{"id":4234,"date":"2007-02-20T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/02\/20\/could-it-be\/"},"modified":"2007-02-20T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:31:14","slug":"could-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/02\/could-it-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Could it be …"},"content":{"rendered":"

 I recently came across an older children’s record player at a
\ngarage sale that had a funky sixties feel to it along with what
\nappeared at first sight to be some psychedelic sixties records.<\/p>\n

\"Sixties<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Vessels<\/td>\n\"Lord<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nThe record player was no longer functioning, but as
\nan old electronics technician and someone who tinkered with record
\nplayers as a kid, I soon had it working for the most part.  When I tried playing the records I immediately realized that I got something miswired since it was playing backwards.  Strangely though I though I was actually hearing coherent sentences.  Looking more
\nclosely at the two albums I was totally surprised that there were
\nactually two offerings of the St. Louis Jesuits from the seventies and
\neighties.  I soon had a good laugh as I realized that their music
\nsounded much better played backwards then forwards, but the smile went
\naway as I again heard more messages.<\/span><\/p>\n

This reminded me of the old controversies in rock
\nmusic of embedded satanic messages of which I was always highly
\nskeptical of.  After all most of the evil messages in rock music
\nwere actually called lyrics and anything else would be overkill.
\nBackmasking is the audio technique in which sounds are recorded
\nbackwards onto a
\ntrack that is meant to be played forwards. Backmasking is a deliberate
\nprocess and is related to so-called subliminal messages in rock music.  I started to wonder if actually a technique like backmasking was
\nreally used in the original albums that became the main stay for so
\nmuch contemporary music used in most Catholic Masses in the United
\nStates and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

I replayed the records backwards and transcribed
\nwhat I was hearing onto paper.  Now some of it was rather strange
\nsuch as the repeated phrase “St. Paul is dead…”, surely we all know
\nPaul is dead so I didn’t exactly understand the point of this
\nsubliminal message.  But other messages were quite shocking and
\nreally explains so much of what has happened with worship in the Mass
\nwith the introduction of this music to church musicians.  Here are
\njust some examples of the disturbing messages  I heard.<\/span><\/p>\n