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Oct. 19, 1997 - Art Bell
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19971019_-_Coast_to_Coast_AM_with_Art_Bell_-_10-19-1997_-_Reverse_Speech

David Icke and Art Bell dissect reverse speech, claiming unconscious backward messages reveal hidden truths in forward audio. They analyze clips from Mike Tyson, Queen Elizabeth II, and Bill Clinton, interpreting metaphors like Tyson's "rubber duck" and the Queen's suggestion that Diana's death served the Crown. The discussion covers legal battles where clients sued Icke over perceived mind programming, which courts dismissed as paranoia. Ultimately, the segment argues these tonal shifts expose suppressed realities, suggesting that listening backwards unlocks a deeper, often disturbing layer of human communication beyond conscious intent. [Automatically generated summary]

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Strange Alaskan Phenomena 00:02:20
unidentified
Hi, Art.
How are you?
art bell
You're all distorted on me, David.
Oh, man.
Well, turn it down a little bit.
Okay, we'll give it a shot here.
We have some very strange things going on with not just my audio, but also in the house itself.
We've got lights doing strange things.
I'm right out in the middle of the woods here in Alaska.
So in Canada.
What are you doing in Alaska, by the way?
Well, several things, really.
I've got some clients up here, and I've come up here for business, doing some lectures and things and clients.
But just to take a break, I've been working pretty well flat out all year, and it was time to get away for a week, so I had the opportunity to come.
So I hopped on the plane and came straight up here.
Well, good.
I was at Anchorage just a few weeks ago, and the weather was beginning to cool.
You could sense that autumn was in the air.
Has autumn arrived?
It's probably, I've been told this is probably the best week of the year to be here.
The leaves are all yellow, and they're falling off, and it just looks really, really gorgeous from where I am.
So I'm just covered with autumn-filled trees, and it looks fantastic.
And it's cold, of course, you know, but that's Alaska.
And we're going to go and see the glacier tomorrow and have a look around a bit, and then I'm back on Friday to a busy work schedule.
So that's what I'm doing.
And how's the hum problem now?
Well, it's there.
We will see how it does when we try some reversals.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Now, David, as you might be able to discern by his accent if you've never heard him, is Australian.
David had many years ago a speech impediment problem, which you still can detect in his voice from time to time.
Though when he gets rolling here, it kind of disappears.
Hey, you know, David, a lot of people with speech problems, stuttering problems, when they sing, they never stutter.
Reverse Speech Reversal 00:13:03
art bell
How come?
Well, that's a very good question.
I really don't know.
It's certainly one of the things about stuttering that is well known.
When you sing, you don't stutter.
I have no idea why.
Unless, you know, part of my theory about stuttering is that there's a misfire between the left and the right brain hemispheres somewhere.
And when you're singing, you're completely accessing the right brain.
Okay, I've got an idea.
Let's try some experiments.
You're on a headphone set up now?
Correct.
Can you get out of the headphone setup and just pick up the telephone?
unidentified
Oh, sure.
art bell
I've disconnected the telephone.
I'll be up.
Okay, just give me dead air for about two seconds.
That's right.
We'll see if that makes any difference.
Okay, and now I'm on the phone.
All the hum's gone.
Right.
Well, it's coming into my system somehow.
It could be the phone lines up here, it could be the power.
I'm using exactly the same equipment I used back home.
I brought it all up with me.
And I remember when I first set up at home, I had the hum problem, too.
It was just a matter of rewiring and rerouting.
Okay, well, it's all gone.
It's all gone.
Well, at least we can talk.
Oh, but you cannot play reversals.
No, I cannot play reversals without going through my system itself.
And, you know, we can chat a bit and then go back online and play them.
I think you'll find that once the reversals are being played, it will drown out the hum, I would hope.
We'll see what happens.
I mean, I've got some great reversals on the Area 51.
Oh, I know you do.
I know you do.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Actually, no, there's even a little bit of hum on the phone here.
Oh, really?
Isn't that odd?
It may be your electrical system up there.
Right.
That may be it.
Well, I guess we can only but try.
Let's see how it works.
Now, we have lots of areas we could begin.
We've got Mark Furman.
We've got Brother Muhammad.
unidentified
Uh-huh.
art bell
We've got apparently the Queen on Princess Die.
Yeah, I've got a real pot pot poure tonight.
A whole bunch of stuff.
These are all requests I had.
I've had I've probably had more requests for the Area 51 reversals than I've had ever.
And then the Queen Elizabeth was next down on the list.
And so I've got her.
I've got some great reversals on Mike Tyson when he apologized after biting the man's ear to show where he's really coming from.
And that's very exciting.
I've also got a live test I want to do on the air as well.
We've actually it's a multiple choice question of five or six reversals and one of the criticisms thrown at reverse speech is that we're only hearing these reversals because you are suggesting that we hear them.
So I want to do this test live on the air and give some people three choices and they can write to me or email or phone and let us know what the results are and next time I'm on we'll come back with the results and see what happens.
And also tonight if we can get some audio through is I want to just play some of my reversals slightly differently.
I want to play the reversals and then actually run the whole track backwards which I've never done before on the air and you'll actually hear the reversals embedded amongst the backwards run tapes just to hear how it actually occurs in all right why don't we see if we're in business here why don't we go to a couple of test reversals and see if it's going to work.
All right let me go back to my patch.
Just hang on one second.
All right.
Off the phone and back to the patch and back to a little bit of hum I suspect.
Quite a bit of hum.
Is there really?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Well let me let me run a reversal of Mike Tyson.
Okay, sure.
Go right ahead.
See how we can hear this.
unidentified
Other than to say when the button occurs and I thought I might lose because of a severe cut above my eye, I just snapped.
art bell
And are we hearing that one okay?
That came through fine, yeah.
Okay, and we got a reversal on this, quite an amusing one.
Here I am, rubber duck.
unidentified
Yeah, I am rubber duck.
art bell
Here I am, rubber.
unidentified
I'm rubber duck.
Yeah.
art bell
Do it once more.
Did you hear that?
I did, but what is that supposed to mean?
That must be metaphoric.
Well, I've never heard rubber duck in reverse before.
And what he says straight after that is nearly cry.
And he's got this, I'm assuming this is a real childish-like nature.
He's really taken this very hard.
And it struck me as just being so amusing, I wanted to play it.
It's a metaphoric reversal of a childlike nature.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Let me run it once more.
unidentified
Yeah, I am rubber duck.
art bell
Yeah, here I am, rubber duck.
I mean, it's very clear.
I just don't know what it means.
And then he says straight after, nearly cry.
unidentified
And it came.
art bell
Nearly crying.
Yeah, I mean, it's just that was the very first two reversals off of him on this apology.
And the next one we're going to look at is it's really and we're just going to put up the next file now and he's got several on this whole trend.
And the next one, we're pulling up.
My computer's just taking a little while here.
And this is the next one in the trend, and here we go forward.
unidentified
And I accept the Nevada State Affairs Commission to hand down a severe penalty.
And I'm here today to say I will not fight it.
I only ask that it's not a penalty for life.
art bell
And moving on from the rubber duck reversal, he says, Yes, I'm not brave.
unidentified
Yes, and that wave.
Oh, yes, and that wave.
Yes, and that wave.
art bell
Yeah, that was very clear.
Right.
And then he says straight after that, maybe I'll find the way.
unidentified
I'll find the way.
art bell
Can you hear that one okay?
unidentified
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
art bell
And what I want to do now is run the whole lot backwards, and you'll hear those two reversals embedded amongst the gibberish.
Yes, I'm not brave.
Maybe I'll find the way.
All right.
Did you hear that?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Yes.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And see, that's how reverse speech occurs.
You've got these quite short, sharp, incredible, quite short, sharp phrases in reverse that is embedded amongst the backwards runs tape.
And that's literally how reverse speech works.
Once every 10 or 15 seconds, you get these very clear and precise reversals mixed in amongst the backwards tapes.
That is, my claim is a reflection of what the person is thinking and feeling at the time of speaking.
And let's run just two more on Mike Tyson to see how genuine his apology is.
unidentified
To those of you who say I should never fight again, I can only say that I'm 31 years old in the prime of my career and I had made mistakes this far because I had no other way.
art bell
And he says in reverse, money, get our funds, I shall be rewarded.
All right, well.
Sorry?
I heard that, but not as clearly.
Right.
He's got a slight list forwards, and you can actually hear this list in reverse.
Let me run the forwards again.
unidentified
To those of you who say I should never fight again, I can only say that I'm 31 years old in the prime of my career, and I had made mistakes this far because I had no other way.
art bell
And we'll run the reversal again.
Money, get our funds, I shall be rewarded.
And again.
unidentified
Can you hear that one?
art bell
I hear it, but it's not clear.
Right.
Okay.
We've got one more on this trend, and let's see if you can hear this one.
And we'll run the forwards.
That was backwards.
unidentified
Yeah, we're going to have to.
Right.
art bell
I'm running the whole track backwards to hear the reversal amongst the gibberish.
Let's do that.
unidentified
Yeah, we're going to have to give all this.
Get to me in the end of my mouth.
Now, that's, you know what I got.
And then you get out for lunch.
I believe it's gorgeous.
art bell
Thank you.
Now, the only word I heard clearly out of that was money.
unidentified
Huh.
art bell
Okay.
Well, we've got one more in this trend.
Let's do that.
I favor the very clear ones.
unidentified
Right.
Okay.
art bell
Well, we can move on to the Queen and have a look at the Queen's the Queen's reversals following the death of Princess Di.
And we will pull this one up.
And she went she went public with a press conference straight after I think it was about a week after some interesting reversals on this.
She was under pressure.
The royal family was under pressure to show that they cared about Diana.
Correct.
Exactly right.
unidentified
We have all been trying in our different ways to cope.
It is not easy to express the sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings.
art bell
A very strange reversal to start off with.
It says she needs this.
unidentified
Philly isn't it.
Philly isn't it.
art bell
That's very clear.
unidentified
Philly.
Yeah.
art bell
I don't know whether the she is the queen.
The queen has been known to refer to herself in the third person.
Sure.
She needs what is the question, and the next reversal gets a bit closer to that.
In point of fact, the whole trend in the Queen's reversals is that the death of Princess Di has actually been a great service to the Crown.
unidentified
This week at Don Laurel, we have all been trying to help William and Harry come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered.
art bell
And she says in reverse, the fuss will serve us.
unidentified
The parts of the service.
art bell
The what?
The fuss will serve us.
And I'm not getting that.
I'm not getting the word, David.
Spell it for me.
unidentified
Fuss.
art bell
F-U-S-S.
The fuss will serve us.
Yeah, the fuss.
I've got you.
Over the death of Princess Di See.
Let me hear that again.
Sorry?
Let me hear it again.
unidentified
That's okay.
The fastest service.
The fastest service.
Yep.
The fastest service.
art bell
And we'll look at one more on the Queen.
And this pretty much sums the trend up.
A lot of people have suggested to me in emails that there was a murder plot for Princess Di, and I cannot find any evidence of that in reverse.
But the whole feel I get from the Queen's reversals is that this is actually very convenient for the Crown because they can use Dai's death to excel the Crown's popularity.
unidentified
I, for one, believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.
art bell
And she says in reverse, sell her, feel it now.
unidentified
Hello, the libnaw.
art bell
You hear that one, okay?
Yes.
Sell her, feel it now.
Oh, that's terrible.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
art bell
Quite terrible.
And when you listen to the forwards, I'll run the forwards again.
Listen to the forwards, and you'll see how she's really promoting Princess Di.
And she's trying to literally sell it.
unidentified
I, for one, believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.
So since.
art bell
So sincere, huh?
Extremely much so, to be sarcastic.
And let me run this whole track back.
Subliminal Reversals Revealed 00:13:00
art bell
No, no, no.
Hold on.
We're at the bottom of the hour, David.
unidentified
Oh, really?
art bell
Yeah, that's right.
We're going to take a break here and we'll be right back.
This is Coast to Coast AM.
Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.
unidentified
David?
art bell
Hi, sir.
By the skin of my teeth, we have rushed downstairs.
I rewired all my equipment, and I can't hear any hum.
You tell me.
It's a lot better.
unidentified
Right.
Thank you.
art bell
New Joe better.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
David, give everybody a little idea of what reverse speech is, because there are always new listeners, and they're sitting there saying, what?
Reverse?
What?
What's this all about?
Right, I totally understand where they're coming from.
Well, essentially, my theory is that the process of spoken communication is twofold.
As the human brain is constructing the sounds of speech, it's putting those sounds together in such a way that we're delivering two messages at the same time.
One is forwards from the conscious mind and one is in reverse from the unconscious.
I maintain this is a natural function of language.
All of us are receiving the reversals of everyone else every time that we speak.
It's an unconscious form of communication.
Now, the way we study this is by quite literally recording human speech and running that speech backwards.
And once every ten or fifteen seconds, embedded amongst the sounds of the backwards gibberish, you can hear these very clear and precise English phrases that my research shows is what the person is thinking and feeling at the time of speaking.
And this has been a 14-year research project of mine.
It is all I have done for the last 14 years.
And I really only went public with this last year for the first time in a major way.
And I think your program was one of the very first programs I ever went on with this.
And since that time, we've had quite a few adventures.
The most significant of which is our house burning down.
Our home and offices were burnt to the ground six months ago.
I think by someone who was being very threatened by this technology, which literally has the power of accessing the totality of human thought.
Whatever you are thinking and feeling at the time of speaking is embedded backwards into the sounds of your speech.
All right, I have a question.
Yes, sir.
When you meet somebody, and I think almost everybody has experienced this, you meet somebody and you talk to them for a few minutes and you take an immediate dislike to them.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Which you and you really can't identify exactly why you dislike them, but it's almost immediate.
It's just a feeling.
It doesn't come from anything they directly said forward.
Right.
But immediately you're on guard and you don't like them.
Now I wonder if there is a subliminal communication going on between two people.
That is most definitely correct.
My research shows that a lot of our very initial impressions of someone are directed by the reversals that they are delivering.
I've actually got a classic example of this.
There was a caller on your Area 51 line last week or the week before last, the second day you were taking calls.
Yes.
And you were quite upset at this man.
And he was you'll hear it when I play.
I can't think which one he was.
He came on after Steve on the second day and you did not believe he knew anything about Area 51.
And you got quite upset at this man.
I remember.
And he gave two very powerful reversals in the first couple of minutes of speaking to you that were really quite a direct insult.
And we will play them and you will actually hear that happen.
And it's quite interesting to note that your tone of conversation with this man changed very dramatically once he had delivered these two reversals.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
And we'll look at that after.
Unless you want to play them right now.
Oh, no, I thought that's what you were setting up to do.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I can set that up.
Let's I he was I had a thing I had a trend I was going to go to here, but no, we can set that one up right now.
And so I will do that while I'm listening.
Let's do that one.
You've got me interested.
You did the whole setup, so I might as well go ahead and hear it.
We will go and do exactly that.
And while I'm setting this up, I mentioned my house fire recently that we had six months ago.
Strange Universe has just finished doing an intensive investigation into the whole house fire, and they will be airing a special on that tomorrow night on Strange Universe.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah, it's a seven-minute story.
It's one of the longest stories they have ever done.
And they interviewed private and private investigators and fire officials.
So, in other words, we'll get to see the whole story tomorrow night.
You'll get to see the whole story tomorrow night, including footage of the fire and the house after the fire.
It's a very dramatic piece.
So, here's this quora, and I'm going to play the first section forwards.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
And then I answered two with Thomas Moran.
Are you familiar with Thomas Moran?
And the very first reversal here says, Is this man an enemy?
And I don't know whether that's directed towards you or towards Thomas Moran, but either way, we've got that aggressive type reversal.
Just now, end of the end, end of the year?
Yeah, is this man an enemy?
Correct.
And we'll do it one more time.
Just may an end of the second reversal either is even more aggressive than this.
And as soon as this second reversal is delivered, your whole tone begins to change.
And we'll run this forwards now.
Yeah, you know all those signs, and we're aware of all these signs.
We know deadly force will be used if you go beyond this perimeter.
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
A very aggressive reversal.
We all use Nazi love.
We don't use Nazi love.
And again, we all use Nazi love.
Nazi love.
And he's talking forwards about the protection and the force that supposedly takes place in this Area 51.
So I think he's getting into that whole thought pattern.
And there's a conspiratorial type tone to his voice and the whole way he's speaking.
And I can certainly see how he would have gotten your backup.
But is this man an enemy?
And we all use Nazi love, two very direct attacking reversals.
And then your whole tone in the interview shifted fairly dramatically.
And let me play you the next reversal on you with this is right at the very end.
And I've got several reversals on you this time.
You mentioned me last time too.
I did.
I said, yeah, go ahead and reverse me.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Which operates a subsidiary in New York called the Council on Foreign Relations.
Oh, here we go.
There you go.
unidentified
Oh, here we go.
art bell
And you obviously meant that, because backwards, you say exactly the same thing.
Oh, here we go.
Originary gone.
unidentified
Oh.
art bell
Original.
Hear that?
Yes, I do.
And let's run that forwards and back.
Oh, here we go.
And backwards?
Origin we're going.
There we go.
So at least I'm congruent.
You were very congruent in this particular case.
And in point of fact, most of your reversals were quite congruent.
A couple of them, I have a couple of questions over some of them, which when we play them, perhaps you can help me solve some of my questions.
I'd just love to, if it's me.
Okay.
Well, let's get right along with this.
Before we move on to Area 51, we have a whole bunch of other stuff I want to play.
And I want to have a quick look at Bill Clinton and a reversal I found on him the other day that really quite threw me.
And I'm just going to simply play it and let people draw their own conclusions.
It was from a press conference at the he was announcing some changes in to tobacco regulations, particularly around teenagers.
Oh, yes.
So let's run this forward.
unidentified
The health of our people, and especially the health of our children, must be paramount in our thinking, in our vision, and in our efforts.
That's why a year ago I worked with the FDA and we launched.
art bell
Now, before I play the reversal, one of the things about reverse speech is that reverse speech is complementary to the forward dialogue.
By complementary, I mean there is this direct contextual relationship.
And when he talks about the FDA, he says in reverse, they pay for dope.
And there's my stutter.
They pay for dope.
unidentified
Dope.
art bell
I'm sorry.
unidentified
Sorry?
art bell
I'm sorry.
I keep stepping on it, and I don't mean to.
So go ahead.
No, that's fine.
They pay for dope, which really, it's a bizarre reversal to hear on tobacco regulations and teenagers.
Go ahead and do it again.
unidentified
Okay.
You hear that?
Yep.
art bell
And again.
And then he says another reversal straight after that that says, how I agree and I accept this.
unidentified
How I agree, Yanstad.
art bell
I accept that.
unidentified
How I agree, Yanstad.
Yep.
art bell
And that really concerned me quite dramatically.
They pay for dope.
They pay for dope.
And then he goes on and qualifies it by saying, I agree and accept this.
As I've said many times about reverse speech, some of the reversals I don't understand.
But if we're to take reverse speech literally, then the question needs to be asked: what are they doing paying for dope?
I have a question.
Yes, sir.
How do you discern between a literal reversal and a metaphoric reversal?
It's by the terminology that the reversal uses and also by the tonality of the reversals.
Metaphoric reversals will have an extremely sing-song.
Well, reversals have a thing-song etheric tone to it anyway, but the metaphors have this very distinct etheric tone.
And it uses archetypal symbols and mythology, wolf, goddess, Lancelot, Garden of Eden.
But ultimately, there is still the whole research around what is literal and what is metaphoric is still being researched.
Also, they tend to occur in clusters.
By clusters, I mean metaphors will run in three or four metaphoric statements all in a row, or literal reversals will also run in a cluster.
You'll get three or four of them bunched together.
Typically, I suppose there is no absolute, but typically, how many of the reversals, percentage-wise, turn out to be metaphoric versus literal?
Far more than I would wish.
At least 70 to 80% of the reversals are metaphoric in nature.
And I maintain that is because the unconscious mind thinks and functions in pictures and images or metaphor.
And the unconscious mind is by far the greatest region of human consciousness.
Only 5 to 10% of the totality of the psyche exists in the conscious area of the mind.
And reverse speech is accessing all areas of consciousness.
So you're getting a vast majority of metaphoric reversals.
And the whole area of interpretation of reversals is still a science that is being understood and unraveled as we go.
Reverse Speech Reversals 00:15:29
art bell
There's no doubt in my mind and many of the minds of my peers that the phenomenon of reverse speech itself is extremely real.
I think I validated that beyond any shadow of a doubt as far as I'm concerned.
Have you done any reversals yet on President Clinton or Vice President Gore regarding the campaign finance scandal?
No, I have not done any about that.
I think that's one thing to do, but I haven't done reversals on them yet.
I've got a reversal on Clinton where he talked about his balanced budget.
Did I play that on your program when he announced a balanced budget?
And he indicates that the balanced budget is not real.
It's a fake.
It's a, well, to use his own words, see the fake.
Well, I don't need a reversal to know that, but it would nevertheless be interesting to hear it from his very own reversed mouth.
Okay, so we're just pulling that one up right now.
And we've got two reversals here, and here we go.
The budget agreement that we announced today would not be possible had it not been for the tough vote taken in 1993.
And the first reversal here says we had to sign it.
unidentified
We are designed it.
We are designed it.
That's all.
We are desired.
art bell
And that's exactly right.
They had to sign it.
Oh, they had no choice.
There was great political pressure.
And then he continues on.
By investing fully $24 billion, we will be able to provide quality medical care for these children, everything from regular checkups to major surgeries.
And then he says, see the fake, look it up.
See you the first look it up.
You hearing that one okay?
unidentified
Oh, yes.
art bell
Yeah, and you know, look it up.
All one has to do is go and look at the bill itself to see the fake, to use his own words.
Is your new house fireproof?
Oh, boy, what a question.
We've actually been approached by a couple of builders who are offering to build a fireproof house for us, and I personally think we need to take them up on that, especially once you see the Strange Universe report tomorrow night.
I live in an extremely risky occupation.
You do, it's true, you do.
Yeah, I didn't really take it seriously when I first came out with this.
I kind of thought a lot of it was just conspiratorial or paranoia mentality.
And not only have we had the fire, but my office has been broken into several times, and we're being followed.
And it's just extremely bizarre some of the things that have happened to us since we've gone public with this.
Well, even paranoids occasionally have their homes burned down.
Yeah, that's true.
No, it's risky.
I mean, when you begin to do this to people, to reverse them and expose them, you're not going to be their best friend all the time.
Well, our world lives.
We live in a world of illusions and lies and half-truths and incongruities.
And I personally think reverse speech is probably the first real technology available to us yet that can go straight to the source of truth.
And, you know, I don't want to sound like I've got a blasé attitude about it, but well, I've got about six I want to play on the air.
Quite frankly, he was very difficult to find reversals on.
They were very scattered.
He spoke in a very monotone voice.
Yes, he did.
And you really need a lot of tonal inflections in voices to find the reversals.
But yeah, I've got some pretty reversals on him that will, I think, show at least where he's coming from.
You get more from emotion, don't you?
Oh, most definitely.
Emotion and casual conversation.
And the increase is very, very dramatic.
In emotion, you will get reversals once every two or three seconds.
But when you get the public prepared script, particularly if someone is reading or they're very monotone and left-brained.
Then you don't get so many reversals.
All right, David, hold on.
We're at the top of the answer.
He's all the way up in Alaska now.
I want to go, David.
I'm going to leave it up to you.
I know what the categories are, but oh, I'll tell you what.
I've got a couple of questions.
Then I'll let you go where you want.
Art, would you please ask David?
This is Bob in Norco, California.
If more than one person used the same sentence, word for word, would the reversal be the same?
Generally speaking, no, it would not be the same, especially if they are speaking in different intonations and accents.
Reversals are not caused by the words that we use, but rather by the sounds of speech.
But if you could repeat the same sentence exactly the same way as it was spoken, I mean, if two people speak it in exactly the same context and exactly the same accent, they may get something sounding similar.
But generally, the way we speak in natural conversation is not that way.
Sentences very dramatically.
And so that would generally not be the case.
All right.
So there we go.
Okay.
Well, look, what I'm going to do is I'm going to just I've got I've got our friend Brother Theiron Muhammad Ali queued up, so I'm just going to play three or four reversals on him.
Then I want to do a live reversal test.
I spoke to you about this off the air.
unidentified
Correct.
art bell
And then we'll go on to Mark Furman.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Yes, sure.
Okay, so here we have Brother Thiron when he first came onto your program.
unidentified
I am Brother Their An Ali.
I am a member of the Nation of Islam.
art bell
Okay, speaking with Philly with some confidence for us, but in reverse he says, I'll sit in shame.
unidentified
I'll sit in shame.
I'll sit in shame.
I'll live in shame.
art bell
You hear that one okay?
I'll sit in shame.
Exactly.
Now, why would he sit in shame?
Well, because of let's look at his next reversal I want to play, and that may answer some of this.
Sorry?
Oh, let's start this again.
unidentified
Okay.
art bell
Okay, we got a slight problem.
Here we do it again.
That they are following him because they are planning to assassinate Farrakhan?
unidentified
It may not be the FBI that does it.
The FBI may turn over the information.
art bell
So he's talking about the FBI, and in reverse, he says, denied faith deserves to die.
Talking about the FBI.
unidentified
They're not faith.
Denied.
Oh, God, that's nice.
art bell
I've got to stop doing that.
Exceptionally clear reversal.
Yeah, exceptionally faith.
And again?
unidentified
Don't you faith.
Deny.
art bell
Very clear.
Yeah, and this is generally his entire trend.
The reversals, a lot of his reversals were not clear enough for public air play.
They're very low validity.
But his all of his reversals were generally full of death and anger, wanting to kill.
I want to play that one once more.
Then I'm going to play your reversal that occurred pretty well not long after this one.
unidentified
All right.
Good night, faith.
Good night.
Okay.
art bell
And as you mentioned earlier, reversals can be perceived unconsciously, which is one of the reasons why I think you took an aversion to that Area 51 caller earlier on.
And then you come on not long after this and say this forward.
unidentified
It would be immense suffering for everyone.
art bell
All right.
All right.
Looks, let's get down to another very important question at this point.
You know, it sounds and then you say, sit down in shock.
Sit down each.
You hear that one, okay?
Yes, I wonder what I meant by that.
Oh, well, I think, well, the whole interview was very tense.
And I think probably some of the things that he was communicating to you.
Oh, man, was it tense?
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
The whole thing.
He just wouldn't let up.
No, he really wouldn't.
And I think a lot of it was reacting to the reversals themselves, which were full of hatred and anger and violence.
And this next one, which the last one I want to play on him, pretty well sums up the whole lot along with Denied Faith Deserve to Die.
He's talking about some of the anger the blacks feel in American society and the slavery issues discussed forwards as well.
unidentified
Amongst the minds of the people, where they recognize that we will not get anything from being here in America, we are the descendants of slaves brought here on slave ships.
art bell
And then he says her crime in it, I think her is referring to America and the crime of slavery.
Oh, there's two reversals right next to each other.
Her crime in it, followed by they feel it, a gun.
And the they, I believe, is the blacks and the gun is a symbol of violence.
unidentified
Is that one okay, too?
Yes.
Yes.
art bell
And once more.
And what I want to do is I want to play this whole track backwards, and you will hear the reversals mixed in amongst the gibberish.
Two reversals, her crime in it, followed by they feel it, a gun.
unidentified
Amongst the minds of the people.
Do you hear that?
Yes.
art bell
Yeah, so let's just do that one more time for those who missed it.
A little bit of gibberish beforehand.
And there's those reversals slapped right in the center of the backwoods gibberish.
Okay, and there we go.
You must go absolutely nuts trying to find this.
Oh, you have no idea.
It sounds very easy when I play these on the air, but the work that goes into this is intense.
I think I've mentioned before, it probably takes me a good 100 hours of work to prepare for one broadcast.
And it's probably one of the factors that deters students from very serious research into this is that it's such a tremendously time-consuming process.
Sure.
But that's about to change.
I mentioned on the last program we've had some software developed that can actually find the reversals.
It won't actually decipher them yet, but at least we can go straight to it and find them.
Reversals have a very unique tonal signature that the computer is able to locate.
So the computer then just looks for a tonal change?
Correct.
It recognizes the way the program works, it highlights the section with a gray colour.
I mean, I'm not too sure how the software finds it, but you see the waveforms, and then this gray color bar appears scattered throughout the waveforms where the reversals are.
And we haven't really had the chance to use it yet.
It's only just come out.
Are you going to make it available to the public at some point?
Yeah, we are making that and a whole lot of other stuff available.
We're having our first reverse speech annual convention in the first week of December on December 12th, 13th, and 14th.
And actually, if people are interested in that, maybe they could give us a call.
That's at 1-800-669-5789.
1-800-669-89.
5789.
5789.
And our target is to have this software package ready, as well as a software package we're currently working on that will turn the computer itself into a reversing machine.
It will have instant forwards and backwards rather than the highlighting of the sections now we want to reverse, which should take a fair bit of time.
That software package is halfway through, plus we're designing our own machine with our own brand name, and we're hoping to have that out by December as well.
All right, well, it seems to me that the fact that software can be designed to locate the reversals by the tonal change validates the whole concept of reverse speech.
Oh, yeah, most definitely.
In other words, not just what we think we're hearing, but if a machine can be programmed to detect that tonal change, then you have an extra validation here.
Oh, right.
And, you know, you yourself have commented on this unique tonal shift that the reversals have.
You can hear it auditorily.
Particularly with infants, which I love.
They are my favorite.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
We actually, we should do a couple of them.
Yeah, please go right ahead.
By all means.
I presume from time to time people send you their own.
Oh, yeah, we get quite a few sent to actually.
I get many reversals sent to me.
And we're going to pull up a couple of these kids now.
And you've got to realize while I'm pulling this up that reverse speech as a science is still in its very early stages.
It's like the crystal radio set is the closest comparison I can get to it.
And I'm sure 20 years from now I'm going to look back at what we've done in this current time and laugh at the complexity and the labor that we went through.
And okay, the first kid I'm going to play actually has a very simple metaphor that may introduce you to this whole concept.
And this is a chart I was over the pair.
This is me speaking, and I was over at the parents' house talking, and you can hear the kids singing in the background.
OK, do you hear the baby crying in the background?
unidentified
Yes.
art bell
And backwards, he says, I miss my little pony, my little pony, my little pony.
And in this case, pony was his identification with his father.
It was a security blanket in the sense.
And the mother and father had only broken up a couple of months beforehand.
David Help Me 00:03:41
art bell
This is one I haven't played you before.
Did you hear that okay?
Just barely, but you know, I could just barely hear it forward, so I'm hearing it as well in reverse as I heard it forward.
Okay, well, let's go to perhaps one a little bit clearer then.
And this is my daughter in the bathtub.
She's trying to pick up a cup, and I've played you this one before, and she can't pick it up, and she reaches out to me for help.
We'll run this forward now.
And backwards she says, David, help me.
That's very clear.
She says, David, help me.
David, I'm convinced she says, David again at the end.
Right, and that's an exceptionally clear reversal.
And let's look at one.
This is a kid whose pants have fallen down and broken, and dad is bringing him a new pair of pants.
And we're running it forward now.
unidentified
And that way, baby.
You are that way, baby.
Yeah, you're a very, you're not crying, baby.
art bell
You're a happy baby.
Your baby's pants are going to stay up.
And the right.
And the baby says, it broke, mommy.
Very clear.
Oh, very clear.
It broke, mommy.
Yeah, and let's whip through a couple of other ones.
Oh, here's one I don't think I've played on your program.
One of the things I'm finding is that children are speaking in reverse from as early as four months of age.
And this is one such example.
It's a single word, which is usually, you know, they're pronouncing single words first and then gradually expand out to two or three words.
And we'll run that in reverse.
And right at the end, you hear this very clear how...
I love you.
Ooh, I heard that.
And again.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
Oh, that makes sense.
That'd be a first word.
Oh, yeah, that is one of the very first words.
Well, certainly with this one, I think this was found by one of my students at four months of age.
And kids are just great in reverse.
Here's another one I don't think I've played as well.
I've just got so many of them, and I tend to go to my standard sound bites, you know, and I forget some of the incredible portfolios I've got of them.
And here's a three-year-old, and there's two children playing together, and one of them notices an inoculation mark on the other child's arm.
unidentified
He has invented that what they say.
art bell
And in reverse, she says, I hated them.
Collective Consciousness Theory 00:02:59
unidentified
I hated them.
art bell
And again, I hated them.
All right, now, I've heard this again and again and again and again and again on these children, this ethereal kind of wavy, odd sound.
It sounds like it's coming from the Twilight Zone or something.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
And why?
I don't totally have an explanation for that.
Some people just say it's the audio quality of kids, I mean, or a tape recorder in the background with echoes, but I don't buy that.
Oh, I don't either, because you hear the same thing with adults, the same kind of echoey background in many of the forward and then reversals, and you don't get that ethereal quality.
No, you really don't.
My personal theory, and it's a theory only, and it's a little bit bizarre, but this is what I think.
Think that at the base level of consciousness, the consciousness is comprised not just of one ego or one id, but it's comprised of a multitude of different parts that all make up consciousness.
And it's very common in reverse to hear self discussing with self different concepts.
I shall do this, I shan't do this, I will do that, I won't do that.
And sometimes I think all of these different voices speak together in the one voice.
And it almost sounds like many different voices speaking, speaking.
Well, maybe it's a kind of a collective consciousness before the individual emerges.
I think that's a very good explanation for it.
I really do.
Yeah, that is, I, you know, I that's the word I would have used: the collective unconscious or a collective consciousness of different parts.
Well, there's so many things, David, that we don't understand about ourselves.
Yes, there's so many things that I don't understand about myself.
I had a fairly good self-image before I started reverse speech.
I kind of figured I knew how the world worked and how everything went and who I was and why I was here.
And in the first few years, reverse speech just tear away everything I knew about myself and everything I believed.
And it's pretty shocking to look at yourself in the mirror and see what's really there.
When you expose people to their own reversals, and you don't hold back.
Yes.
What reaction do you generally get from people?
Do you find that it changes them?
Does it work on them as a psychiatrist would go to work on them?
Or do they get angry?
It depends on the person.
It depends on how congruent they are with each other, with themselves.
I remember one case at the top of my head where the person got so angry and so vicious, they stormed out of my office halfway through the presentation.
Malpractice Huh? 00:02:41
art bell
And I had a sheriff knock on my door a week later with a summons to appear in court.
They were absolutely livid and were suing me for malpractice, and I won the case.
Excuse me, malpractice?
unidentified
Uh-huh.
art bell
Malpractice, huh?
How are they going to nail you for malpractice?
Well, they can't.
They had no basis.
They were essentially saying that the basis of the lawsuit was that I tore their psyche apart.
I see.
I told them that they were not the great person they thought they were.
The woman claimed I insulted her and was rude and unsympathetic.
When we come back, we're at the bottom of the hour.
I would like to hear what the judge had to say about that one.
Oh, okay.
All right, David, hold on.
Malpractice, huh?
I wonder if David hangs out a reverse speech shingle.
This is Coast to Coast A.M. I'm Art Bell.
Cue the one up again.
With Mike Tyson talking about the rubber duck.
I want you to get that one out, and I've got a reason for it.
You'll find out in a moment.
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I'm very curious what you've got to say about this.
We'll run it forward first.
unidentified
Other than to say when the budding occurs and I thought I might lose because of a severe cut above my eye, I just snapped.
art bell
And the reversal is here I am, rubber duck.
unidentified
Yeah, I am Lobaduck.
Yeah, I am Loba Duck.
art bell
And what's more.
Here I am Lobaduk.
The following comes from Al Collier in Little Rock, Arkansas, who says, Art, regarding Mike Tyson's rubber duck, as a former semi-pro boxer during the 1960s and 70s, the term rubber duck was an insider's term for punch drunk or a fighter who was mentally beat but whose body was still standing, a person who was literally too dazed to fall down.
Ill Maidens Share the Muck 00:11:07
art bell
Oh my gosh.
How about that, huh?
I had no idea.
Well, either did I.
And, you know, I almost didn't play that reversal.
It made no sense to me.
I'm going, run it, duck.
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
Wow.
There you are.
unidentified
Wow.
art bell
Well, you know, I've got to tell you, these sort of things happen to me every single week when I'm working with clients.
Well, particularly when I'm working with clients, I'll find a reversal that just makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
And then I'll play it, and it'll have this very deep personal meaning.
I mean, people have strange terminologies that they use themselves that no one else does.
Exactly.
Punch drunk, hey?
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
Well, well, well, there you go.
And, you know, we had another instance to this on your program a couple of times back.
I played a reversal from the Mars conferences that said the alpha searched the hill and shake the loose dirt.
And I had no idea what alpha meant.
And you had a read of facts in to talk about the alpha spectrometer.
That's correct.
And that's something I didn't know either.
And see, it's these type of things that constantly validate reverse speech.
And when you get these validations all the time, I mean, constantly, you've got to ask the questions.
There is so much evidence that comes up to validate this.
How can anyone deny it?
Especially after all the times I've been on your air and all the contextual relationships and all the facts that we uncovered that subsequently turn out to be valid.
Quite true.
All right, why don't we move on to Mark Furman?
Let's go straight to Mark Furman.
He was an interesting character.
unidentified
Oh, yes.
art bell
To be quite frank, I went into this with a fair amount of bias.
I really didn't like the man from all the media and press reports.
But what I found in reverse was not what I was expecting to find.
And I'll just lean into this slowly.
And most of his reversals occurred in the very first half of the program where he was talking about his work with gangs and the kids.
And he obviously had a great love of that.
And reversals dropped off when he started talking about OJ.
But this is the first one.
And he's talking about his new career direction.
unidentified
Kind of long way around the barn.
Instead of now working for a corporation as an investigator, what I plan on doing, I am currently investigating and researching an unsolved homicide.
art bell
But he has finances on his mind in this case, and he says in reverse, I'll send sharebroker.
unidentified
As an share broker.
As an share broker.
art bell
Sorry, I sent sharebroker.
Well, do that again.
unidentified
As an share broker.
Okay.
As an share broker.
art bell
I sent sharebroker.
Right.
Now, either that's about his financial career move, or maybe there was a sharebroker involved in the crime that he's currently investigating.
But he mentions money three or four times in this transcript, more so than I've seen other people mention.
Well, I would imagine he would be concerned about it, retired now.
Oh, sure.
Yeah, absolutely right.
And, you know, the fact that he mentions money is not an indictment on his character at all.
Money makes the world go round, as you said, in Of the Area 51 callers, and I've got a very interesting reversal to play to you on that one as well.
And you are next up on the list.
You're talking about how Las Vegas has changed, and now it's run by gangs.
Well, not now.
unidentified
But things changed.
art bell
You know, Las Vegas became a sort of a combination gambling, gaming town, Disneyland, and politics changed, sheriffs changed, things changed.
Now, there's gangs.
Now, there's gangs.
We did this reversal in class, and everyone burst out laughing.
It's a fairly long reversal, so you have to listen to it.
It's got a slight metaphoric contact, but the verse is saying, then aliens at night.
You're making ill maidens share the muck.
And ill maidens referring, I guess, to the prostitution business in Las Vegas.
You're making ill maidens share the muck.
Is that too long for you?
Well, I don't know if I heard it clearly.
I heard aliens.
Yeah, but then aliens at night.
Let me just play that half first.
Aliens at night, that I heard.
Then aliens at night.
We'll do it again.
And then you go on and say, you're making ill maidens share the muck.
You're making ill maidens, share the muck.
Okay.
So let's do that again.
We'll do it in two halves.
These long reversals are pretty difficult to get all at once.
And then you're making ill maidens share the muck.
You're making ill maidens, share the muck.
What's it like hearing your own reversals, huh?
Bizarre.
Bizarre.
And I'm interested in your catch.
Have you caught me in what would seem to be an incongruity?
No, I really haven't.
And I was looking for it, but no, pretty much what you see from you is what you get.
I'm just going through the transcript of the verses I have to play.
And no, I really didn't.
A lot of you, sometimes you're just commenting on just the controls and what you're thinking and getting the program going.
And I really didn't, at least not this time, but maybe next show I will.
I know the audience sitting out there probably going, oh, come on.
There's got to be, he's just being nice to Art.
There's got to be, I want you to go and look for incongruities next time, all right?
You want me to specifically look for it?
That's right, that's right.
Well, you know, you've got to lead people into this slowly.
I don't want a repeat of my lawsuit I had with my client who stormed out of my office.
By the way, yes, what did the judge say?
I meant to ask you.
The judge found the whole thing very bizarre, to be quite frank.
And he's saying, what, he played the tape backwards, and that's what she got upset about.
And he found the whole thing really quite incredulous.
And she really lost the case because she started accusing me of using Charles Manson cult practices and mind programming.
And she really went quite paranoid, and that's what lost the case essentially.
But the other thing, too, is all my clients, before I tape them, sign a release.
It's a standard release form and absolving me of all responsibility.
And that's essentially what happened.
I understand.
Okay, so let's move back to Mark Furman.
And he's talking about the gangs here.
unidentified
It was a neighborhood territorial type of structure.
Sure.
Kids that maybe weren't great students or didn't have a great home wife or they were criminals already.
art bell
And she he uh she says in the verse, Dear demented girls.
unidentified
Here's the vended girls.
Here's the vended girls.
art bell
You hear that one okay?
Sure.
And let me run that whole track backwards and you'll hear the reversal amongst the gibberish.
Walter Mercury or Elmo.
unidentified
Here's the vended girls.
Yep.
Did you hear that?
art bell
Oh, oh, yes, very clearly.
unidentified
Yeah.
Very clear.
art bell
And, you know, these things just stick out amongst the gibberish.
And once you know what you're looking for, they are so plain.
Sometimes I'll gasp in shock as I find one.
Okay, and still talking about the gangs and then we'll play a couple more on F and I'll may skip some and go into AJ Central.
I believe in their weapons.
unidentified
They had more.
We had a real money problem and then there was no more neighborhood or territorial issue.
art bell
And he says in reverse, no one's running in the love, home bad.
unidentified
No one's running them below.
Home bay is.
No one's running them aloft.
Home bay.
You hear that one okay?
art bell
Yes, but I don't know what it means.
Oh, well, okay.
Well, he has a genuine compassion for these people here.
No one's running with love.
And they come from a bad home.
unidentified
Oh.
art bell
No one's running in the love.
Home bad.
I've got you.
Dear demented girls.
See, and part of part of the issue in determining what reversals mean, see, you've got to realize they don't come in long, elaborate sentences.
They're very they're almost like footnotes from the unconscious.
You'll get four or five words and it's condensed down.
So you don't get this encyclopedia definition.
And it's a different language, a different feel.
And once you get used to it, I mean, that's what that's what that's what training is all about.
Probably half of my training program of my year course is spent in actually teaching people how to decipher what they mean.
And okay, so now we've got another one on you coming up.
And what we're seeing in Mark Furman, though, at least so far, is a fairly compassionate man.
Both of these reversals are reversals of compassion.
These people don't have love and dear demented girls.
And as you start to move on, this is you next.
And here we go.
And then I guess it became, as you said, a battle for territory.
And what they did control they were selling in and what they wanted to control they fought for.
You say, I make him sing on it.
They make him sing on it.
I make him sing on it.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And I actually heard you say that forwards in one of your interviews, talking to someone.
I'm making him sing.
And I can't remember which interview that came from, but sing.
Oh, no, that would have been an Area 51 call, I'm sure.
Right, to spill his gut.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
And that's what you're trying to do, make him sing.
And I'm I'm very curious to hear you track your emotional state as we get into some more reversals on you.
And a lot of my clients, when they hear the reversal, say they get this very bizarre feeling.
It's some people get goosebumps up and down their spine.
Kept Close To The Best 00:00:15
art bell
Okay, now we are moving on to O.J. Simpson, type reversals, and let us move.
unidentified
Happened it didn't happen in this case.
And I kept it very close to the best.
I kept it to myself.
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