Exposing
the Alternative World with Reverse Speech
By Michael Goodspeed
http://www.geocities.com/michael_goodspeed/Forbidden_Truth.html
Over the past several months, I've been doing reversal
work on some of the most noted figures in the world of
alternative thinking. These include Whitley Strieber,
Richard Hoagland, Peter Gersten, Sherman Skolnick, Jeff
Rense, Lloyd Pye, and Dr. Bruce Goldberg. They are people
whom I have long been interested in, and in some cases,
have had great admiration and respect for. To say that
their reversals have served as a rude awakening would be
a profound understatement.
I've been a member of the alternative community for just
over 10 months now, since I began doing my internet show
with the Extraordinary News Network. I've met and have
interviewed some of the people I've done reversals on,
including including Goldberg and Rense. I realize that in
presenting "negative" reversals on these folks,
I run the risk of developing a reputation as a naysayer,
a debunker, and/or a Bell basher. Anyone who believes
such things is profoundly ignorant, and should be aware
of two important facts.
1) Reversals say what they say, irrespective of my
personal opinions. I can't coax a person into saying
something in reverse that he/she doesn't want to say.
2) I stand to gain nothing by angering the most popular
members of the UFO community and other alternative
disciplines.
Quite the opposite is true; I am the host of a paranormal
internet-show, and need to maintain good professional
relationships with all of my future guests.
I think that David Oates summed up the current state of
the alternative world quite nicely in this editorial,
which is posted at www.reversespeech.com/goodsp.htm
: "I have (been) posting Michael's reversals on
alternate leaders for several months now. To say they are
disappointing is a bit of an understatement. They show
most of them to (be) hoodlums and delusional thieves. I
find it very ironic that Reverse Speech was embraced with
open arms by the alternate community in the States as the
ultimate means of finding the corruption in the US
government and its agencies, and then it was dropped like
a sack of hot potatoes when it began to turn its
attention onto the very people who wanted it to expose
lies and corruption and found the same lies and
corruption in them. This is very sad. The alternate and
paranormal scene will never be taken seriously while
opportunists and crooks continue to haunt its ranks and
they are not only tolerated but practically worshipped by
the rank and file."
For those of you who share our disillusionment and
frustration with key figures in the alternative world,
here are some examples of their sometimes funny and often
disturbing reversals.
Sherman Skolnick has been one of America's most famous
political conspiracy theorists for the past 4 decades. He
is a regular guest on Jeff Rense's "Sightings"
program and has claimed in the past, among other things,
that Monica Lewinsky is a double-agent working for the
Israeli government, Bill Clinton is the illegitimate
grandson of JD Rockefeller, JFK JR was assassinated
because he was planning to run for president, and that
Ken Starr is best-buddies with Bill Clinton and was hand-picked
by Janet Reno because she knew he'd go easy on him. What
evidence has he ever presented to substantiate these
outrageous claims? Nothing to date, though he swears he's
protecting the anonymity of his many "government
sources." Are these the same government sources that
told Richard Hoagland asteroids were going to pulverize
the earth on November 7th?
Skolnick's reversals are quite funny, because of his
apparent obsession with a certain late-night talk show
host who's name rings a Bell. On the July 18th show that
Skolnick did with Rense on the JFK Jr."shoot-down,"
Skolnick says in reverse, "Art Bell will
beat the shit." What does he mean by this?
Perhaps he's referring to Bell's insistence to "beat"
through to his audience continuous hoaxes and frauds.
Skolnick's references to Bell don't stop there. Most
amusing of all is his reversal which says, "Bell's
been our monkey business, scared!" Your
MONKEY BUSINESS? Just what the hell does that mean? To my
knowledge, Skolnick has never appeared on Bell's show, at
least not in the last several years, so whatever
shenanigans the two might be up to are going on in
private.
Another Skolnick reversal shows great anger and
disrespect towards Art. He says in reverse, "Art
Bell fagged it up." I must adamantly make
the point that this is a metaphoric reversal, one which
reflects Skolnick's own opinion about Bell; we should
read nothing more into it than that. The term "fag"
or "faggot", like many racial and ethnic slurs,
is a general term of disrespect that is directed towards
people of all color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
The weirdest Skolnick reversal of all says, "Bell,
touch my feather." Feather is a metaphor I
have found quite often which often has deeply spiritual
connotations. It seems to me that Skolnick is expressing
a desire for Bell to have him on his show, and for
whatever reason, Art refuses to comply.
I have also found two reversals on Jeff Rense from his
July 18 show with Skolnick which have given me great
pause. I must say, I have long been a big fan of Jeff's;
I've interviewed him and spoken with him on a personal
level, and have found him to be a remarkably sincere and
compassionate person. But I've come to realize something
in the last several months; the only way any reverse
speech analyst can maintain integrity is to present
EVERYTHING he finds, without fear of stepping on the
wrong toes.
The two clear reversals I found on Jeff are extremely
revealing, and raise some serious issues that people
should contemplate. The first reversal says, "Or
we'll suggest the bullshit." Funny, since
forwards, he was stating a need for restraint and caution
among conspiracy theorists. My question is, if he thought
he was suggesting bullshit to his audience, if he felt
such profound scepticism about Skolnick's theories, then
WHY DID HE PRESENT IT ON THE AIR? Skolnick is a staple on
Rense's show and his website, and has presented some of
the most spurious claims I have ever heard. I challenge
anyone to point out a SINGLE claim he has made which has
proven to be true. He accuses people of the most horrific
crimes imaginable, and never provides a shred of solid
evidence to back it up. Why anyone would continue to bend
an ear to him is beyond me.
Rense's second reversal is more of the same; it says, "I
am a bitter witness," which demonstrates
that he's unhappily playing with Skolnick's crap,
possibly for the sake of maintaining their friendship.
(Editor's comment: Michael Goodspeed's articles used
to be featured regularly on Jeff Rense's web site
but ALL have since been removed when he
began to ask serious questions about certain alternate
leaders. How can a radio show host who demands
accountability from the government and condemns
government cover-ups and censorship, conduct the very same
activities upon which his show is based by censoring
controversial opinions himself? This is not only wrong,
it is hypocrisy.)
Other alternative figures haven't faired much better
under the scrutiny of reverse speech. Dr. Bruce Goldberg,
a professional Hypnotherapist and a proponent of such
ideas as time travel, reincarnation, and alien abduction,
has given some of the most troubling reversals I have
ever heard.
From a show with Ken Daschow (The Edge of Reality) on
time travel, Goldberg said in reverse, "We
train this, the mark," when talking about
his therapy practice. This should causes huge alarm bells
to go off with anyone even vaguely familiar with reverse
speech. The word "mark" is a metaphoric term
symbolic of severely dysfunctional spiritual energy,
creating dysfunctional behaviour. And what is Goldberg
"training" people to do? Well, he claims he can
teach people to travel backwards and forwards in time, to
interact with ETs from other dimensions, and to relive
past and even future lives. The potential damage he might
be doing to his patients is enormous.
An even more troubling Goldberg reversal says,
"The mark on wolf." "Wolf"
is a metaphor for one's deepest spiritual self; it is the
prime motivator behind all behaviour. Having a mark on one's
wolf is probably the worst possible insight that can be
revealed by reverse speech.
When I interviewed Goldberg for ExNews in the summer of
99, I could tell immediately that he is not someone who
likes to be challenged. He rants and raves in an
extraordinarily agitated manner, overwhelming his
interviewer with so much information it becomes difficult
to ask any intelligent questions.
This was amply demonstrated in Goldberg's show with
Daschow. Coming back from a commercial break, Goldberg
says forwards to Daschow, "Ken, I noticed before the
last break a hint of scepticism in your voice."
Backwards, Goldberg says quite clearly, "I'll
fuck with you."
Some people say that the chicanery of Goldberg is nothing
more than harmless entertainment. Obviously, this idea is
spurious; it borders on professional fraud for Goldberg
to take thousands of dollars from patients who believe he
can regress them to past lives and/or teleport them to
another time. I don't mean to sound too high and mighty,
since I've interviewed some questionable guests myself,
including Dr. Goldberg. However, I had enough sense to
NOT ask Goldberg back for a second show. Why would I want
to inflict such foolishness on my audience?
Peter Gersten, the self-proclaimed "UFO Lawyer"
who is taking on the US Government in Phoenix right now,
has given some reversals of great interest. On a recent
appearances on Bell's show, he says in reverse,
"I am a sham of evil."
He went on to say, "The weather shit,"
and "No more rape." In an
earlier show from 2 months ago, he said backwards, quite
puzzlingly, "Someone needs to pick on."
You can make of those what you will.
Lloyd Pye is the founder of the Starchild Project, and
proprietor of the alleged ET/Human skull. Pye's reversals
are intriguing, and in some ways, may provide support to
his story. When speaking forwards about the mother of the
so-called star-child, he says in reverse, "The
master of the baby." Another reversal says,
"The laugh at Eden," which may
be an expression of his frustration with sceptics.
Other reversals on Pye are less encouraging. When
speaking about his need to raise funds for further
research, he says in reverse, "I am arrogant."
No crime in that, but it doesn't exactly inspire
trust either. He goes on to say, "This will
be a Nazi," when speaking of the StarChild
Project. I found no reversals on Pye which specifically
impugn the integrity of his work; we should withhold
judgment until all the facts are in.
I've only found three reversals of any significance on
Richard C. Hoagland. In a recent show with Gersten,
Stephen Bassett and Bell, Hoagland says in reverse, "The
shots said bullshit." Some people have
claimed that he may be referring to the "big-shots"
at NASA. A far-less encouraging reversal says, "I'll
beat Jesus," which some believe is
indicative of megalomania. The last reversal says, "Sign
the finance," which could refer to just
about anything.
As for the King of Late Night himself, believe it or not,
I have only found two reversals which are clear enough to
present publicly. This in spite of the fact that I've
ploughed through dozens, if not hundreds of hours of Art's
speech. Many other reverse speech enthusiasts have told
me they have experienced the same thing. It's difficult to
find clear reversals on any host (I have yet to get
anything on Dr. Laura or Rush Limbaugh) but Art is an
especially tough case to crack. I found one reversal from
a show he did with Dames that says, "See
sheep, they make a deal." This is not the
first time Art has apparently referred to his audience as
sheep; Oates also has a reversal that says, "The
sheep, they serve me." I would guess that
the recent sales of his book "The Coming Global
Superstorm," has done little to change Art's opinion.
The other reversal I have on him relates to remote viewer
Ingo Swann. Forwards he says, "We're going to have
Ingo Swann on again in the near future"; backwards,
he says, "He'll scan their evil one."
These are some of the most significant reversals I've
found on the alternative world, and by and large, they
are extremely disheartening. People who present
themselves as beacons of spiritual enlightenment, truth
and compassion are often shameless hucksters and snake oil
salesmen. If reverse speech is to have any benefit for
the alternative scene and society at large, then it
should be used to point out the occasional poison apple
in the bunch. Perhaps it's no accident that Art Bell and
Jeff Rense have effectively banished reverse speech from
their shows. Are they doing so merely out of personal
animosity towards Oates, or are they concerned that some
of their "sacred cows", i.e. Skolnick, Hoagland,
Reed, et al, will be exposed as the frauds they might be?
All my reversals can be heard at
http://www.reversespeech.com/goodsp.htm
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