by Hugh Manatee Wins » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:50 pm
I'm very interested in the topic of 'reverse speech' also called 'backwards masking.'<br><br>This is either bogus science used for psy-ops or a suppressed technology and I think the former to discredit the very idea of subliminal media manipulation.<br><br>Wikipedia has an entry for it, of course -<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_message">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_message</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Backmasking (also incorrectly[1] known as backward masking) is an audio technique in which sounds are recorded backwards onto a track that is meant to be played forwards. Backmasking is a deliberate process, whereas a backward message may be unintentional. Backmasking has been a source of much controversy, especially related to supposed subliminal messages in rock music.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>So this 'reverse speech Saves America' disinfo website may actually be highlighting the very idea of 'backwards masking.' <br><br>Remember the joke about the guy with a covered wheelbarrow who every day goes out the palace gate after being checked by the guard?<br>One day the guard says "Every day there is nothing in your wheelbarrow when I look but I know you are stealing. What is it you're stealing?"<br><br>"Wheelbarrows."<br><br>'Backwards masking' was at the center of a big media court case involving the rock band Judas Priest and their CBS record label (CBS=CIA) vs the families of two young men who shot themselves one depressed Christmas season after listening to Judas Priest records that allegedly had subliminal messages on them.<br><br>The judge ordered that the master tapes of the record be turned over but they weren't. A specialist in subliminal messaging and the subconscious named Eldon Taylor who now sells self-help hypnotism tapes was an expert witness for the prosecution against CBS.<br><br>Taylor cites another court case about laws regarding subliminal messages that brought corporate heavies out of the wood work and suggests keen interest at elite levels of the media.<br><br>So I have many questions about this like -<br><br>Was this Judas Priest/CBS vs suicide kids case a show trial to draw attention to a sensationalist concept of media mind management and thereby protect all the other methods of mind control through pre-emptive discrediting of the topic? (Remember how Clinton's Whitewater saga protected him from Mena Airport.)<br><br>OR<br><br>Is the science of 'backwards masking' really cutting edge science around the integration of left brain/right brain functions suppressed to keep it as a tool of manipulation??<br><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=38769">www.roadrunnerrecords.com...emID=38769</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The JUDAS PRIEST Trial: 15 Years Later - July 1, 2005<br>Lenita Powers of the Reno Gazette-Journal has issued the following report:<br><br>Fifteen years ago, Reno became the focus of a high-profile lawsuit that charged the British heavy metal group JUDAS PRIEST with hiding subliminal messages in its music that led to the deaths of two fans.<br><br>As JUDAS PRIEST returns to perform tonight in Reno, those who took part in a courtroom drama that became the focus of international attention recalled the complex case that still generates calls from law students.<br><br>Other lawsuits at that time sought damages because of violent lyrics in music, but the JUDAS PRIEST case was one of the first to claim that subliminal messages hidden behind those lyrics caused the deaths of two young men.<br><br>"It was the first time there had been a judicial determination of whether subliminal messages were or were not protected speech under the First Amendment," former Washoe District Judge Jerry Whitehead said this week.<br><br>Whitehead, who heard the case after the lawyers agreed not to have the civil suit decided by a jury, ruled it was not.<br><br>"Because speech is basically the expression of thoughts and ideas that a person can reflect upon and accept or reject, but a subliminal message is a surreptitious attempt to influence the subconscious and, therefore, is not something you could reflect upon and accept or reject," he said.<br><br>His final decision: There was no conclusive evidence of subliminal messages, Whitehead dismissed the case against JUDAS PRIEST and its record company, CBS, in 1990.<br><br>The gruesome incident that gave rise to the case took place five years before the trial.<br><br>On Dec. 23, 1985, after an afternoon spent drinking beer, smoking marijuana and allegedly listening to music by JUDAS PRIEST for several hours, Raymond Belknap, 18, and his friend, James Vance, 20, went to a church playground in Sparks. There, Belknap put a 12-gauge shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger, dying instantly. Vance tried to follow suit but, possibly because the weapon was slippery with blood, the shot blew away the lower half of his face. He survived, his face severely deformed.<br><br>Vance underwent more than 140 hours of surgery and lived in constant pain. Three years later, he slipped into a coma and died before the trial began, but not before he gave his version of what happened the day he and Belknap made their suicide pact.<br><br>"It was like a self-destruct that went off," he told a Reno Gazette-Journal reporter. "We had been programmed. I knew I was going to do it. I was afraid. I didn't want to die. It was just as if I had no choice."<br><br>At the time of his death, Vance left a 1-year-old daughter.<br><br>Members of Vance and Belknap's families could not be reached for comment this week.<br><br>At the heart of the lawsuit filed against the band was the claim that their "Stained Class" album's songs contained messages that, when played backwards, said "try suicide" and "let's be dead." Lawyers said it was the song "Better By You, Better Than Me" with its subliminal command of "do it, do it, do it" that pushed the two men over the line to end their troubled lives.<br><br>Lawyers on both sides trotted out audio experts who supported or debunked the existence of hidden messages in the songs.<br><br>Testifying for the defense was Anthony Pellicano, who previously analyzed the infamous 18-minute gap on President Richard Nixon's secret tapes of conversations in the White House. The private investigator to Hollywood stars and their lawyers more recently became the subject of an FBI probe for using illegal wiretaps and also was sentenced in 2003 to 30 months in federal prison for the illegally possessing hand grenades and the plastic explosive C-4.<br><br>"Our expert reverse-engineered the songs and said they were packed with subliminals in the lyrics," said Timothy Post, who represented Vance's estate. "(The defense) had Anthony Pellicano, who came in with his $2,000 suit and Italian loafers and he said, ‘No, that's just breath exhalation that sounds like the words do it,' and Whitehead bought it."<br><br>Post said he often heard people complain that it was ridiculous to blame JUDAS PRIEST and CBS for Belknap and Vance's decision to kill themselves.<br><br>"We weren't saying the band was some kind of Svengali who hypnotized them into doing this, but these two boys were in the suicide zone," Post said. "We never said they were Presbyterian Sunday school teachers, but they were up on the bridge teetering and JUDAS PRIEST said 'jump.' This was a product liability case, and they were putting hidden poison in their product."<br><br>Suellen Fulstone, the Reno lawyer who represented JUDAS PRIEST and CBS, said Belknap and Vance clearly were troubled young men, and it was the group's music that resulted in their deaths.<br><br>"I remember one of the terms I learned in the course of trying this case was the term 'dysfunctional family,'" she said.<br><br>The band, according to Fulstone, "felt bad for the family, but didn't feel they were in any way responsible for what happened."<br><br>Read the rest of the article at RGJ.com. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><br><br>Here is one of Taylor's articles with an odd assortment of sources in his bibliography such as - <br>"International Society Of Peripheral Learning Specialists" ??<br><br>Is this all smelling very MK-ULTRA to anyone else?<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.progressiveawareness.org/articles/Thinking_Without_Thinking.html">www.progressiveawareness....nking.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>>snip<<br><br> The information presented in this chapter forces at least these few conclusions: Subliminals enjoy extensive use. Some people use subliminals without informing the public. These people deny using subliminals. These people work to convince the public that subliminals have no effect.<br><br>At least some popular performers incorporate subliminal messages in their work. At least some advertisers use subliminal content to sell. Some use a "hell-sell" psychology including systematic means designed to use subliminal information for manipulation.<br><br>Advertisers believe in subliminal efficacy strongly enough to send people to Utah from New York to protest a bill controlling it, or from Canada to Nevada to oppose a trial condemning it.<br><br>Is there a conspiracy? I do not believe we need to imagine conspiracy to explain anything described in this chapter. We only need to imagine different people doing what makes them comfortable. The next chapter explains why.<br><br>BIBLIOGRAPHY<br><br>National Research Council (1991) In The Minds Eye: Enhancing Human Performance. National Academy Press: Washington, D.C.<br><br>Begley, S. & Hager, M. (1991) Open Season On Science. Newsweek, December 16, 1991: p.65.<br><br>Dixon, N. (1991) Unconscious Perception: Possible Implications Of Data From Academic Research For Clinical Practices. Journal Of Nervous And Mental Disease, 179:243-252.<br><br>Hansen, G.P. (1992) CSICOP and the Skeptics: An Overview. Journal Of The American Society For Psychical Research, 86:19-63.<br><br>Key, W.B. (1973) Subliminal Seduction. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.<br><br>Key, W.B. (1976) Media Sexploitation. Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ.<br><br>Moore, T. (1982) Subliminal Advertising: What You See Is What You Get. Journal Of Marketing, 46: 38-47.<br><br>Moore, T.E. (1992) Subliminal Perception: Facts And Fallacies. Skeptical Inquirer, 16 (3):273-281.<br><br>Pratkanis, A. (1990) Trial transcripts of "Vance, J., Vance, E.J.R.,<br><br>Vance, P., Robertson, A. -vs- Judas Priest, CBS et al. Case No. 86-5844 and 86-3939.<br><br>Pratkanis, A.R. (1992) The Cargo-Cult Science Of Subliminal Persuasion. Skeptical Inquirer, 16 (3):pp 260-272.<br><br>Shulman, L.M., Shulman, J. & Rafferty, G.P. (1990) The New Channel To Personal Power. InfoBooks: Santa Monica, CA.<br><br>Swingle, P.G. (1991) Subliminal Treatment Procedures: A Clinician's Guide. Erlbaum: Hillsdale, N.J.<br><br>Tannenbaum, B. & Taylor, E. (1990) An Autopsy Of A Subliminal Stimulus. International Society Of Peripheral Learning Specialists, 1:2-7.<br><br>Taylor, E. (1987) Subliminal Technology. R K Book: Boulder City, NV.<br><br>Taylor, E. (1988) Subliminal Learning. R K Book: Boulder City, NV.<br><br>Taylor, E. (1990) Subliminal Communication. 2nd Edition. R K Book: Boulder City, NV.<br><br>Taylor, E., Sadana, R. & Bey, R.K. (1990) Peripheral Learning Via Subliminal Stimuli: Research Desk Reference. Progressive Awareness Research: Boulder City, NV.<br><br>Taylor, E. & Seidel, J. (1991) Marketing Study Heralded As A Behavioral Study By Four Psychologists. ISPLS Newsletter, 4:1-10.<br><br>Urban, M. (1992) Auditory Subliminal Stimulation: A Re-Examination. Journal of Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74:515-541.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>The poo-pooing over 'backmasking' has been transferred to other subliminal devices like brainwashing and Manchurian Candidates as this website reveals - <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul5.htm">www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul5.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>CHRISTIAN URBAN LEGENDS<br>Backmasking on records: Real, or hoax?<br>.....<br>History of subliminal advertising:<br><br>There have been four time periods in the U.S. when subliminal images or sounds were widely discussed in the media. Some have a spiritual or religious connection:<br>bullet At the beginning of the 20th century: The spiritual New Thought movement involved the concept that the human mind contains a hidden power that could improve one's well being if a person could properly tap into it.<br>bullet In the late 1950s: Subliminal ads superimposed on a movie. This coincided with a public belief in brainwashing and mind control, as popularized in the movie The Manchurian Candidate. Almost all mental health professionals have rejected the possibility of brainwashing and mind control. However, some groups in the anti-cult movement still believe that they are effective.<br>bullet In the 1970s: Subliminal sexual images superimposed on a print advertising (e.g. the word "sex" buried in the ice cubes of a Gilbey Gin ad). The rational is that the word would unconsciously arouse the reader and make the advertisement more memorable.<br>bullet Circa 1990: Subliminal self-help tapes. These may have become popular, in part, because of the New Age movement's interest in the potential of the human mind. Nine independent studies have failed to find these tapes effective.<br>bullet 1990: Judas Priest, a rock band, was on trial for allegedly placing a subliminal instruction "Do it" in one of their songs. 10 They were accused of triggering the suicide of Ray Belknap and the attempted suicide of James Vance. Judge Jerry Carr Whitehead ruled in favor of the band, saying: "The scientific research presented does not establish that subliminal stimuli, even if perceived, may precipitate conduct of this magnitude."<br><br>Repeatedly, the media report that subliminal effects have been tried, and proven successful. This is followed by less well reported accounts of subsequent unsuccessful attempts to replicate the results by independent researchers. Finally, material surfaces that debunks the original findings. Unfortunately most of the public appears to remember mainly the initial report. Thus, many conclude that subliminal advertising really works.<br><br>Perhaps the best known example was the "Eat Popcorn - Drink Coke" message that was flashed for one third of a millisecond every five seconds during the showing of the movie Picnic in Fort Lee, NJ in 1957. The duration of the message was so brief that nobody could sense its presence. Advertising expert James Vicary engineered the study. 45,699 patrons were involved. He reported that Coke sales increased 18% and popcorn scales went up by almost 58%. The study was well reported in the media. Reaction was swift: "The Federal Communications Commission immediately investigated the Vicary study and ruled that the use of subliminal messages [by radio and TV stations] could result in the loss of a broadcast license. The National Association of Broadcasters prohibited the use of subliminal advertising by its members. Australia and Britain banned subliminal advertising. A Nevada judge ruled that subliminal communications are not protected as free speech." 3 "Concerns about the nature of subliminal persuasion have been the subject of a United Nations resolution in 1974 4 and a hearing before the [House] Subcommittee on Transportation, 5 ...in 1984." 6<br><br>Vicary refused to release his data. Multiple attempts to replicate his study failed. 3<br><br>Belief in Satanically inspired backmasked messages continues today, mainly within the conservative Christian community.<br><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>This all leads me to think that the topic of 'backmasking' is used to poison the well of belief about subliminal media manipulation. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 10/13/06 3:50 pm<br></i>