent research facilities up and down the West Coast?
Not one of them had given me any hope for healing from my life of pain and misery.
David, on the other hand, has given me genuine hope for a pain-free life by working with me on an intimate, deep, unconscious level.
David has demonstrated extraordinarily high integrity in working with me and has never quit on me when many others had, despite the fact that his discovery of reverse speech is of Nobel Prize caliber.
David remains a humble, approachable man of great character and depth.
I feel honored to work so closely with David.
I commend you, Art, for hosting David on your prominent radio show so he can spread his amazing technology throughout the world.
Reverse speech reveals the truth, and the ramifications of David's monumental discovery can be used for tremendous good in the world.
On a personal note, I'm overjoyed to report that I'm finally beginning to heal myself of things experts deemed incurable.
David John Oates, remarkable man and gifted therapist, deserves all the credit for this miracle.
That's from Cassandra in San Diego.
David John Oates is the founder and developer of reverse speech technologies.
He proposes a theory that language, ours, all language, is twofold, forward and reverse.
By analyzing speech in reverse, the newly discovered voices of the unconscious may easily be heard by a trained ear, and in many cases, an untrained ear.
David is a popular guest on radio and TV, including CNN's Larry King show, Extra, and Strange Universe.
And he conducts student training in reverse speech.
And if you have never heard it, prepare to have your mind blown.
This is going to be a real experience for you.
Here is David John Oates.
And David has a speech impediment.
And this, by the way, which we discussed on the last show, is what led him logically into a study of speech.
And that's how all this really began, is it not, David?
david john oates
That is correct, Art.
Yeah.
I've had a speech study since I, well, since my early teenage years.
And actually, when I was in high school, I could barely get two words out.
And I can actually recall when I was in first year high school, I stood up to ask a question of my teacher at the time, and I could barely speak.
And he said to me, David, would you sit down and don't talk to me again until you can speak correctly?
art bell
Oh my.
david john oates
And that ruined my entire high school years.
I never asked another question again, and I eventually left high school without graduating.
art bell
Oh, that must have been awful.
Oh, that's awful.
david john oates
That was disgusting.
That really ruined me.
And it's been a long battle ever since then to climb up out of that statement.
And, you know, we forget the power of our words.
You know, what we say to people, both forwards and backwards now, as my discovery shows, has the ability to help us or to hurt us severely.
And yeah, so I'd just like to make that comment before I start.
art bell
All right, well, how in the world, I am curious, how in the world did you get an interest or even discover the concept of reverse speech?
david john oates
Well, it's quite a simple story, really.
I was running a halfway house for street kids in Australia in the Outback, and this was back in 83.
And we had an evangelist from the United States travelling through, and he was preaching that rock and roll is the devil's music, and if you play records backwards, you could hear satanic messages.
art bell
Backmasking.
david john oates
Backmasking, that's correct.
And I had some of my kids were playing these records backwards, and they came to my office claiming that they could hear demons speaking to them.
My initial reaction was anger.
I was really upset at this evangelist for preaching such rubbish to the kids.
And I went home that night to rewire a tape player to prove that all this was a load of rubbish.
I mean, how can you play speech backwards or music backwards and hear stuff?
unidentified
Sure.
david john oates
And, you know, I'm sure all of us had that same thought.
And, however, I've got a fairly good ear for audio.
I'm an amateur radio operator and been fiddling around with electronic for most of my life.
And I put a tape in the tape player and ran it back.
And much to my shock, I heard what I thought was the very clear message.
And there was no superimposed soundtrack.
And what was happening was the backward phrase was occurring purely by the way the forward phrase was put together.
In other words, by the way the phonetics and the syllables were sung forwards, was sung in such a peculiar fashion that it caused a complete intelligent sentence backwards.
art bell
That is very interesting.
In other words, that was real backmasking, or is it real backmasking in the sense that it was not actually played backwards?
There have been a number of groups, I think.
The Beatles did it, didn't they?
david john oates
Oh, yeah, they did it quite intensely with their whole Paul is dead controversy.
They hid messages in that hinted Paul had died, and it was really just a marketing gimmick.
There's actually two different types of backmasking, and the two get confused.
art bell
One is intentional and one is not intentional.
There you are.
david john oates
Yeah, and that's just caused by the way the words are spoken or sung at the time.
And religious fundamentals got a hold of this, and they heard these messages, and they were saying, oh, well, gee, how can this get there?
And the only possible explanation is the singers are demon-possessed.
art bell
Therein lies a question.
When you're talking about music, David, would the backmasking be the person who wrote the song or the person who sings it?
david john oates
Oh, what an interesting question.
You know, I don't totally have the answer to that question.
I actually moved out of music into speech.
It was a whole bunch more simpler.
Well, my general answer is it's to do with the entire creative processes around the actual writing of the song.
I think it's with the artist and the tune combined.
I've did numerous tests on this, and for example, A Stairway to Heaven.
I looked at several different versions of Stairway to Heaven by different artists and different tunes.
And sometimes I would find exactly the same reversal from artist to artist, and other times I wouldn't.
I think in the original creation process, it comes from the artist who writes the song.
But as other artists sing it, their own thoughts influence their singing style and hence the reverse phrases.
art bell
Fascinating.
And we need to get into a little bit of when there is reverse speech.
As you listen, first of all, I guess everybody ought to know, you don't mess with it.
You don't add echo or manipulate what you're doing.
You're simply taking regular speech and at the same speed.
david john oates
Literally running it backwards.
art bell
Literally running it backwards.
david john oates
And in point of fact, if I was to process the sound, I actually tend to lose the reversals.
art bell
Is that right?
david john oates
Any attempt to process or compress the sound actually clips the top of the reversals off because they're actually occurring in the high tones of speech.
And processing clips the top of the wave and you lose it.
art bell
Well, what I found absolutely fascinating that we hit on in the last show, when you're listening to reverse speech, you'll go along and you'll hear a lot of mumbo-jumbo that doesn't mean anything.
When you get to a reverse speech item that really is reverse speech, there's a kind of a...
How did you describe it last time?
It's sort of a...
david john oates
There's a distinct tonal shift is the words I generally use.
The gibbridge has a monotone tone to it.
Then there's a split-second gap just before the reversal occurs, and the tonality shifts very dramatically.
And it takes on this sing-song melodious tone for the entire duration of the reversal.
And then when the reversal finishes, the gibbridge slots back to the normal monotone tone.
And because when I'm teaching my classes, that's one of the very first things I teach my students to look for, is what to that tonal shift.
And you can feel it, too.
unidentified
You can actually, you can feel it on a fairly deep level.
david john oates
And a lot of my students will know there's reversal there simply by the shifting tonality, but still not yet had their ears trained enough yet to pull out what that reversal means.
art bell
In the last program we did, I began to hear that.
And when you said that, it was like a light bulb going off.
Yeah, right.
It is different.
As you listen through reverse speech.
It's totally different.
All of a sudden, boom, it jumps out at you.
And okay, the audience should now know that reverse speech reveals not what you're consciously thinking necessarily, but what you're unconsciously thinking.
And David, you've said in reverse speech, if a person in Forward has told the truth, reverse speech, when you find it, will tend to confirm that truth.
But if they have lied, it will reveal the lie.
david john oates
Correct.
My belief is the human psyche was made and born to be honest and truthful and integral.
And over the eons and centuries, we have slipped further and further away from honesty and that basic truth with a capital T. Well, then there ought to be a lot of material for you.
unidentified
There's a lot of material for me.
david john oates
Yes, there is.
And it's interesting that, you know, the more the one of the things I teach my analysts, you know, when they're interviewing people, sometimes, you know, there's a tendency on my analyst to push them to tell the truth.
And then I say, no, don't.
Let them lie as much as they like.
art bell
Let them go because you'll be able to.
So really, you help out therapists.
Are you a therapist?
david john oates
Yes, I've been in therapy for 10 years.
I'm a certified hypnotherapist.
I'm also an NLP master practitioner.
So they're the qualifications I run by.
I have a fairly large practice in San Diego.
I was shocked you read that letter.
You really took me by surprise.
I'll have to ring up Cassandra tomorrow and speak to her about that.
art bell
Well, I thought it was a nice testimonial.
david john oates
It was very nice.
And in point of fact, my client files are full of testimonials very similar to that.
Reverse speech is an extremely very powerful tool for accessing the unconscious mind.
One of the problems facing traditional therapy is to actually get to the source of the problem.
Therapists can take years and years to reach that source if they ever do.
And reverse speech goes right to it in the first tape recording.
I will see a client, the very first thing I'll do is I will tape them.
And in that one half an hour tape, I will get the precise reasons and causes for that person's psychosis or whatever issue they're working on.
In addition to that, on the deepest level, reverse speech actually accesses what I call the core structures of the unconscious mind.
art bell
So then how do you come at a patient?
Do you do it in the traditional way in forward speech and just let them say their thing?
Or do you have questions that are angled a little differently?
david john oates
Yeah, I've developed my own questioning technique.
There's certain key words that will prompt certain key reversals to occur.
There's certain tonal shifts that I move into to elicit reversals.
And I've learnt these over the years.
The fact is, I mean, if anyone talks, speech reversals will occur.
I mean, that they're given because it's the natural function of language.
But you can learn to specifically enhance or direct what reversals you want.
And so in therapy, I have a very specific questioning style, and I actually spend three weekends in my training class teaching people how to do it.
art bell
So do you think the day will come in America or the world when reverse speech will be court admissible?
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
david john oates
And in point of fact, there has already been a precedent set which sets for this, and that was in the Judas Priest trial in Rena, Nevada.
One of the rulings of the judge was that these phrases did exist, but there was no evidence put forward to suggest it was caused by anything else other than coincidence, and also there was no evidence put forward to suggest that it was sublimely suggestive.
So the precedent has already been set, and I'm just waiting for a trial case.
art bell
Well, how would one attempt to validate as a science reverse speech?
Would you use a lie detector, for example?
david john oates
Well, that would be one way to go about it.
To verify.
Well, there's many different ways that you could do.
I would suggest for starts and trial tests with lie detectors to look at the reading of the lie detector compared to the analysis of reverse speech.
Blind tests are also a very good way to go about it.
I will frequently do this.
I will put 10 or 15 reversals down on tape without a script or a transcript and I'll apply it to three different groups of people.
And one group I'll say, this is what the reversal says.
Another group I will give them a control phrase.
I'll say the reversal says this when it actually doesn't.
And another group I'll ask them what to hear.
And normally without failure, the group one will hear the phrase, group two will not hear the phrase, and group three will get a word here and there.
art bell
I have a special request for you.
david john oates
Yes.
art bell
And that is, it comes from several listeners.
We're about, after the bottom of the hour, to get into some incredible examples of reverse speech, but the big first debate is coming this Sunday.
And I've had many, many people fax me already and say, be sure David records the full debate.
david john oates
I have every intention of doing that.
In point of fact, I did have a camping trip scheduled for my family this weekend, and much to my daughter's dismay, I canceled the trip to get ready for the debate.
unidentified
And I'll put that up on my website.
That's what I'll do.
david john oates
I'll put the entire transcript on there plus the reversal.
art bell
Do you know, like, the candidates don't have enough to worry about already?
Now they've got David John Oates on their back.
All right, wonderful.
David, we're going to take a break here at the bottom of the air.
And when we come back, if you would crank out a couple of examples that we had on the last show to get them started, maybe Neil Armstrong.
david john oates
Sure.
art bell
That was a great question.
All right, good.
Coming up right after the break, my guest is David John Oates.
I'm Art Bell.
This is CBC.
Back now to David John Holtz.
And David, tell me before we get started, since the first time you were on my program, what's happened?
Quite a lot.
david john oates
I've pretty much been inundated with phone calls.
Well, first of all, from the press.
I've been on extra TV.
I was on there last night.
And we have also filmed a major special on the speak that will air on October 30th.
I mean, now I'm pasted by hard copy.
I'm flying up to Seattle, Washington at the end of the month to do a TV promo an hour special up there on KOMO.
art bell
That's my affiliate in Seattle.
Ah, well, thank you very much.
My goodness, you've been busy.
david john oates
Extremely busy.
My phone line hasn't stopped ringing.
It's just been going non-stop.
I've been waiting 13 years for this.
I've been working very, very, very hard.
I put in probably 100 hours every week on this.
And it's a great joy for me to finally see my technology getting out there.
My book is in the printers now, so it's on its final print, so it'll be out in two weeks.
And my technology is being launched.
art bell
All right.
The audience ought to know the following, and that is that all reverse speech is not necessarily easy for the average person to hear.
And the analogy I gave last time was I worked as a 911 operator in Monterey County for about a year, which was an incredible job.
And one was required for a period of weeks to simply sit, not do the job, just listen so that you could learn how to hear things simultaneously.
It was really a hard thing to do for me and for anybody who tries it.
And so you hear reverse speech that we don't.
After the last program, I asked you to sit down with some people who had the common ear and the untrained ear and sort of note those reverse speech items which lit the light bulb for the average person, which is what we would use here on the air.
david john oates
Right.
art bell
Now, we began the last show with Neil Armstrong, I believe.
david john oates
I think that was the first one I played.
I really can't recall, but it tends to be the first one I played because it was one of the very first reversals in speech I heard myself.
So it's one of my favorites.
art bell
All right, well, I can understand why.
And by the way, coming more on Bill Clinton tonight, and I understand you have a couple of reversals on me.
david john oates
I do indeed, Art.
You are an interesting chap.
The people out there will get to hear what you're really thinking.
art bell
All right, let's do Neil Armstrong, and everybody's going to be hearing this first in the forward direction.
david john oates
Correct.
art bell
And then in reverse, and then so they can hear it properly, I think, three different speeds of reverse.
First the normal and then one.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
And then what do you do?
david john oates
Well, I'll run it forwards first, and I'll back it to three speeds.
And then probably what I'll do, I'll play it forwards and backwards and forwards and backwards successively so you can just hear how it's constructed.
art bell
All right, let's give it a try with Neil Armstrong, that famous sentence.
david john oates
Okay, here we go forwards first.
unidentified
That's one small step for man.
One family for man.
david john oates
Okay, now I'll run it backwards at three speeds, and backwards he says, man will spacewalk.
unidentified
Here we go.
Man, it was painful.
Man, it was painful.
Man, it was painful.
david john oates
And what I'll do now is I'll run it forwards, backwards, forwards, forwards, backwards, and the speech reversal, man will spacewalk, has been formed entirely by the way he said his forward speech sound.
art bell
Alright.
david john oates
So here it is, forwards and reverse twice.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
That's one small step for man, and I have a flat wall.
That's one small step for man, and I have a flat wall.
art bell
Okay, and that is so clear.
david john oates
Yeah, extremely clear.
And that is the thought that he had as he stepped onto the moon.
Man will continue to walk into space.
We will space walk.
art bell
Oh, that's incredible.
Absolutely incredible.
david john oates
And it's a very significant example, too, because Neil Armstrong actually had prepared lines.
He was supposed to say that's one small step for a man.
And he left out the A and said that's one small step for man instead.
Now, had he said his lines correct, the speech reversal would not have occurred.
And part of my theory is that just before we are speaking, the brain structures the sounds of speech in such a way that these two messages can be communicated simultaneously.
art bell
Tell me something, David.
Can you sometimes tell listening, are you trained well enough that you can tell listening in forward speech when a reversal has occurred?
Are you getting good at that?
david john oates
Yes, pretty much.
There's certain key factors where reversals will occur.
Pauses and stutters, a sudden change in topics, an unusual tonal shift.
Someone will go up in tone or down in tone.
It's fairly, you know, once you get to know this phenomenon, it's fairly easy to tell where they can occur.
art bell
Let me get this question out of the way because otherwise a lot of fax paper will get wasted with people trying to ask it.
Please ask David if he's worked with any other languages other than English.
If your theory, or David's, holds true about truth versus lies by listening to reverse speech, it should not be bound by language.
david john oates
Correct.
That is quite correct.
It does occur across the board no matter what language is being spoken in.
I'm currently training a student from Germany, and she's flown out from Germany just to take my course.
And what it appears to be is the language in which we are thinking in at the time of speaking is where the reversals occur.
So if she's speaking in English but thinking in German and translating in her mind, you get a German reversal.
You get a German reversal.
art bell
Oh my.
unidentified
Yeah.
david john oates
And it gets even more complex too because sometimes with split languages, you'll get it half in English and half in German.
She's over in Germany lecturing right now and just getting overwhelming interest.
And she actually tells me that the German reversals on German-speaking people are actually clearer than the forward speech, which is quite fascinating.
And I'm waiting for her to come back so I can look at the tapes that she's gathered.
art bell
It is interesting.
Well, for tonight's visit, we're going to concentrate on English because this is a hard enough concept for a lot of people to grasp, even in English.
david john oates
Correct.
art bell
But we'll keep it in English.
Now, the next thing that I, sort of return visit I want to pay is, you determined that children, babies, babies speak in reverse before they speak in forwards.
david john oates
That is correct.
It was one of my very first questions when I wrote my theory back in 1987 was if this is a natural function of language, when does it begin?
Are we born with it or does it develop naturally?
And since then I've done quite a lot of tests on children and it would appear as a reverse language begins between three and four months of age.
It progresses in the normal forward fashion, like well forward language will commence 12, 13, 14 months depending on the child.
But in reverse it starts with single words first, mummy, daddy, hungry, help.
And then between six and seven months of age they begin to put two words, two or three words together in a sentence.
And by the time forward speech begins with the simple words, the reverse language has become quite complex.
art bell
Well tell the story now of your two little ones.
david john oates
Which particular story shall I start with?
art bell
Well your own children.
david john oates
Right.
Well my children were born in July of 1987 and from the moment they came home from hospital I began to tape them.
I got quite obsessed with it, quite frankly and I was taping them constantly.
art bell
So you were holding a little recorder up in front of their little baby mouths?
david john oates
I was totally and utterly completely doing that, yes and my friend kits as well.
unidentified
What did your wife have to say about that?
david john oates
Well I can be a bit obsessive at times and it got annoying.
But I'm sort of like that.
Once I get an idea in my head, I can't let it go, I know.
I'm divorced now, so what can I say?
I see.
But I have custody of my kids and they live with me now.
art bell
Believe me, I understand obsessive behaviour.
david john oates
Yes, I'm sure.
So I found from as early as four months, the very first word I heard on my kids was we were at a friend's house playing a game of trivial pursuit and the kids had been crying for ten minutes or so and they hadn't been attended to and then there was one particular cry that just prompted our attention and when I later reversed that it said mummy and that was the very first reverse word I heard on my children and I'm sure a lot of parents listening
to your program tonight can remember there's those specific cries from the children that seem to pierce the seem to pierce the heart.
There's one cry that will get your attention, one cry that won't.
art bell
That's right.
david john oates
And I've used this extensively in my practice too, particularly with the suspected molestation cases.
One of the problems with working with children is what are they really thinking?
What is really going on inside there?
What damage has been done?
And the applications that reverse speech has in child psychology is just endless.
art bell
All right, well, why don't you give us some examples of children?
david john oates
Okay, well we'll start off with the favourite one that you liked last time.
art bell
It stood my hair on end.
david john oates
Yeah, right.
This is when they're seven months of age and I'm running around the room with a tape player and I'm going, you know, talk backwards for daddy, talk backwards for daddy.
And my daughter suddenly sees this tape player in my hand and she reaches out for it with interest.
She wants to know what this is.
And so I'll play forwards first that particular cry.
unidentified
So here we go.
david john oates
Making quite a simple baby sound.
art bell
Typical gibberish, right?
unidentified
Correct.
david john oates
And backwards it says, what's that?
unidentified
Hold on!
david john oates
And that's quite clear.
art bell
Quite clear.
What's that?
And that is exactly how a child would say it again.
david john oates
Oh, sure.
It has the typical baby sound to it.
Let me move on and play another one on kids.
This is at 13 months of age.
And let me set this scene up a little bit.
My daughter was in the bath and she was trying to pick up a cup.
And she was pushing the cup along and she couldn't pick it up.
And then she looks up to me, reaches out her hand and says, forwards, daddy.
Okay?
So I'm going to run this forwards first and listen for the sound daddy right at the very end.
art bell
All right.
david john oates
Okay, and that was forward.
art bell
What I thought I heard was dad, dad, dad.
david john oates
Right, that was right.
That was at the beginning, dad, dad, dad.
And at the, yeah, you're quite correct.
It was an imperfectly formed dad, dad, imperfect.
art bell
Right, exactly.
All right.
david john oates
Now, backwards, we don't have any of that dad, dad, dad, dad, dad.
Backwards, she says, David, help me.
A very clear sound.
And the interesting thing was that the David occurs on the imperfectly formed word dad daddy.
So, what she's actually doing is she's connecting the concepts together: daddy, David, David, Daddy.
The two are the same.
Of course.
So, here we go.
David, help me.
unidentified
Help me.
Oh, my God.
david john oates
And that should have been fairly clear.
art bell
Oh, it was.
Oh, God.
Give it to me again, if you would, at regular speed backwards.
unidentified
here we go Oh, man, that's eerie.
art bell
Spooky stuff.
It's actually ethereal sounding.
It's almost ghost-like, David.
david john oates
That's right.
It does have that sense to it.
It really does, especially when you look at normal, just regular conversations.
I've been playing a lot of political stuff on the air, and that's been processed sounds.
So you lose the real magic of the way reversals sound in regular conversation.
And yeah, they've got this ghost-like quality to it, which is why it's been given this satanic, occultic label to it.
And it's just a different sound.
unidentified
And it almost sounds like an echo sometimes.
david john oates
And that is because it's not just one voice speaking.
It is the totality of the human mind speaking.
art bell
Oh, that's weird.
david john oates
And the human mind is composed of thousands of different parts.
I mean, consciousness is not one single entity, but it's a combination of the whole.
And you get this echoey, dual-voice sound.
art bell
That is not added echo.
That is the way it comes out.
And if you doubt that and you've got a computer, just use your own computer and take an example, record my program here or get a recording of it, and take the forward speech and reverse it on your own computer and they'll end up with the same result, right?
david john oates
Absolutely correct.
unidentified
Oh, yeah.
david john oates
It's quite easy to tell I'm not doctoring these tapes.
Just reverse my forward, just the reverse reversal, and you'll hear the forward soundtrack.
unidentified
That's a very easy test.
art bell
That is really odd sounding.
All right.
Any other questions?
david john oates
Well, actually, yeah, let's look at another kid's one.
This is a little bit older.
This is in an Aussie accent.
This is at, so maybe a little bit difficult to hear forwards.
This is at three years of age, and they're two kids playing, and one notices that the other one has an inoculation mark on her arm.
And she says, do you have an injection?
Okay, which is Aussie for who I think you use that term here.
So here we go forward.
unidentified
What do they do?
To make you better.
david john oates
She says, do you have an injection?
What do you mean to make you better?
And backwards it says, I hated them.
unidentified
I hate them.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
david john oates
Absolutely.
That's exactly what you would expect a child to say.
And did you notice that echoey type sound to it once you?
art bell
I absolutely did.
An ethereal sort of sound.
It was really...
david john oates
Absolutely correct.
Absolutely.
Well, let me play you one more on kids.
I don't know whether I played this one on your show last week or not, but we'll play it again anyway if I did.
And this is where I moved one of my child from one room to another, and I was setting up the table to record, and I just moved my daughter from the lounge room to the kitchen.
Okay, so that's the scene.
And so we'll run it forwards first.
unidentified
Here we go.
You come down here early.
david john oates
Okay, now I'll run it backwards, and the reversal says, I now come here, you know, from one room to the next.
And notice the typical sing-song tone.
This is very typical of reverse beat.
unidentified
now come here Oh, my God.
david john oates
And that's quite clear, too.
art bell
Oh, that's too clear.
david john oates
Yeah.
art bell
And again, the same, the very same sound.
Now, the audience ought to know, when you're listening to reverse speech, generally you just get a bunch of gibberish that doesn't have that ethereal sound to it.
And when you stumble into a reversal, there's that ethereal sound.
david john oates
Correct.
Correct.
Well, listen, let me move on to another one in speech then, okay?
Yes, you better hear this one.
I wasn't planning on playing this one, but let's pull it up anyway.
Oh, I just saw another one on Kids I should play you too, but I'm just loading this file up now.
This is a client.
This is from a client session, and I need to say that any client sessions I play, I have full permission to play these examples, okay?
And this is a client of mine who has just finished the entire session process, okay?
And I'm asking for his reaction.
art bell
David, wait.
david john oates
Yes.
art bell
Wait, we are at the top of the hour, so let us hold this one for the audience that joins us after the top of the hour, okay?
All right, stay right where you are.
Do you see what I mean?
Does this stand your hair up or what?
Do you understand the implications for the world of what you're hearing right now?
If not, stick around.
You will.
David John Oates is my guest.
Reverse speech is the topic.
I'm Art Bell.
unidentified
This is the CBC Radio Network.
art bell
Whatever you're doing right now, I suggest you put it aside, turn the volume on the radio up, and concentrate.
Because I assure you, this will blow your mind.
My guest is David John Oates.
He, for many years, has been developing a technology.
Actually, it's a technology called reverse speech.
Now, when you speak forward, you say whatever you say.
But on occasion, there is what's called reverse speech.
And briefly put, if you are telling the truth, a reverse speech clip will affirm that truth.
You'll hear it.
If you're lying...
unidentified
Ha ha.
art bell
It is eerie.
It is strange.
It even begins before you can talk in a forward direction.
You're going to hear more examples of it coming up shortly.
I know some affiliates have just joined the network at this hour.
So we'll give you sort of a little catch-up and then move forward.
Now, you played a series of children, your own children, and I guess others.
david john oates
Yeah, they were others as well.
art bell
All right, they prompted this question before we move on.
Would you ask David to comment on this?
Your study of children's backward speech prompted this thought.
For a long time, I believe that up until the age of two years old, children are still connected with a spiritual or etheric world.
And about the time the terrible twos hit, they seem to lose that connection with the spiritual plane.
Have you found any evidence that would support that theory?
david john oates
Not specifically, no.
Reversals are very, very simple and basic like they are in forward speech, you know, mummy, daddy, hungry, help.
Metaphors begin at round about 12 months of age, and by metaphors I mean a very large proportion of the language in reverse speech is metaphoric in nature, speaking in pictures and images.
art bell
As you get older, does the ethereal sound that we heard begin to change?
david john oates
You lose the impact of it, yes.
So if one could consider right brain communication as being spirit communication, then it depends on what you mean by that.
That word, the meaning varies from person to person.
So yes, the etheric sound that you're hearing in the young children does drop off as they get older.
Reverse speech is very much a spiritual language too.
It speaks extensively about the state of the soul, about our connection with God, our mission in life, and they get stronger as you get older.
The children don't talk much about that.
And as once they get to the twos and the threes, the word soul and God begins to creep into the reversal.
Really?
So in what I've found, what actually maybe showed the opposite of that.
It's difficult to tell.
I've never been asked that question.
art bell
Well, it's a good one.
All right, now here's another good one.
Art, I'm never going to forget giving my nephew a cup of water to drink.
And I heard him say, hmm, it's good.
Only problem was he couldn't talk at the time.
He was only mouthing sounds.
Can somebody occasionally hear reverse sound?
It was eerie to have heard the words from a child that wasn't saying more than dada or mama.
david john oates
Most definitely, yes.
See, it's been well documented for quite some time that the brain is capable of reversing functions.
I mean, in one sense, what I'm saying is not out of keeping with accepted theories about how the human mind works.
art bell
Sure.
david john oates
Dyslexia, for example, is a condition where in extreme cases they will actually reverse the sounds of words.
art bell
All right, I think I asked you about this earlier, David.
You have a speech impediment.
unidentified
Correct.
art bell
How does that affect, and I'm sure you've studied others with speech impediments as well as yourself, how does that affect reversals?
Are there more of them, fewer of them, harder to detect?
david john oates
No, when my speech data clicks in, my whole system shuts down.
And I actually don't have reversals on my speech data.
It's like my whole left and right brain goes into a lock trying to get it out, which is an unusual observation.
I would have expected to see the opposite.
But when my natural speech data clicks in, occasionally I'll hear a speech reversal, but not very often.
art bell
All right, let's move on.
I know you've got some more.
You've got another child's example.
david john oates
Correct.
This one is a really, this is a very interesting example.
One of the things we see in reverse speech is that we'll often get a mirror image.
The reversal will use exactly the same words as the forwards, but the words will not be a reversal of each other.
So you get the same words backwards and the same words forwards, but they're not occurring on the same words, if that makes sense.
And so you get this mirror projection.
So here is my daughter, actually, at six years of age, and she's just run away from home.
Well, she's just finished running away from home, and I followed her the whole time, and I was watching her.
We're talking about this forwards, okay?
unidentified
So here we go.
I was hiding behind the car, watching what you were doing.
Were you?
I never knew that.
No, you did the whole thing very.
Okay, and you can tell from her tone, I never knew that.
art bell
That's right.
david john oates
Yeah, and so backwards, she says, Daddy never knew.
In other words, I didn't know that she actually knew I was following her.
And so when she says, I never knew that, and reverses to daddy never knew, daddy didn't know that I knew.
So I'm going to run it backwards at three speeds.
Daddy never knew.
And then I'm going to run it forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards.
And you'll hear, we've got the same words backwards as we do forwards, but they're not a reversal of each other.
art bell
All right.
david john oates
So here we go.
Daddy never knew at three speeds.
unidentified
Daddy, they knew.
Wow.
Nothing is a miracle.
Nothing is a miracle.
art bell
Oh, my word.
david john oates
Yeah, so now I'll run it forwards, backwards, forwards, backwards.
All right, you'll hear this peculiar mirror image of effect, very common in reverse speech.
unidentified
All right.
Thank you.
david john oates
So there we have a true mirror image.
art bell
In other words, there she is affirming in reverse speech, in essence, what she's saying in forward.
david john oates
Basically correct, yeah.
Yeah, so we have a total mirror image situation.
art bell
Oh, that was very, very clear.
david john oates
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you know, children's reversals are extremely clear.
They really.
art bell
I hate to ask you to do this, but very quickly, if you would please, go back for this new audience who joined us at 1 o'clock Pacific time and play that one of your child going from one room to another.
david john oates
Okay.
Let me just queue that up on the computer, and while I'm queuing it up, I'll just set it up again.
I just moved my child from one room to another for the purpose of taping.
I just set up a table with my microphones.
I was going, I was looking for speech reversals.
So I'll run it forwards first, and you will hear a typical baby sound forward.
unidentified
here we go So forward, she says, me, my, maida.
david john oates
That's the pronunciation, it's just typical sound.
backwards at three speeds it says I'm now come here I'm now come here I'm now come here I'm now come here I now poppin'.
art bell
Oh, that's eerie.
And I wanted them to hear that sort of ethereal, weird sound.
Right.
All right.
All right.
Let's move on now to some new material.
I know that you are going to be taping the debates.
Correct.
But I also know that you've been taping Bill Clinton for some time now.
david john oates
I've been taping Bill Clinton for quite some time.
He's a fascinating character.
unidentified
He really is.
david john oates
Let me move on to one I found this week, okay?
art bell
Sure.
david john oates
This is pop news.
So he's talking about the Middle East crisis.
art bell
Oh, yes.
david john oates
Okay, so I'm just loading this one up now.
When you hear these reversals, by the way, you'll hear how in the media they lose that sing-song tone to it because the reversals have been processed.
And they're actually, I mean, the speech has been processed.
You're using compressed sound, and you lose the top of the wave, the waveforms clicked off.
And so the reversal has more of a robotic tone to it.
art bell
Okay, sure.
david john oates
So here he is talking about Middle East crisis.
unidentified
Secretary Christopher has talked with Prime Minister Netanyahu more than once, and we have been in touch several times with Chairman Arafat.
david john oates
Now, I'll play the reversal of three speeds.
Think carefully about the implications of this reversal.
What is he really saying?
The reversal says the loan behind them.
The loan behind them.
unidentified
The loan behind them.
Oh, yes.
The loan behind them.
Yes.
The loan behind them.
art bell
Very clear.
david john oates
Very clear.
art bell
The loan behind them.
Behind them.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Yikes.
david john oates
Other reversals I found on this whole Middle East situation suggested there's financial support going towards it, backing both sides by the way it looks.
If you listen very carefully what he's saying forward.
Maybe I'll run that forwards again.
art bell
Yeah, please, please.
david john oates
We'll run it forwards again.
Now I'm getting into some of the controversial stuff now.
art bell
No, I don't care.
david john oates
Okay, so here we go.
I'll run it forwards and I'll just keep it going backwards at three speeches.
Bear in mind, reverse speech is complementary.
Whatever you're saying forwards, the reversal relates to that and adds extra information to it or confirms it or denies it.
So here it is, forwards and backwards.
unidentified
Secretary Christopher has talked with Prime Minister Netanyahu more than once, and we have been in touch several times with Chairman Arafat.
david john oates
Backwards again, the loan behind them.
unidentified
The loan behind them.
art bell
Oh, that could not be more clear.
david john oates
Yeah, absolutely.
These things are extremely clear.
They're occurring once every five or ten seconds of speech, and I'm quite frankly stunned that no one's ever found this before.
You know, it's a common functional language.
It's there all the time.
and people have been playing Tate's backwards for years.
You know?
art bell
You know, some guys in suits are going to come see you.
david john oates
Yes, it's a topic I would prefer to avoid at this stage.
Just wanting to get my technology out.
But I understand what you're saying.
art bell
Maybe the guys will come see me.
david john oates
Well, the secret is, the trick is to get this technology out to the public as fast as we possibly can.
art bell
Yeah, but it's the end of secrets.
It's the end of secrets.
It's the end of politics.
david john oates
Oh, absolutely.
This will change the whole status of civilization.
I mean, our entire political structure is built on the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Lies and deceits and cons, and our world has degenerated into such a horrible state.
art bell
I know it, David, but you know, have you ever been in an encounter group where everybody swears, maybe they don't do it, but for the most part they do, to tell the absolute truth.
These things end up in fist fights.
david john oates
Oh, absolutely they do.
Like kid or not, the day of truth has now arrived, and we better learn to deal with a fast, or the whole world will degenerate into fist fights.
This is a technology with just monumental ramifications.
And I must be honest.
art bell
All right, let's hear some more on Mr. Clinton.
unidentified
Okay, here's Bill Clinton.
david john oates
The forwards, he's talking about the criticisms he's getting from the Republicans about his policies, okay?
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
There's been study after study after study saying that I have either done or worked very hard to do 80% of what I outlined in 1992.
One book just came out and said it was over 90%.
One scholar said I kept a higher percentage of my commitments in the last five presidents.
david john oates
He's just had a whole lot of intensive questioning.
Obviously, he doesn't like the criticism thrown at him because Reversal says, I deserve Bob's silence.
Now, that's very significant.
He uses the name Bob, Bob Dole.
It's very common in reverse speech to hear names in reverse.
And a lot of the work I've done with police, well, some of the work I've done with police, have actually had full names of accomplices in crime.
art bell
I deserve Bob's silence.
david john oates
I deserve Bob's silence.
art bell
Let's hear it.
Deserve Bob's silence.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
It's fairly clear.
All right, it's fairly clear.
And I could hear that.
But you know what I noticed about that particular clip is that there were not a lot of high-frequency range in it.
And I think, I guess I would ask you, does the clipping of the high-frequency range cause you a problem in reversals?
david john oates
Yes, it definitely does.
Reverse speech is very much a tonal language.
It comes from the right brain hemisphere, and the right brain hemisphere is very emotional in nature.
And it's the tonality.
As the speech becomes more emotionally expressive, as the tonality varies, the reversals get clearer and clearer and clearer.
And one way for the politicians to actually reduce their reversals is to talk in a very monotone voice.
And if they use speech processing or some form of speech processing or scrambling, they could actually reduce reversals down to a bare minimum.
So there is a way to get out of it.
But as soon as they get emotional, as soon as they get passionate, they're in big trouble.
unidentified
What do you think you could do with this, David?
Oh, I would.
david john oates
That sounds spookier than reverse speech, you know?
art bell
Yeah, that's a masking device, of course.
unidentified
Right, which I have a lot of fun.
david john oates
And that will tend to reduce reversals down.
Okay, there's another one on Bill Clinton.
This is Bill Clinton.
He's in a fairly intensive interview, and you'll hear his voice crack now.
He's been accused of immoral acts and dishonesty.
And he gets emotional now, okay?
It almost sounds like he's on the verge of tears.
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
Okay.
There still has not been a single solitary shred of evidence of anything dishonest that I have done in my public life, not only as governor, or not only as governor and his president.
david john oates
And backwards, he says, denied the habits, and I said, damn you.
Denied the habits, and I said, damn you.
unidentified
You know the habits, and I said, damn you.
No.
You know the habits, and I said, damn you.
You know the habits, and I said, damn you.
david john oates
That one's relatively clear.
art bell
Let me tell you what.
That was most easily heard at the regular speed reverse.
Hit that one again.
david john oates
Okay, let's just back up.
art bell
Regular speed reverse.
david john oates
Okay, regular speed reverse.
art bell
Yeah, see, that was quite clear.
david john oates
Right, and let me do it one more time, a regular speed.
unidentified
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
david john oates
Yeah.
It's an interesting reversal because he says deny the habits.
The implication is, well, the habits are there, and I'm getting quite aggressive about this.
You know, leave me alone, you know.
art bell
Would you say that President Clinton is fertile, reverse speech ground?
david john oates
He's incredible.
I've got hundreds of examples on Bill Clinton.
He's a very complex character.
art bell
Oh, he is indeed.
David, we're at the bottom of the hour.
Crank out some more of the best of Bill Clinton, and we'll do that when we come back.
All right?
Would you please ask David to explain to us where we can get the equipment to play tapes backwards?
What do we ask for?
How do we do it?
david john oates
You need to call my office at 619-732-3097.
We're currently out of stock, but we have a backload of orders.
We'll have new stock in two or three weeks.
I need to call in now and pre-order them.
art bell
Can we get a number of people?
Give me the number again, please.
david john oates
619-732-3097.
And while I'm about it, let's give a number to buy my book.
My book will be out in two weeks.
art bell
What is the name of your book?
david john oates
It's Reverse Speech Voices from the Unconscious.
art bell
Reverse Speech Voices from the Unconscious.
How much is your book?
david john oates
It comes with an all-Piocassette tape, and it's selling for $27.95.
art bell
$27.95?
david john oates
With the tape included.
There's also a four-tape series that you can buy separate to that that's full of reversals of politicians and celebrities, media, news, etc.
And you can buy all of this from my publisher.
So let me give you that number.
This is only for the book and the tape.
art bell
All right, who is your publisher?
david john oates
It's a promotions publication in San Diego, California.
And the number is 1-800-231-1776.
That's 1-800-231-1776.
art bell
I'm sure your publisher is not unhappy about all the attention suddenly.
david john oates
My publisher is extremely happy.
As a point of fact, he was telling me this week he has never pre-sold as many books as he has prior to release as he has with this form.
art bell
Well, I can see why.
Clearly, I can see why.
All right, back to our friend Bill Clinton.
david john oates
Bill Clinton.
Well, you know, let me start with a light example first.
I don't want to get myself into too much trouble here.
And I'm going to do a small clip from his inauguration first.
And this is actually not Bill speaking.
This is someone announcing the inauguration.
I want you to notice very carefully about how he talks about the outgoing President George Bush.
unidentified
applause applause applause applause Today, our nation bids a gracious goodbye to an outgoing administration and warmly welcomed in a new one as William Jefferson Clinton takes office as the 42nd President of the United States.
david john oates
I just want to run one small clip of that forwards again.
Listen to the nice, eloquent way he's saying goodbye to George Bush.
unidentified
Goodbye to an outgoing administration.
david john oates
And backwards, he says, you're fired.
unidentified
Ha ha!
Hello, Tyler.
david john oates
Oh, my God.
unidentified
Hello, Tyler.
Hello, Tyler.
You're fired.
Let me run that forwards and backwards again, okay?
art bell
Yes.
david john oates
Yeah, and I've got a little bit of processing on this one.
This is the only example you'll hear.
Well, it's not really processing.
I've just got some echo on the reverse chips.
This one is hilarious.
unidentified
Forwards and backwards.
Today, our nation says gracious goodbye to an outgoing administration.
See all tired, see all tired, see all tired.
david john oates
And I'm sure most people would agree that really what happened to the Bush administration wasn't so much that Clinton was elected, it was a fact that George Bush was fired.
art bell
No, no, that's absolutely true.
Yeah.
And the incoming administration, that was almost like the Neil Armstrong one small step.
david john oates
Absolutely correct.
Listen, you know, I've got things that the Jay Lenner show and Saturday Night Live would eat up.
These things are so hilarious sometimes.
They have you rolling in the aisles.
So we're back on to Bill Clinton again, okay?
art bell
Sure.
And then we will give equal time.
We've got Bob Dole here somewhere, I'm sure.
david john oates
Yes, right.
Well, look, I'll do two more on Clinton and then we'll move on to Bob Dole.
art bell
I'll do it.
All right, fine.
david john oates
Now, I need to stress, you know, it's the America's popular, well, actually the world's popular pastime to knock out politicians.
And there's certainly reversals on Bill Clinton that call for some serious questioning.
But he's not all that bad.
In point of fact, I've noticed in the last year his reversals have shifted.
And he's actually got a fair bit of passion for his job now, which really wasn't there when he first came into office.
So I want to present the good side as well.
art bell
The good side of Bill Time.
david john oates
Okay, so here he is talking about America.
I think I might have played this one last time, but this is talking about an American plane that was shot down over Cuba.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
All charter air travel from the United States to Cuba will be suspended indefinitely.
david john oates
And backwards, he says, denounce this evil.
unidentified
Denounce this evil.
art bell
Oh, yes.
unidentified
Denounce this evil.
Denounce this evil.
art bell
Well, clearly.
Okay.
Clearly, David, clearly, he really meant that.
david john oates
He really meant that.
Yes, he really did.
He really did.
And there is, you know, Bill Clinton is in some parts of him are extremely congruent.
You know, he really does care for the election.
art bell
Yes, yes.
david john oates
Okay.
Now, here he is on the election campaign trail.
I think this was this week or last week as well.
I've been doing a lot of recordings lately.
And he's stirring up the crowd, okay?
Sure.
unidentified
My vision today is what it was four years ago.
I want the American dream of opportunity for all.
david john oates
I want the American dream of opportunity for all.
And backwards, he says, I can see your soul.
Reversal says, I can see your soul.
art bell
Oh, my God.
unidentified
Oh, I can see your soul.
art bell
Oh, that was, you know, the regular speed reverse was the best.
david john oates
Okay, do you want me to run that back at Reg again?
unidentified
Please.
david john oates
You know what it is, Articour?
You're getting an ear for it, too.
I mean, you've heard this for two hours the previous week, and now we're on to our second hour now.
art bell
That's true.
david john oates
And I find, you know, when I first run these to people, they don't hear them the first time, and I've got to slow them down.
But once you get an ear for them, you normally can hear them for a shot.
You know, I can run a tape backwards now, and I can pull out the reversals just as like it was forwards.
But it takes new students a while to get to that stage.
So let me run that again at normal speed.
art bell
Please.
unidentified
Oh, I can see your soul.
art bell
There we go.
No doubt about it.
david john oates
Yeah, I can see your soul.
Okay, so let's move.
It's only fair to give equal time here.
So let's move on to Bob Dole.
And after that, I want to play a reversal on Robert Tilton, the infamous evangelist from Dallas, Texas.
art bell
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes, all right.
david john oates
So because no one escapes the scrutiny of reverse speech.
Okay, so we're going to do two or three.
Let's do that.
I've got about four reversals here in a row on Dole.
Sorry.
The first one is a very congruent reversal.
I think I played this last week.
This is when he resigns from the Senate.
art bell
That's right?
david john oates
Yeah, and you can hear the passion in his voice forward.
unidentified
He does not lay claim to the office you hold.
It lays claim to you.
Your obligation is to bring to it the gifts you can of labor and honesty, and then to depart with grace.
david john oates
And he's speaking quite genuine forwards, as the speech reversal says, it's an honor.
unidentified
It's an honor.
art bell
That was clear at any speed.
david john oates
That one's very clear, yeah.
art bell
And that was the moment when he was resigning from the Senate, and you know that was heartfelt.
That happened.
However, It was all his life's work.
david john oates
Absolutely.
Okay, now the next one: he's talking about some of the bad press he's getting.
You know, he's talking about he didn't get particularly good press at one stage, and well, some people might say he's still not.
art bell
Well, that's right.
He's had a rough go of it.
david john oates
Yeah, he really has.
And so here he is forward saying, you know, this doesn't bother me because now I can move forward.
Okay?
So here we go.
unidentified
The press does not lean our way.
And many beltway pundits confidently dismiss my chances of victory.
I do not find this disheartening.
I do not find it discouraging.
For this is where I touch the ground.
david john oates
Okay, now backwards, we hear a slightly different story.
And he says in reverse, those jerks have they now finally done him.
unidentified
Here we go, three speech.
The jerks have been out, down the downium.
The jerks have been out, down the down.
The jerks have been out, down the down.
art bell
Revealing how he really feels about the speech.
david john oates
Let's play that one again.
Forwards and forwards and forwards and backwards.
art bell
All right, sure.
david john oates
And notice the complementarity.
I want to stress the actual theory of reverse speech, which is the forwards and the reverse directly relate to each other.
art bell
Sure.
david john oates
Here is forwards and backwards.
unidentified
The press does not lean our way, and many beltway pundits confidently dismiss my chances of victory.
I do not find this disheartening.
I do not find it discouraging.
For this is where I touch the ground.
david john oates
Now, backward?
unidentified
The jury to sound me down again.
There we go.
art bell
All right, now, let me ask you a question.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
The forward portion of that speech that you played was in actual length of time quite a bit longer than the reverse portion.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
david john oates
I know what you're saying.
art bell
And so what actual portion did you...
david john oates
Okay, what I'm doing now is I'm actually on my computer, I'm reversing the entire track.
Okay, so I'll run the whole track, but it takes a little bit of time for my convergence to process this.
And you'll actually hear the reversal amongst the gibberish.
See, when I play these for air, I've actually isolated the reversal.
art bell
I understand.
I isolated the reversal.
I wanted that to be clear to the audience because they're sitting out there saying, now, wait a minute, the reversal is very short compared to the forward.
david john oates
Correct, correct.
I play it in Type Forward so you can get the context.
And my computer is still reversing this track.
It's one of the reasons why computers are little bit difficult to find.
I mean, you can find them quite easily, but they're very time-consuming.
unidentified
So it's still clicking over here.
art bell
Right, David, do you generally do your reversal work with a reverse tape recorder and then go to computer?
david john oates
Correct.
I find all my examples on tape first, and then I transfer them to computer for public play.
art bell
I've got you.
david john oates
What I used to do when I did my lectures and radio interviews a few years ago, before I had the luxury of computers, I had them all in separate tapes, and I'd have all these 50 or 60 tapes, and it was very time-consuming.
art bell
Well, then the advent of the computer, particularly the faster computers, was important for you.
david john oates
Oh, extremely important.
It streamlined my entire operation down.
And now it's just a matter of ringing up a WAV file.
It makes my presentations a lot smoother.
art bell
Sure.
david john oates
Yeah.
So here we go.
I'll play this whole soundtrack backwards.
art bell
All right.
Okay.
david john oates
And you'll hear the reversal mixed in amongst the gibberish.
art bell
And wait a minute.
What is it he says again?
unidentified
I don't get stuff down over this either.
Derrick's been out, found it out.
Derrick's been out, found it out.
Just because it's smashed down, soon scissors.
Okay.
art bell
Oh, no, that was very clear.
I caught it very easily.
unidentified
Yeah.
david john oates
And I keep on saying, time and time again, I'm amazed people haven't found this stuff before.
And actually, let me run that backwards again and notice the slight pause in the gibberish.
There's a break in the gibberish just before the reversal occurs.
There's a break after.
And you'll hear how the gibberish has this monotone sound, and then the reversal has this completely different tone.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
Okay, so run it back again.
I don't get the best guy over this either.
The jerk says they now have found it out.
The jerk says they now have found it out.
Just give it a nice jump, sir.
Yeah.
art bell
That was very clear.
And you're right, there was a pause, and then there it was.
david john oates
That's exactly right.
art bell
I'm glad you did that.
david john oates
That's normally how they appear.
So, you know, if you ever, if you're listening to your favorite politician and you hear that characteristic pause, you know that there's a reversal being delivered right there.
And now my computer's locked up again while I'm reversing the file back again, so I won't play it forward, backwards next time I bring this example up.
unidentified
Okay.
Okay.
art bell
So probably have some more Bob Dole.
We need to get Bob Dole.
david john oates
I've just been in a little bit of a lock mode right now while it's reprocessing the sound.
So for the affiliates who've joined in, let me just restate my theory once again while we're waiting for my computer to get ready.
My entire theory is that the process for spoken communication is twofold.
As the human brain is constructing the sounds of speech, it's constructing it in such a way that two messages are communicated simultaneously.
One is forward, which is as you're hearing me speak now, and the other one is in reverse from the unconscious mind.
Now this is actually a communication process.
We are all receiving the reversals from others all the time, and we normally recognize these messages as intuition, that gut sense or feeling that there's more going on than what meets the eye.
unidentified
Sure.
david john oates
Okay, so here, and I'm just learning up another example now, and this is Bob Dole commenting on Bill Clinton's tax policy.
unidentified
Now we have a Republican Congress, but we have a president who's vetoed balanced budget and submitted budgets, but that's as far as the eye can see.
david john oates
And backwards, he says, the guy's off his head, which is probably how a lot of people feel.
unidentified
And the galleys are off to the fed.
Ha, ha, ha.
david john oates
There we go.
And if you want me to, I can reverse this track, too.
art bell
No, that's all right.
You know, I bet that's exactly how he feels, too.
david john oates
I'm sure that's exactly how he feels.
Let me just run another one on Doll with similar sentiments to that.
It's actually from the same speech.
So he's got these things running.
And we're loading it up now, and here we are for it.
unidentified
Bill Clinton says that he and his party, and I use a quote, he said, we are unawarely opposed to our tax relief program.
Frankly, I didn't think there was such a thing as Clinton position that couldn't be altered.
Okay.
david john oates
And that was, he says, he needs his lesson real good.
unidentified
He needs his lesson there, but he needs his lesson there, but he needs his lesson there.
art bell
There we go.
unidentified
He needs his lesson real good.
david john oates
See, doesn't reverse speech add a whole different field to politics.
unidentified
It really does.
david john oates
For the first time ever, the people now have a way to find out what our politicians are really thinking.
No need for expensive lie detectors anymore that we don't have access to.
It's just simply a matter of running a tape backwards.
art bell
David, there are some people that can beat lie detectors because they are congenital liars.
In other words, they probably believe their own lies.
Now, Bill Clinton has been accused of being that kind of a person, or the kind of a person who will say to the people exactly what they want to hear.
And at the moment he says it, he believes it.
david john oates
You cannot escape reverse speech.
Reverse speech is completely unconscious.
No matter if you even believe your own lies, reversal will communicate the truth.
Because, see, the lies are just coming from the conscious mind, and that's only 5% of the human mind.
And the 95% that we don't have access to is what is speaking in reverse.
art bell
They're going to get you.
david john oates
Well, in my 13 years of work, I've never ever found that someone can trick or deceive reverse speech.
I tried myself many times.
I've tried to lie as congruently as I can.
I put myself into hypnotic trance and completely programmed my mind to believe what I'm saying.
unidentified
You cannot deceive reverse speech.
art bell
But if you, at the time you're saying it, believe it yourself, and again I use the example of somebody who can beat a lie detector.
If you believe it yourself, isn't it going to come out affirming what you've said?
Or are you telling me no matter what?
david john oates
No matter what.
No matter what, no matter what, you will get the truth in reverse.
art bell
Well, that's terribly dangerous, David.
Dangerous.
Dangerous.
I mean, if the world is going to have to begin telling the truth or be subject to David John Oates revealing what the truth is.
david john oates
Well, not just David John Oates, but all the people out there now who now know that this is real.
It's not just me.
I'm putting the message out for everyone.
You know, now, obviously, I'm a fan of the technology, but this technology is available for all.
art bell
I know, but this would be the end of politics as we know it.
david john oates
It would be the end of a lot of things as we know it.
You know, a lot of end time prophecies talk about the last days coming, a monumental shockwave.
art bell
All right, we'll get to that.
Stay right where you are.
Rest, we'll be right back.
This is CBC.
I'm Art Bell.
right there.
unidentified
This is the CBC Radio Network.
david john oates
Speaks for itself.
art bell
That guy's going to find you.
david john oates
Welcome to the world of reverse speech.
art bell
All right, now let's plow some new territory.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
And, oh, I know.
I know.
Give us a few, if you wouldn't mind, a few O.J. Simpson.
david john oates
Yes, okay.
You know what?
I've got a slight problem with O.J. I'm, well, no, not on radio, I don't.
I've actually signed an exclusive television broadcast agreement for O.J. Simpson shortly.
But that's only for television.
So let me just play a couple.
art bell
Okay, okay, good.
david john oates
Okay.
Right, the first one I'm playing, I want you to listen very carefully to what he's saying forward.
Now, in light of the implications of reverse speech, that from now on, all we have to do to find out what someone is thinking and feeling is to run a tape recording of speech backwards.
I want you to listen very carefully to what OJ is saying forward.
unidentified
The worst thing you can have, that you could ever have, is have your argument tape.
I would say anybody out there that's married or is in a relationship, just turn a tape recorder on the next time you have an argument and play it back.
You will not believe that was you.
david john oates
And I just want to isolate one section forwards again.
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Turn a tape recorder on the next time you have an argument and play it back.
You will not believe that was you.
david john oates
And backwards, he says, I skinned them all.
unidentified
And I skinned them all.
I skinned them all.
david john oates
And that's OJ.
Just turn a tape recorder on next time because the truth that we all speak is embedded backwards into the sounds of our speech.
It's actually a very ironic example because the unconscious mind already knowing that reverse speech exists and has always existed has effectively set OJ up, if that makes sense.
Okay.
Let's look at one more on OJ.
One of the implications of reverse speech is that everything that is contained within the unconscious mind has the ability to appear in reverse.
And so when you are relaying an event that happened to you in the past, and if you relay this event in a false manner, in other words, you say something different happened than what actually did happen, the reversal will correct your story.
So in light of that, OJ's talking forwards about he's claiming he's a very understanding, compassionate man.
Here we go forward.
unidentified
Turn a tape recorder on the next time.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
When she had some very emotional issues with the men that she was involved with, she came to me.
I don't think a woman would do that if she felt that this person was insensitive or abusive and certainly not jealous or possessive.
david john oates
And backwards we hear what he really said to her, which is, damn your lust, never see lovers.
And once again, notice the tone of the reversal.
It has that peculiar sing-song sound to it.
Damn your lust, never see lovers.
unidentified
Daniel, never see lovers.
art bell
God, that's clear.
unidentified
Daniel, never see lovers.
Daniels, never see lovers.
david john oates
There we go.
art bell
My ear must be getting attuned because the normal speed reversal sounds the clearest to me.
unidentified
Huh?
david john oates
Do you want me to run that again at normal speed?
unidentified
Sure.
david john oates
Okay, let me just cue this up.
And yes, that's quite correct, Dart.
You're getting used to it now.
It takes a few hours of hearing these things to get used to.
Plus the fact you've been a ham radio operator for years.
art bell
That's right.
david john oates
So you're used to listening to audio, and particularly this curious sound, which sounds very similar to single fiveband transmission.
art bell
Yeah, but I'll tell you something, David.
I'm getting a lot of faxes here, and I'm not the only one hearing it clearly.
Every fax I'm getting is just saying terrific.
I can hear it clearly, blah, blah, blah, on and on.
So I'm not the only one.
david john oates
Okay, well, okay, great.
That's fantastic.
Okay, so here we go.
I'll just run it forward.
unidentified
Stamulus, never see lovers.
david john oates
There we go.
art bell
That was just as clear as can be.
Damn your lust, never see lovers.
david john oates
Yeah, and I better not play anymore on AJ.
I've signed an exclusive contract for the AJ reversals, and that's with Extra Television airing on October the 30th.
So if you want to, which, by the way, is my birthday.
art bell
Oh.
david john oates
So that's a very significant date.
art bell
All right.
Happy birthday.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Look, I'm going to just let you wander now where you want to go.
david john oates
Okay.
art bell
And just give us examples of whatever you've got.
unidentified
Well, there's hundreds of them, thousands.
david john oates
Let's move on to Robert Tilton.
I've had this one queued up three or four times to play, and we've moved away from it.
Robert Tilton, very well-known TV evangelist.
I've got to tell you, teleevangelists do not come off very well in reverse speech.
They really don't.
And reverse speech has got a big message to say to the whole religious community.
And this also addresses your question about if someone really believes what they're saying, will the reversals confirm that?
Will they lie?
And no, they will not.
No matter how fervently you believe in something forwards, the backwards is always the truth.
So I've got two reversals on Robert Tilton.
unidentified
Here he is forwards first.
david john oates
Come on, people.
unidentified
Give me a little break.
You make the decision if you're going to listen or repeat the lies of the devil, or you're going to buckle under and stay with me.
And you know?
art bell
All right.
david john oates
Okay, so there he is, forwards.
And backwards, he says, I'm selling your grief.
I'll still run it at three speeds because you've got some new affiliates joined us.
art bell
Excuse me, I'm selling your grief.
david john oates
I'm selling your grief.
art bell
All right, let her rip.
david john oates
That's exactly what TV evangelists do.
art bell
All right.
Well.
unidentified
Unsealing, Yonkies.
Unsealing, Yonkies.
Unsealing, Yonkers.
david john oates
There we go.
art bell
Oh, my.
david john oates
And here we have another one of Robert Tilton, and this occurred about two minutes later.
unidentified
Okay.
We're just going to keep on going bigger and bigger and bigger.
Not to be big, but just to help and reach more people.
JC, is the bank and the FBI investigating that, Tim Paulie?
david john oates
A very loyal heart-filt.
art bell
I kind of like that forward, actually.
unidentified
Yeah, I know.
david john oates
It's classic.
And backwards, he says, keep on stealing it.
I have sinned.
unidentified
Oh, my.
art bell
Keep on stealing it.
I have sinned.
david john oates
Exactly correct.
art bell
Oh, you know, David, you know, some of the things that you're playing probably could get you into trouble, except that they are not manipulated.
unidentified
Correct.
art bell
They're simply playing that person's speech in reverse.
Correct.
david john oates
All I'm doing is quoting what they have said.
You know, I'm not altering this.
I'm not manipulating this.
This is using their own words, forwards and backwards.
And this will be the trend of the future.
Let us examine forward and reverse.
art bell
All right, all right.
Here's a question for you that goes with what we just did.
david john oates
Yes.
art bell
Art, asked David if he ever tried this on someone speaking in tongues like the Pentecostals do.
david john oates
Yes, I have.
I did quite a lot of work on a do about 10 years ago recording speaking tongues or glossolalia is the correct term for it.
It has the same type of reversals as normal forward speech.
I've found reversals that praise God.
I've found reversals that say I'm possessed by Satan.
And I've found reversals that talk about the roast in the oven waiting for him after the church service.
art bell
Do you actually have one that you can pick out when the break comes here that says I am possessed by Satan?
david john oates
I don't.
You know what?
I don't have speaking tongues on my computer, but I can, sure, I'll have to go to my other system.
art bell
Or do you have any that deal with Satan in general?
david john oates
Sure.
Let me go and chain systems here, okay?
art bell
Oh, no problem.
david john oates
There's two computers here.
One, there's a laptop I use for public air, and then all my main ones are stored on my main.
art bell
For a big hard drive.
I understand.
All right, well, we've got a break here.
david john oates
Okay, I'm going to swap systems.
art bell
All right, sit tight, and we'll be right back.
Oh, my.
Isn't this something?
Okay, we're going to break here and let the stations do whatever they do at the bottom of the hour.
I'm Art Bell.
You're listening to David John Oates and the phenomenon, the reality of reverse speech.
Don't move.
unidentified
Don't move.
david john oates
Pip and the greater.
When I'm training my new students, most students cannot hear metaphors for at least six months.
It takes a long time to train your ears.
art bell
Well, then imagine what we can't hear.
david john oates
Correct.
So I'm sorry.
You asked me a question about Satan and I went straight into my deep research.
Okay, so let's do this again.
See the wolf fallen in the lake.
See the wolf fallen in the lake.
art bell
Clear.
unidentified
Okay, clear.
david john oates
Now, wolf is a metaphor for our motivation, our hunter and protector.
Lake is a metaphor for overwhelming emotions.
So the reversal is describing a man who is drowning a sea of emotions and it's stifling his ability to move forward.
art bell
Gotcha.
david john oates
Okay, so here's another client talking about Wolf.
This is all in the same file, so I'm playing it two together.
And this man has finished session work with me.
He's gone through all the trances, and he's talking about a new direction he has in his life.
So I'll run it forward, Sir.
unidentified
Just to implement the program that I've got in my mind.
I mean, I can see it.
I can actually see it working.
You know, and all the things that I read say that it determines what people want.
david john oates
Now, can you hear that one okay?
art bell
Yes.
david john oates
Okay.
And Bablisi says, I've got a new wolf with in me.
I've got a new wolf within me.
unidentified
All right.
david john oates
Is that one clear?
unidentified
Clear.
Good.
art bell
Yes, I could hear that.
david john oates
Yeah, okay, good.
I'm sorry.
I moved into metaphors far too fast.
art bell
No, that's quite all right.
I'll tell you what.
Let us move back to people that we know in the public arena because people can identify with voices that they know.
david john oates
Correct.
Well, let's look at a voice that everyone there should know, and this is you speaking.
art bell
Me?
You.
We just ran out of time.
No, go ahead.
What's that?
david john oates
Okay, this is right at the start of when I had my first interview with you a couple of weeks ago, and you're explaining the primitive mode I'm using.
I'm holding a speaker up to the phone.
art bell
Oh, that's right, yes.
All right, so that we all get some understanding of what we're talking about, it's going to be a crude way of doing it.
You're going to hold the phone up to a recorder, but I listened earlier and it came through okay.
unidentified
Yep.
Okay.
david john oates
And the reversal says, and answer, no mistake, divorce error.
It's a simple metaphor, and answer, no mistake, divorce error.
And it's a reflection of your desire to want this to go very, very smoothly.
I don't want any mistakes here.
Okay, holding the speaker up the phones will be a solution, but make sure you do this correctly, Dave.
art bell
Okay, okay.
unidentified
Okay, here we go.
Can I answer no mistake?
Bevel us.
Bevel us.
Can I answer no mistake?
Bevel us.
Bevel us.
You may certainly must be figuring.
art bell
I heard that.
I heard the particularly clear was the word divorce.
david john oates
Yes, correct.
art bell
An error.
david john oates
Correct.
Okay, and here's another one on you.
This is actually you and me having a conversation, okay?
art bell
All right.
david john oates
Talking about the O.J. Simpson reversal.
unidentified
Here we go.
david john oates
My fondest dreams is to see A.J. face to face and play him these speech reversals and just see what his reaction is.
I would love to do that.
unidentified
I would love to see that.
Yeah, I think that would be quite an amazing TV special.
art bell
Yeah, as well, he's busy now.
He's going back to court again.
unidentified
Yeah.
david john oates
Okay, so there we have a little quick chat.
And I want to play a small snippet on me again first.
My fondest dreams is to see AJ face to face and play him these speeches.
Okay, and backwards, I say, gives him the ultimate.
I'm actually talking to myself.
I'm actually using myself in a third person, but gives him the ultimate.
That is my fondest dream, okay?
art bell
All right.
unidentified
Here it is.
david john oates
If he isn't the ultimate.
unidentified
Oh.
If he isn't the ultimate.
If he gives me the ultimate.
Oh.
art bell
No, that was very clear.
david john oates
Okay.
And here's you commenting on OJ.
Here's the next forwards track on you.
art bell
Well, he's busy now.
He's going back to court again.
unidentified
Yeah.
david john oates
And when you say he's going back to court again, you say backwards, may get off.
unidentified
May get off.
Hey, may get off.
david john oates
Oh, my God.
And that one's quite clear.
art bell
Oh, that's too clear.
david john oates
Yeah.
unidentified
Ooh.
Ooh.
Yeah.
david john oates
So how does it feel hearing your own speech reversal?
art bell
Gives me the Geeby-Heebies.
david john oates
Yeah, it normally does when people hear their own stuff.
art bell
Oh, my.
Yeah.
unidentified
Ooh, I don't know if I like that.
david john oates
What was your thoughts as you heard that?
art bell
Being stripped bare.
david john oates
Right.
Yeah, that's a very common feedback because that is what reverse speech does.
And one of the great testers of reverse speech is for people to hear their own reversals.
Because what you're hearing is a voice of your heart speaking.
And it goes straight to your heart.
And it creates a very interesting effect.
I've worked with a couple of attorneys in depositions with reverse speech.
And when I have someone's speech reversals, I've developed a technique called reversal feedback where I build into the conversation people's speech reversals.
And if I want to break someone down, all I need to do is say their reversals back to them.
And if I can do it in such a way to build it in their conversation, into my speech, then that has a powerful effect.
And there was one case I worked on with an attorney and we were trying to break someone down.
And she just did three minutes of reversal feedback saying the young guy's reversals back to him.
And he absolutely freaked out.
He got totally angry and upset.
unidentified
And tore the microphone off and stormed out of the interrogation.
art bell
Oh, I can believe it.
So you could end up being a consultant to really either side in a court case.
david john oates
Totally correct.
art bell
Oh, the power of this is absolutely awesome.
david john oates
This is a way to break anyone down.
art bell
I can see that clearly.
And you were very kind.
All right, brother, stay right where you are.
We'll be back to you in a moment.
unidentified
This is CDC.
Clear.
Quite clear.
david john oates
And let me run it backwards again.
And this time I've actually spliced the soundtrack inserted the speech reversal and you'll actually hear me finish my uncompleted sentence and your R, before I had a chance to complete it, she chips in and responds because she's actually responding to the speech reversal.
unidentified
Here we go.
david john oates
How long have you been talking?
unidentified
Since I was 17.
And you're 47.
david john oates
I think that's quite a stunning example.
art bell
It certainly is.
david john oates
It explains the whole communication aspect of reverse speech.
Here's another one of a very simple nature.
I just like to lead into these slowly.
I mean, this is such a complex technology.
You can't even begin to imagine how far this goes.
It explains so many aspects of human intuition.
ESP, extrasensory perception.
On its deepest levels, it actually describes how ESP occurs over long periods, where someone in England can hear what someone is thinking in the United States.
You see, reverse speech contains the totality of the collective unconscious.
All secrets, all human talents, all human abilities are buried down in the deep unconscious mind.
And reverse speech explains all of these functions, how they all work.
It literally, the implications on society are just vast.
But let's go to a simple one.
We'll start slowly.
This is another one like how old.
This is an interview on Australian television, and it's a man who is suspected of sending his wife a threatening letter.
Here we go forward.
Well, she says it was in your handwriting.
unidentified
Well, then, she should produce that letter, and that's what that satural letter.
Have you seen the letter?
Yes, I have.
Do you want to see it?
Yes.
david john oates
Okay.
Well, then she should produce that letter.
Do you want to see it?
art bell
Oh, that was clear, yeah.
david john oates
It's a fairly simple conversation.
I want to isolate a small section forward.
unidentified
Have you seen the letter?
david john oates
And backwards, he says, I want to see that letter.
art bell
I heard that.
unidentified
Helen, this is all of us, help.
Helen, this is all of us, help.
david john oates
And that's quite clear.
art bell
Quite clear.
david john oates
And once again, we'll run the conversation forwards with reversal superimposed.
And you'll actually hear how the reporter responds to what he said backwards rather than what he said forwards.
unidentified
Well, she says it was in your handwriting.
Well, then, she should produce that letter.
And let's say the letter.
Have you seen the letter?
Helen, this is Ruby.
Yes, I have.
Do you want to see it?
Yes.
david john oates
And you can see what happens there.
art bell
Yes, quite clearly.
david john oates
Yeah, she responds to the letter.
And I'm sure you've had many occasions happen to you where you've been about to say something or you're thinking something and before you have a chance to say it, the response comes.
The response comes.
And they are receiving and responding to the speech reversals.
Just an incredible phenomenon.
I'm constantly amazed that the world hasn't beaten the path to my door yet.
art bell
Well, it is now going to.
I'm just trying to digest what it's going to mean.
For example, I would think that there would be entire departments within the government listening to the speech of foreign leaders and putting together intelligence estimates based on the reverse speech.
david john oates
Oh, totally.
There's no doubt in my mind that that can happen.
The implications are phenomenal.
It's phenomenal.
It is a significant discovery, probably more so than the telephone or the World Is Round or the automobile.
And to some extent, we've been expecting this for decades, for centuries.
We've been expecting a major monumental event to happen towards the end of the 20th century.
You know, many philosophers and prophets have talked about it happening.
I believe without any shadow of a doubt that it is the coming of reverse speech.
It is the opening of the unconscious mind.
It is the day of truth where we now have no choice to be honest.
The truth is now available for all to hear.
And the implications are endless.
Totally endless.
art bell
Do you get any hints about the end times in any reverse speech?
david john oates
Yes.
How far do you want me to go?
Once again, I mean, you know, this is a radio program.
It's not in radio.
Sure.
A lot of prophecies, the difficulty with interpreting prophecies has been trying to understand what these images mean.
art bell
So again, we move into metaphors, no doubt.
david john oates
Correct.
Now, the wonderful advantage with reverse speech over any other form of discipline in trying to understand metaphors is that we have a reference point to go back to.
The reference point is the forward dialogue.
Yes, of course.
And I have compiled an extensive metaphoric dictionary.
It contains well over a thousand different metaphors.
And in reverse speech, the metaphors are constant.
Reverse speech is a universal language, constant across the board.
And by going back to the forward dialogue, I have been able to determine with great accuracy what these metaphors mean.
I mean, every time you hear the word wolf forward, backwards, someone's talking about motivation or protection forward.
The metaphor goddess talks, every time someone mentions that backwards, they're talking about hope for the future.
And so when you look at the metaphors of reverse, when you look at some of the great prophecies, like, well, let's look at Nostradamus, for example.
Nostradamus himself said that his insights and vision came from the voice in limbo, to use his exact words.
And I believe that is reverse speech, the voice of the unconscious.
And when you go back to Nostradamus' prophecies and reread them in the light of the meaning of reverse speech metaphors, and I'm going to release my dictionary in about two or three months, they all of a sudden make a whole bunch of sense.
It actually reads with great precision from beginning to end.
He talks about the last time the beast known to man suddenly the man will hear the voice of the beast, which that's not a direct quote.
I hadn't come prepared to lecture on prophecy tonight, but I believe that refers to the metaphors of the unconscious.
art bell
David, are you comfortable with the impact this is going to have on our society?
david john oates
Boy, what a question.
Yeah, I've wrestled.
It's been one of the reasons why I waited so long to release it.
It really has.
I've gone through great conscious wrestlings over this, and I've hesitated so long to release this information.
But ultimately, I just have to accept that I am a messenger.
This is a discovery that has been made that must be heard.
I think it's a greater crime of mine to not release it than it is to release it.
If I believe that this is what mankind has been waiting for, if I believe that it has the implications it has, then I'm committing a greater crime by not putting it out there.
Does that make sense?
art bell
Husbands recording wives.
david john oates
Sorry?
art bell
Wives recording husbands.
david john oates
Oh, totally.
art bell
Completely.
Employers recording employees.
david john oates
The ethical problems are vast.
I don't pretend to have the answer to that.
I mean, I really don't.
I can see Congress and law courts going berserk over.
The ethical problems are just endless.
I have a fairly strict code of ethics in my training class for my students.
art bell
Attorneys using it to break down witnesses on the stand, as you talked about earlier.
david john oates
All you have to do is read them a half a dozen key reversals.
art bell
And that'll break somebody down.
david john oates
Yes, it will.
I see it in my office every single day.
That's one of the reasons I have such great success with therapy.
It's...
It's...
I...
art bell
It's very sobering, is what it is.
David, hold on, and when we come back, I want to let the audience ask you a few questions.
david john oates
I think that's probably very appropriate at this point.
art bell
I think it is, too.
Stay right there.
David John Oates is my guest.
Still kind of presence to them.
david john oates
Yes, they do.
art bell
And you know them when you hear them, and my ear has become at least attuned enough to begin to recognize that.
It is absolutely fascinating.
This is clearly a field by itself.
david john oates
Oh, totally.
It doesn't fit into any field currently known.
It's a whole new industry, a completely new technology.
art bell
All right.
West of the Rockies, you're on the air with David John Oates.
Hi.
unidentified
Yes, this is Kevin from Phoenix.
art bell
Hi, Kevin.
Hi.
unidentified
And I've got a couple questions for you, Mr. Oates.
Yes.
First, I was wondering how did this technology come about?
And also, do you think that someday you'll find them on radios like you would CD players and all?
david john oates
Well, the technology I've slowly and gradually developed it over the last 13 years.
And I need to say that reverse speech is a natural function of the mind.
So I have discovered something that has always been in existence.
And it was really an accidental discovery, really.
I was running a halfware house for street kids, and we heard about satanic messes in rock and roll, and it began from there.
But it's been, my whole research has been defining this technology.
How does it work?
What happens?
The various relationships between the forwards and the verse dialogues, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
art bell
You know, most great discoveries have been accidental.
david john oates
Right, it's true.
It is true.
And actually, listen, on that note, let me tell you, let me let the cat out of the bag and tell you a very story that I only tell in my training class.
I talk about I went home that night to rewire a tape player to play it backwards to check the record.
But what I don't tell anyone is that the tape player that played backward was already in existence.
I had a warp one strapped to my belt a few months earlier, and I was in the bathroom being silly, and it fell and it fell out of my belt right into the toilet bowl.
I pulled the thing out of the toilet bowl, and it didn't work.
And I pulled it apart and tried to fix it up, and somehow I re-wired it backwards.
And I thought I had this useless Walkman, and I threw it in the junk drawer.
And when the evangelist came around preaching, I said, oh, I've got my backwards plain Walkman that fell in the toilet bowl.
And that actually Walkman is, I have that original Walkman now framed in my office.
art bell
I would think reversing the wires to the motor.
david john oates
Well, what I actually, no, that actually causes mechanical problems.
art bell
Does it?
Okay.
david john oates
The way you normally do it is with it was actually an auto-reverse player.
And when you reverse the motor, it changes the heads.
The motor's reverse, and it switches the heads from the top to the bottom.
And when I tried to fix this thing up, I accidentally pushed the switch in the other direction so it worked backwards.
And so it really was an accident how it did happen.
I don't tell that story publicly very often, but I will, but I just have.
art bell
Well, you sure did.
All right.
Back to the phones.
East of the Rockies.
You're on the air with David John Oates.
Hi.
unidentified
Hi, this is Tim in Minneapolis.
art bell
Hi, Tim.
unidentified
Hi.
I'm leaning towards believing this.
Here's the hurdle I have.
I believe the power suggestion can be a factor in this, and I was wondering what steps have you taken to bypass it.
There would be a number of ways you could do that.
david john oates
Well, we've done several blind tests, you know, where I will play soundtracks to people without telling them what is there.
I also frequently use control phrases.
I tell people to hear something that is not there.
But the real test, of course, is when I train students in this, the student, you know, I'll have 30 students who will go away and analyze the same tape, and they will come back with identical reversals.
Now, if this was imagination or your suggestion, then there's no way that 30 people can analyze the same tape separately and come back with the same trans, trans, transcript.
art bell
You know, Caller, I'm kind of like you.
I'm leaning toward believing this.
unidentified
After what he just said, like I said, that was a hurdle I was trying to get over there.
art bell
And once you start to begin to believe this, you're given real pause and you begin to sit there and think, oh, God, what does this mean?
And what it means is really serious.
unidentified
Very serious.
Yeah, I kind of feel a little scared with that, but I think it's a good thing.
I'm poor truth.
I think overall it's better.
david john oates
And look, I understand skepticism, too.
I mean, it took me many years to fully grasp it myself.
Basically, I'm a typical Aussie from the Outback, and I'm as skeptical as everyone else.
And I suddenly found myself in this whole new field, and I'm going, oh, my gosh, what on earth does this mean?
And it took me many years to really own it and grasp it and say, oh, my gosh, this really is real.
unidentified
I know.
art bell
I know, David, but still, I'm not up there with you just yet.
I'm still knowing that if you get a room full of people who are bound and promise to tell each other the truth, more times than not, it ends up in a great big fistfight.
unidentified
Yeah.
And yes, I know.
david john oates
You magnify that on a worldwide basis.
art bell
Give out your information.
We're about out of time here.
The show's almost over.
I want you to get your information out again.
david john oates
Oh, okay, right.
You can order the book.
My book is coming out in two weeks' time.
You can order the book by calling 1-800-231-1776.
That's 1-800-231-1776.
art bell
And the name of the book?
david john oates
Is Reverse Speech Voices from the Unconscious.
Now, if you want to order a machine or make further inquiries about reverse speech, you can call the office, which is 619-732-3097.
I have a website up, and that is www.reverspeech.com.
That's reversespeech1word.com.
The most important number to remember, though, is the 1-800 number.
That's for the book and tapes and most general product inquiries.
And I'll say that again.
1-800-231-1776.
art bell
All right, my friend.
It has been a great pleasure.
It really has been a pleasure.
I sit here in awe after this night.
And I hope that you are, of course, going to stay home.
You are going to tape the debates.
david john oates
I definitely intend to do that.
art bell
And if anything truly shocking rears its ugly reverse head, I hope you will call me and let me know so we can get it on sometime next week.
david john oates
I will do that for you.
art bell
Well, it has been a remarkable night, David, and I know that for you, how old are you?
david john oates
I am 40.
art bell
40.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And you've been working on this for...
david john oates
I started when I was 27.
art bell
13 years.
david john oates
Yeah.
art bell
So it's kind of like an adult lifetime work for you, really.
david john oates
Oh, it really has been.
Yeah, it really has.
It's occupied most of my adult life.
It's been said to me by many people, you know, it really no one else could have.
It needed one person to be totally committed and dedicated to this to pull it off, you know.
And a lot of people have said that to me.
And that's, you know, that's what I did.
I'm really just a normal everyday Aussie.
I really am.
And I got obsessed with it, you know.
art bell
Well, I was going to say that.
I was about to bring up that word, obsession.
But that's the way things get done, David.
david john oates
That is true.
And we've forgotten that.
We really have.
We need to take responsibility for our own lives and our own direction.
And anyone can do anything if they put all their attention and mind to it and don't get swayed by people pulling them either side.
art bell
Yes, the ethic of obsession.
david john oates
Correct.
art bell
All right.
David, the show is over, so I'm going to give you the honors.
And I don't know if you know what they are or not, but simply, well, do you know what they are?
david john oates
The honors.
art bell
The honors.
The honors are say good night, America.
david john oates
Good night, America.
And stay tuned for more.
art bell
All right, and Canada as well.
All of our friends out there.
My friend, thank you.
Good night.
david john oates
And thank you very much.
Good night, everyone.
art bell
All right.
Well, this is going to take a bit of digestion for many, I know.
If you want a copy of this program, and I'm sure you do, the number is 1-800-917-4278.
That's 1-800-917-4278 to get a copy of this program from the high desert.
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