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Searching for God with Reverse Speech
By Michael Goodspeed
http://www.geocities.com/michael_goodspeed/Forbidden_Truth.html

When I first began accumulating my reversals on public figures, I was mostly interested in scrutizing the most popular members of the alternative community. If Reverse Speech is a means of "truth detection," as many people believe, then honest, straightforward people withour corrupt or ulterior motives have nothing to fear. As I've repeatedly pointed out, the reversals of alternative figures are a mixed bag of good and bad that seem to lean toward the negative. After reversing every guest I heard on Art Bell, Jeff Rense, and Ken Daschow, I began to think about broadening my focus a little, but couldn't decide where to go.

I've never had much interest in the American political landscape, and I'd be lying if I said that Clinton'sreferences to Oates didn't give me a moment of pause. Nor did I want to use RS to expose the inane skeletons in the closet of American pop culture icons, i.e. Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, et al. I've heard David's reversals on people like Whoopi Goldberg ("Look at all the wealth I got, I suck the money"), and Madonna ("Rub my ass"); they are excellent reversals and darn interesting. But I couldn't motivate myself to spend hours listening to MC Hammer or Danny Bonaduce bemoan their "bad luck" on the E! Hollywood True Story just so I could get a few reversals.

One night, I tuned to the station that Bell's show is on a half-hour early, and heard a lecture being given by James Dobson, founder of the Christian organization Focus on the Family. I grew up in an entirely non-denominational household (in fact, I've never set foot inside a church or any other place of worship), and have long viewed mainstream religion as little more than glorified occultism (one of the few things I agree with Governor Ventura on). But Dobson immediately struck me as different than most Christian preachers who rant about hellfire and judgment. His voice is warm, gentle, and unshakingly sincere, and his message is strongly focused on the good of God. He was discussing something very personal to him, the death of his father. Immediately, I was intrigued, because as anyone familiar with RS knows, there is a greater frequency of reversals in people who speak about issues which dredge up alot of emotion. I wondered, what would happen if I played his speech backwards?

I crammed a tape in to my recorder, and captured twenty minutes or so of Dobson's speech. He was repeatedly overcome with emotion, and managed to deliver one of the most eloquent lectures I have ever heard. When he finished, I eagerly stuck the tape in my AIWA reversing machine, and started listening.

Less than a minute in to the track, I nearly fell off my seat when an intelligent voice jumped out of the gibberish and said: "And I had a lesson, SHOW ME LORD!!" This was perfectly congruent with what he said forwards; he expressed grief over the loss of his father, and gratitude to his God for the gift of enlightenment. This seemed to confirm my initial impression that Dobson is a sincere man with a genuine desire to better himself and help others. Moments later (earlier in the tape), he discussed a man and woman who attended his workshop and credited him with saving their marriage. Backwards, he said, "Yes, admit their focus." This was especially interesting, since the name of his org is "Focus on the Family."

The clarity and significance of Dobson's reversals motivated me to devote serious time to reversing preachers of mainstream Christian doctrine. Their exact denomination didn't matter to me. I wanted to see if as a whole, they would share Dobson's compassion and trustworthiness.

David Oates has done a lot of reversal work on Christian personalities, including Jimmy Swaggart, and has found them to be overwhelmingly incongruent. They often express anger, bigotry, and ulterior motives of greed and megaolmania. I'm sorry to say that I have essentially found the same thing.

Very early in my investigation, I found a reversal which sums up perfectly the spuriousness of most religious dogma. It comes from Dr. John Magee, a kentucky-fried, down-home southern preacher if you've ever heard one. Forwards, he says, "That's just what Simon Peter would say, 'Love is thy need.'" Backwards, he says , "My advice is rancid."

Other reversals on Dr. Magee are no less encouraging. When again praising the biblical figure known as Simon Peter, he says in reverse, "The scam beneath the mask." Obviously, he's referring to the scam of religious indoctrination which hides behind a veil of righteousness. He has gone on to say, "They're on the lawyers" when talking about the nation of Israel, "Goddamn you" when discussing gay marriage, "I'm a sad boy" when discussing his marriage, "Sitting in my whole," "The earth's in a lemon" (lemon being a metaphor for something lousy, spoiled), and finally, "The master of seeing earth in its cell." I don't envy this poor-soul one bit; he sees earth as a prison, a "cell," and God as the tyrannical warden. He's at least subconsciously aware that his "advice is rancid," and generally seems a tortured, miserable human being.

I found a very interesting reversal on a parishioner at another Dr. Dobson service. Forwards, he was discussing his wife's newly discovered pregnancy. Backwards, he says, "We'll fuck against the wall, we're in Hell." It seems to me that the horrendous guilt instilled by Christian dogma has convinced this man that even consentual sex between husband and wife is sinful, unclean. What good can possibly come from that kind of self-hate?

A late-night Christian talk show in Portland, OR that offers counseling to callers has offered more than one hilarious reversal. The female counselor says to a caller, "Lord, please give Ron the guidance and support he needs to make his decision." Backwards, "The world's gonna beg for His shit." What an unbelievably calloused statement. She seems to view the human race as a bunch of pitiful peasants looking for a scrap of enlightement, and she sees the love of God as nothing but "shit." I don't think I would want her to counsel me through a personal crisis.

A female Christian speaker gave a predictably bigoted reversal from her speech on "family values." Forwards, she ranted for several minutes about the evils of gay marriage, then switched topics to euthanasia. About twenty seconds later, she said in reverse, "You're a faggot." Apparently, her subconscious was still focused on the previous diatribe, and RS provides us with her unfiltered opinion of homosexuals.

I found this reversal on a homeless man who was interviewed at the Portland Rescue Mission: "Shift in the foam." When I first heard this, I was puzzled, and decided to look "foam" up in the Reverse Speech Metaphor Dictionary. It turns out that it's a metaphor for rabid, hysterical communication. Is the "foam" in this case the constant preaching of Christian dogma that this man is exposed to at the shelter?

The same man gave an even more amusing reversal moments later. After saying forwards, "I'm not so much interested in getting free food at this place, I'm here for the nutrition of the Word," he says in reverse, "I wanna eat." Brother, the nutrition of the word ain't gonna hold off scurvy or a diabetic coma, so take the food over the babbling bigots any time.

This pattern has continued on and on ad nauseam, and I'm to the point where I'm not interested in spending any more time on these folks. I should point out that it's not fair to judge members of the Christian faith as a whole by the personalities who promote dogma on radio and TV. It's an unavoidable fact of life that people who seek the spotlight often do so out of self-interest. The Swaggerts, Bakers, and Magees are the absolute worst of the worst, and there may be tens of millions of Christians the world over who are as enlightened and sincere as Dr. Dobson.

My investigation was not entirely limited to the proponents of mainstream Christianity, and I'm pleased to say that I found a spiritual teacher who's reversals are not only congruent, but are beautifully eloquent. She's a fairly obscure figure without any fanfare or cult following. She's never written a book or appeared on a talk show. She is not financially well-off and never demands money from her small group of followers. Her name is Gangaji, and she heads a small group of like-minded folks in southern California. A friend of mine loaned me a recording of her teachings, and much of what she said resonated deeply with me. Her words bare no resemblance to the rantings of TV evangelists, but she doesn't espouse the kind of flowery, New Age dogma that one hears from people like Marianne Williamson and Deepak Chopra. I can't exactly categorize her "paradigm," though it seems to be fairly influenced by Eastern religion. Her words hit mewith a jolt of truth, and after listening to her speak, I decided to put her to the acid test. What turned up in reverse?

I only had a 30 minute tape to work with, but the 5 reversals I found were poetically beautiful. They are:

"I shield my city." (City is a metaphor for the center of activity in the unconscious mind. She has aparadigm which "shields" herself from dysfunctional energies.)

"I am feather." (Feather is a metaphor I've been finding quite often, almost always in a spiritual connotation. The Reverse Speech Metaphor Dictionary (By David John Oates) refers to it as a metaphor for the shifting of the unconscious mind.)

"Sin admits it." (Forwards, she was talking about the tendency of humans towards emotional extremes. I'm at a bit of a loss as to the exact meaning of this one.)

"Now I'm real." (This is my favorite reversal of all. She has washed from her perception most of the delusions that blur spiritual vision. Maybe she sees people and things as they truly are.)

"Imminent regime." (This is the strangest reversal of all. She may be saying that mankind as a whole is on the precipice of a global spiritual awakening. Is a new "regime" for the world imminent, one that is different from our current practices of greed, mistrust, self-aggrandizement and hatred? Stay tuned.)

In presenting this material, I certainly don't mean to espouse the message that truth can only be found in New Age and/or Eastern teachings, and that Christians are all a bunch of idiots. RS has demonstrated that members of all religions are equally predisposed to zealotry and asinine thinking. I think the most valuable insight Reverse Speech has provided is that fervent devotion to any dogma is inherently destructive. People who claim to have the only path to God are invariably delusional and self-promoting. True enlightenment can come to you in an infinitie variety of ways, and how can anyone claim to know which way is right?

All my reversals can be heard at http://www.reversespeech.com/goodsp.htm