tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70580652452188577232024-03-06T19:35:22.105-08:00Stop Child AbuseArticles about child abuse, clergy abuse and ritual abuse Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-40914516090088668262024-03-05T12:29:00.000-08:002024-03-05T12:29:55.420-08:00SMART Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Newsletter - Issue 175 - March 2024<p> copied with permission</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">S.M.A.R.T.<br />
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Issue 175 – March 2024</h3>
<h3>The purpose of this newsletter is to help stop secretive
organizations and groups from abusing others and to help those who
allege they have been abused by such organizations and groups. This
newsletter is not a substitute for other ways of recovering from ritual
abuse. Readers should use caution while reading this newsletter. If
necessary, make sure other support systems are available during and
after reading this newsletter.</h3>
<h3>Important: The resources mentioned in this newsletter are for
educational value only. Reading the books cited may or may not help your
recovery process, so use caution when reading any book or contacting
any resource mentioned in this newsletter. Some may have a religious or
other agenda that may be separate from your own recovery process. Others
may have valuable information on secretive organizations but have
triggers or be somewhat sympathetic to those organizations. less
explicitly stated otherwise, the views expressed in this newsletter
constitute expressions of opinion, and readers are cautioned to form
their own opinions and draw their own conclusions by consulting a
variety of sources, including this newsletter. Resources listed, quoted
and individual articles, etc. and their writers do not necessarily
support all or any of the views mentioned in this newsletter. Also, the
views, facts and opinions mentioned in this newsletter are solely the
opinions of the authors and are not necessarily the opinions of this
newsletter or its editor.</h3>
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<h3><strong>Information in this issue includes:</strong> Jeffrey
Epstein, FBI, coverup, criminal sex trafficking ring, Prince Andrew,
President Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Johanna
Sjoberg, Donald Trump, grand jury records, underage girl abuse probe,
Child abuse ring, Glasgow, sexual abuse, rape, murder, sexual assault,
Zone of Interest, Holocaust Tale, Höss villa, Auschwitz, concentration
camp, Third Reich, Martin Amis= 2014 novel, killing of nearly one
million Jews and others, Nuremberg Trials, Auschwitz Exhibition,
Barbarossa operation, Joseph Goebbels Minister of Propaganda of the
Reich, Der Untermensch, Utah bill, ritualistic sexual abuse of minors,
Brett Bluth, House Bill 196, Rep. Ken Ivory, Kenya death cult leader,
Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, convicted child molester Rashad Jamal, child
molestation, cruelty to children convictions, authoritarian structures,
critical thinking, Dr. Steven Hassan, Dr. Janja Lalich, polygamy, sleep
deprivation, manipulative language, irrational fears, ex‑Olympian,
Conrad Mainwaring, statute of limitations, Former La Luz del Mundo
‘cult’ members, religious event, child sexual exploitation charges,
Naasón Joaquín García, brainwashed, The Light of the World, Stressful
Life Events, Traumatic Experiences, Onset of Obsessive‑Compulsive
Disorder, OCD, trauma, development of major psychiatric disorders, PTSD,
Dispelling Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment,
Empirically Based Approach, dissociative identity disorder, dissociative
amnesia, DID treatment, DID patients, symptoms and functioning,
Trauma‑Informed Care, Training Deficits, Doctoral Programs,
psychological services, Trauma exposure</h3>
<h3><strong>The Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2024 </strong><br />
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Survivor Conference – Saturday and Sunday May 4 – 5, 2024<br />
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<h3>Speakers and topics include:<br />
Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control – Neil Brick<br />
Masonic Ritual Abuse: Its Characteristics, Prevalence and Expression in Western Art and Culture. – Dr. Lynn Brunet<br />
Uses of Art Therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – Patricia Quinn<br />
Using Creative Choice and Flow to Engage Healing States – Patricia Quinn<br />
Teaching Trauma and Dissociation in Higher Education – Randy Noblitt PhD<br />
Tackling Complex Trauma Assessment Problems with Cybernetic Big 5 Theory – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz<br />
Recovery Tips for and by Survivors – Moderated by Dr. Randy Noblitt and
Neil Brick.
<a href="https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2024">https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-trafficking-and-extreme-abuse-online-conference-2024</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Jeffrey Epstein victims sue FBI, allege coverup</strong> –
Reuters – Jonathan Stempel February 14, 2024 NEW YORK (Reuters) ‑ A
dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing
the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier,
enabling his sex trafficking to continue for more than 20 years.</h3>
<h3>The victims, using Jane Doe pseudonyms, said the FBI received
credible tips as early as 1996 that Epstein trafficked young women and
girls, yet failed to interview victims or share what it knew with
federal and local law enforcement.</h3>
<h3>Victims said the FBI finally began a probe in 2006, but ended it two
years later after Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida prostitution
charge, and kept ignoring tips until his July 2019 arrest….</h3>
<h3>“As a direct and proximate cause of the FBI’s negligence, plaintiffs
would not have been continued to be sex trafficked, abused, raped,
tortured and threatened,” the complaint said. “Jane Does 1‑12 bring
this lawsuit to get to the bottom ‑‑ once and for all ‑‑ of the FBI’s
role in Epstein’s criminal sex trafficking ring,” it added….</h3>
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<h3>Wednesday’s complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan seeks
damages from the U.S. government, the only defendant. It cited a Dec. 5,
2023, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where FBI Director Christopher
Wray was asked why the FBI didn’t do more. He promised to “get with my
team and figure out if there is more information we can provide.” The
number of Epstein’s victims is believed to be well over 100. Victims
previously reached approximately $500 million of settlements, before
deducting legal fees and costs, with a program funded by Epstein’s
estate and with two of Epstein’s banks, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche
Bank. It is unclear whether the 12 plaintiffs received compensation from
those settlements…. The case is Doe 1 et al v United States, U.S.
District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 24‑01071.4, 2024
https://www.aol.com/jeffrey‑epstein‑victims‑sue‑fbi‑185614994.html</h3>
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<h3><strong>Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed, naming Prince Andrew and former President Clinton</strong> By Samantha Delouya, Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN Wed January 3, 2024</h3>
<h3>CNN C Hundreds of pages of unsealed documents from a lawsuit
connected to accused sex‑trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were publicly
released on Wednesday. This is the first set of documents to be unsealed
under a December 18 court order, with more expected in the coming
weeks.</h3>
<h3>The documents in total, including material yet to be unsealed, are
expected to include nearly 200 names, including some of Epstein=s
accusers, prominent businesspeople, politicians and potentially more.</h3>
<h3>The first batch of documents didn’t appear to contain any bombshell
revelations. Much of the information in them has already been released
through media reports and other court proceedings. But this is the first
time these documents, filed with a court, have been released through
the legal system.</h3>
<h3>Attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell said in a statement on Wednesday:
AShe has consistently and vehemently maintained her innocence.@</h3>
<h3>The documents contain excerpts of depositions taken of Maxwell and
Virginia Roberts Giuffre. There is also a deposition from Johanna
Sjoberg, who in the document described Prince Andrew touching her breast
in a joking manner while taking photos. Sjoberg=s story has been
public, but this is the first time her deposition has been unsealed. She
worked sometimes for Epstein, and she has said that he pressured her to
go beyond her comfort level at times in giving sexualized massages.
Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre previously reached an out‑of‑court
settlement in her sexual abuse lawsuit against him, according to a court
document filed by her attorneys Tuesday. Andrew has denied the
allegations against him.</h3>
<h3>The deposition transcripts include references to several prominent
names, as has been previously reported, including Andrew as well as Bill
Clinton, the former US president.</h3>
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<h3>Sjoberg recalled in her 2016 deposition that Epstein spoke to her
about Bill Clinton. AHe said one time that Clinton likes them young,
referring to girls,@ she said. When asked if Clinton was a friend of
Epstein=s, she said she understood Epstein had Adealings@ with Clinton. A
spokesman for Clinton confirmed in 2019 that the former president had
flown on Epstein=s private plane but said Clinton knew nothing of the
financier=s Aterrible crimes.@ A Clinton spokesman on Wednesday
reiterated that 2019 denial and told CNN that it has now Abeen nearly 20
years since President Clinton last had contact with Epstein.@ Clinton
has not been accused of any crimes or wrongdoing related to Epstein.</h3>
<h3>In her deposition, Johanna Sjoberg also recalled a time she was with
Epstein on one of his planes and pilots informed them they needed to
land in Atlantic City. Epstein then suggested they contact Donald Trump.
AJeffrey said, Great, we=ll call up Trump and we=ll go to B I don=t
recall the name of the casino, but B we=ll go to the casino,@ Sjoberg
said. Sjoberg later said in her deposition she never gave a massage to
Trump. Trump is not accused of wrongdoing related to Epstein in the
documents. CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.</h3>
<h3>Giuffre alleged in her deposition that Maxwell directed her to have
sexual contact with people including former New Mexico Governor Bill
Richardson, Prince Andrew, tech guru Marvin Minsky, well‑known French
modeling scout Jean‑Luc Brunel and American investor Glenn Dubin.</h3>
<h3>A Dubin spokesperson said in a statement in 2019, when Giuffre=s
allegations were previously made public, that A@Glenn and Eva Dubin are
outraged by the allegations against them in the unsealed court records
and categorically reject them.@ The statement was widely reported at the
time, including in the Washington Post, the Hill and Vanity Fair.</h3>
<h3>The same portion of that deposition still has three unnamed people
that were not revealed Wednesday. Giuffre alleges Maxwell directed her
to have sexual relations with an Aunnamed prince,@ the Aowner of a large
hotel chain@ and a completely redacted out name.</h3>
<h3>It is not clear from the document whether Giuffre subsequently had
sexual contact with any of the people named. Other records unsealed are
legal motions filed by the attorneys. The documents are filings from a
settled case brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an American woman who
claimed Epstein sexually abused her as a minor and that Ghislaine
Maxwell, Epstein=s former girlfriend, aided in the abuse.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/business/jeffrey‑epstein‑documents‑list‑names/index.html</h3>
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<h3><strong>Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records from underage girl abuse probe to be released under Florida law</strong> By CURT ANDERSON February 29, 2024</h3>
<h3>Grand jury transcripts from a 2006 Florida investigation into
Jeffrey Epstein=s abuse of dozens of underage girls will be released
publicly later this year under legislation signed into law Thursday by
Gov. Ron DeSantis. A local judge cited the new law in denying release of
the records for now.</h3>
<h3>The measure, which takes effect July 1, would carve out a limited
exception to the secrecy that generally shrouds grand jury testimony in
specific cases such as that involving Epstein, DeSantis said at a
signing ceremony in Palm Beach, Florida, where many of the crimes took
place at Epstein=s home.</h3>
<h3>Epstein, a wealthy financier, cut a deal with South Florida federal
prosecutors in 2008 that allowed him to escape more severe federal
charges and instead plead guilty to state charges of procuring a person
under 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. He was
sentenced to 18 months in the Palm Beach County jail system, followed by
12 months of house arrest. He was required to register as a sex
offender….
https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey‑epstein‑grand‑jury‑records‑desantis‑8b6e5a3788f9caba6351321b83eb95f8</h3>
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<h3><strong>Child abuse ring warned of potential life sentence BBC Thu</strong>, January 4, 2024</h3>
<h3>A group of seven people convicted of sexually abusing children in
Glasgow have been told that they face possible life sentences. Five men
and two women were convicted in November in what is believed to be the
largest prosecution of a child abuse ring in Scotland….</h3>
<h3>The assessors will help the judge to decide whether a lifelong
restriction order should be placed on some or all of the gang, who
carried out horrific abuse against three children in a Glasgow drug den
known as the “beastie house” by one of their victims. It will look at
whether the abusers would potentially “seriously endanger the lives or
physical or psychological wellbeing of the public at large” and should
therefore be subject to risk management for the rest of their lives.</h3>
<h3>They would also be ordered to serve a minimum period in jail ‑ a
punishment part ‑ before they could be considered for parole. Iain
Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 42, Paul Brannan, 41,
Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, and John Clark, 48, had denied all
of the allegations against them but were found guilty after a nine‑week
trial at the High Court in Glasgow.</h3>
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<h3>All seven were convicted of sexual abuse ‑ including rape ‑ with
Owens, Lannery, Brannan and Williams also being found guilty of
attempting to murder a child by pushing her into a microwave and
trapping her in other places. Judge Lord Beckett told the seven that
they had been convicted of crimes of “extraordinary depravity” and they
all faced a “very substantial prison sentence”.</h3>
<h3>He added: “Some of you have been convicted of sexually abusing three
children and some of you two children. “All of you were convicted of
sexual abuse of a young child in the most appalling circumstances. “All
the crimes you were convicted of are serious. All the sexual cases are
of extreme gravity.”</h3>
<h3>The court heard two girls and a boy, who were all aged under 13 at
the time, were violently and sexually assaulted on multiple occasions
between 2012 and 2019, and members of the group used Class A drugs in
front of the children and caused them to consume alcohol and drugs.
Charges related to causing the children to take part in seances and
witchcraft were dropped during the trial which ran between September and
November.</h3>
<h3>Jurors had returned verdicts on 21 charges which were committed
between April 2012 and June 2019. The court heard that the children
first came into contact with social work in Glasgow in August 2017 and
were deemed to be at risk in July 2018. But the allegations of violence
and sexual abuse did not come to light until March 2020.
https://news.yahoo.com/child‑abuse‑ring‑warned‑potential‑143123893.html</h3>
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<h3><strong>The Real‑Life Inspiration Behind The Zone of Interest</strong><strong>=</strong><strong>s Chilling Holocaust Tale</strong></h3>
<h3>By Armani Syed January 12, 2024 The Höss villa in southern Poland is
an idyllic two‑story building with a garden landscaped to perfection.
It is also located in the shadows of Auschwitz, the largest and
deadliest concentration camp of the Third Reich. The former house of
Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss, who served as Camp Commandant of Auschwitz
from May 1940 to December 1943, shared the home with his wife Hedwig,
and their two children. And the building is the locus of the action in
Jonathan Glazer=s insidious Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, his
first film in the decade since Under the Skin (2013), and the winner of
the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.</h3>
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<h3>The film, adapted from Martin Amis= 2014 novel of the same name and
releasing nationwide in the U.S. on Jan. 12, depicts the domestic bliss
of the Höss family, who have built their Eden on genocidal foundations.
And it never contrasts this utopia with the victims of the Holocaust on
the other side of the wall. Instead, we stay with its perpetrators. The
film opens with a family enjoying a lake‑side picnic, the sunshine ripe.
But in the home setting, we learn that Rudolf (Christian Friedel) is at
the forefront of exterminating European Jews. Hedwig (Sandra Hüller),
who chillingly dubs herself AQueen of Auschwitz,@ runs a strict
household that she places above all elseCeven her husband. The family
tries its best to drown out the sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots,
but the atrocities taking place beyond the wall are undeniable, and seep
in through the cracks….</h3>
<h3>Instead, we are offered a detailed and frankly mundane insight into
their domestic routine; the children play, the husband and wife
reminisce about old memories, and Hedwig dolls herself up with lipstick
and clothing taken from Jewish women. We come no closer to knowing these
perpetrators, yet their lives don=t appear dramatically different from
our own.</h3>
<h3>ATypically we may think of Nazis and people who commit atrocities as
monsters and therefore not us, not humans[Y] which actually teaches us
nothing,@ says Glazer. AIt leaves us feeling a very safe distance,
imagining that none of us are capable of that.@ In inviting viewers to
the perpetrator=s side of the wall, he invites us to reflect on our
similarities with these people, to see that we are all capable of such
evil.</h3>
<h3>By spending time on this side of the wall, we come to see how
effortlessly the Höss couple compartmentalize the material success
they=ve built on suffering. AThey were ordinary people who managed to
separate their brains in such a way that that wasn’t troubling them,@
says Oddy. AThey sort of reveled in the nouveau riche lifestyle that
they’d carved out for themselves on the back of this and didn’t bat an
eyelid.@….</h3>
<h3>In his post as Commander of Auschwitz, Rudolph was ultimately
responsible for the killing of nearly one million Jews and others held
in the camp. After the war ended, he lived under a false identity before
British intelligence tracked him down and arrested him. Rudolph
testified in the Nuremberg TrialsCa joint tribunal ordered by France,
the Soviet Union, the U.K., and the U.S. between 1945 and 1946Cbefore he
was tried in Poland and hanged on April 16, 1947 at the site of his
crimes.</h3>
<h3>Rudolph never admitted guilt for his actions, insisting until the
endCin a refrain that became hauntingly familiar as the justification of
so many other NazisCthat he was simply following orders….
https://time.com/6554425/the‑zone‑of‑interest‑true‑story/</h3>
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<h3><strong>Auschwitz Exhibition</strong> @auschwitzxhibit The
Barbarossa operation was accompanied by an intense propaganda campaign
coordinated by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Reich.
One of the most notorious pamphlets was Der Untermensch (“The
sub‑human”), published in 1942 by the SS & displayed in
@auschwitzxhibit
https://twitter.com/auschwitzxhibit/status/1747000785102159874</h3>
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<h3><strong>Utah bill aims to define ritualistic sexual abuse of minors</strong>
by Jim Spiewak, KUTVTue, January 23rd 2024 SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) C A
new bill seeks to define “ritualistic sexual abuse” of children, a term
that sparked public interest and grabbed headlines last year after a
public spat between the Utah County Sheriff and a former Utah County
Attorney over ongoing ritualistic investigations. Survivor Brett Bluth,
who said he was ritually abused by a therapist over twenty years ago,
helped write House Bill 196. He described how religious practices were
exploited to facilitate the abuse.</h3>
<h3>“I have struggled with that very thing for many years.” The bill
aims to clearly define ritualistic sexual abuse, specifying it as an act
that commemorates or celebrates an important event in a religious,
cultural, social, or institutional context, which is then used to
sexually abuse a child. “It’s particularly heinous when a perpetrator
uses a familiar component in our society, or culture or religion to
coerce a child, to trick a child into coming closer,” Bluth said.</h3>
<h3>Rep. Ken Ivory (R B Salt Lake County), is sponsoring the bill. Bluth
said the fact that the bill has been filed shows how far this issue has
come, saying, “This is the first time those words ‘ritual abuse’ are
going to be brought into this building (State Capitol) in Utah
history.” If passed, the legislation would focus only on the sexual
abuse of minors.
https://kmyu.tv/news/local/utah‑bill‑aims‑to‑define‑ritualistic‑sexual‑abuse‑of‑minors‑utah‑county‑sheriff‑former‑attorney‑therapist‑religious‑practices</h3>
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<h3><strong>Kenya death cult leader charged after hundreds found dead in forest</strong></h3>
<h3>Self‑proclaimed pastor arrested over deaths of more than 200 people,
most of whom had died of hunger Agence France‑Presse in Nairobi Tue 23
Jan 2024</h3>
<h3>Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (centre) is alleged to have incited his
acolytes to starve to death in order to >meet Jesus=. A Kenyan
court has charged a cult leader and dozens of suspected accomplices with
manslaughter over the deaths of more than 200 people. Self‑proclaimed
pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and 94 other suspects, including his wife,
pleaded not guilty to 238 counts of manslaughter, according to court
documents seen by AFP.</h3>
<h3>Mackenzie, who was last week also charged with terrorism, is alleged
to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to Ameet
Jesus@ in a case that provoked horror across the world. He was arrested
last April after bodies were discovered in the Shakahola forest near
the Indian Ocean. Autopsies revealed that the majority of the 429
victims had died of hunger. Others, including children, appeared to have
been strangled, beaten or suffocated.</h3>
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<h3>The site of a mass grave in Shakahola outside the coastal town of
Malindi after the exhumation of bodies. The 238 victims mentioned in
Tuesday=s hearing were killed between January 2021 and September 2023 at
Shakahola, court documents said.</h3>
<h3>The grisly case, dubbed the AShakahola forest massacre@, led the
government to flag the need for tighter control of fringe denominations.
Police and residents carry the exhumed bodies of victims of Paul
Mackenzie Nthenge=s religious cult through the village of Shakahola last
week. Questions have been raised about how Mackenzie managed to evade
law enforcement despite having a history of extremism and previous legal
cases. A Senate commission of inquiry reported in October that the
father of seven had faced charges in 2017 for extreme preaching. He was
acquitted of charges of radicalisation in 2017 for illegally providing
school teaching after rejecting the formal educational system that he
claimed was not in line with the Bible.</h3>
<h3>In 2019, he was also accused of having links to the death of two
children believed to have been starved, suffocated and then buried in a
shallow grave in Shakahola. He was released on bail pending that trial,
which is ongoing.</h3>
<h3>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/kenya‑death‑cult‑leader‑charged‑after‑hundreds‑found‑dead‑in‑forest</h3>
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<h3><strong>Kenyan doomsday cult leader charged with murder of 191 </strong>children
Reuters February 6, 2024 NAIROBI, Feb 6 (Reuters) ‑ Kenyan cult leader
Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder
of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that
number buried in a forest.</h3>
<h3>The defendants all denied the charges brought before a court in the
coastal town of Malindi. One suspect was found mentally unfit to stand
trial. Prosecutors say Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve
themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven
before the world ended, in one of the world’s worst cult‑related
disasters in recent history. The followers of his Good News
International Church lived in several secluded settlements in an
800‑acre area within the Shakahola forest. More than 400 bodies were
eventually exhumed.</h3>
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<h3>Mackenzie was arrested last April. He has already been charged with
terrorism‑related crimes, manslaughter and torture. He was also
convicted in December of producing and distributing films without a
licence and sentenced to 12 months in jail. A former taxi driver,
Mackenzie forbade cult members from sending their children to school and
from going to hospital when they were ill….
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyan‑cult‑leader‑charged‑with‑murder‑191‑children‑2024‑02‑06/</h3>
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<h3><strong>6 who went missing may be tied to a cult. Here’s how social media draws people in.</strong> Minnah Arshad Jeanine Santucci USA TODAY Jan. 21, 2024</h3>
<h3>In an era when almost anyone can reach millions on the internet,
where is the line drawn between a social media influencer and an
influential leader who draws followers to something more sinister?</h3>
<h3>Six people are missing out of Missouri after investigators believe
they were sucked into what appears to be a Aspiritual cult@ on social
media called the University of Cosmic Intelligence. The group is run by
convicted child molester Rashad Jamal….</h3>
<h3>Jamal is currently in prison on child molestation and cruelty to
children convictions. Authorities say he built up an online following of
hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms including YouTube,
TikTok and Instagram, and shares his theories about Black and Latino
people being gods and goddesses, while people of other races and
ethnicities are not from this planet. He also shares conspiracy theories
in his videos about government controlling the weather and elites and
politicians being Areptilian shapeshifters@ who drink blood.</h3>
<h3>The missing people became increasingly isolated from family members,
quit their jobs and were seen engaged in nude meditations outdoors,
according to the Berkeley Police Department in Missouri.</h3>
<h3>The Apot of odd beliefs that=s bubbling outside of mainstream
society@ has always existed, said Stephen Kent, emeritus professor at
the University of Alberta=s sociology department. But experts say with
the internet and the dominance of social media, people have easier
access to them, and targeted content can drag them further in.</h3>
<h3>What is a cult?</h3>
<h3>What sets cults apart from other organized groups is they operate to
benefit only a leader, and their authoritarian structures leave no room
for critical thinking, according to Dr. Steven Hassan, a renowned cult
expert with firsthand experience escaping the Unification Church. Hassan
founded the Freedom of Mind Resource Center to help other survivors
heal.</h3>
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<h3>Cult leaders, Hassan said, construct authoritarian rulings that
benefit only themselves either financially or by fueling their
narcissistic beliefs. They become tyrannical, with no allowance for free
will or anyone else’s needs. AIf you can create uncertainty, doubt and
fear, it makes people=s minds more susceptible to an authoritarian
voice,@ Hassan said.</h3>
<h3>Dr. Janja Lalich, a professor emerita of sociology at California
State University, Chico and founder of the Lalich Center on Cults and
Coercion, was also in what she describes as a political cult. She said
in a Wired video that cults have four common characteristics: a leader
who is charismatic and a narcissist, a transcendent belief system Athat
gives you the answer to everything,@ a system of control that dictates
things like how followers live or what they wear, and a system of
influence that draws on emotions such as fear or grief to get followers
to comply. AProbably 99% (of cult leaders) are con artists and they know
exactly what they=re doing. Some of them may eventually become
delusional because they get away with so much for so long,@ Lalich said
in the video.</h3>
<h3>Jamal told USA TODAY in a lengthy statement provided by his
publicist, Nataé Robinson, that his YouTube and other social media posts
are intended to share his opinions “ranging from metaphysics to quantum
physics to marine biology, Topography, Philosophy, Religion, Black
History, World History, Yoga Meditation and Crystal healing.” “I want
to categorically state that I am not a cult leader. … I am not involved
in any form of cult activities, and my teachings are focused on
enlightenment, not control,” the statement said….</h3>
<h3>AThe dangers depend upon how one uses the internet and information,@
Kent said. Hassan suspects other agents are also at work. AIf
you look at (Jamal’s) YouTube, how did he get so many followers? Was it
really organic, or were there bad actors amplifying it, or was it just
algorithms of YouTube trying to make money?@ Hassan said….</h3>
<h3>Police in Berkeley, Missouri, have said the missing people were
followers of Jamal on social media, shared his content and referenced
his teachings. Their behaviors included engaging in polygamy, changing
their names to “a spiritual God or Goddess” and “referring to their
mother as a ‘shell’ that brought their spirit into the universe,” police
said.</h3>
<h3>It’s possible the missing people never had any in‑person contact
with Jamal, Kent said, because the social media influencer has been
imprisoned and was previously living in a different state. But that
doesn’t mean they were not among his followers, Kent said. AThat=s one
of the consequences of the internet: People can feel like they know a
leader even if a leader doesn=t know them,@ he said.</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>While cults are often thought to only attract a fringe group of
people, Hassan warned virtually anyone is susceptible, though cult
leaders may take advantage of weak moments. They use behavioral tactics
to gradually rope people in, such as sleep deprivation, manipulative
language and instilling irrational fears to prevent recruits from
leaving or fighting back. And in the age of the internet, recruiting a
wide breadth of people is made even easier for cult leaders, Hassan
said….</h3>
<h3>Lalich said in the Wired video that people on the outside of a cult
should make sure to be a “safe haven” for anyone who might be involved
in a cult to know they can go to. “It’s not easy to leave a cult,”
Lalich said in the Wired video. “It’s one of the hardest things
someone’s ever going to do.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/20/cults‑online‑social‑media‑missing‑people/72281211007/</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>An ex‑Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boys </strong><strong>B</strong><strong> but the total number of victims </strong><strong>></strong><strong>remains unknown,</strong><strong>=</strong><strong> DA says</strong> Holly Yan and Nic F. Anderson, CNN February 10, 2024</h3>
<h3>As boys, they trusted him as a revered coach and mentor. As men,
they say he=s a Amonster@ who used his Olympic fame to manipulate young
athletes and sexually assault them. Now, more than four decades after
Conrad Mainwaring trained young athletes at a Massachusetts sports camp,
the 72‑year‑old pleaded guilty this week to 14 counts of indecent
assault and battery involving nine male victims. In addition to the
criminal cases in Massachusetts, at least seven men have accused
Mainwaring of sexual assault in civil lawsuits in New York state, an
attorney representing them told CNN. And there could be more victims who
have yet to come forward….</h3>
<h3>Immediately after the Olympics, Mainwaring moved to Massachusetts to
work at Camp Greylock B a boys= sports camp in Berkshire County B from
1976 to 1979, the district attorney said. AWhile working at the camp,
the Defendant is confirmed to have sexually abused nine children,@
Shugrue said in a written statement. CNN has reached out to Camp
Greylock for comment. For decades, the victims= abuse was a closely
guarded secret. Some accusers told CNN they had felt too uncomfortable
or even ashamed to speak out….</h3>
<h3>Waxman said Mainwaring was such an Aexpert manipulator@ that he
didn=t realize he had been sexually assaulted until years later, when he
was in college. Then he felt a wave of shame and self‑loathing, the
victim told his abuser in court Thursday. AOver time, as I realized what
you had done, I began to experience many self‑damaging thoughts:
>What was wrong with me? Why did you choose me in the first place?
Why didn=t I stop you? I must be defective in some way or ways,=@ Waxman
told Mainwaring. AThose negative thoughts took up space in my head for
decades.@</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Mainwaring pleaded guilty to 14 counts B or instances B of sexual
assault involving nine male victims who were between 13 and 19 years old
at the time. As part of a plea deal, he was sentenced to 10 to 11 years
in prison, a spokesperson for the Berkshire County District Attorney=s
Office said. But more allegations of rampant abuse by Mainwaring have
emerged….</h3>
<h3>After Mainwaring left Camp Greylock in 1979, he moved to upstate New
York to study guidance and counseling at Syracuse University, according
to a civil court filing. He was also employed as a resident adviser. In
1980, Mainwaring also started working with Ahigh school student
athletes at the nearby Nottingham High School,@ another court filing
says….</h3>
<h3>In a statement to CNN, the Syracuse City School District said it
Ahas no records that Conrad Mainwaring was ever a staff member or a
sanctioned volunteer at Nottingham or in the Syracuse City School
District.@ But the Olympian quickly earned the teenager=s trust and
friendship, and the pair would speak regularly B often in a guidance
counselor=s office, Kriesberg said. AWe would talk about school and
sports and whatever teenage boys want to talk about,@ Kriesberg told
CNN. AHe was part counselor, part mentor, part coach, part friend, big
brother, therapist.@</h3>
<h3>But later, Kriesberg said, he realized Mainwaring was actually a
manipulative Amonster.@ AI was being groomed B sort of set up for the
kill, so to speak.@ In the summer of 1981, when Kriesberg was 17, he
visited Mainwaring at his Syracuse University campus home.</h3>
<h3>Mainwaring then started massaging Kriesberg….@ the complaint says.
AMainwaring used intimidation, fear, fraud, force and his position of
power and authority over Joseph,@ the lawsuit says. AMainwaring told
Joseph that this procedure was necessary so he could properly understand
Joseph=s sex drive and provide proper counseling. Joseph did not
consent to Mainwaring=s sexual assault.@</h3>
<h3>The lawsuit names Syracuse University as a defendant, saying it Adid
not conduct a background check, did not contact Mainwaring=s prior
employment, including his employment with Camp Greylock, and did not
collect references from Mainwaring@ prior to allowing him to live on
campus and hiring him as a resident adviser. A Syracuse University
spokesperson declined to comment on Mainwaring and the sexual assault
allegations against him, citing Astill active litigation.@</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Kriesberg said he could not pursue criminal action against
Mainwaring for the alleged 1981 incident at Syracuse because the statute
of limitations in New York state has passed. That's why he's pursuing
civil action. At least six other men have also accused Mainwaring of
sexual assault in civil lawsuits filed in New York state, said Kat
Thomas, an attorney representing those
plaintiffs….https://www.aol.com/news/ex‑olympian‑pleads‑guilty‑sexually‑211219752.html</h3>
<h3><strong>Former La Luz del Mundo ‘cult’ members protest religious event in Houston</strong>
The Houston First Corporation, which manages the George R. Brown
Convention Center downtown, said it has “no legal basis for denying” the
megachurch to host an event. By Eric Killelea Feb 12, 2024</h3>
<h3>The leader of La Luz del Mundo, a Mexico‑based Christian megachurch
with 18 Houston congregations, has been locked up in a California prison
since being arrested on child sexual exploitation charges in 2019.
Naasón Joaquín García, the 54‑year‑old self‑described “Apostle of Jesus
Christ,” pleaded guilty in 2022 to sexually abusing three minors and has
been serving a nearly 17‑year sentence in prison. He is now facing
another 40 years after being charged in October with two felony counts
of producing and possessing child pornography.</h3>
<h3>Meanwhile, documentaries on HBO and Netflix have featured stories
from former church members who claim they were brainwashed and sexually
abused by leaders in the Christian church.</h3>
<h3>Regardless of the church’s reputation, La Luz Del MundoC”The Light
of the World”Chas managed to book an event meant to attract thousands of
members from Houston and across the United States and Mexico to the
George R. Brown Convention Center near Discovery Green downtown, taking
place Monday through Wednesday. In the past two weeks, Houston church
members have been distributing digital flyers displaying animated
versions of García on Facebook to promote the “Holy Supper 2024” event….</h3>
<h3>Judith Castillo is among the growing number of former members of the
church’s Houston congregations that have been asking state lawmakers,
Mayor John Whitmire, city council members and Houston First, the
government corporation that operates the George R. Brown Convention
Center, to cancel the event. Castillo told them that both she and her
daughter had been sexually abused by church members in Houston.</h3>
<h3>“This convention is a way the church tries to prove that they’re
still powerful,” Castillo, a PhD student at the University of Houston,
said Sunday. “We need to protect the integrity of the city and protect
our kids from the members of the church who will attend this event. So,
knowing all the facts, why is the city allowing this message of
corruption?”….
https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/la‑luz‑del‑mundo‑houston‑convention‑18662983.php</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo – HBO Documentary</strong></h3>
<h3>This documentary series explores the horrifying, yet relatively
unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo (LLDM) and the
sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have
suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the
AApostles.@ Told from the point of view of the survivors who met to
share their stories of abuse, the series chronicles the history of one
of the most powerful religious groups not only in Mexico where it was
founded, but also in the United States, while giving voice to the men
and women who were brave enough to stand up and call out the heinous
crimes.</h3>
<h3>Under the guise of the only true church offering eternal salvation,
LLDM, which claims to have congregations in over 50 countries and over
five million followers, was founded in 1926 by Aarón Joaquín Gonzalez.
Joaquín Gonzalez was succeeded by his son and then grandson, all three
Apostles said to be appointed by Adivine revelation.@ Now, scores of
former members have come forward to describe how the Apostles built and
maintained a system to procure and groom children for abuse. The series
culminates in the events leading up to the 2019 arrest of the current
Apostle, Naasón Joaquín García and his present‑day trial, shedding light
on a story that was all but ignored by mainstream media, and
illustrating the positive power of social media to unite and provide
agency to the survivors.
https://www.hbo.com/unveiled‑surviving‑la‑luz‑del‑mundo</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo 2023 Netflix Documentary </strong>For
the first time, complainants against La Luz del Mundo megachurch
leaders expose the abuses they suffered through exclusive interviews.
https://www.netflix.com/title/81404182</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>Impacts of Stressful Life Events and Traumatic Experiences on Onset of Obsessive‑Compulsive Disorder</strong>
B Keitaro Murayama,1 Tomohiro Nakao,1,* Aikana Ohno,1,2 Sae Tsuruta,3
Hirofumi Tomiyama,1 Suguru Hasuzawa,1 Taro Mizobe,1 Kenta Kato,1 and
Shigenobu Kanba1 Front Psychiatry. 2020; 11: 561266. Published
online 2020 Dec 3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.561266</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>AIn the present study, we investigated the onset conditions of 281
patients with OCD and compared clinical characteristics among groups
with or without stressful life events including traumatic experiences.
As a result, 172 (61.2%) participants had experienced various stressful
life events, and 98 (34%) participants had had traumatic experiences
before the onset. Furthermore, the participants who had had stressful
life events showed more contamination/fear symptoms compared with those
without such life events….</h3>
<h3>We examined patients with OCD to identify the circumstances around
the onset, including traumatic experiences and stressful life events. We
found that around 61% of patients experienced stressful life events
before the onset, and around 57% of patients had traumatic experiences
within 1 month before the onset. We also found that patients with
stressful life events showed significantly more contamination/fear
symptoms, and patients with traumatic experiences showed a tendency
toward more hoarding obsessions compared with patients with spontaneous
onset.@ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744562/</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>Trauma‑related obsessive</strong><strong>B</strong><strong>compulsive disorder: a review Kristy </strong>L.
Dykshoorn a , Health Psychol Behav Med. 2014 Jan 1; 2(1): 517B528.
Published online 2014 Apr 23. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2014.905207</h3>
<h3>“The interplay between obsessiveBcompulsive disorder (OCD) and
traumatic experiences has been researched consistently in the anxiety
disorder community. Many scholars, dating back to Janet’s work in 1903,
are aware that trauma can and does impact the development of major
psychiatric disorders (de Silva & Marks, 2001)….</h3>
<h3>2.2. Possible links between OCD and PTSD Recent research has
suggested that OCD and PTSD are, in fact, two disorders on the same
continuum (Gershuny, Baer, Radomsky, Wilson, & Jenike, 2003).
Gershuny et al. (2003) suggest that there is a tremendous overlap
between the symptomatology of both OCD and PTSD. Both are characterized
by recurrent and intrusive thoughts that are experienced as anxiety/fear
inducing. They discovered that as PTSD symptoms reduce, OCD symptoms
increase, and as OCD symptoms are treated, PTSD symptoms take over. They
argue that OCD symptoms do not appear to Areplace@ the PTSD symptoms,
but rather OCD symptoms are used to cope with, reduce, and avoid the
trauma‑related symptoms and memories….</h3>
<h3>Regardless of whether a trauma theory of psychopathology is adhered
to, the evidence suggesting the impact of trauma on OCD is irrefutable.
Because trauma can complicate the treatment of OCD and/or have practical
implications about the specific course of treatment, an accurate
evaluation of the traumatic event, themes, and impact is necessary (de
Silva & Marks, 1999).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346088/</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Dispelling Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment: An
Empirically Based Approach Bethany L. Brand, Richard J. Loewenstein, and
David Spiegel Psychiatry 77(2) Summer 2014</h3>
<h3>Objective: Some claim that treatment for dissociative identity
disorder (DID) is harmful. Others maintain that the available data
support the view that psychotherapy is helpful. Method: We review the
empirical support for both arguments.</h3>
<h3>Results: Current evidence supports the conclusion that phasic
treatment consistent with expert consensus guidelines is associated with
improvements in a wide range of DID patients= symptoms and functioning,
decreased rates of hospitalizattion, and reduced costs of treatment.
Research indicates that poor outcome is associated with treatment that
does not specifically involve direct engagement with DID self‑states to
repair identity fragmentation and to decrease dissociative amnesia.</h3>
<h3>Conclusions: The evidence demonstrates that carefully staged
trauma‑focused psychotherapy for DID results in improvement, whereas
dissociative symptoms persist when not specifically targeted in
treatment. The claims that DID treatment is harmful are based on
anecdotal cases, opinion pieces, reports of damage that are not
substantiated in the scientific literature, misrepresentations of the
data, and misunderstandings about DID treatment and the phenomenology of
DID. Given the severe symptomatology and disability associated with
DID, iatrogenic harm is far more likely to come from depriving DID
patients of treatment that is consistent with expert consensus,
treatment guidelines, and current research….</h3>
<h3>The current literature provides considerable empirical evidence that
DID treatment is beneficial. While RCTs have not been conducted with
DID, current evidence is consistent with the conclusion that DID
treatment is responsible for improvements in DID patients= symptoms and
functioning.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bethany‑Brand/publication/262682220_Dispelling_Myths_About_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder_Treatment_An_Empirically_Based_Approach/links/0a85e538cb428ee6c2000000/Dispelling‑Myths‑About‑Dissociative‑Identity‑Disorder‑Treatment‑An‑Empirically‑Based‑Approach.pdf</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>Trauma-Informed Care? Identifying Training Deficits in Accredited Doctoral Programs</strong>
Robert Foltz, Aeysha Kaeley, Judy Kupchan, Andrew Mills, Katie
Murray, Alexandra Pope, Hannah Rahman, and Colin Rubright 2023 American
Psychological Association 2023, Vol. 15, No. 7, 1188B1193 ISSN:
1942-9681 <u>https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001461</u> Department of Clinical Psychology, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Trauma-informed care has become a pillar of competent psychological
services.A foundation in understanding trauma and its treatment should
be viewed as essential for clinical psychologists entering the field, as
working with individuals that have experienced trauma is inevitable.
Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the number of
accredited doctoral programs in clinical psychology that require a
course in trauma-informed theory and intervention in their curriculum.
Method: Clinical psychology programs accredited by the American
Psychological Association were surveyed to determine their requirement
for a course related to trauma-informed care. Program information was
initially reviewed online and in the absence of clear indication within
their program websites, survey questions were sent to the program Chair
and/or Directors of Clinical Training. Results: Data were obtained from
193 of the 254 APA-accredited programs included in this survey process.
Only nine (5%) require a course related to trauma-informed care. Of
these, five were PhD programs and four were PsyD programs. This equates
to 202 (8%) of graduating doctoral students having been required to take
a course related to trauma-informed care.</h3>
<h3>Conclusions: Trauma exposure is common and a major factor to be
considered in the development of psychological disorders and overall
physical and emotional wellbeing. As a result, clinical psychologists
should enter the field with a foundation in understanding the impact and
treatment of trauma exposure. However, only a minority of graduating
doctoral students have been required to take a course related to this
topic in their graduate curriculum.
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Recovery Tips for and by Survivors</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Survivors and their helpers have developed a variety of techniques toward healing from traumatic experiences. This presentation will encourage an open discussion of these techniques. Techniques will include those used in individual and group therapy and in survivors’ personal lives. This will be an open discussion for survivors and their helpers. The moderators will be Dr. Randy Noblitt and Neil Brick.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Teaching Trauma and Dissociation in Higher Education </span><span style="color: black;">Randy Noblitt PhD</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;">Clinicians can contribute to the well being of extreme abuse survivors directly by providing competent professional services. We can also assist by training graduate students who will become future clinicians. Folz and colleagues (2023) found deficits in trauma-informed training in their sample of 193 APA-accredited clinical psychology programs. Only 5% required a course relevant to trauma-informed care, resulting in only 8% of graduates receiving such formal training. We will discuss opportunities for being a college or university guest speaker, adjunct faculty and core faculty member. Participants will also discuss leading topics and trends in the contemporary trauma and dissociation literature.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">Randy Noblitt is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the book Cult and Ritual Abuse with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century (2008) and they have authored a recent book, Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates (2020). </span><a data-link-type="web" href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/" rel="noopener" style="color: black;" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Tackling Complex Trauma Assessment Problems with Cybernetic Big 5 Theory </span><span style="color: black;">Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">This presentation draws on contemporary personality assessment theory to illustrate opportunities and risks when using psychometric questionnaires in situations where extreme abuse has been alleged. DeYoung (2015) outlined a comprehensive ‘Cybernetic Big 5 Theory’ that revolves around the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality that psychologists converged on (e.g. Digman, 1990). Digman (1997) found that Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Low Neuroticism form a meta-factor ‘Alpha’ whereas Extraversion and Openness form a meta-factor ‘Beta’. DeYoung refers to these as Stability and Plasticity respectively and associates them with serotonergic and dopaminergic systems. Furthermore, DeYoung differentiates two Aspects for each of the Big 5. Johnson (2014) developed public domain versions of the ‘gold standard’ Big 5 personality questionnaire NEO which can be used free-of-charge: https://drj.virtualave.net/IPIP/index.html</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black;">The application of NEO IPIP and NEO-PI-3 to challenge poor assessment practice in a case of alleged organized child sexual abuse/exploitation will be illustrated including item level nuances (Stewart et al., 2022). Another case study will illustrate results of a multi-tool assessment of a self-identified survivor of extreme abuse using the Big 5 as an organizing framework in line with Bainbridge et al. (2022). A third case study will illustrate the use of Great 8 Totals (Kurz, 2014) as a proxy for the General Factor of Personality (Musek, 2008), conceptually the opposite of the general factor of psychopathology (Forbes et al., 2021), to challenge misleading results on the Millon MCMI questionnaire. The presentation shows how Cybernetic Big 5 Theory can help to overcome complex psychological assessment practice problems.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Rainer Kurz </span><span style="color: black;">is a Chartered Psychologist based in London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+ psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre (PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma, dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that are available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1a191a; font-weight: bold;">Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control</span><span style="color: #1a191a;"> Neil Brick</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a; font-weight: bold;">Masonic Ritual Abuse: Its Characteristics, Prevalence and Expression in Western Art and Culture</span><span style="color: #1a191a;">. Dr. Lynn Brunet</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1a191a;">This presentation will examine the subject of Masonic ritual abuse. Based on the presenter’s personal experience and accumulated art historical research over the last two decades it asks a series of questions about its prevalence, how it is similar and different to other forms of ritual abuse, how it is expressed in art and culture and what its implications are for us today. Freemasonry is sometimes described as the ‘cult of the establishment’ and there is a great deal of material available about it and its rituals that can enable research into its practices, which is not necessarily the case for other cults. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">The research, to date, suggests that the children of Freemasons are particularly vulnerable to abuse, but while they might be struggling internally with something inexplicably profound, disturbing or terrifying, they may not necessarily appear at a therapist’s office as many of them are encouraged by their abusers to express their trauma in creative ways. Driven to obsessively release the effects of the trauma, this can become a lifelong way of coping, resulting in the creation of cultural artefacts that are imbued with the traces of cruel ritual practices without the creators themselves being consciously aware of their source.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a; font-weight: bold;">Uses of Art Therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)</span><span style="color: #1a191a;"> Patricia Quinn</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">This presentation will describe the fluid uses of art therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The didactic portion will entail justification for using each modality, the benefit if the client being able to choose a treatment modality themselves, and examples of their clinical use with two clients with very different levels of access to memories of their past trauma. This effective, responsive healing approach will be useful for all counselors and therapists working in a variety of settings. The general descriptions of client responses may contain triggering content. The presentation contains a calming experiential that combines a body-based relaxation and use of art to counter-act traumatic memory.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">We recommend that survivors bring a safe support person to the online conference who is familiar with the issues ritual abuse survivors may need help with.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #1a191a;">None of the material on this page, on linked pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-58039682718047563452024-02-14T20:38:00.000-08:002024-02-14T20:38:00.451-08:00 Jeffrey Epstein victims sue FBI, allege coverup <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Reuters - Jonathan Stempel February 14, 2024 </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier, enabling his sex trafficking to continue for more than 20 years.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The victims, using Jane Doe pseudonyms, said the FBI received credible tips as early as 1996 that Epstein trafficked young women and girls, yet failed to interview victims or share what it knew with federal and local law enforcement.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Victims said the FBI finally began a probe in 2006, but ended it two years later after Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida prostitution charge, and kept ignoring tips until his July 2019 arrest....</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>"As a direct and proximate cause of the FBI's negligence, plaintiffs would not have been continued to be sex trafficked, abused, raped, tortured and threatened," the complaint said.</span><br /><span>"Jane Does 1-12 bring this lawsuit to get to the bottom -- once and for all -- of the FBI's role in Epstein's criminal sex trafficking ring," it added....</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Wednesday's complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan seeks damages from the U.S. government, the only defendant.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>It cited a Dec. 5, 2023, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where FBI Director Christopher Wray was asked why the FBI didn't do more. He promised to "get with my team and figure out if there is more information we can provide."</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The number of Epstein's victims is believed to be well over 100.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Victims previously reached approximately $500 million of settlements, before deducting legal fees and costs, with a program funded by Epstein's estate and with two of Epstein's banks, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank. It is unclear whether the 12 plaintiffs received compensation from those settlements....</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The case is Doe 1 et al v United States, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 24-01071.4, 2024 </span><br /><span><a href="https://www.aol.com/jeffrey-epstein-victims-sue-fbi-185614994.html">https://www.aol.com/jeffrey-epstein-victims-sue-fbi-185614994.html</a> </span></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-39757846732107976952024-02-12T20:23:00.000-08:002024-02-12T20:23:50.249-08:00Kenyan doomsday cult leader charged with murder of 191 children, Former La Luz del Mundo 'cult' members protest, Ex-Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boys <p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span><strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong><span><strong> <br /></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></strong></span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">-<span> </span><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">Kenyan doomsday cult leader charged with murder of 191 children</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">-<span> </span><span>Former La Luz del Mundo 'cult' members protest religious event in Houston</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">-<span> </span><span>An ex-Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boys</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Kenyan doomsday cult leader charged with murder of 191 children</strong><span> </span>Reuters February 6, 2024</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />NAIROBI, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The defendants all denied the charges brought before a court in the coastal town of Malindi. One suspect was found mentally unfit to stand trial.<br />Prosecutors say Mackenzie ordered his followers to starve themselves and their children to death so that they could go to heaven before the world ended, in one of the world's worst cult-related disasters in recent history.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The followers of his Good News International Church lived in several secluded settlements in an 800-acre area within the Shakahola forest. More than 400 bodies were eventually exhumed.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Mackenzie was arrested last April. He has already been charged with terrorism-related crimes, manslaughter and torture. He was also convicted in December of producing and distributing films without a licence and sentenced to 12 months in jail. A former taxi driver, Mackenzie forbade cult members from sending their children to school and from going to hospital when they were ill....</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyan-cult-leader-charged-with-murder-191-children-2024-02-06/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyan-cult-leader-charged-with-murder-191-children-2024-02-06/</a><br /><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><strong>Former La Luz del Mundo 'cult' members protest religious event in Houston</strong></span><br /><span>The Houston First Corporation, which manages the George R. Brown Convention Center downtown, said it has "no legal basis for denying" the megachurch to host an event. By Eric Killelea Feb 12, 2024</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The leader of La Luz del Mundo, a Mexico-based Christian megachurch with 18 Houston congregations, has been locked up in a California prison since being arrested on child sexual exploitation charges in 2019. Naasón Joaquín García, the 54-year-old self-described "Apostle of Jesus Christ," pleaded guilty in 2022 to sexually abusing three minors and has been serving a nearly 17-year sentence in prison. He is now facing another 40 years after being charged in October with two felony counts of producing and possessing child pornography.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Meanwhile, documentaries on HBO and Netflix have featured stories from former church members who claim they were brainwashed and sexually abused by leaders in the Christian church.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Regardless of the church's reputation, La Luz Del Mundo—"The Light of the World"—has managed to book an event meant to attract thousands of members from Houston and across the United States and Mexico to the George R. Brown Convention Center near Discovery Green downtown, taking place Monday through Wednesday. In the past two weeks, Houston church members have been distributing digital flyers displaying animated versions of García on Facebook to promote the "Holy Supper 2024" event....</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Judith Castillo is among the growing number of former members of the church's Houston congregations that have been asking state lawmakers, Mayor John Whitmire, city council members and Houston First, the government corporation that operates the George R. Brown Convention Center, to cancel the event. Castillo told them that both she and her daughter had been sexually abused by church members in Houston.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>"This convention is a way the church tries to prove that they're still powerful," Castillo, a PhD student at the University of Houston, said Sunday. "We need to protect the integrity of the city and protect our kids from the members of the church who will attend this event. So, knowing all the facts, why is the city allowing this message of corruption?"....<span> </span><a href="https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/la-luz-del-mundo-houston-convention-18662983.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chron.com/culture/religion/article/la-luz-del-mundo-houston-convention-18662983.php</a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><strong>Unveiled: Surviving La Luz Del Mundo - HBO Documentary</strong></span><br /><span>This documentary series explores the horrifying, yet relatively unknown story of the Christian church La Luz del Mundo (LLDM) and the sexual abuse that scores of members, many of them minors, say they have suffered at the hands of its successive leaders, known as the “Apostles.” Told from the point of view of the survivors who met to share their stories of abuse, the series chronicles the history of one of the most powerful religious groups not only in Mexico where it was founded, but also in the United States, while giving voice to the men and women who were brave enough to stand up and call out the heinous crimes.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Under the guise of the only true church offering eternal salvation, LLDM, which claims to have congregations in over 50 countries and over five million followers, was founded in 1926 by Aarón Joaquín Gonzalez. Joaquín Gonzalez was succeeded by his son and then grandson, all three Apostles said to be appointed by “divine revelation.” Now, scores of former members have come forward to describe how the Apostles built and maintained a system to procure and groom children for abuse. The series culminates in the events leading up to the 2019 arrest of the current Apostle, Naasón Joaquín García and his present-day trial, shedding light on a story that was all but ignored by mainstream media, and illustrating the positive power of social media to unite and provide agency to the survivors.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.hbo.com/unveiled-surviving-la-luz-del-mundo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hbo.com/unveiled-surviving-la-luz-del-mundo</a> </span><br /><br /><span><strong>The Darkness within La Luz del Mundo 2023 Netflix Documentary</strong></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>For the first time, complainants against La Luz del Mundo megachurch leaders expose the abuses they suffered through exclusive interviews.<span> </span><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81404182" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.netflix.com/title/81404182</a> </span></span></div></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><strong>An ex-Olympian pleads guilty to sexually assaulting boys – but the total number of victims ‘remains unknown,’ DA says</strong><span> </span>Holly Yan and Nic F. Anderson, CNN February 10, 2024</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>As boys, they trusted him as a revered coach and mentor. As men, they say he’s a “monster” who used his Olympic fame to manipulate young athletes and sexually assault them.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Now, more than four decades after Conrad Mainwaring trained young athletes at a Massachusetts sports camp, the 72-year-old pleaded guilty this week to 14 counts of indecent assault and battery involving nine male victims.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>In addition to the criminal cases in Massachusetts, at least seven men have accused Mainwaring of sexual assault in civil lawsuits in New York state, an attorney representing them told CNN. And there could be more victims who have yet to come forward....</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Immediately after the Olympics, Mainwaring moved to Massachusetts to work at Camp Greylock – a boys’ sports camp in Berkshire County – from 1976 to 1979, the district attorney said. “While working at the camp, the Defendant is confirmed to have sexually abused nine children,” Shugrue said in a written statement. CNN has reached out to Camp Greylock for comment. For decades, the victims’ abuse was a closely guarded secret. Some accusers told CNN they had felt too uncomfortable or even ashamed to speak out....</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Waxman said Mainwaring was such an “expert manipulator” that he didn’t realize he had been sexually assaulted until years later, when he was in college. Then he felt a wave of shame and self-loathing, the victim told his abuser in court Thursday.</span><br /><span>“Over time, as I realized what you had done, I began to experience many self-damaging thoughts: ‘What was wrong with me? Why did you choose me in the first place? Why didn’t I stop you? I must be defective in some way or ways,’” Waxman told Mainwaring. “Those negative thoughts took up space in my head for decades.”</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Mainwaring pleaded guilty to 14 counts – or instances – of sexual assault involving nine male victims who were between 13 and 19 years old at the time. As part of a plea deal, he was sentenced to 10 to 11 years in prison, a spokesperson for the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office said. But more allegations of rampant abuse by Mainwaring have emerged....</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>After Mainwaring left Camp Greylock in 1979, he moved to upstate New York to study guidance and counseling at Syracuse University, according to a civil court filing. He was also employed as a resident adviser.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>In 1980, Mainwaring also started working with “high school student athletes at the nearby Nottingham High School,” another court filing says....</span><br /><span>In a statement to CNN, the Syracuse City School District said it “has no records that Conrad Mainwaring was ever a staff member or a sanctioned volunteer at Nottingham or in the Syracuse City School District.” But the Olympian quickly earned the teenager’s trust and friendship, and the pair would speak regularly – often in a guidance counselor’s office, Kriesberg said. “We would talk about school and sports and whatever teenage boys want to talk about,” Kriesberg told CNN. “He was part counselor, part mentor, part coach, part friend, big brother, therapist.”</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>But later, Kriesberg said, he realized Mainwaring was actually a manipulative “monster.” “I was being groomed – sort of set up for the kill, so to speak.” In the summer of 1981, when Kriesberg was 17, he visited Mainwaring at his Syracuse University campus home.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Mainwaring then started massaging Kriesberg....” the complaint says. “Mainwaring used intimidation, fear, fraud, force and his position of power and authority over Joseph,” the lawsuit says. “Mainwaring told Joseph that this procedure was necessary so he could properly understand Joseph’s sex drive and provide proper counseling. Joseph did not consent to Mainwaring’s sexual assault.”</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The lawsuit names Syracuse University as a defendant, saying it “did not conduct a background check, did not contact Mainwaring’s prior employment, including his employment with Camp Greylock, and did not collect references from Mainwaring” prior to allowing him to live on campus and hiring him as a resident adviser. A Syracuse University spokesperson declined to comment on Mainwaring and the sexual assault allegations against him, citing “still active litigation.”</span><br /><span>Kriesberg said he could not pursue criminal action against Mainwaring for the alleged 1981 incident at Syracuse because the statute of limitations in New York state has passed. That’s why he’s pursuing civil action.</span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>At least six other men have also accused Mainwaring of sexual assault in civil lawsuits filed in New York state, said Kat Thomas, an attorney representing those plaintiffs....<span> </span><a href="https://www.aol.com/news/ex-olympian-pleads-guilty-sexually-211219752.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aol.com/news/ex-olympian-pleads-guilty-sexually-211219752.html</a> </span></span></div><div class="yiv3142370746userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-33245503853579290892024-02-05T20:56:00.000-08:002024-02-05T20:56:07.843-08:006 who went missing may be tied to a cult. 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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />In an era when almost anyone can reach millions on the internet, where is the line drawn between a social media influencer and an influential leader who draws followers to something more sinister?</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />Six people are missing out of Missouri after investigators believe they were sucked into what appears to be a “spiritual cult” on social media called the University of Cosmic Intelligence. The group is run by convicted child molester Rashad Jamal....</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />Jamal is currently in prison on child molestation and cruelty to children convictions. Authorities say he built up an online following of hundreds of thousands of followers on platforms including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, and shares his theories about Black and Latino people being gods and goddesses, while people of other races and ethnicities are not from this planet. He also shares conspiracy theories in his videos about government controlling the weather and elites and politicians being “reptilian shapeshifters” who drink blood. <br />The missing people became increasingly isolated from family members, quit their jobs and were seen engaged in nude meditations outdoors, according to the Berkeley Police Department in Missouri.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The “pot of odd beliefs that’s bubbling outside of mainstream society” has always existed, said Stephen Kent, emeritus professor at the University of Alberta’s sociology department. But experts say with the internet and the dominance of social media, people have easier access to them, and targeted content can drag them further in.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />What is a cult?<br />What sets cults apart from other organized groups is they operate to benefit only a leader, and their authoritarian structures leave no room for critical thinking, according to Dr. Steven Hassan, a renowned cult expert with firsthand experience escaping the Unification Church. Hassan founded the Freedom of Mind Resource Center to help other survivors heal.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Cult leaders, Hassan said, construct authoritarian rulings that benefit only themselves either financially or by fueling their narcissistic beliefs. They become tyrannical, with no allowance for free will or anyone else's needs.<br />“If you can create uncertainty, doubt and fear, it makes people’s minds more susceptible to an authoritarian voice,” Hassan said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Dr. Janja Lalich, a professor emerita of sociology at California State University, Chico and founder of the Lalich Center on Cults and Coercion, was also in what she describes as a political cult. She said in a Wired video that cults have four common characteristics: a leader who is charismatic and a narcissist, a transcendent belief system “that gives you the answer to everything,” a system of control that dictates things like how followers live or what they wear, and a system of influence that draws on emotions such as fear or grief to get followers to comply.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />“Probably 99% (of cult leaders) are con artists and they know exactly what they’re doing. Some of them may eventually become delusional because they get away with so much for so long,” Lalich said in the video.</span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Jamal told USA TODAY in a lengthy statement provided by his publicist, Nataé Robinson, that his YouTube and other social media posts are intended to share his opinions "ranging from metaphysics to quantum physics to marine biology, Topography, Philosophy, Religion, Black History, World History, Yoga Meditation and Crystal healing." "I want to categorically state that I am not a cult leader. ... I am not involved in any form of cult activities, and my teachings are focused on enlightenment, not control," the statement said....</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />“The dangers depend upon how one uses the internet and information,” Kent said. <br />Hassan suspects other agents are also at work. “If you look at (Jamal's) YouTube, how did he get so many followers? Was it really organic, or were there bad actors amplifying it, or was it just algorithms of YouTube trying to make money?” Hassan said....</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Police in Berkeley, Missouri, have said the missing people were followers of Jamal on social media, shared his content and referenced his teachings. Their behaviors included engaging in polygamy, changing their names to "a spiritual God or Goddess" and "referring to their mother as a 'shell' that brought their spirit into the universe," police said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />It's possible the missing people never had any in-person contact with Jamal, Kent said, because the social media influencer has been imprisoned and was previously living in a different state. But that doesn't mean they were not among his followers, Kent said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />“That’s one of the consequences of the internet: People can feel like they know a leader even if a leader doesn’t know them,” he said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />While cults are often thought to only attract a fringe group of people, Hassan warned virtually anyone is susceptible, though cult leaders may take advantage of weak moments. They use behavioral tactics to gradually rope people in, such as sleep deprivation, manipulative language and instilling irrational fears to prevent recruits from leaving or fighting back. And in the age of the internet, recruiting a wide breadth of people is made even easier for cult leaders, Hassan said....</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Lalich said in the Wired video that people on the outside of a cult should make sure to be a "safe haven" for anyone who might be involved in a cult to know they can go to. "It's not easy to leave a cult," Lalich said in the Wired video. "It's one of the hardest things someone's ever going to do."</span></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-55096632950056571522024-01-24T15:45:00.000-08:002024-01-24T15:45:35.566-08:00Utah bill aims to define ritualistic sexual abuse of minors, Kenya death cult leader charged after hundreds found dead in forest <p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">Utah bill aims to define ritualistic sexual abuse of minors, Kenya death cult leader charged after hundreds found dead in forest </span></strong></span></span></p>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Utah bill aims to define ritualistic sexual abuse of minors</strong> by Jim Spiewak, KUTVTue, January 23rd 2024 SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A new bill seeks to define "ritualistic sexual abuse" of children, a term that sparked public interest and grabbed headlines last year after a public spat between the Utah County Sheriff and a former Utah County Attorney over ongoing ritualistic investigations. Survivor Brett Bluth, who said he was ritually abused by a therapist over twenty years ago, helped write House Bill 196. He described how religious practices were exploited to facilitate the abuse.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />"I have struggled with that very thing for many years." The bill aims to clearly define ritualistic sexual abuse, specifying it as an act that commemorates or celebrates an important event in a religious, cultural, social, or institutional context, which is then used to sexually abuse a child. "It's particularly heinous when a perpetrator uses a familiar component in our society, or culture or religion to coerce a child, to trick a child into coming closer," Bluth said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />Rep. Ken Ivory (R – Salt Lake County), is sponsoring the bill. Bluth said the fact that the bill has been filed shows how far this issue has come, saying, "This is the first time those words 'ritual abuse' are going to be brought into this building (State Capitol) in Utah history." If passed, the legislation would focus only on the sexual abuse of minors.<br /><a href="https://kmyu.tv/news/local/utah-bill-aims-to-define-ritualistic-sexual-abuse-of-minors-utah-county-sheriff-former-attorney-therapist-religious-practices">https://kmyu.tv/news/local/utah-bill-aims-to-define-ritualistic-sexual-abuse-of-minors-utah-county-sheriff-former-attorney-therapist-religious-practices</a> <br /><br /><strong>Kenya death cult leader charged after hundreds found dead in forest</strong><br />Self-proclaimed pastor arrested over deaths of more than 200 people, most of whom had died of hunger Agence France-Presse in Nairobi Tue 23 Jan 2024</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />Paul Nthenge Mackenzie (centre) is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to ‘meet Jesus’. A Kenyan court has charged a cult leader and dozens of suspected accomplices with manslaughter over the deaths of more than 200 people. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and 94 other suspects, including his wife, pleaded not guilty to 238 counts of manslaughter, according to court documents seen by AFP.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Mackenzie, who was last week also charged with terrorism, is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to “meet Jesus” in a case that provoked horror across the world. He was arrested last April after bodies were discovered in the Shakahola forest near the Indian Ocean. Autopsies revealed that the majority of the 429 victims had died of hunger. Others, including children, appeared to have been strangled, beaten or suffocated. <br />The site of a mass grave in Shakahola outside the coastal town of Malindi after the exhumation of bodies. The 238 victims mentioned in Tuesday’s hearing were killed between January 2021 and September 2023 at Shakahola, court documents said.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The grisly case, dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre”, led the government to flag the need for tighter control of fringe denominations. Police and residents carry the exhumed bodies of victims of Paul Mackenzie Nthenge’s religious cult through the village of Shakahola last week. </span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Questions have been raised about how Mackenzie managed to evade law enforcement despite having a history of extremism and previous legal cases. A Senate commission of inquiry reported in October that the father of seven had faced charges in 2017 for extreme preaching. He was acquitted of charges of radicalisation in 2017 for illegally providing school teaching after rejecting the formal educational system that he claimed was not in line with the Bible.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />In 2019, he was also accused of having links to the death of two children believed to have been starved, suffocated and then buried in a shallow grave in Shakahola. He was released on bail pending that trial, which is ongoing.<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/kenya-death-cult-leader-charged-after-hundreds-found-dead-in-forest">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/23/kenya-death-cult-leader-charged-after-hundreds-found-dead-in-forest</a> <br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-76830687246275555722024-01-15T22:13:00.000-08:002024-01-15T22:13:54.802-08:00Survivorship January Notes - Survivorship Trafficking and Extreme Abuse Online Conference 2024 pre-registration open <span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span><div><div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
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<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Conference Speakers</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control</span><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;"> Neil Brick</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Masonic Ritual Abuse: Its Characteristics, Prevalence and Expression in Western Art and Culture</span><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">. Dr. Lynn Brunet</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">This presentation will examine the subject of Masonic ritual abuse. Based on the presenter’s personal experience and accumulated art historical research over the last two decades it asks a series of questions about its prevalence, how it is similar and different to other forms of ritual abuse, how it is expressed in art and culture and what its implications are for us today. Freemasonry is sometimes described as the ‘cult of the establishment’ and there is a great deal of material available about it and its rituals that can enable research into its practices, which is not necessarily the case for other cults. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">The research, to date, suggests that the children of Freemasons are particularly vulnerable to abuse, but while they might be struggling internally with something inexplicably profound, disturbing or terrifying, they may not necessarily appear at a therapist’s office as many of them are encouraged by their abusers to express their trauma in creative ways. Driven to obsessively release the effects of the trauma, this can become a lifelong way of coping, resulting in the creation of cultural artefacts that are imbued with the traces of cruel ritual practices without the creators themselves being consciously aware of their source.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Uses of Art Therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)</span><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;"> Patricia Quinn</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #1a191a; font-size: 16px;">This presentation will describe the fluid uses of art therapy, Sensory Awareness and EMDR in treating Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The didactic portion will entail justification for using each modality, the benefit if the client being able to choose a treatment modality themselves, and examples of their clinical use with two clients with very different levels of access to memories of their past trauma. This effective, responsive healing approach will be useful for all counselors and therapists working in a variety of settings. The general descriptions of client responses may contain triggering content. The presentation contains a calming experiential that combines a body-based relaxation and use of art to counter-act traumatic memory.</span></p>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Höss villa in southern Poland is an idyllic two-story building with a garden landscaped to perfection. It is also located in the shadows of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest concentration camp of the Third Reich. The former house of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss, who served as Camp Commandant of Auschwitz from May 1940 to December 1943, shared the home with his wife Hedwig, and their two children. And the building is the locus of the action in Jonathan Glazer’s insidious Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, his first film in the decade since Under the Skin (2013), and the winner of the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The film, adapted from Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name and releasing nationwide in the U.S. on Jan. 12, depicts the domestic bliss of the Höss family, who have built their Eden on genocidal foundations. And it never contrasts this utopia with the victims of the Holocaust on the other side of the wall. Instead, we stay with its perpetrators. The film opens with a family enjoying a lake-side picnic, the sunshine ripe. But in the home setting, we learn that Rudolf (Christian Friedel) is at the forefront of exterminating European Jews. Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), who chillingly dubs herself “Queen of Auschwitz,” runs a strict household that she places above all else—even her husband. The family tries its best to drown out the sounds of screams, cries, and gunshots, but the atrocities taking place beyond the wall are undeniable, and seep in through the cracks....</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Instead, we are offered a detailed and frankly mundane insight into their domestic routine; the children play, the husband and wife reminisce about old memories, and Hedwig dolls herself up with lipstick and clothing taken from Jewish women. We come no closer to knowing these perpetrators, yet their lives don’t appear dramatically different from our own.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Typically we may think of Nazis and people who commit atrocities as monsters and therefore not us, not humans[…] which actually teaches us nothing,” says Glazer. “It leaves us feeling a very safe distance, imagining that none of us are capable of that.” In inviting viewers to the perpetrator’s side of the wall, he invites us to reflect on our similarities with these people, to see that we are all capable of such evil.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By spending time on this side of the wall, we come to see how effortlessly the Höss couple compartmentalize the material success they’ve built on suffering. “They were ordinary people who managed to separate their brains in such a way that that wasn't troubling them,” says Oddy. “They sort of reveled in the nouveau riche lifestyle that they'd carved out for themselves on the back of this and didn't bat an eyelid.”....</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In his post as Commander of Auschwitz, Rudolph was ultimately responsible for the killing of nearly one million Jews and others held in the camp. After the war ended, he lived under a false identity before British intelligence tracked him down and arrested him. Rudolph testified in the Nuremberg Trials—a joint tribunal ordered by France, the Soviet Union, the U.K., and the U.S. between 1945 and 1946—before he was tried in Poland and hanged on April 16, 1947 at the site of his crimes.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rudolph never admitted guilt for his actions, insisting until the end—in a refrain that became hauntingly familiar as the justification of so many other Nazis—that he was simply following orders.... <a href="https://time.com/6554425/the-zone-of-interest-true-story/">https://time.com/6554425/the-zone-of-interest-true-story/</a></span></div>
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<div><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Auschwitz Exhibition @auschwitzxhibit</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Barbarossa operation</strong> was accompanied by an intense propaganda campaign coordinated by Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Reich.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of the most notorious pamphlets was Der Untermensch ("The sub-human"), published in 1942 by the SS & displayed in @auschwitzxhibit</span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-41192942409563794092023-12-26T21:22:00.000-08:002023-12-26T21:22:16.268-08:00How NYC gun arrest uncovered a huge pedophile Satanic cult<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span>How NYC gun arrest uncovered a huge pedophile Satanic cult</span></strong></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>By Social Links for Olivia Land Published Sep. 28, 2023 The arrest of a Queens man on gun charges two years ago has led federal authorities to the discovery of a Satanic pedophile extortion cult that targets minors over the internet, a report said Thursday.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Investigators uncovered the heinous group, named 764, while probing disturbing social media posts made by Angel Almeida, 23, who was busted in November 2021 and charged with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, according to court documents and a report from The Guardian.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>In February, Brooklyn federal prosecutors announced they had filed a superseding indictment against Almeida, adding charges related to child exploitation and enticement of minors.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Prior to Almeida’s arrest, the FBI followed anonymous tips that allegedly linked him to social media accounts containing vile posts about child sex abuse — including one Instagram profile, “@necropedocell,” that featured a photo of what appeared to be a child bound and gagged.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>A post on another of Almeida’s alleged Instagram profiles showed him posing with ammunition strapped to his chest, in front of a black flag bearing the logo of the Order of Nine Angels (O9A), which prosecutors described as “a worldwide Satanist … group which embraces elements of neo-Nazism and white supremacy.” When authorities searched Almeida’s home, they allegedly found hundreds of files containing child sex abuse material on four different devices — as well as books related to O9A and Satanism, according to court documents.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>They also found a “blood covenant,” an O9A drawing of a hooded figure surrounded by the group’s symbols and smeared with what appears to be blood, the filings state.</span><br /><span>On Sept. 12, the FBI issued a public notice about 764, a “violent online group” that is “deliberately targeting minor victims on publicly available messaging platforms to extort them into recording or livestreaming acts of self-harm and producing child sexual abuse material.”</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Sources told the Guardian the cult is believed to be an offshoot of O9A — and that law enforcement discovered the group through the investigation in Almeida’s case....Members of 764 are thought to “use threats, blackmail and manipulation” to get vulnerable youth — particularly LGBTQ+ minors, racial minorities and those with mental health issues — to record acts of self-harm, animal abuse, sex acts and suicide, the FBI warning states.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><br /><span>The group targets victims through platforms like Roblox, Discord and Twitch, as well as curated Soundcloud playlists and the encrypted messaging app Telegram, researchers told the Guardian.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>There are likely thousands of 764 members, with hundreds more active members trawling these platforms regularly, they added.... </span><br /><span><a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/nyc-mans-gun-arrest-unveils-satanic-pedophile-cult/">https://nypost.com/2023/09/28/nyc-mans-gun-arrest-unveils-satanic-pedophile-cult/</a> <br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-90859767976377469022023-12-23T14:39:00.000-08:002023-12-23T14:39:24.738-08:00Feds bust leader of neo-Nazi cult - offshoot of the satanic group 764 to groom and exploit kids, Abuse at Northern California nonproft<p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Feds bust leader of neo-Nazi cult - offshoot of the satanic group 764 to groom and exploit kids. "<span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">upon his arrest, admitted to law enforcement that he is the creator of "Cultist," a splinter group of the satanic anarchist organization known as "764," that targets children and uses child sexual abuse material and videos of animal cruelty, self-harm, and other extreme acts of violence."</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Feds bust leader of neo-Nazi cult who used Discord and Telegram to groom and exploit children</strong> Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert Dec 18, 2023</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Kalana Limkin was arrested Friday in Hawaii for possession of child pornography as part of an FBI investigation into an online satanic cult using social media platforms Discord and Telegram to recruit victims.<br />The leader of an online cult was arrested Thursday for possession of child sexual abuse material.<br />Kalana Limkin, prosecutors say, founded an offshoot of the satanic group 764 to groom and exploit kids.<br />Limkin shared child abuse images and recruited victims via Telegram and Discord, per court filings. <br />The leader of a racist pedophile cult was arrested late last week following a seven-month-long investigation by the FBI into a network of Telegram and Discord servers dedicated to spreading neo-Nazi ideology and exploiting children, according to court documents reviewed by Business Insider.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The initial complaint, which the court unsealed on December 15, indicates Kalana Limkin of Hawaii has been the subject of a criminal investigation since May and, upon his arrest, admitted to law enforcement that he is the creator of "Cultist," a splinter group of the satanic anarchist organization known as "764," that targets children and uses child sexual abuse material and videos of animal cruelty, self-harm, and other extreme acts of violence to "accelerate chaos in society."</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />"The group functions together as a coordinated unit by using Discord and Telegram as vessels to desensitize vulnerable populations through sharing extreme gore and child sexual abuse material ("CSAM"), with the purpose of breaking down societal norms and normalizing explicit material to corrupt minors and groom them towards future violence," according to a motion to detain Limkin without bail while he awaits trial....<br />Limkin is accused in the complaint of posting at least six images of child sexual abuse material on Discord servers, as well as exploiting a minor he first met through the now-defunct site Omegle, which shuttered earlier this year, just days after it settled a civil claim regarding sexual abuse on the platform.<br />Per the complaint, Limkin showed the girl a graphic video of sexual abuse against a child, asked her for photos of herself in her underwear, and told her he had a collage of pictures of girls he had manipulated into cutting his name into their bodies.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />During an interview with law enforcement, the complaint indicates Limkin admitted to "asking minor females to send him nude photographs of themselves and receiving child pornography links and images via his Discord server, 'Cultist.'" Per court documents, he also admitted to having child pornography files that were stored in his phone and truck....</span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The 764 group that Limkin based his Cultist faction on is itself an offshoot of The Order of Nine Angles (O9A), which, according to the complaint, "espouses the belief that society must be destroyed from within. O9A encourages members to engage in criminal acts, including violence, sexual assault, murder, and terrorism, to accelerate and cause the demise of Western society."</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />"O9A advocates 'culling,' a form of human sacrifice, to eliminate Jews, people of color, and others deemed to be inferior under their Social Darwinist views, as well as rape and sexual assault as a means of asserting domination, breaking social norms, and propagating the expansion of the white race," according to the complaint against Limkin. "O9A embraces terrorism, including radical Islamic jihadist ideology and the violent tactics of jihadist groups, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ("ISIS") and al Qaeda, as a means to accelerate the decline of Western society and to attack Jewish people in particular."<br />The FBI warned the public about 764 and similar groups in September, saying they use online platforms to target youth between the ages of 8 and 17 — especially LGBTQ+ youth and racial minorities — using blackmail, threats, and manipulation to get them to record or live-stream self-harm, sex acts, "and/or suicide," adding that members circulated the footage to further extort and control their victims.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />In their motion to deny bail, prosecutors indicated the weight of the evidence against Limkin is "substantial."<br />"The defendant has in fact confessed to the crime of possessing child pornography. Further, he admitted to being the creator of 'Cultist,' which he acknowledged promotes self-harm and cutting," the motion reads. "The defendant also admitted that he had asked minor females to send him nude photographs of themselves. This evidence demonstrates the United States' case against the defendant is formidable, making the defendant's conviction quite likely."....<br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/feds-bust-nazi-cult-telegram-discord-grooming-exploit-children-2023-12">https://www.businessinsider.com/feds-bust-nazi-cult-telegram-discord-grooming-exploit-children-2023-12</a> </span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"> <br />They were searching for spiritual awakening and enlightenment. Instead, the six men were subject to “rampant, unceasing sexual abuse” by their spiritual guide, in concert with members of a controversial religious group and workers at an award-winning Northern California winery, the men allege in court documents.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The unnamed plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Friday in Yuba County against the Fellowship of Friends — a nonprofit religious group described by some as a cult — along with its founder and spiritual teacher, Robert Earl Burton, and its Renaissance Vineyard and Winery.</span></span></div>
<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Fellowship of Friends bills itself as an organization that helps members reach their true potential, an upscale throwback to the erstwhile Bay Area communes that separated participants from society so they could pursue self-realization. Former Fellowship members, however, allege the group is really a cult of personality masquerading as a nonprofit, and that its true purpose is to satisfy Burton’s sexual needs. Their civil complaint seeks damages for 15 alleged violations, including gender violence, human trafficking, sexual assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The plaintiffs are also asking for a trial by jury....<br /><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-21/six-men-allege-sexual-abuse-fellowship-of-friends">https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-21/six-men-allege-sexual-abuse-fellowship-of-friends</a> <br /> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-20040142383427247922023-11-20T19:18:00.000-08:002023-11-20T19:18:40.549-08:00Catholic priest sentenced to life for sex trafficking boys, Understanding Human Trafficking<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Catholic priest sentenced to life for sex trafficking boys, manipulating opioid addictions Eduardo Cuevas USA TODAY Nov. 19, 2023</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>An Ohio priest was sentenced to life in prison Friday after he was convicted of grooming three boys and taking advantage of their opioid addictions to force them into commercial sex, according to the U.S. Justice Department.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>In May, a federal jury in Toledo found the Rev. Michael Zacharias, a Roman Catholic clergy member, guilty of five counts of sex trafficking in allegations that spanned 15 years, from July 2005 to August 2020. Prosecutors said he abused his role as a teacher and priest at a Toledo parish school to groom the three boys into adulthood, force them into sex and enable their addictions to pain medications and heroin later in life.</span><br /><span>“Michael Zacharias used his position as a trusted spiritual leader and role model for young boys and their families to exploit them in the most insidious ways, coercing his victims from childhood and beyond to engage in commercial sex with him,” said Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, in a statement.</span><br /><span>Testimony and evidence at trial showed Zacharias developed relationships with the victims' families when they were young to gain their trust, prosecutors said. As the victims got older, he exploited their fears, their housing instability and their criminal records to force them into commercial sex....</span><br /><span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/18/catholic-priest-life-sentence-sex-trafficking-ohio/71639846007/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/18/catholic-priest-life-sentence-sex-trafficking-ohio/71639846007/</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><strong>Understanding Human Trafficking</strong></span><br /><span>“Trafficking in persons,” “human trafficking,” and “modern slavery” are umbrella terms – often used interchangeably – to refer to a crime whereby traffickers exploit and profit at the expense of adults or children by compelling them to perform labor or engage in commercial sex. When a person younger than 18 is used to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion involved.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The United States recognizes two primary forms of trafficking in persons: forced labor and sex trafficking. The basic meaning of these forms of human trafficking and some unique characteristics of each are set forth below, followed by several key principles and concepts that relate to all forms of human trafficking....</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), released Global Estimates of Modern Slavery in September 2022. This report estimates that, at any given time in 2021, approximately 27.6 million people were in forced labor. Of these, “17.3 million are exploited in the private sector, 6.3 million in forced commercial sexual exploitation, and 3.9 million in forced labour imposed by state.” The definition of forced labor used in this report is based on ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), which states in Article 2.1 that forced labor is “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.”</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>This report also estimates that 49.6 million people were in “modern slavery” at any given time in 2021, but this figure includes both the estimate for forced labor and an estimate for forced marriage. Consistent with current implementation of U.S. law, it is recommended to use only the 27.6 million estimate when referring to human trafficking. While some instances of forced marriage may meet the international or U.S. legal definition of human trafficking, not all cases do. Note further that the term “modern slavery” is not defined in international or U.S. law.</span><br /><span><a href="https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficking/">https://www.state.gov/humantrafficking-about-human-trafficking/</a> <br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-58540398736398187802023-10-29T16:45:00.000-07:002023-10-29T16:45:25.163-07:00SMART Ritual Abuse Newsletter - November 2023<p> </p><h3><strong>S.M.A.R.T.</strong><br />
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<h3><strong>Issue 173 – November 2023</strong></h3>
<h3>The purpose of this newsletter is to help stop secretive
organizations and groups from abusing others and to help those who
allege they have been abused by such organizations and groups. This
newsletter is not a substitute for other ways of recovering from ritual
abuse. Readers should use caution while reading this newsletter. If
necessary, make sure other support systems are available during and
after reading this newsletter.</h3>
<h3><strong>Important:</strong><br />
The resources mentioned in this newsletter are for educational value
only. Reading the books cited may or may not help your recovery process,
so use caution when reading any book or contacting any resource
mentioned in this newsletter. Some may have a religious or other agenda
that may be separate from your own recovery process. Others may have
valuable information on secretive organizations, but have triggers or be
somewhat sympathetic to those organizations. Unless explicitly stated
otherwise, the views expressed in this newsletter constitute expressions
of opinion, and readers are cautioned to form their own opinions and
draw their own conclusions by consulting a variety of sources, including
this newsletter. Resources listed, quoted and individual articles, etc.
and their writers do not necessarily support all or any of the views
mentioned in this newsletter. Also, the views, facts and opinions
mentioned in this newsletter are solely the opinions of the authors and
are not necessarily the opinions of this newsletter or its editor.</h3>
<h3>Copyright 2023 – All rights reserved. No reproduction of any
material without written permission from the editor and individual
authors.</h3>
<h3><strong>Information in this issue includes:</strong> Ritual Abuse
Sex Trafficking and Mind Control, Neil Brick, suggestive techniques,
legal cases, Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, cults, mental health
diagnoses, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, torture, sexual abuse, mind control techniques, BELONGING
three generations – poems, Wendy Hoffman, Alison Miller, Ritual Abuse
and Sacrifice in Africa, Subcommittee Hearing, Chrystine Oksana in Safe
Passage to Healing, programmed parts, satanic child abuse ring, rape and
sexual assault charges, Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities,
human trafficking offenses, human trafficking, slavery, forced labor, 50
Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real, Testimonies of survivors of Ritual
Abuse, child prostitution, fighting child pornography, torture, clergy
abuse survivors, Vatican, abusive priests</h3>
<h3><strong>Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Transcript and Video</strong><br />
September 20, 2023 Neil Brick<br />
This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and
different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking
survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different
historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used.
Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world
(McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the
Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples
of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). Mental health
diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be
explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being
in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind
control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their
symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex
trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind
control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a
discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex
trafficking, and mind control.<br />
<strong>Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information
(written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing
to attendees.</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Presentation Objectives</strong><br />
Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors<br />
Describe research studies that show how these techniques work<br />
Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors<br />
Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control<br />
<a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>BELONGING three generations – poems</strong> by Wendy
Hoffman poems Kelsay Books, $20 One person’s cooking can keep a clashing
family together. Poems in Wendy Hoffman’s Belonging describe recipes
and cooked-from-scratch food carried in the grandmother’s memory from
the Old Country to the New Land. Love baked into this heritage-food
keeps this generational mind controlled family holding on. The poems
weave their way through the women’s ordinary days with hints and
whispers of another realm of abuses within its characters. Three
generations of women: grandmother, mother and daughter-poet each try to
come to terms with her past, present and future. The maternal
grandmother was an immigrant from Belarus, the mother was born in
America and formed during the Depression, the younger daughter distances
but still feels genetic connection and buried longing. The poems
encompass the surface of the women’s everyday lives and also the
contradictory truth of their traumatic hidden ones. The poems mix
imagery, prose, allusion and metaphor with frankness to achieve gripping
and fleeing moments that are hard to hold onto but stick. About the
author: Wendy Hoffman is the author of four published memoirs about
dissociation and mind control—one has been translated and published in
Germany, a co-authored book of essays with Alison Miller, and a first
book of poetry.
https://kelsaybooks.com/products/belonging-three-generations <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Efforts to Address Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa Subcommittee Hearing</strong><br />
09.19.2023 10:00am 2200 RHOB Global Health, Global Human Rights and
International Organizations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s<br />
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/ efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/</h3>
<h3><strong>Dissociation</strong><br />
<strong>Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide</strong><br />
<strong>On Dissociative Identity Disorder and suicide awareness.</strong><br />
Adrian A. Fletcher Psy.D., M.A. Keeping It Real and Resilient<br />
Updated September 27, 2023</h3>
<h3><strong>Key points</strong><br />
Ritual abuse is a seldom-discussed and deeply unsettling topic.<br />
Dissociative Identity Disorder is highly stigmatized, and denying the existence of DID is of global concern.<br />
Secrecy perpetuates ritual abuse, and awareness is essential for prevention….<br />
<strong>Defining Ritual Abuse (RA)</strong><br />
Ritual abuse fuses the concept of a ritual—a structured procedure to
attain a transformation—with the malevolent nature of abuse, which
encompasses any act that harms an individual’s physical, emotional,
sexual, mental, or spiritual development. It’s crucial to grasp that
ritual abuse is systematic and engineered to break a person’s will.</h3>
<h3><strong>Chrystine Oksana, in Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse</strong>
(2001), elucidates that ritual abuse manifests in diverse forms, driven
by various motivations such as religion, preoccupation with the
supernatural, power, financial gain, or sadomasochistic drives.
Disturbingly, it often intertwines with the underworld of prostitution,
pornography, and trafficking. I, too, fell victim to ritual abuse as a
result of my father’s involvement in organized crime.<br />
<strong>Programming in the Alters/Parts of a DID System That Has Endured RA</strong><br />
One disturbing facet of my ordeal was the “programming” of certain parts
of my identity, compelling them to perform specific actions based on
the rituals imposed upon me. This included programming parts to
contemplate suicide for “telling” or breaking the code of silence.</h3>
<h3><strong>The Role of Clinicians</strong><br />
For clinicians working with DID clients, especially when the abuse
history is concealed initially, it’s imperative to acknowledge that
survivors may harbor parts programmed to return to abusers or inflict
self-harm. This heartbreaking reality underscores the necessity for all
practitioners claiming to be “trauma-informed” to possess a deep
understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorder.<br />
<strong>Awareness and Validation</strong><br />
To combat ritual abuse, we must first acknowledge its existence. Like
incest, ritual abuse thrives in secrecy, and survivors can only heal
when society grants them recognition and validation. Similarly, the
denial of DID’s existence leaves countless people suffering and, in some
cases, facing the specter of suicide.<br />
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/keeping-it-real-and-resilient/202309/unmasking-ritual-abuse-did-and-the-threat-of-suicide</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>may be triggering</strong><br />
<strong>Girl ‘raped while satanic child abuse ring that held seances and used ouija boards clapped and cheered’</strong>
One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing
from a nail on the wall and shut in a microwave and fridge, court heard
Amy-Clare Martin Crime Correspondent Tuesday 05 September 2023</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3>Children were forced to take part in witchcraft and seances, and
were sexually assaulted while members of a satanic child abuse ring
watched, a court has heard.<br />
Eleven people are standing trial at Glasgow High Court, accused of a
string of crimes, with a number facing rape and sexual assault charges,
while five are accused of attempted murder.<br />
Iain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan,
41, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, Mark
Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46,
deny all the charges, involving four children.<br />
All eleven are accused of forcing children to participate in seances and
use an ouija board or similar object to “call on spirits and demons”,
at various addresses in the Glasgow area.</h3>
<h3>The children were also allegedly made to participate in classes
involving witchcraft, spells and wands which made them believe that they
had “metamorphosed into animals”, court documents show.<br />
One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing
from a nail on the wall, shut in a microwave, an oven, a fridge, a
freezer and cupboards, the court heard.<br />
Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan, Clark are also charged with
attempting to murder the girl, who was also allegedly made to act like a
dog and eat dog food.</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3>The group, which is also charged with stabbing and abusing dogs,
also made one child dress in lingerie and “dance in a sexualised manner”
on various occasions between 1 October 2018 and 19 June 2019, the
indictment claims, before she was raped by male members of the group.<br />
The women are accused of watching, with the indictment adding that they
did “clap, cheer and verbally encourage” the abuse, with some filming
the attack.</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3>Children were also allegedly forced to repeatedly sexually abuse each other with household items.<br />
On two occasions between 1 January 2019 and 23 March 2019, the group is
alleged to have forced a boy to masturbate in front of them and then
forced him to have sex with some of the women, while the men watched.<br />
In one horrifying charge, a young child was restrained in her cot as men
raped her, while others cheered and took video recordings, the court
heard….<br />
Jurors were told on Tuesday that the case, which has a 10-page
indictment featuring 32 charges over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020,
could last more than six weeks.
Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-abuse-rape-satanic-witchcraft-glasgow-b2404939.html</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities,</strong> 2023 NCJ Number 307345<br />
Date Published October 2023 Publication Series Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities Description<br />
This report details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze
the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe
characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to
describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. The
report provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to
and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted
and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for
human trafficking.</h3>
<h3>Highlights</h3>
<h3>A total of 2,027 persons were referred to U.S. attorneys for human
trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, a 49% increase from the 1,360
persons referred in 2011.<br />
The number of persons prosecuted for human trafficking more than doubled
from 2011 to 2021 (from 729 persons to 1,672 persons, respectively).<br />
Of the 1,197 defendants charged in federal court for human trafficking
offenses in fiscal year 2021, 92% were male and 60% were white. Of the
201 defendants charged with peonage, slavery, forced labor, and sex
trafficking in fiscal year 2021, 77% were male and 58% were black.<br />
At year end 2021, 1,657 persons were in the custody of a state prison serving a sentence for a human trafficking offense.<br />
https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2023</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>50 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real</strong><br />
https://www.50voices.org/ en/start-en/</h3>
<h3><strong>Testimonies of survivors of Ritual Abuse</strong><br />
Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who report
extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult structures.<br />
Over the years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more
numerous and louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize
professional conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the
public began to take notice of this phenomenon.</h3>
<h3>Typical experiences include: Sexual abuse, child prostitution and
child pornography, torture, snuff film productions, participation in
ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and highly complex
methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind control”). Victims are
born into family structures that have practiced Satanism or similar
occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold into these perpetrator
circles as children. This specific form of organized crime has been
called ritual abuse by therapists.</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>Motivation</strong> https://www.50voices.org/en/motivation-en/<br />
“It is the agenda of our programmers to control global society. We are
just one of many slaves prepared with individualized, extreme, ongoing
programming while global society is being processed on a mass scale,
society at large being subject to mind control as well.”<br />
Elisa E: Our Life Beyond MKUltra. Then and Now, p. 189</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3>Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who
report extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult
structures. Typical experiences include: sexual abuse, child
prostitution and child pornography, torture, snuff film productions,
participation in ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and
highly complex methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind
control“). Victims are born into family structures that have practiced
Satanism or similar occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold
into these perpetrator circles as children. This specific form of
organized crime has been called ritual abuse by therapists. Over the
years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more numerous and
louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize professional
conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the public began to
take notice of this phenomenon.</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3>Perpetrator groups responded to these developments in the 1990s with
an effective campaign by U.S. media defaming survivors and their
therapists as propagators of a “Satanic Panic” narrative. Patients’
accounts of traumatic childhood experiences were also portrayed as
“false memories” that had been talked into them by their therapists.
Although the Satanic Panic propaganda represented a serious setback for
the survivors and their therapists, disclosure continued slowly but
irreversible. In other countries around the world, victims and trauma
therapists also found the courage to speak out about ritual abuse and to
network internationally. More survivor reports and professional
publications followed, as did data surveys to quantify the phenomenon.
Now, in the year 2022/23, the perpetrator network is again trying – this
time starting from Switzerland – to manipulate the public opinion and
to make the victims of these violent crimes untrustworthy with the
well-known method of Satanic-Panic-/false-memory-propaganda.<br />
The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” pursues the goal of eradicating
the basis of this perpetrator propaganda. For the first time, the global
public learns firsthand from 50 survivors that ritual abuse and mind
control are real. Their testimonies not only reveal the common patterns
behind the experiences of violence, but they also reveal that it is a
global phenomenon (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland,
England, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy as well as other crime scenes are
mentioned).<br />
In August 2023, the project started with publishing 5 of 50 testimonies
of survivors. Since then, two more testimonies are disclosed every week
through various channels (Website, YouTube, Telegram, Odysee, etc.).
Please help spread the truth.</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>Mission Statement</strong><br />
The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” aims to draw public attention to
the phenomenon of ritual abuse and to initiate a social discussion.
From the perspective of those affected, there is an urgent need for
action as follows:<br />
Improvement of therapy offerings and specific training of trauma
therapists in the areas of ritual abuse, DID, and recognition and
deletion of destructive programs.<br />
Protection and exit support for survivors (including safe houses with associated therapeutic care)<br />
Training of law enforcement institutions (police, prosecutors, judges) and support/care facilities<br />
Objective reporting/education in the media.<br />
Everyone can contribute to achieving these goals. This can be done by, among other things:<br />
Disseminating reputable information about ritual abuse/mind control in the private sphere<br />
Addressing politicians/party representatives at the local level<br />
Addressing editors and other media representatives and commenting
on/complaining about Satanic Panic/false memory propaganda in the media.</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>Clergy abuse survivors propose ‘zero tolerance’ law following Vatican appointment –</strong>
Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law
calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who
covered for them By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press October 2, 2023</h3><h3><br />
ROME — Clergy sexual abuse survivors on Monday unveiled a proposed new
church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and
superiors who covered for them, as they stepped up their outrage over
Pope Francis’ choice to head the Vatican office that investigates sex
crimes.<br />
The global advocacy group End Clergy Abuse unveiled the draft law at a
press conference following days of protests around the Vatican, and
before taking their complaints to the U.N. in Geneva. They are seeking
to draw attention to the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church and the
failure of Francis and the hierarchy to make good on years of pledges of
“zero tolerance” for abuse.<br />
Specifically, the survivors have expressed astonishment at Francis’
nomination of an old friend and theologian, Cardinal Victor Fernandez,
to take over as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,
given Fernandez’s record handling cases as bishop in his native
Argentina.</h3><h3><br />
When Fernández was bishop of La Plata, Argentina, he refused to promptly
remove one of his priests, Eduardo Lorenzo, who was repeatedly accused
of abusing teens. Ten years after a victim first came forward, and hours
after learning that an Argentine judge had ordered his arrest, Lorenzo
was found dead in 2019 in what was ruled a suicide. Fernandez had stood
by Lorenzo and officiated at his funeral.<br />
The Vatican office that Fernandez now heads has processed priest abuse
cases globally since 2001, meting out church punishments that are never
more severe than being defrocked, or “reduced” back to being a layman.
After bullish years under the late Pope Benedict XVI, who defrocked
nearly 850 priests in a decade, the office in recent years appears to
have taken a more lenient approach as cases poured in from around the
globe.</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3>Francis himself had a big learning curve on abuse, arriving at the
Vatican in 2013 claiming to have never handled a case and then botching a
big scandal in Chile in 2018. He did an about-face, vowed “zero
tolerance” for abuse and marshalled through a new church law holding
bishops accountable when they cover up cases.<br />
But recently, the momentum appears to have waned, transparency has
remained elusive and victims have sensed a backsliding — perhaps none
more so than in Francis’ nomination of Fernandez to head the Vatican’s
sex abuse office….<br />
Fernandez acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press earlier
this year that he made mistakes in the Lorenzo case, saying he should
have removed him from ministry earlier and treated his victims better.
He blamed his own inexperience and what he said were unclear church
procedures.</h3><h3><br />
The online resource BishopAccountability.org has documented two other
cases that it said showed Fernandez stood by his priests rather than
their alleged victims….
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/clergy-abuse-survivors-propose-new-zero-tolerance-law-103658900</h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-45497111742975298652023-10-26T20:12:00.000-07:002023-10-26T20:12:27.874-07:00Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control - Neil Brick<p> </p><h3><strong>Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control</strong></h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h3>Copied with permission from: <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/ritual-abuse-sex-trafficking-and-mind-control/</a></h3><h3><strong> </strong></h3>
<h3>Presented at the 20th Annual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference</h3>
<h3>September 20, 2023</h3>
<h3><strong>Neil Brick</strong><br />
This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and
different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking
survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different
historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used.
Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world
(McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the
Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples
of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). Mental health
diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be
explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being
in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind
control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their
symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex
trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind
control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a
discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex
trafficking, and mind control.</h3>
<h3><strong>Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information
(written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing
to attendees.</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Presentation Objectives</strong><br />
Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors<br />
Describe research studies that show how these techniques work<br />
Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors<br />
Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control</h3>
<p></p>
<p> </p>
<h3>Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Presentation Video</h3>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>1) This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind
control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex
trafficking survivors. (Karriker, 2008).</strong></h3>
<h3>– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors</h3>
<h3>Definition of Terms:</h3>
<h3><strong>Sex Trafficking</strong><br />
Sex trafficking is a type of human trafficking and is a form of
modern-day slavery. It is a serious public health problem that
negatively affects the well-being of individuals, families, and
communities. Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker exploits an
individual with force, fraud, or coercion to make them perform
commercial sex or work. Sex trafficking is defined by the Trafficking
Victims Protection Act of 2000 as “the recruitment, harboring,
transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a
person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” It involves the use of
force, fraud, or coercion to make an adult engage in commercial sex
acts. However, any commercial sexual activity with a minor, even without
force, fraud, or coercion, is considered trafficking. Understanding the
shared risk and protective factors for violence can help us prevent
trafficking from happening in the first place. (Sex Trafficking – CDC)</h3>
<h3><strong>Human Trafficking</strong><br />
There are two types of a severe form of trafficking in persons:<br />
Labor Trafficking — Individuals are compelled to work or provide services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.<br />
Sex Trafficking — Individuals are compelled to engage in commercial sex
through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. When a person under 18
years old is induced to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime
regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion. (What is
Human Trafficking)</h3>
<h3><strong>Ritual Abuse</strong></h3>
<h3>Ritual abuse has been defined as:</h3>
<h3>a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults,
consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving
the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic. However,
most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of satanic
worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs and
practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode. It usually
involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical
abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual
abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended as means
of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse is
devastating and involves the use of ritual/indoctrination, which
includes mind control techniques and mind altering drugs, and
ritual/intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of the
cult members and of the evil spirits they believe cult members can
command. Both during and after the abuse, most victims are in a state of
terror, mind control, and dissociation in which disclosure is
exceedingly difficult. (Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force – Los
Angeles County Commission for Women)</h3>
<h3>and as</h3>
<h3>WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (BROAD DEFINITION) Ritual abuse is the abuse
of a child, weaker adult, or animal in a ritual setting or manner. In a
broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially sanctioned actions
can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training, hazing,
racism, spanking children, and partner-battering. Some abuse is
private…some public. Public ritual abuse may be either open or secret.
(Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)</h3>
<h3>WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (NARROW DEFINITION) The term ritual abuse is
generally used to mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse, especially of
children, within a group setting. The group’s ideology is used to
justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach the group’s ideology. The
activities are kept secret from society at large, as they violate norms
and laws. (Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)</h3>
<h3>Pazder (“<em>Michelle Remembers</em>”) introduced the term
“ritualized abuse” in 1980, describing the experiences of an adult
survivor that was disclosing satanic abuse memories. He defined the
phenomenon as “repeated physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual
assaults combined with a systematic use of symbols, ceremonies, and
machinations designed and orchestrated to attain malevolent effects.”</h3>
<h3>Later definitions came mostly from professionals addressing ritual
abuse in child care settings. Finkelhor, Williams, Burns, and Kalinowski
elaborated on Pazder’s definition, defining ritual abuse as “abuse that
occurs in a context linked to some symbols or group activity that have a
religious, magical or supernatural connotation, and where the
invocation of these symbols or activities are repeated over time and
used to frighten and intimidate the children.” (Sexual Abuse in Day
Care: A National Study – Executive Summary)</h3>
<h3>Kelley referred to ritual abuse as the “repetitive and systematic
sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of children by adults as part
of cult or satanic worship” (Van Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple
Personality Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility –
Dissociation Vol. III, No. 1)</h3>
<h3><strong>Mind Control</strong><br />
WHAT IS MIND CONTROL?<br />
Mind control, like ritual abuse, has both a broad and narrow definition.
In a sense, all advertising is an attempt at mind control, an attempt
to make people buy certain brands or objects. Propaganda (my country is
right and good and the other country is wrong and bad) is also an
example of attempted mind control.</h3>
<h3>In the survivor community, however, the definition is much narrower
and more sinister. It means that part of a person’s mind has been
programmed (that is, trained) to obey another person without question,
while other parts of the mind are unaware of this
situation.(Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)</h3>
<h3><strong>Propaganda vs Cult Trauma</strong><br />
Propaganda – Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, Exaggeration,
Emotional Manipulation, Subliminal Commands, Changing the Topic,
Repetition, Testimonials, Logical Fallacies, Unwarranted Extrapolation.
(Propaganda & Mind Control)</h3>
<h3><strong>Name Calling</strong><br />
This can include being called negative names (used inappropriately) like
liar, psychotic, paranoid, crazy, communist, etc. The purpose,
intentional or unintentional, of the usage of these names is to
discredit the person they are being used on, without discussing the
facts of the debate or topic. Sometimes names are used to shock the
listener, which may put the listener into a more susceptible mind state
and not critically think about the topic but simply accept the negative
name or opinion subliminally.</h3>
<h3><strong>Glittering Generalities</strong><br />
Democracy, capitalism or other ideas are often discussed in these terms.
These terms may be described positively without a critical analysis of
all sides of the issue. The important thing is to look at the ideas
behind the terms and analyze them critically. A group may also only
discuss the positives of the organization, ignoring any negative
criticism about the group. The important thing is to check out any group
or organization as completely as possible before joining. But I believe
it is also important to trust people when they are safe, so that we can
recover by sharing and connecting.</h3>
<h3><strong>Exaggeration</strong><br />
A user of propaganda may use terms like “many,” “a lot,” “numerous,” or
“a few” without backing up these numbers or statistics. The usage of
these words may make a person or organization look better or worse
without data or substantial proof.</h3>
<h3><strong>Emotional Manipulation</strong><br />
Sometimes it is important to look at the argument(s) with as little emotion as possible, and try to see the facts only.</h3>
<h3>“…there are four elements to a successful fear appeal: 1) a threat,
2) a specific recommendation about how the audience should behave, 3)
audience perception that the recommendation will be effective in
addressing the threat, and 4) audience perception that they are capable
of performing the recommended behavior.” Groups may also use these
techniques on their members. They may say, “If you don’t do this, then
the world will end, we will close our doors, etc.” For members that are
very needy or attached to the organization or person making the
statement, this threat may be very difficult to ignore.</h3>
<h3>In E-mail, this may be caused by the use of numerous brackets in
bold or the use of capital letters. The writer may say things like,
“apples are always red,” and then, “apples are always blue,” to cause
confusion in the reader and make them more susceptible to the ideas in
the Email. While the mind is trying to figure out which statement is
true, the reader’s mind may become more susceptible to the suggestion or
idea.</h3>
<h3><strong>Subliminal Commands</strong><br />
These will be discussed more under Suggestive Techniques.</h3>
<h3><strong>Changing the Topic</strong><br />
Rather than deal with the specific topic, a group or person may try to
change the topic, or discredit the other side, rather than deal with the
criticisms or arguments in the debate. A variety of propaganda
techniques may be used to try and do this. This technique has
occasionally been used by politicians and others.</h3>
<h3><strong>Repetition</strong><br />
One way of remembering something is to constantly repeat it. This is one
way we learn to remember new words and songs. Rather than debating the
points of the debate, a debater may simply continue calling a person a
liar or crazy or a traitor, etc. (see “name calling”) without backing up
their statements. How often is an idea in an argument presented without
a source or logical backing. This is one place in a debate or argument
where a debater may show their “true colors.” Are they interested in
debating the points of the argument or are they using propaganda and
mind control techniques?</h3>
<h3><strong>Testimonials</strong><br />
Individuals that are not qualified to discuss the particulars (the
specific facts) of a debate or product may join the debate or ad
campaign and make statements that may have little or no logical backing
or factual basis. Organizations and companies may use a variety of
techniques to encourage such participation.</h3>
<h3><strong>Band Wagon</strong><br />
The user of propaganda may encourage people to join the cause without
asking them to think about the facts and other side of the argument.
This may include a kind of hero worship, including fancy clothes, high
expenditures, claims of a large following, etc. I think the most
important thing is to follow your instincts and recovery, not someone
else. Other people may have valid and helpful things to say, but I
believe our recovery has to be our own.</h3>
<h3><strong>Logical Fallacies</strong><br />
These will be intentionally used by the user of propaganda to manipulate opinion.<br />
Example: John likes apples.<br />
Hitler liked apples.<br />
John likes Hitler.<br />
This can be used in politics. Equating communism to fascism because one
or several communist governments may have been fascist is an example of
this. A person may agree with someone on one topic and disagree with the
same person on another topic. The user of propaganda may try to lump
the two people or a group of people together that disagree with them,
suggesting a conspiracy, when it may only be people agreeing on a
certain topic.</h3>
<h3><strong>Unwarranted Extrapolation</strong><br />
This is another logical fallacy. A person receiving a criticism may
claim that a critique of themselves or their group may cause
divisiveness in society or their movement. (“Love it or leave” is an
example of this.) In all logical fallacies, and in terms of propaganda
in general, try to see the other possible conclusions of the argument,
not simply those presented by the user of propaganda.</h3>
<h3><strong>Suggestive Techniques</strong></h3>
<h3>Many triggers or cues are innate. An example of a trigger or cue
could be a hot feeling when going near an oven burner. Almost
instinctively, a person would pull their hand away from the burner. This
would be an unconditioned response. There are conditioned and
unconditioned triggers or stimuli and conditioned or unconditioned
responses. Pavlovian classical conditioning involves pairing an
unconditioned stimuli with a conditioned stimuli to get a conditioned
response.</h3>
<h3>The famous example of dogs salivating when a bell rings is an
example of classical conditioning. The dogs were conditioned to do this.
The unconditioned stimuli may have been the smell of food and the
unconditioned (normal) response was salivation. The unconditioned
stimuli, the smell of food was paired with the soon to be conditioned
stimuli, the bell. Eventually when one withdraws the smell of food
stimuli, the bell alone produces salivation. This is the new conditioned
response.</h3>
<h3>Programming is similar to this in several ways. A survivor may be
tortured repeatedly until an new alter is created. This alter will be
given a cue to let them know when to come out, this could be a smell,
word, number, sound, color and so on. This cue is either paired with the
alter’s creation and is given to the alter to listen for or to look
for. (How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda –
Neil Brick)</h3>
<h3>William Sargant (Battle for the Mind) first looked at combat PTSD
and compared it to Pavlov’s classical conditioning. He extended Pavlov’s
model to explain how people could change their world view suddenly.
This was caused by intense trauma, followed by a person’s personality
breaking down, followed by the application of new ways of thinking.
Pavlov’s dogs during a flood either forgot or reversed their previous
training.</h3>
<h3>Current models of PTSD suggest that PTSD can be understood as
learned helplessness, a set of foci in the brain firing repeatedly and
inappropriately. Cognitively, a person’s world view is so changed as to
become untenable. Pavlov’s observations on animals breaking down under
extreme stress could be applied to humans and survivors.</h3>
<h3>Pavlov (Beyond freedom and dignity) was able to build up and break
down behavior patterns in dogs. Pavlov’s work seems to have influenced
confession getting and brainwashing techniques….Each type reacted
differently to stress. Pavlov could cause a dog to break down by
increasing the intensity of a signal (electricity), delaying the time
between the signal and food, confusing them with positive and negative
signals interchanged or tampering with its physical condition. If a dog
of stable temperament acquires a behavior after extreme stress, it is
hard to break this behavior. This could be compared to a person of
strong character becoming a one-track minded fanatic.</h3>
<h3>According to Sargant, various types of beliefs can be implanted in
people after brain functioning has been disturbed by fear, anger or
excitement. These cause heightened suggestibility and impaired
judgement. These group manifestations may be classified as the herd
instinct, they appear most strongly in wartime and periods of common
danger. (Battle for the Mind)</h3>
<h3>The implications for survivors of ritual abuse and their symptoms
are obvious. Increased trauma could cause dissociation, making a person
more susceptible to suggestion. The delay of gratification could also
make one more suggestible. Positive and negative signals interchanged,
like praise and insults given rapidly can cause a break. Or the lack of
sleep, food or drugging can also make one more suggestible. And once a
survivor becomes suggestible, they are easier to program or reprogram.
(How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda – Neil
Brick)</h3>
<h3>Sutphen in his article talks about “Shock and Confusion,” how people
go into a meditative state when scared and are more likely to be
compliant to the second suggestion. If people are made to feel guilty
that they were given something, they are more likely to follow the next
command, like give money, etc.</h3>
<h3><strong>The Birth of Conversion</strong><br />
CONVERSION is a “nice” word for BRAINWASHING….Jonathan Edwards
accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in
1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute
apprehension and by increasing the tension, the “sinners” attending his
revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically,
what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate
clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that
the new input was negative.<br />
Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates
the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide
open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their
previous ideas. (THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND by Dick Sutphen)</h3>
<h3>2) The presenter will describe different historical examples of how
mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be
discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York
Times, 1988).</h3>
<h3><strong>Mind Control</strong></h3>
<h3>“Between 1953 and 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency financed a
wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with ‘the research
and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials
capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human
behavior.’ The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the
Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and
similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private
researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly,
many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were
dealing with the Agency.” (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>“MKULTRA was established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese
advances in brainwashing and interrogation techniques. Over the years
the program included various medical and psychological experiments, some
of which led to untoward results. These aspects of MKULTRA surfaced
publicly during the 1970’s and became the subject of executive and
congressional investigations”. Id. 162. (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>“MKULTRA began with a proposal from Richard Helms, then the Agency’s
Assistant Deputy Director for Plans. Helms outlined a special funding
mechanism for highly sensitive Agency research and development projects
that would study the use of biological and chemical materials in
altering human behavior. MKULTRA was approved by Allen Dulles, then the
Director of Central Intelligence, on April 13, 1953”. (The Law and Mind
Control)</h3>
<h3>“Several MKULTRA subprojects involved experiments where researchers
surreptitiously administered dangerous drugs, such as LSD, to unwitting
human subjects. At least two persons died as a result of MKULTRA
experiments, and others may have suffered impaired health because of the
testing.” (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>In 1977, the Agency located some 8,000 pages of previously
undisclosed MKULTRA documents. These consisted mostly of financial
records that had inadvertently survived the 1973 records destruction.
Upon this discovery, Agency Director Stansfield Turner notified the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and later testified at a joint
hearing before the Select Committee and the Subcommittee on Health and
Scientific Resources of the Senate Committee on Human Resources.
Although the Joint Committee was given a complete list of the MKULTRA
researchers and institutions, the Committee honored the Agency’s request
to treat the names as confidential. Respondents sought the surviving
MKULTRA records that would provide this information. (The Law and Mind
Control)</h3>
<h3>The US Supreme Court again confronted issues related to MKULTRA and
the use of LSD on unwitting human subjects in United States vs Stanley,
483 U.S. 669 (1987). In February 1958, James B. Stanley, a master
sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, volunteered to
participate in a program ostensibly designed to test the effectiveness
of protective clothing and equipment as defenses against chemical
warfare. He was released from his then-current duties and went to the
Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in
Maryland. Four times that month, Stanley was secretly administered doses
of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), pursuant to an Army plan to study
the effects of the drug on human subjects. (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>“During the war, Cameron was part of an international committee of
psychiatrists and social scientists who studied the origins and nature
of nazi culture. He published numerous articles on mass psychology
during wartime”. Congressional Record – Senate, 99th Cong. 1st Session,
Volume 131 No. 106, Part 2, 131 Cong. Rec. S. 11008 quoting The
Experiments of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, Washington Post July 28, 1985. (The
Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>“To erase or ‘de-pattern’ personality traits, cameron gave his
subjects megadoses of lsd, subjected them to drug-induced “sleep
therapy” for up to 65 consecutive days and applied electroshock therapy
at 75 times the usual intensity. To shape new behavior, cameron forced
them to listen to repeated recorded messages for 16-hour intervals, a
technique known as ‘psychic driving,’ Cameron and the CIA were
interested in brainwashing and the ability to redirect thought and
action. The patients did not consent to the treatment and were never
told they were being used for research”. Congressional Record – Senate,
99th Cong. 1st Session, Volume 131 No. 106, Part 2, 131 Cong. Rec. S.
11008 quoting The Experiments of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, Washington Post
July 28, 1985 (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>The CIA stonewalled and despite pleas by Senate members to settle
the claims, the suit dragged on for years settling in 1988 for the
relatively modest sum of $750,000.00, split among the remaining eight
plaintiffs. (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>The Justice Department announced today that it had settled a lawsuit
by nine Canadians who charged that the C.I.A. made them the subjects of
mind-control experiments involving drugs.<br />
In a statement, the department said the plaintiffs would share $750,000.
The plaintiffs were patients of D. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist at
McGill University in Montreal who received money from the C.I.A. to do
research into drugs that could be used to control human behavior.</h3>
<h3>According to Government records, the nine were not told that they
were the subjects of the experiments, which were conducted in the
1950’s. The plaintiffs were subjected to heavy doses of the hallucinogen
LSD. They were also given shock treatments and large doses of
barbiturates…The statement said that in 1957, the C.I.A. gave Dr.
Cameron a grant of $60,000, which Dr. Cameron used along with a $200,000
grant from the Canadian Government to finance his experiments. ”His
treatment was not designed, directed or controlled by the C.I.A.,” the
statement said. (U.S. to Pay $750,000 In Suit on LSD Testing – New York
Times)</h3>
<h3>Gottlieb admits that he made approximately six trips to New York in
1952, and that he “visited George White on two or three occasions in
1952 to discuss his becoming a consultant for the CIA in LSD research.”
Gottlieb Declaration P4. White, a Bureau of Narcotics Agent, conducted
LSD tests on unsuspecting persons in New York, including one experiment
in which he gave LSD to a group of his friends in his New York apartment
in November 1952. The record also reflects that beginning in June 1953,
White covertly administered LSD to people in New York with whom he came
into contact in his role as a narcotics agent. Gottlieb testified
before the Kennedy Committee that White may have conducted his tests on
one or more occasions by administering the drug to an unsuspecting
person in a bar. (The Law and Mind Control)</h3>
<h3><strong>Ritual Abuse</strong><br />
The Dublin Hellfire Club (Montpelier Hill)<br />
“The Irish Hellfire Club quickly gained notoriety by their open mockery
of the church, that took the Enlightenment’s questioning of organised
religion to a new level. An interesting letter from 1738, that purported
to be written by a member of the club who used the pseudonym ‘Molock’,
describes the Hellfire Club and its practices, including ‘the sacrifice
of maidens’. . .”</h3>
<h3>The Dublin Hellfire Club (Montpelier Hill)<br />
“The Hellfire Club soon became notorious for its excesses, which were
often conducted in public. Its heavy drinking sessions were sometimes
attended by sexual assault and violence, ending in murder on at least
one recorded occasion”. (A History of Ritual Abuse 2) (Chapter 6 –
Empirical Evidence of Ritual Abuse)</h3>
<h3>The following cases describe legal proceedings held in Juvenile,
Family, Civil and Criminal Courts around the world where there have been
allegations of Satanism or the use of Ritual to abuse others. Any
religion or organization can be used as a front to hide ritual abuse
activity, including Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism, Hinduism,
Masonry, Mormonism, Pagan and Satanic religions; however, not all
Satanists commit crimes and not all occultism is Satanism. It is
imperative that investigators and professionals familiarize themselves
with cross-cultural belief systems so as not to target any particular
group. (Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive)</h3>
<h3>Entire families have been implicated in the ritual abuse of children
which proves the fact that generational Satanism exists. See the
following legal cases: Parker (1995), Figured/Hill (1994), and Gallup
(1991). Perpetrators have been found to be professionals who work in law
enforcement, the military or daycare, and Christian fronts have been
used in some instances as a means of hiding the satanic motivation of
the perpetrators. See Cannaday (1994), Wright (1992), Gallup (1991), and
Orr (1984). In several cases the perpetrators have confessed to the
satanic element of the crime or participation in prior satanic offenses.
See Helms (2006), Cala (2003), Smith (2003), Delaney (2002), Morris
(2001), South (2000), Page (2000), T. Kokoraleis (1999), Bonacci (1999),
Brooks (1996), Hughes (1996), Penick (1995), Alvarado (1995), Ingram
(1992), Rogers (1992), and Fryman (1988). (Satanism and Ritual Abuse
Archive)</h3>
<h3>In addition to court documents this archive also references news
articles that document the ritual elements of the crime which include
perpetrator confessions, cannibalism, murder, mutilation in the context
of Satanism, and there is ample evidence to prove the existence of cult
groups who sacrifice their victims as an offering to Satan. This proves
beyond doubt that unusual occult belief systems exist and the bizarre
acts committed by these individuals are not only not unusual, they are
commonplace. (Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive)</h3>
<h3><strong>McMartin</strong></h3>
<h3>February 1984 Seven defendants are arrested and charged with 207
counts of child molestation and conspiracy. Over 90 McMartin parents,
file a civil suit against Virginia McMartin, Peggy Buckey, Betty Raidor,
Babette Spitler, Peggy Ann Buckey and Ray Buckey for assault and
battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress with one
attorney. Others file suit with other attorneys. All suits are
eventually dropped by civil attorneys after the 6 year statute of<br />
limitations expired before the trial ended. Civil suits by families are never refiled.</h3>
<h3>March 11, 1984 A number of other daycare centers in the Los Angeles
area are closed by the California State Department of Public Social
Services. Ten additional schools are closed in the South Bay area.</h3>
<h3>March 22, 1984 Teachers Peggy Buckey, Virginia McMartin, Ray Buckey,
Peggy Ann Buckey (Ray’s sister), Mary Ann Jackson, Betty Raidor, and
Babette Spitler are indicted on 115 counts of child sexual abuse.</h3>
<h3>April 2, 1984 The L. A. Times reports that students at McMartin have
been fondled, raped, drugged, photographed nude, forced to witness
animals being slaughtered and threatened to keep silent.</h3>
<h3>May 23, 1984 The prosecution files 93 new counts. The indictment count reaches 208, involving 40 alleged child victims.</h3>
<h3>Fall 1983 to March 1984 Nearly 400 children were interviewed at
Children’s Institute International. Forty-one children are listed as
victims in a complaint filed by the State. The count of those diagnosed
as sexually abused reaches 360 students. DA Robert Philibosian announces
the 1976 Karen Klass murder case will be reexamined to determine if it
could be linked to the McMartin case. Klass was the ex wife of Righteous
Brother Bill Medley. She had been murdered approximately an hour after
leaving her 5 year old son at the pre school. Klass’ husband also died
shortly after the McMartin indictments in March 1984. His death was
ruled an accident after he drove off a mountain road one afternoon in
Oregon.</h3>
<h3>March 22, 1984, Los Angeles Grand Jury issues indictment charging 7 former teachers with 115 counts</h3>
<h3>April 7, 1984 Bail revoked for 5 defendants who had been free on bail when 400 additional sex acts are presented.</h3>
<h3>May 24, 1984 An additional 92 counts of child molestation are filed
against all 7 defendants. A charge of conspiracy to commit lewd and
lascivious acts by force or threat of force on a child under 14. Count
is now 207 against 42 children….</h3>
<h3>January 18, 1990 The jury returns its verdict in the first McMartin
trial. Peggy and Ray Buckey are acquitted on 52 counts. The jury
deadlocks on 13 counts, all against Ray Buckey. The jurors are polled
and say they believe molestation took place at the preschool but that
the prosecution did not prove the case. The expressed disappointment at
not hearing more from the children.</h3>
<h3>January (late) 1990 District Attorney Reiner announces that he will
retry Ray Buckey on eight of the 13 counts involving three girls.</h3>
<h3>February 5, 1990 Deputy District Attorneys Joe Martinez and Pam
Ferraro are assigned to the case. Incredibly, after the trial, it is
discovered that Pam Ferraro was a former student of the McMartin
Preschool. Photographs of her sitting on Peggy Buckey’s lap reading a
book, sitting at a table with Peggy, Virginia and several of other
students as well as a McMartin preschool class picture including Peggy
and Virginia.</h3>
<h3>April May, 1990 Tunnels are found under the foundation of the
McMartin preschool building by a team of Archaeologists headed by Dr.
Gary Stickel. Ground Penetrating Radar recently developed by the U.S.
Army is used to define the location of anomalies under ground. Three
segments of tunnel, one over 45 feet in length with a 9 x 9 room area
are found exactly where the children said they were. District Attorney
does not use the evidence because of time and money constraints and the
fact that they would have to start a new investigation of their own at
the site as they did in 1985. The discoveries are widely reported in the
news.</h3>
<h3>May 30, 1990 With the entire team of archaeologists, geologists
still uncovering evidence of filled in tunnels, the McMartin Preschool
is demolished by a bulldozer ordered by the new owner, developer, Arnold
Goldstein. Final cost of the archaeological project, paid for by
parents and donations, exceeds $53,000.</h3>
<h3>July 27, 1990 On their 15th day of deliberations, the jury tells the
judge they are hopelessly deadlocked on all 8 counts. The judge
declares a mistrial. Juror L. I., a 64 year old treasury department
employee said , “I don’t know how you could get 12 people to be
unanimous in this case. There are too many unanswered questions. Too
much time has passed.” Again because of money and time constraints, DA
Ira Reiner decides not to ask for a third trial of Ray Buckey. The first
two prosecutions have consumed over $15 million and seven years of
court time. He is under tremendous political pressure because he has
failed in prosecuting the case. (McMartin Preschool Case – What Really
Happened and the Coverup)</h3>
<h3><strong>3) Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors
Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and
their techniques (Hassan, 2018).</strong></h3>
<h3>– Describe research studies that show how these techniques work<br />
– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors</h3>
<h3>The Extreme Abuse Surveys (EAS) were created to develop a
qualitative and quantitative base of data regarding the accounts of
survivors of extreme abuse.</h3>
<h3>The international online survey was divided into three parts. The
Extreme Abuse Survey for adult survivors (EAS), was conducted between
January 1 and March 30, 2007. The Professional-Extreme Abuse Survey
(P-EAS) was conducted between April 1 and June 30, 2007. This survey was
for therapists, clergy, counselors and other persons that had worked
professionally with at least one victim of extreme abuse. The
Child-Extreme Abuse Survey (C-EAS) was conducted between July 8 and
October 8, 2007. This survey was for caregivers of child survivors of
extreme abuse and mind control. (Extreme Abuse Surveys)</h3>
<h3>The main objective of the surveys was to gather preliminary data on
the nature and extent of extreme abuse….The target population of the
study was defined as all survivors of extreme abuse.<br />
Fourteen hundred and seventy-one participants from more than thirty
countries answered at least one question of the EAS. The survey was
given in both German and English. Sixty-four percent of 985 participants
reported memories of incest and 48% of 977 participants reported
memories of extreme abuse before they sought therapy. Sixty-nine percent
of 257 respondents that reported secret mind control experiments on
them when they were children also reported that they were abused in a
cult. (Extreme Abuse Surveys)</h3>
<h3>Of 1007 participants in the EAS, 65% stated that they had been
diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Higher percentages were
found in the C-EAS and the P-EAS. High percentages of physical abuse,
sexual abuse from multiple perpetrators and child pornography were found
in all three surveys. In the C-EAS, medical evidence consistent with
extreme abuse was found in 53% of 80 respondents, psychological symptoms
consistent with extreme abuse were found in 91% of the 88 respondents
and the symptoms abated when the child was able to tell about the abuse
in 78 respondents (Extreme Abuse Surveys)</h3>
<h3><strong>What is a Cult?</strong><br />
Here is a summary of 10 themes of cult membership Stephen Hassan listed in “<em>Combatting Cult Mind Control</em>”<br />
1) The Doctrine is Reality – The cult’s beliefs allow no interpretation or other theories.<br />
2) Reality is Black and White, Good Versus Evil – no outside group is valid, “no room for<br />
interpretation”<br />
3) Elitist Mentality – they are the chosen ones<br />
4) Group Will Over Individual Will – “the self must submit to the group” “conformity is<br />
good”<br />
5) Strict Obedience: Modeling the Leader – the leader is imitated by everyone<br />
6) Happiness through good performance – behaviors are controlled by shaming,<br />
competition<br />
7) Manipulation through fear and guilt – includes exit phobias, the devil, God, communism,<br />
etc. will hurt you<br />
8) Emotional highs and lows – from great productivity to crashing (due to individual’s<br />
inadequacies)<br />
9) Changes in Time Orientation – pre-cult life is bad, the present is crucial (pressure to meet<br />
quotas, etc.)<br />
10) No Way Out – There is never a legitimate reason for leaving<br />
(Combating Cult Mind Control)</h3>
<h3>Cults also use “love bombing,” lots of flattery early on to “suck
people in”. In ritual abuse, fear is used much more often, especially
with children. Torture is often used to control peoples’ minds (allowing
suggestions to enter the mind), causing DID, instead of fatigue and
lectures, though fatigue and starvation may also be used. Ritual abuse
suggestions are planted in alternate personalities. A person in the cult
may have one belief system for work and day-time society and another
for the cult at night.<br />
Hassan’s book explains how to recognize and avoid cults. They are often
dishonest, having a hidden agenda. (Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies
Information Outline)</h3>
<h3>Mind control refers to a specific set of methods and techniques,
such as hypnosis or thought-stopping, that influence how a person
thinks, feels, and acts.<br />
Steven Hassan developed the BITE Model to describe cults’ specific
methods to recruit and maintain control over people. “BITE” stands for
Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control. The BITE model
should be used within the Influence Continuum Model to help determine
authoritarian control. Not every group or relationship uses every one of
these. Some are universal such as deception (Information control),
indoctrinating people to distrust critics and former members, or
installing phobias to make people afraid of questioning or leaving.<br />
(BITE Model of Authoritarian Control)</h3>
<h3><strong>Cults</strong><br />
Cults have made headlines around the world for many years and continue
to fascinate in documentaries and popular podcasts. The stories behind
these cults’ origins, leaders and demises are riveting — and often
disturbing. (The most terrifying cults in history)</h3>
<h3>NXIVM founder Keith Raniere was accused of running an abusive sex cult through his Albany-based seminar company.<br />
He denied the charges after his March 2018 arrest, but a judge ordered him held without bail until trial.</h3>
<h3>Before Raniere’s arrest, in 2017, a New York Times exposé accused
NXIVM of fronting a cult called “DOS” or “The Vow.” The Times reported
that female cult members were branded, used as sex slaves, punished by
their “masters” and blackmailed.</h3>
<h3>Here, attorneys representing Raniere prepare to hold a news
conference after he was arrested on sex trafficking charges in March
2018. He pleaded not guilty.</h3>
<h3>Actress Allison Mack Arrives At Court Over Sex Trafficking Charges</h3>
<h3>“Smallville” actress Allison Mack (seen here) was subsequently
accused of recruiting “DOS” slaves by convincing women they were joining
a female empowerment group that would help them overcome weaknesses.</h3>
<h3>Mack was arrested and indicted on federal charges, including sex trafficking. She initially pleaded not guilty.</h3>
<h3>Raniere at a hearing in April 2018. The following March, Raniere
faced new charges of exploiting a child and possessing child
pornography.</h3>
<h3>He was found guilty on all counts on June 19, 2019. In October 2020,
a judge sentenced him to 120 years in prison. (The most terrifying
cults in history)</h3>
<h3><strong>4) Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity
Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex
trafficking survivors will be explained. The forced development of these
diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to
control sex trafficking survivors.</strong></h3>
<h3>– Describe research studies that show how these techniques work<br />
– Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors<br />
– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors</h3>
<h3><strong>Dissociative Identity Disorder</strong><br />
Dissociative identity disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality
Disorder or MPD) is defined as the presence of two or more personality
states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of one’s
behavior. The patient has an inability to recall personal information.
The extent of this lack of recall is too great to be explained by normal
forgetfulness. The disorder cannot be due to the direct physical
effects of a general medical condition or substance.</h3>
<h3>In DSM-5, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is described as a
disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality
states or an experience of possession. The clinician may observe or the
patient may report that these personality states demonstrate marked
discontinuity in sense of self and/or agency, accompanied by changes in
affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or
sensory-motor functioning. In addition, the person experiences
dissociative amnesia (DA), a disruption in autobiographical memory (see
Chapter 26, “Dissociative Amnesia”) that includes gaps or difficulties
in recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or
traumatic events.</h3>
<h3>DID entails a failure to integrate certain aspects of memory,
consciousness and identity. Patients experience frequent gaps in their
memory for their personal history, past and present. Patients with DID
report having severe physical and sexual abuse, especially during
childhood. The reports of patients with DID are often validated by
objective evidence. (Dissociative Identity Disorder)</h3>
<h3><strong>PTSD</strong><br />
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may
occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event,
series of events or set of circumstances. An individual may experience
this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may
affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being. Examples
include natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist acts,
war/combat, rape/sexual assault, historical trauma, intimate partner
violence and bullying,<br />
People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related
to their experience that last long after the traumatic event has ended.
They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may
feel sadness, fear or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged
from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that
remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong negative
reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental
touch. (What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)</h3>
<h3><strong>Research Studies</strong><br />
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma<br />
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.<br />
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of<br />
RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been
diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).<br />
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.<br />
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.<br />
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).<br />
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized “known” crime.<br />
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.<br />
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.<br />
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.<br />
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to
favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative
ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems. (10 Extreme Abuse Survey
Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma)</h3>
<h3><em>Secret Weapons</em> is a well-documented, verifiable account of
not one, but two childrens’ long untold stories of being CHILD subjects
of Project MKUltra. Quotes from the book: “By the time Cheryl Hersha
came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete
that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,
each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both
extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not
yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was
almost always of a sexual nature…” p. 52 “The government
researchers,aware of the information in the professional journals,
decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation).
They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create
personalities capable of committing acts desired for national security
and defense.” p. 53 – 54 (Secret Weapons)</h3>
<h3>Twenty-Two Faces documents how the only known
survivor-intended-victim of a modern-day human sacrifice ceremony six
year-old Jenny Hill, overcomes multiplicity resulting from brainwashing,
her perpetrators having subjected the child to insidious mind-control
techniques culled from Nazi Germany. As is the case for thousands of
children across the globe unfortunate enough to be born into families
still practicing these aberrant religious rites. Using a lone resource:
faith in God, Jenny tries to make sense of a life where she jumps from
one day to the next. Eventually with help of a psychologist: she takes
charge of her divided mind by facing alter personalities and their
traumatic repressed memories, overcomes family-society rejection,
confronts and forgives abusers, showing an ability of the human spirit
to overcome against all odds, profound emotional shock and miraculously
healing from severe childhood trauma.<br />
(Twenty Two Faces)</h3>
<h3>A new book, <em>Twenty Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-two Multiple Personalities,</em>
by retired, Saratoga Springs-based psychiatrist Judy Byington, tells
the story of Hill, who, according to Byinton, was the victim of sexual
assaults by both her father and by neighborhood boys. Hill told Byington
that on June 21, 1965, in Garden Grove, Calif., she was tortured on an
altar and forced to watch the murder of a 6-year-old by a satanic coven.</h3>
<h3>Subsequently, Hill was subjected to mind control experiments which
resulted, Byington says, in Hill having 22 personalities. Hill moved to
Utah County and ended up spending a year in the Utah State Hospital
under the care of Weston Whatcott between 1984 and 1985. In a press
release by the book’s publisher, Whatcott acknowledges that Hill’s
multiple personalities were a result of childhood trauma, “namely
repeated sexual assaults coupled with ritual abuse.”<br />
Byington says Hill “really wanted her story told.” Byington drew on
journals Hill and some of her other personalities kept from when she was
5 to 24. “We could all be multiple personalities if we have gone
through all the trauma that these people have gone through,” Byington
says.”Children under tremendous torture, their minds can separate into
different personalities.”<br />
Hill went to the FBI looking for the parents of the child she had seen
killed, Byington says. While an FBI agent who looked at Hill’s medical
records told Byington that there was confirmation that horrendous
torture had occurred, “he wouldn’t open up a case for her.”</h3>
<h3>Byington has also investigated local satanic covens in Utah, she
says, and talked to a special-investigations unit at the Utah Attorney
General’s office in 2006 on ritual abuse cases. “”It’s still very much
of a problem,” Byington says. “These covens are very active and it’s
very difficult to prove what’s going on.” (22 Faces <strong>revives ritual sexual abuse controversy)</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>5) The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of
being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind
control techniques.</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>(Please use caution reading this if you are survivor. It may remind people of their traumatic memories.)</strong></h3>
<h3>2001 presentation:<br />
All of the pieces of memories I had been having the last few years came
together more for me. I have been having a fair amount of lab and ECT
memories and men in white coats. I realized I was programmed to go on
missions. I was very small and I was kept small and thin by programming
until the age of 9, when a primary perpetrator went into the hospital
for a while and I was no longer afraid to eat. This programming started
around the age of 3. This is why I am so small today and I am smaller
than my siblings. I was kept small to fit into vents and ducts to work
on missions to go into places to open doors, to let others in, steal
materials or records, spy on meetings or kill people. I have memories of
internally going on missions (at least one as an adult in my 20’s), but
am unsure if it was internally or externally, I was triggered by people
having sex in the next room.</h3>
<h3>I have one memory of killing someone in Eastern Europe, it felt like
that part of the world. He was sort of asleep and he knew this would
happen, it must have been in the late 60’s by the way he looked. He was
some sort of up and coming political person the CIA/Illuminati didn’t
want in power. He knew it was his time though. He said (in his own
language) go ahead and do it, or at least I perceived this. So I did it.</h3>
<h3>I have memories of being on lab tables with men in white suits and
their assistants, sometimes perps, sometimes sort of decent (though
cautious).I also have memories of going on missions by looking at maps
and learning the plans. I was taught the triggers necessary to open the
necessary alters to do the perps work. They used ECT afterwards to make
sure I’d forget and to punish me if I told or made a mistake. Drugs were
sometimes used to control me if I became stubborn of if I needed to be
put into a meditative state to be programmed. I believe that I would be
brought to a Masonic meeting late at night and/or driven to a lab in
Boston late at night. My primary perps received money for this since
they were having financial difficulties at the time. (My Most Recent
Memories and My Personal Growth)</h3>
<h3>2002:<br />
From all this, I have remembered specific rituals and programming
sessions. The hemisphere signal (double hand signal) was in a laboratory
setting with lights flashing on both sides. It was meant to program
both sides of my brain. The hand signal was meant to turn off or close
the program(s) that I had opened up and remembered. The sleep
programming signal was from both lab settings and Masonic ritual abuse
settings. In the lab, I would be cued to remember something and drugged
to purposefully fall asleep whenever I did. In the ritual abuse
settings, the training for this would be done late at night after
rituals when we were very tired and they would ask us to tell them what
we remembered, then they would say it is easier to fall asleep and
forget it. Being so tired from the horrible rituals, we did. Of course,
it isn’t easier. It is better to remember and heal.</h3>
<h3>These are examples of how I have learned a lot about myself, while
speaking at conferences and trying to help others. By learning a lot
about myself, I have learned how to educate other survivors.</h3>
<h3>Another thing I have learned is how to recognize some programming
triggers in writing, either in newsletters or on the web. I did this to
help others. But it also taught me to recognize the triggers in my own
writing and some of the programs in me that would cause me to put them
in my writing. An example of this is the use of the words “current” and
“currently.” For me, this is from electroshock programming, either
programming to scare me into silence or to destroy a particular memory.
The use of the word was meant to remind me of what would happen if I
talked. Since this is only programming, none of this happened when I
talked and I actually got healthier sharing my feelings and memories
when I spoke. So the cult was wrong.</h3>
<h3>I also had a tendency to follow heroes. This is cult programming.
Following the cult leaders or head programmers in the laboratory was
necessary for the success of the cult. I have discussed hero worship and
its dangers at other conferences. By giving our power to others, we
lose our own power and are more easily controlled by other people. I
have noticed that the safest survivor advocates with the most recovery
are the most human and the least power hungry. They don’t have an
entourage traveling around them. They don’t feel the need to tell others
how to recover and they don’t need to ask for money for themselves.
They don’t act like movie stars or try to impress others. By working
with survivors and seeing others follow “heroes,” I learned that I to a
lesser extent I did also. This was a very deep part of my programming,
to always follow orders unquestioning. I do this at work, I am always
obedient. But I am learning to question things and speak up as I break
my programming more and more. For me, it wasn’t a conscious fear of
authority, but more a need to follow or allegiance to power. Now I know I
do not need to follow others. I can be free and make decisions for
myself.</h3>
<h3>People in the survivor of other movements may say they have the
answer or they have information that can help everyone. I’ve learned
that I need to find my own answers, my own truth. If I follow someone
else (without thinking), I am being mind controlled. (My Healing and
Helping Others)</h3>
<h3><strong>6) Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed.</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>– Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>The Importance of Prevention</strong><br />
Red flags that everyone should know and watch out for:<br />
A predator:<br />
is mean,<br />
is outwardly charming and pretends friendship,<br />
likes to humiliate others,<br />
enjoys pushing others into risks,<br />
brags about hurting others,<br />
thinks life is a game that they must win.<br />
(Opening Our Minds – on Predators and Prevention)<br />
Not all predators openly do this.</h3>
<h3>For survivors, I think the important thing is to realize when these
techniques are being used on us. To fight the second suggestion and not
follow it blindly. This may entail leaving the area immediately and
going to a safe spot. Online this may mean reading certain E-mails with
support people present. And to avoid those that may use these
suggestions on us whenever possible. Learning how to develop safe
support systems and safe resources can help with this. I believe it is
dangerous to believe that we can’t be mind controlled.</h3>
<h3>Guilt may also be used as a technique, especially on survivors.
Making people feel like they haven’t done enough for a particular group
or organization, asking people to do things without considering all
sides of the issue or their own needs.</h3>
<h3>Neediness can also be used. Survivors may be looking for approval,
acceptance and a place to discuss their feelings. So they may not be
able to critically decide what support systems may be the safest for
them. Groups will first be very nice or overly nice to them (love
bombing), but this will often disappear later and emotional manipulation
and threats or guilt may be used to try to cause the desired behavior.
Abusers will often apologize after their behavior, but I believe a
sincere apology would be to try and change the behavior. (Propaganda
& Mind Control)</h3>
<h3><strong>Becoming Aware of Trance States</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>How to Avoid Blindly Accepting Propaganda and Being Mind Controlled</strong><br />
(Please note: these are only suggestions. You may want to analyze each
of them to see if they have any value to you and if necessary, add some
of your own.)<br />
“The subjects easiest to influence are usually young, trusting,
gullible, and noncritical people from protective backgrounds or people
who may be particularly vulnerable because of some recent unsettled
transition (my note: survivors may also fit in this category)… the
rejects are likely to be individuals who have easy access to accurate,
critical, or counterbalancing information. Insolent, self centered,
streetwise, highly critical or recalcitrant individuals are generally
culled out…” Though everyone is susceptible to some degree.</h3>
<h3>1) Try to find out both sides of the story.</h3>
<h3>2)Learn about propaganda and mind control techniques and learn how
to recognize them. If necessary, learn to avoid those using these
techniques (this may be online or offline.) The media and advertisements
may be a good place to start either learning about these techniques or
avoiding them. At times, advertisements don’t even discuss the product
or its attributes at all.</h3>
<h3>3) When in a potential situation where you can be MC’ed or
propagandized, learn how to recognize the feelings of going into a
meditative state and learn some of the techniques for getting out of
these states. I believe that avoidance of these situations is usually
the best way to keep from being MC’ed or propagandized.</h3>
<h3>4) The user of propaganda or mind control techniques may exhibit a
“lack of morals,” lying and/or disregarding the rules of the debate,
list, group or society. This is similar to the “us vs them” or may be
justified by “the ends justify the means” arguments organizations may
use.<br />
5) Try to use your gut feelings. If something doesn’t feel right, step
back or remove yourself from the situation. I believe that a legitimate
group or organization will give an individual the time and room to make
their own choices.</h3>
<h3>I believe the following statement also applies to being MC’ed and/or
fooled by propaganda. “No one “joins a cult.” People recruited into
destructive groups think they are doing something else, something
beneficial and worthwhile. Anyone can be recruited given the right sales
pitch and the right conditions in one’s life. We are all potential
victims.” While I believe it is necessary to learn from our mistakes, I
think that feeling too much guilt doesn’t help. It may be necessary to
make an amends when safe. This may be simply by getting healthy and
possibly educating others.</h3>
<h3>As always, please use your own judgement and try to research
everything as fully as possible. Don’t accept anything anyone says
simply because they say it or claim to be an expert or whatever. Try to
check it out for yourself. I am not an expert, and I am continually
learning new things about myself and the above topics. (Propaganda and
Mind Control)</h3>
<h3><strong>(Please use caution reading this if you are survivor. It may remind people of their traumatic memories.)</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Trigger management</strong> is one of the keys to recovery.
It may be as important as memory retrieval, or at least connected to it.
By being able to manage one’s triggers, one can hopefully keep from
being triggered into alter states that could possibly be used to get
people to return to the cult. This entails knowing the trigger and the
feeling accompanying the trigger, the memory connected to the trigger
and the action required of the trigger. An example could be, when one
sees ice cream, they are to walk down the street and touch a light pole
on the corner. The memory could be being put into a deep hypnotic state
and then having a picture of ice cream flashed in front of one’s eyes
with the instruction constantly being whispered in your ear, walk to the
light pole on the corner.</h3>
<h3>Trigger management in this case could be having the memory and
learning the accompanying trigger (ice cream) and subliminal instruction
(walk to the light pole). Or it could be from the trigger, losing time
after the trigger and not knowing why, and realizing that somehow you
are at a light pole. Eventually, remembering the memory for all this.</h3>
<h3>Trigger management could also be learning the feeling of falling or
going into a deep hypnotic state, and then trying to figure out why.
Also, learning how not to fall into these states while feeling the
“pull” of them. One technique I use is: I shake my head side to side
(fairly hard) or walk around. (Trigger Management and Conference Safety
Presentation)</h3>
<h3>Using grounding techniques, taking breaks, talking to a safe support person to work with triggers.</h3>
<h3><strong>7) Discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.</strong><br />
– Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control</h3>
<h3>Media bias and recent progress in our field.</h3>
<h3>Critical Thinking Skills</h3>
<h3>How to avoid cults?</h3>
<h3>How to educate others?</h3>
<h3><strong>References:</strong></h3>
<h3>10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual
Trauma from Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from
three online surveys – Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November).
Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online
surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for
the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-trauma-a-comparison-of-findings-from-three-online-surveys/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-trauma-a-comparison-of-findings-from-three-online-surveys/</a></h3>
<h3>22 Faces revives ritual sexual abuse controversy by Stephen Dark 2012-06-25 CityWeekly <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3>
<h3>A History of Ritual Abuse 2 – Dr. Randall Noblitt – <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/History%20of%20RA%202%20-%20Dr%20Randy%20Noblitt%20SMART%20Conference%202022.pdf">https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/History%20of%20RA%202%20-%20Dr%20Randy%20Noblitt%20SMART%20Conference%202022.pdf</a></h3>
<h3>Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder and
Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility – Dissociation Vol. III,
No. 1<br />
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/1492</h3>
<h3>BITE Model of Authoritarian Control https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/</h3>
<h3>Dissociative Identity Disorder <a href="https://childabusewiki.org/index.php/Dissociative_Identity_Disorder">https://childabusewiki.org/index.php/Dissociative_Identity_Disorder</a></h3>
<h3>extreme-abuse-survey.org A Series of Online Surveys https://extreme-abuse-survey.org/</h3>
<h3>Extreme Abuse Surveys <a href="https://childabusewiki.org/index.php/Extreme_Abuse_Surveys">https://childabusewiki.org/index.php/Extreme_Abuse_Surveys</a></h3>
<h3>Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowski – Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A
National Study – Executive Summary – March 1988
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/113095NCJRS.pdf</h3>
<h3>Hassan, S. (2018) <em>Combating Cult Mind Control.</em> Park Street Press</h3>
<h3>How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda – Neil Brick<br />
<a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/how-cues-and-programming-work-in-mind-control-and-propaganda/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/how-cues-and-programming-work-in-mind-control-and-propaganda/</a></h3>
<h3>McMartin Preschool Case – What Really Happened and the Coverup<br />
<a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-what-really-happened-and-the-coverup/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/mcmartin-preschool-case-what-really-happened-and-the-coverup/</a></h3>
<h3>McGonigle, Helen – The Law and Mind Control – a Look at the Law and Government Mind Control Through Five Cases <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/articles-books/the-law-and-mind-control-a-look-at-the-law-and-goverment-mind-control-through-five-cases/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/articles-books/the-law-and-mind-control-a-look-at-the-law-and-goverment-mind-control-through-five-cases/</a></h3>
<h3>My Healing and Helping Others – Neil Brick <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2002/my-healing-and-helping-others/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2002/my-healing-and-helping-others/</a></h3>
<h3>My Most Recent Memories and My Personal Growth – Neil Brick <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2001/my-most-recent-memories-and-my-personal-growth/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2001/my-most-recent-memories-and-my-personal-growth/</a></h3>
<h3>Noblitt, JR; Perskin PS (2000). Cult and ritual abuse: its history,
anthropology, and recent discovery in contemporary America. New York:
Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96665-8.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=zJkTTpfyJ-8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
Chapter 6 – Empirical Evidence of Ritual Abuse</h3>
<h3>Opening Our Minds – on Predators and Prevention with Jon Atack – Steven Hassan<br />
https://freedomofmind.com/opening-our-minds-on-predators-and-prevention-with-jon-atack/</h3>
<h3>Propaganda & Mind Control – Neil Brick <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/">https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/</a></h3>
<h3>Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force – Los Angeles County Commission for Women<br />
<a href="http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/report-of-the-ritual-abuse-task-force-los-angeles-county-commission-for-women/">http://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/report-of-the-ritual-abuse-task-force-los-angeles-county-commission-for-women/</a></h3>
<h3>Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies Information Outline – Neil Brick<br />
<a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/masons/ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-information-outline/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/masons/ritual-abuse-and-secret-societies-information-outline/</a></h3>
<h3>Sargant, William (1997) Battle for the Mind; A physiology of conversion and brain-washing</h3>
<h3>Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive By Dr. Lacter – In Evidence of Ritual Abuse</h3>
<h3>http: //endritualabuse.org/ satanism-and-ritual-abuse-archive/</h3>
<h3>Secret Weapons – Two Sisters’ Terrifying True Story of Sex, Spies
and Sabotage by Cheryl and Lynn Hersha with Dale Griffis, Ph D. and Ted
Schwartz. New Horizon Press <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3>
<h3>Sex Trafficking – CDC https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/trafficking.html</h3>
<h3>Skinner, B.F. (1971). <em>Beyond freedom and dignity</em> New York: Bantam/Vintage Books</h3>
<h3>Smith, Michelle, Pazder, Lawrence – <em>Michelle Remembers</em> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle-remembers/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/michelle-remembers/</a></h3>
<h3>Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions<br />
<a href="https://survivorship.org/frequently-ask-questions/">https://survivorship.org/frequently-ask-questions/</a></h3>
<h3>The 2019 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act<br />
https://polarisproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Polaris-TVPRA-2019-Analysis.pdf<br />
The Battle for Your Mind by Dick Sutphen – Persuasion & Brainwashing
Techniques Being Used On The Public Today
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TR/sutphen.html</h3>
<h3>The most terrifying cults in history https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/cults-dangerous-deadly-history/3/</h3>
<h3>Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking/key-legislation</h3>
<h3>Trigger Management and Conference Safety Presentation – Neil Brick <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf1999/trigger-management-and-conference-safety-presentation/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf1999/trigger-management-and-conference-safety-presentation/</a></h3>
<h3>Twenty-Two Faces – Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and
Her Twenty-Two Multiple Personalities Judy Byington MSW, LCSW, ret. Tate
Publishing May, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1620240328 <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3>
<h3>U.S. to Pay $750,000 In Suit on LSD Testing
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/12/world/us-to-pay-750000-in-suit-on-lsd-testing.html</h3>
<h3>What is Human Trafficking https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/about/what-human-trafficking</h3>
<h3>What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd</h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-7120552584589836812023-10-23T20:28:00.000-07:002023-10-23T20:28:14.261-07:0050 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real - Testimonies of Survivors of Ritual Abuse, Clergy abuse survivors propose 'zero tolerance' law following Vatican appointment <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span>50 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real - Testimonies of Survivors of Ritual Abuse, <span><strong>Clergy abuse survivors propose 'zero tolerance' law following Vatican appointment</strong> </span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span> <strong><span>50 Voices – Ritual Abuse is Real - </span></strong>Testimonies of Survivors of Ritual Abuse</span></strong></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who report extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult structures.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Over the years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more numerous and louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize professional conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the public began to take notice of this phenomenon.</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Typical experiences include: Sexual abuse, child prostitution and child pornography, torture, snuff film productions, participation in ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and highly complex methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind control”). Victims are born into family structures that have practiced Satanism or similar occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold into these perpetrator circles as children. This specific form of organized crime has been called ritual abuse by therapists.</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Motivation </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>“It is the agenda of our programmers to control global society. We are just one of many slaves prepared with individualized, extreme, ongoing programming while global society is being processed on a mass scale, society at large being subject to mind control as well.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Elisa E: Our Life Beyond MKUltra. Then and Now, p. 189</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Since the 1980s, therapists have been working with patients who report extreme experiences of violence in the context of occult structures. Typical experiences include: sexual abuse, child prostitution and child pornography, torture, snuff film productions, participation in ritual acts including human sacrifice, cannibalism, and highly complex methods of mind splitting and conditioning (“mind control“). Victims are born into family structures that have practiced Satanism or similar occult beliefs for generations, or they are sold into these perpetrator circles as children. This specific form of organized crime has been called ritual abuse by therapists. Over the years, the voices of ritual abuse survivors became more numerous and louder. Likewise, therapists began to network, organize professional conferences, and write professional books. Finally, the public began to take notice of this phenomenon.</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Perpetrator groups responded to these developments in the 1990s with an effective campaign by U.S. media defaming survivors and their therapists as propagators of a “Satanic Panic” narrative. Patients’ accounts of traumatic childhood experiences were also portrayed as “false memories” that had been talked into them by their therapists. Although the Satanic Panic propaganda represented a serious setback for the survivors and their therapists, disclosure continued slowly but irreversible. In other countries around the world, victims and trauma therapists also found the courage to speak out about ritual abuse and to network internationally. More survivor reports and professional publications followed, as did data surveys to quantify the phenomenon. Now, in the year 2022/23, the perpetrator network is again trying – this time starting from Switzerland – to manipulate the public opinion and to make the victims of these violent crimes untrustworthy with the well-known method of Satanic-Panic-/false-memory-propaganda.</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” pursues the goal of eradicating the basis of this perpetrator propaganda. For the first time, the global public learns firsthand from 50 survivors that ritual abuse and mind control are real. Their testimonies not only reveal the common patterns behind the experiences of violence, but they also reveal that it is a global phenomenon (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy as well as other crime scenes are mentioned).</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In August 2023, the project started with publishing 5 of 50 testimonies of survivors. Since then, two more testimonies are disclosed every week through various channels (Website, YouTube, Telegram, Odysee, etc.). Please help spread the truth.</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Mission Statement</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” aims to draw public attention to the phenomenon of ritual abuse and to initiate a social discussion. From the perspective of those affected, there is an urgent need for action as follows:</span></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Improvement of therapy offerings and specific training of trauma therapists in the areas of ritual abuse, DID, and recognition and deletion of destructive programs.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Protection and exit support for survivors (including safe houses with associated therapeutic care)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Training of law enforcement institutions (police, prosecutors, judges) and support/care facilities</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Objective reporting/education in the media.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Everyone can contribute to achieving these goals. This can be done by, among other things:</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Disseminating reputable information about ritual abuse/mind control in the private sphere</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Addressing politicians/party representatives at the local level</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Addressing editors and other media representatives and commenting on/complaining about Satanic Panic/false memory propaganda in the media.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><strong>Clergy abuse survivors propose 'zero tolerance' law following Vatican appointment</strong> - Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press October 2, 2023</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>ROME -- Clergy sexual abuse survivors on Monday unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them, as they stepped up their outrage over Pope Francis’ choice to head the Vatican office that investigates sex crimes.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The global advocacy group End Clergy Abuse unveiled the draft law at a press conference following days of protests around the Vatican, and before taking their complaints to the U.N. in Geneva. They are seeking to draw attention to the ongoing scandal in the Catholic Church and the failure of Francis and the hierarchy to make good on years of pledges of “zero tolerance” for abuse.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Specifically, the survivors have expressed astonishment at Francis’ nomination of an old friend and theologian, Cardinal Victor Fernandez, to take over as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, given Fernandez's record handling cases as bishop in his native Argentina.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>When Fernández was bishop of La Plata, Argentina, he refused to promptly remove one of his priests, Eduardo Lorenzo, who was repeatedly accused of abusing teens. Ten years after a victim first came forward, and hours after learning that an Argentine judge had ordered his arrest, Lorenzo was found dead in 2019 in what was ruled a suicide. Fernandez had stood by Lorenzo and officiated at his funeral.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The Vatican office that Fernandez now heads has processed priest abuse cases globally since 2001, meting out church punishments that are never more severe than being defrocked, or “reduced” back to being a layman. After bullish years under the late Pope Benedict XVI, who defrocked nearly 850 priests in a decade, the office in recent years appears to have taken a more lenient approach as cases poured in from around the globe.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Francis himself had a big learning curve on abuse, arriving at the Vatican in 2013 claiming to have never handled a case and then botching a big scandal in Chile in 2018. He did an about-face, vowed “zero tolerance” for abuse and marshalled through a new church law holding bishops accountable when they cover up cases.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>But recently, the momentum appears to have waned, transparency has remained elusive and victims have sensed a backsliding — perhaps none more so than in Francis’ nomination of Fernandez to head the Vatican’s sex abuse office....</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Fernandez acknowledged in an interview with The Associated Press earlier this year that he made mistakes in the Lorenzo case, saying he should have removed him from ministry earlier and treated his victims better. He blamed his own inexperience and what he said were unclear church procedures.</span></span></p></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The online resource BishopAccountability.org has documented two other cases that it said showed Fernandez stood by his priests rather than their alleged victims.... </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/clergy-abuse-survivors-propose-new-zero-tolerance-law-103658900">https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/clergy-abuse-survivors-propose-new-zero-tolerance-law-103658900</a></span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-70164379512435503312023-10-11T20:47:00.003-07:002023-10-11T20:47:46.497-07:00 Belonging, Ritual Abuse in Africa, Ritual Abuse and DID, Satanic Child Abuse Ring, Human Trafficking Data Collection <p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">Belonging, Ritual Abuse in Africa, Ritual Abuse and DID, Satanic Child Abuse Ring, Human Trafficking Data Collection </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">- <span><em>BELONGING three generations - poems</em></span> </span></span></span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><strong><em>BELONGING three generations - poems</em> </strong>by Wendy Hoffman poems Kelsay Books, $20 </span></span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>One person’s cooking can keep a clashing family together. Poems in Wendy Hoffman’s Belonging describe recipes and cooked-from-scratch food carried in the grandmother’s memory from the Old Country to the New Land. Love baked into this heritage-food keeps this generational mind controlled family holding on. The poems weave their way through the women’s ordinary days with hints and whispers of another realm of abuses within its characters. Three generations of women: grandmother, mother and daughter-poet each try to come to terms with her past, present and future. The maternal grandmother was an immigrant from Belarus, the mother was born in America and formed during the Depression, the younger daughter distances but still feels genetic connection and buried longing. The poems encompass the surface of the women’s everyday lives and also the contradictory truth of their traumatic hidden ones. The poems mix imagery, prose, allusion and metaphor with frankness to achieve gripping and fleeing moments that are hard to hold onto but stick. </span></span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>About the author: Wendy Hoffman is the author of four published memoirs about dissociation and mind control—one has been translated and published in Germany, a co-authored book of essays with Alison Miller, and a first book of poetry. <a href="https://kelsaybooks.com/products/belonging-three-generations">https://kelsaybooks.com/products/belonging-three-generations</a> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman</a></span></span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span>Efforts to Address Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice in Africa Subcommittee Hearing</span></strong><br /><span>09.19.2023 10:00am 2200 RHOB Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgLaL-ByL8&t=3s</a> </span><br /><span><a href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/">https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing/efforts-to-address-ritual-abuse-and-sacrifice-in-africa/</a> </span></span></div>
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<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Dissociation</span><br /><strong><span>Unmasking Ritual Abuse, DID, and the Threat of Suicide</span></strong><br /><span>On Dissociative Identity Disorder and suicide awareness.</span><br /><span>Adrian A. Fletcher Psy.D., M.A. Keeping It Real and Resilient </span><br /><span>Updated September 27, 2023</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Key points</span><br /><span>Ritual abuse is a seldom-discussed and deeply unsettling topic.</span><br /><span>Dissociative Identity Disorder is highly stigmatized, and denying the existence of DID is of global concern.</span><br /><span>Secrecy perpetuates ritual abuse, and awareness is essential for prevention....</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Defining Ritual Abuse (RA)</span><br /><span>Ritual abuse fuses the concept of a ritual—a structured procedure to attain a transformation—with the malevolent nature of abuse, which encompasses any act that harms an individual's physical, emotional, sexual, mental, or spiritual development. It's crucial to grasp that ritual abuse is systematic and engineered to break a person's will.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Chrystine Oksana, in Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse (2001), elucidates that ritual abuse manifests in diverse forms, driven by various motivations such as religion, preoccupation with the supernatural, power, financial gain, or sadomasochistic drives. Disturbingly, it often intertwines with the underworld of prostitution, pornography, and trafficking. I, too, fell victim to ritual abuse as a result of my father’s involvement in organized crime.</span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><br /><span>Programming in the Alters/Parts of a DID System That Has Endured RA</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>One disturbing facet of my ordeal was the "programming" of certain parts of my identity, compelling them to perform specific actions based on the rituals imposed upon me. This included programming parts to contemplate suicide for "telling" or breaking the code of silence.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The Role of Clinicians</span><br /><span>For clinicians working with DID clients, especially when the abuse history is concealed initially, it's imperative to acknowledge that survivors may harbor parts programmed to return to abusers or inflict self-harm. This heartbreaking reality underscores the necessity for all practitioners claiming to be "trauma-informed" to possess a deep understanding of Dissociative Identity Disorder.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Awareness and Validation</span><br /><span>To combat ritual abuse, we must first acknowledge its existence. Like incest, ritual abuse thrives in secrecy, and survivors can only heal when society grants them recognition and validation. Similarly, the denial of DID's existence leaves countless people suffering and, in some cases, facing the specter of suicide.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span><strong style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Girl ‘raped while satanic child abuse ring that held seances and used </strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><strong>Ouija</strong></span></span><strong style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> boards clapped and cheered</strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>’ One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall and shut in a microwave and fridge, court heard Amy-Clare Martin Crime Correspondent Tuesday 05 September 2023</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Children were forced to take part in witchcraft and seances, and were sexually assaulted while members of a satanic child abuse ring watched, a court has heard.</span><br /><span>Eleven people are standing trial at Glasgow High Court, accused of a string of crimes, with a number facing rape and sexual assault charges, while five are accused of attempted murder.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Iain Owens, 45, Elaine Lannery, 39, Lesley Williams, 41, Paul Brannan, 41, Marianne Gallagher, 38, Scott Forbes, 50, Barry Watson, 47, Mark Carr, 49, Richard Gachagan, 45, Leona Laing, 50, and John Clark, 46, deny all the charges, involving four children.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>All eleven are accused of forcing children to participate in seances and use an Ouija board or similar object to “call on spirits and demons”, at various addresses in the Glasgow area.</span><br /><span>The children were also allegedly made to participate in classes involving witchcraft, spells and wands which made them believe that they had “metamorphosed into animals”, court documents show.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>One girl was chased by people wearing devil masks, hung by her clothing from a nail on the wall, shut in a microwave, an oven, a fridge, a freezer and cupboards, the court heard.</span><br /><span>Owens, Lannery, Williams, Brannan, Clark are also charged with attempting to murder the girl, who was also allegedly made to act like a dog and eat dog food.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The group, which is also charged with stabbing and abusing dogs, also made one child dress in lingerie and “dance in a sexualised manner” on various occasions between 1 October 2018 and 19 June 2019, the indictment claims, before she was raped by male members of the group.</span><br /><span>The women are accused of watching, with the indictment adding that they did “clap, cheer and verbally encourage” the abuse, with some filming the attack.</span><br /><span>Children were also allegedly forced to repeatedly sexually abuse each other with household items.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>On two occasions between 1 January 2019 and 23 March 2019, the group is alleged to have forced a boy to masturbate in front of them and then forced him to have sex with some of the women, while the men watched.</span><br /><span>In one horrifying charge, a young child was restrained in her cot as men raped her, while others cheered and took video recordings, the court heard....</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Jurors were told on Tuesday that the case, which has a 10-page indictment featuring 32 charges over a 10-year period from 2010 to 2020, could last more than six weeks.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-abuse-rape-satanic-witchcraft-glasgow-b2404939.html"> Https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/child-abuse-rape-satanic-witchcraft-glasgow-b2404939.html</a> </span><br /><br /><span><strong>Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities</strong>, 2023 NCJ Number 307345</span><br /><span>Date Published October 2023 Publication Series Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities Description</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>This report details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. The report provides information on human trafficking suspects referred to and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Highlights</span><br /><span>A total of 2,027 persons were referred to U.S. attorneys for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, a 49% increase from the 1,360 persons referred in 2011.</span><br /><span>The number of persons prosecuted for human trafficking more than doubled from 2011 to 2021 (from 729 persons to 1,672 persons, respectively).</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Of the 1,197 defendants charged in federal court for human trafficking offenses in fiscal year 2021, 92% were male and 60% were white. Of the 201 defendants charged with peonage, slavery, forced labor, and sex trafficking in fiscal year 2021, 77% were male and 58% were black.</span></span></div>
<div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>At year end 2021, 1,657 persons were in the custody of a state prison serving a sentence for a human trafficking offense. </span><br /><span><a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2023">https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/human-trafficking-data-collection-activities-2023</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Victims of doctor who used 'truth serum' drug to paralyse and rape at least 130 children as young as ten at psychiatric hospital finally receive an apology</strong> from Matt Hancock for the abuse they suffered in the 1960s</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Children suffered at the hands of Dr Kenneth Milner at Derby psychiatric hospital</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At least 130 people say they suffered abuse at Aston Hall in the 1960s and 1970s</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">report found children were drugged, stripped, abused and put in straitjackets </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Luke May For Mailonline 14 December 2020</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victims of a doctor who used a 'truth serum' to paralyse and rape at least 130 children as young as ten at a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and 70s have received an apology from Matt Hancock. Children at Derby psychiatric hospital Aston Hall were drugged, stripped and abused at the hands of Dr Kenneth Milner, a report revealed in 2018.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victim Barbara O'Hare, 59, previously revealed she underwent 'treatment,' by Dr Milner, whom she describes as a 'monster,' during an eight month stay at the hospital in 1971. She was told to lie on a mattress, drugged and awoke the next morning with no memory of what happened.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At least 130 men and women have since come forward to say they suffered similar abuse, after it was revealed Dr Milner was sexually and physically abusing children. Mr Hancock has written a letter to victims today, after agreeing a financial settlement in 2019.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Kenneth Milner is thought to have abused at least 130 boys and girls at Aston Hall psychiatric hospital, Derby, by drugging them in the 1960s and 1970s</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Kenneth Milner is thought to have abused at least 130 boys and girls at Aston Hall psychiatric hospital, Derby, by drugging them in the 1960s and 1970s</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">His letter, seen by the Derby Telegraph, reads: 'I would like to assure you that I am deeply sorry for the care and treatment that you received at Aston Hall Hospital. I know that it is still very distressing for you to recall your experiences and that the passage of time has not diminished that. 'I want to assure you that what happened at Aston Hall has been taken very seriously and the NHS has worked closely with all the relevant agencies, including Derbyshire Constabulary, to identify the individuals involved in the treatment at Aston Hall.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">'I can assure you that Dr Milner's death has not prevented a thorough and robust investigation of what happened.' In 2018, an independent report found children were given sodium amytal, which was not authorised for use on children.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The report found victims had been given the drug, stripped, abused and put in straitjackets. The majority of allegations centred around Dr Milner.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aston Hall closed in the 1990s, but a 2018 report revealed the scale of abuse seen in the 1960s. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has now told victims he is 'deeply sorry for the care and treatment received' at the hospital</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The doctor would inject his young patients with the paralysing drug in a bid to 'cure' them of their past traumas. He would use the opportunity to sexually assault them.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Police concluded that Dr Milner, who died in 1976, would have been questioned over allegations of rape, indecent assault and child cruelty, had he still been alive. Many of his victims, some who were as young as 10, described how their lives had been blighted by the trauma they suffered, growing up to be alcoholics and drug addicts.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ms O'Hare told the Daily Mail in 2018: 'Dr Milner played with our bodies and our minds. 'It is so outlandish. No one would believe us. Even my dad told me "you are a liar". There was no-one to tell. No-one was going to listen to us. 'He used to use the phrase 'mental defectives' to describe us, as a cover for his evil. 'The truth is we were human toys. We were a piece of meat for someone to play with, behind closed doors. And this man – this monster – was supposed to be protecting us.'</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Solicitor Dianne Collins represented people who were admitted to the hospital in the 1960s and 70s when they were children. Barbara O'Hare was abused by Milner numerous times after being drugged with sodium amytal, a barbituate that was banned from use on chilldren. She said the vile doctor: 'played with our bodies and our minds'</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Barbara O'Hare was abused by Milner numerous times after being drugged with sodium amytal, a barbituate that was banned from use on chilldren. She said the vile doctor: 'played with our bodies and our minds'</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Speaking after her 80 clients received their apologies she said: 'Throughout this entire process, all the survivors have wanted are answers to their questions, an admission that what happened to them as children should never have been allowed to happen, and an apology. 'The civil claim has been a difficult process for our clients to re-live, and we are pleased that, thanks to the many survivors who found the courage to come forward, all those things have been achieved and they have now been given the justice they deserve. 'While no apology or amount of compensation can change what happened to these people or make up for how they have suffered since. Solicitor Dianne Collins helped 80 victims reveal the horrors that happened at Aston Hall 'I hope the settlement and the end of this long legal claim will help to give them closure and enable them to move forward.'</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In August 2019, the Department of Health reached an an agreement with victims to pay at least £8,000 as a starting point to victims if they were 'experimented on' with Dr Milner's 'treatment'. Patients who received between two to five 'treatments' more would receive an additional £2,500 for each extra treatment.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">People who received between six and 15 'treatments' would receive an extra £1,500 per treatment. The report published in 2018 by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board - a multi-agency body including police, health and social services, said the claims made by dozens of former patients were genuine.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Derbyshire Police also said it had recorded 33 physical assault and 40 sexual assault allegations after taking witness accounts from 140 people.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Milner's death made it impossible to put the allegations to him, therefore no criminal prosecutions will ever be brought. He ran the hospital from 1947 to the 1970s putting the potential number of his victims in the thousands.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Derbyshire Police said there would have been sufficient evidence to justify interviewing Dr Milner under caution if he was still alive in relation to a number of potential offences - namely rape, indecent assault, child cruelty and assault.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But the report also stated no inference could be drawn as to his guilt.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Many of the victims of abuse and unauthorised drug treatments called a government compensation scheme 'an insult'. Ms Collins added: 'What happened to those children at Aston Hall in the 1960s and 70s is appalling. Sadly, at the time, there were no safeguarding procedures in place to stop it from happening. Moreover, if these very vulnerable, young people tried to tell anyone what had happened to them, they were not believed. 'It is important to note that it is not too late for survivors of Aston Hall to bring a claim under the settlement scheme.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If they received narco-analysis treatment while a patient at the hospital and the records exist that document those treatments, they will be entitled to compensation under the scheme. 'Although many survivors may be disappointed that no criminal prosecutions are to be brought, it is always important to report any abuse that has happened, however long ago it was. Abusers have to realise they are not in the clear simply because of the passage of time.' </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052317/Aston-Hall-victims-receive-apology-doctor-abused-130-children-young-10.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052317/Aston-Hall-victims-receive-apology-doctor-abused-130-children-young-10.html</a></span></div>
<div><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dozens of sex attacks on children at Derbyshire hospital investigated</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Police are looking into claims youngsters were assaulted while sedated with drugs By Isaac Crowson Crime Reporter 25 JUL 2018</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The story of Aston Hall</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Police are investigating dozens of alleged sex attacks on children at a Derbyshire hospital. The assaults were carried out while the boys and girls were sedated with drugs, a report out today reveals. The alleged incidents were perpetrated at Aston Hall mental hospital, just outside Derby. Police, medical and child protection authorities have released a report into the claims made by a total of 65 victims. A total of 77 crimes have been reported, including serious physical abuse and sexual abuse, including rape. Derbyshire Live first reported in February 2016 how there were claims a growing number of people, now adults, were abused at Aston Hall in the 1970s.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shocking sexual abuse cases</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The trials were said to have been carried out by controversial medical Dr Kenneth Milner. He is accused of sedating children using ether or using a drug called sodium amytal, commonly known as a “truth serum", in a bid to correct "deviant" behaviour. <a href="https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/live-dozens-sex-attacks-children-1823203">https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/live-dozens-sex-attacks-children-1823203</a></span></div>
<div><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aston Hall - Investigation of historical abuse</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 25 July 2018, the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board published an independent assurance report reflecting on the current multi-agency safeguarding arrangements within Derbyshire, with reference to Aston Hall Hospital</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Published alongside it is the Police Findings Report of Derbyshire Constabulary, which is a detailed account of the investigation of the allegations of abuse at Aston Hall. <a href="https://www.ddscp.org.uk/latest-news/aston-hall/">https://www.ddscp.org.uk/latest-news/aston-hall/</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Government says sorry to victims of horrific abuse at Aston Hall</strong> - Derbyshire Live By Matthew Lodge Senior reporter 14 DEC 2020</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Traumatised victims of horrific sexual abuse at a Derbyshire psychiatric hospital have received a letter of apology from Health Secretary Matt Hancock.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The letter has been sent to 80 victims who stayed at Aston Hall, in Aston-on-Trent, which took in vulnerable children during the 60s and 70s.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victim Audrey Poxon said that the Government apology felt empty though she was grateful to receive the letter.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She was one off scores of children who were drugged and abused by head physician Dr Kenneth Milner, crimes that did not come to light until early 2016 when the Derby Telegraph published the first of many stories about the horrors that took place at Aston Hall.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mr Hancock's letter reads: "I would like to assure you that I am deeply sorry for the care and treatment that you received at Aston Hall Hospital. I know that it is still very distressing for you to recall your experiences and that the passage of time has not diminished that.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"I want to assure you that what happened at Aston Hall has been taken very seriously and the NHS has worked closely with all the relevant agencies, including Derbyshire Constabulary, to identify the individuals involved in the treatment at Aston Hall. "I can assure you that Dr Milner's death has not prevented a thorough and robust investigation of what happened.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Whilst I recognise that no amount of financial compensation can make up for your experiences at Aston Hall, I very much hope that you will be able to move forward following settlement of your claim."</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The letter comes as the liability potentially arising from victims' legal claims has been transferred to the Department for Health and Social Care from now abolished health authorities.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ms Poxon, who was abused multiple times at the hospital over three years she was there, says nothing can make up for the impact it's had on her life. "I am grateful to get the letter," she said. "It's taken a lot of effort to get to this point. I know Matt Hancock probably means well, but does he really know our stories? "I appreciate I got a letter, but it feels a bit like empty words. "The thing that would help things for me is if someone who was working there at the time came out and spoke about what happened, but I don't think that's going to happen."</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The 65-year-old says the physical abuse she underwent, which included being strapped down and people sitting on her chest, leaving her unable to breathe and has left a huge impact on her life. "I do tend to be overprotective, especially with my grand kids," she said. "If I see anything to do with sexual offences I get very angry. I think everybody had just got it into their heads that it had happened and didn't realise how bad it was. "We can't change what happened, I just hope it never happens again."</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The experiments run by head physician Dr Kenneth Milner have been exposed as having been a means to abuse vulnerable children rather than therapy.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Victims have said they were injected with a drug called sodium amytal, commonly known as "truth serum", leaving them traumatised, with others saying they were sexually abused while under the drug's influence.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In August 2019 victims of the scandal became eligible to receive thousands of pounds in compensation for the abuse they suffered.</span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Allegations into Dr Milner's behaviour were first highlighted by an investigation by the Derby Telegraph in February 2016. Following this story, dozens of other victims came forward and Derbyshire police launched its biggest ever child abuse investigation. A 2018 report by the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board said these claims were credible, while Derbyshire police said it had recorded 33 physical assault and 40 sexual assault allegations.... </span></div>
<div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Medical experts interviewed during the police investigation said the use of the drug to knock out the children was not a recognised treatment during that time period and was therefore not being used appropriately.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dr Milner died in 1975, meaning the allegations could not be put to him and, as a result, no criminal prosecution could take place.</span></div>
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<h3><strong>Information in this issue includes: </strong>Ritual Abuse
Mind Control Conference, S.M.A.R.T., Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists,
Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References, Grey Faction,
Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet, Research and Information
on Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sybil, Wendy Hoffman, Neil Brick, Dr.
Laurie Matthew OBE, Extreme Abuse Survivors, Dr. Randall Noblitt, False
Memories, Lynn Crook, Wendy Hoffman, Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz, Danny
Masterson, That ’70s Show, Scientologist, Leah Remini, Church of
Scientology, sexual assault, rape, ritualistic child sex abuse case,
Roselle “Rosie” Anderson Stevenson, David Hamblin, multiple felony
charges of rape and sexual abuse of a child, Special Victims Unit, sex
trafficking, predators, paedophiles, dark web paedophile forum, serial
child sexual abuse offender, Argos, Michael Salter, child sexual
exploitation, Convicted abuser and ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar,
Jerry Sandusky, Simone Biles, FBI, Sinéad O’Connor, Saturday Night Live,
Pope John Paul II, Catholic church, clergy sexual abuse crisis, Gilbert
Gauthe’s case, Jason Berry, Richard Sipe</h3>
<h3><strong>The 2023 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference August 19 – 20, 2023</strong><br />
The conference was very successful this year. S.M.A.R.T. wants to thank
all those that attended and participated in the conference, including
the speakers, cosponsor, volunteers and those in the survivor community
that helped us promote the conference. We hope to see you at next year’s
conference.</h3>
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<h3>Internet conference information: <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/">http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/</a><br />
Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a><br />
Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/</a><br />
Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/</a></h3>
<h3>Research and Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/</a><br />
Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD and it was caused by severe trauma <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/</a></h3>
<h3>Judith Herman: “In order to escape accountability for his crimes,
the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If
secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If
he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one
listens.” Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic
Abuse to Political Terror</h3>
<h3><strong>Videos, PowerPoints and transcripts from our 2023 conference</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/2023-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/2023-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/</a><br />
Mind Control Artificially Rooted in the Natural – Wendy Hoffman – Conference Transcript <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/mind-control-artificially-rooted-in-the-natural-wendy-hoffman-conference-transcript/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/mind-control-artificially-rooted-in-the-natural-wendy-hoffman-conference-transcript/</a></h3>
<h3>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick – Conference Transcript <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/the-effects-of-social-movements-on-survivor-support-systems-and-survivor-recovery-neil-brick/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2023-conference/the-effects-of-social-movements-on-survivor-support-systems-and-survivor-recovery-neil-brick/</a></h3>
<h3>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland – Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddGxBR0ioo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddGxBR0ioo</a><br />
The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors – Dr. Randall Noblitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVB9a8GWrg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVB9a8GWrg</a><br />
False Memories – The Deception That Silenced Millions – Lynn Crook<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z35sA9kixb4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z35sA9kixb4</a><br />
Artificially Rooted in the Natural – Wendy Hoffman<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwkWt2qpFg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwkWt2qpFg</a><br />
The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick <a href="https://youtu.be/ORtHBsA2wbU">https://youtu.be/ORtHBsA2wbU</a><br />
Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz <a href="https://youtu.be/JYF1hUQFcsQ">https://youtu.be/JYF1hUQFcsQ</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for two rapes</strong> By Regan Morris in Los Angeles and Max Matza BBC News September 7, 2023</h3>
<h3>US actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to serve 30 years to
life in prison for raping two women. Masterson starred on That ’70s
Show, a TV series that was airing at the time of his crimes in the early
2000s. Prosecutors argued Masterson, 47, had relied on his status as a
prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability. Judge Charlaine Olmedo
allowed the victims of his crimes to read impact statements in court
ahead of his sentencing. Prominent former Scientologist and actress Leah
Remini attended Thursday’s hearing and comforted the women before and
after they delivered their statements….The actor was convicted after
three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his
Hollywood home from 2001-03 – during the height of his television fame.</h3>
<h3>The jury heard testimony that he had given them drugs before he
assaulted them. He was found guilty of rape against two of his three
accusers. The charges brought by the third accuser were declared a
mistrial and prosecutors said they do not plan to retry the case. Alison
Anderson, a lawyer representing two of the victims, said in a statement
sent to BBC News that the women “have displayed tremendous strength and
bravery, by coming forward to law enforcement and participating
directly in two gruelling criminal trials”.<br />
“Despite persistent harassment, obstruction and intimidation, these
courageous women helped hold a ruthless sexual predator accountable
today,” she said. Throughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the
Church of Scientology had helped cover up the assaults – an allegation
the organisation has categorically denied. At the time of the attacks,
Masterson and all three of his accusers were Scientologists. Several of
the women said it took them years to come forward because Church of
Scientology officials discouraged them from reporting the rape to
police.</h3>
<h3>Scientology officials told one survivor she would lose her
membership of the community unless she signed a non-disclosure agreement
and accepted a payment of $400,000 (£320,000), according to
prosecutors. During the trial, Judge Olmedo allowed both sides to
discuss the dogma and practices of Scientology, angering the
organisation….<br />
In court on Thursday, one woman described being shunned by her mother,
who is still a practising Scientologist. “She texted me and told me to
never contact her again,” she said, reported the LA Times. “She had
warned me ahead of time she wanted to see Danny Masterson locked away
for what he’d done to me, but not at the expense of her religion.”
Another woman said she had been victimised by the Church of Scientology
ever since she spoke out. “Since the week I came forward to police I
have been terrorised, harassed and had my privacy invaded daily by the
cult of Scientology for almost seven years now,” she said, adding: “But I
don’t regret it.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66744480</h3>
<h3><strong>Ex-wife of former Utah County therapist arrested in connection to ritualistic child sex abuse case</strong> Aug 9, 2023 BY MICHAEL HOUCK KSLTV.com</h3>
<h3>UTAH COUNTY, Utah — The wife of a former Utah County therapist
accused of sexually abusing young patients for decades was arrested on
Wednesday. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said Roselle “Rosie”
Anderson Stevenson, 70, of Provo, was arrested for the first-degree
felony of sodomy on a child. The sheriff’s office said the incident
happened in Spring City, Utah, around 1994. The victim was a girl under
the age of 13 years old. “This case is directly related to charges that
were previously filed against David Hamblin in September of 2022,” the
sheriff’s office release stated. According to the sheriff’s office, a
judge ordered Stevenson to be held without bail.</h3>
<h3><strong>Ritualistic Child Sex Abuse Investigation</strong><br />
In September 2022, Hamblin was arrested for multiple felony charges of
rape and sexual abuse of a child as the Utah County Sheriff’s Office was
investigating a ritualistic child sex abuse case. Detectives with the
UCSO Special Victims Unit said the alleged crimes and sex trafficking
occurred between 1990 and 2010 in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties.
Their investigation began in April 2021 and “discovered that other
victims had previously reported similar forms of ritualistic sexual
abuse and trafficking,” according to a previous press release.<br />
https://ksltv.com/575904/
ex-wife-of-former-utah-county-therapist-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-case/</h3>
<h3><strong>Suspect arrested in connection to ritualistic child sex abuse investigation</strong> Sep 28, 2022 BY JOSH ELLIS AND LARRY D. CURTIS, KSL TV KSLTV.com</h3>
<h3>SPANISH FORK, Utah — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced a
suspect has been arrested in connection with a ritualistic child sex
abuse investigation.<br />
UCSO Sgt. Spencer Cannon said 68-year-old David Hamblin, of Provo, was
arrested Wednesday and booked into the Utah County Jail on six
first-degree felony sexual offenses against a child. Cannon postponed,
perhaps indefinitely, a 3 p.m. Wednesday press briefing but did provide a
press release. It said Hamblin, was booked on suspicion of:</h3>
<h3>Three counts of sodomy of a child, a first-degree felony<br />
Rape of a child, a first-degree felony<br />
Two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first degree felony<br />
Lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemeanor</h3>
<h3>At the time the press release was issued, a judge had not yet set
bail and the probable cause court document had not yet been approved for
release. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced its investigation
on June 1. Detectives with the UCSO Special Victims Unit say the alleged
crimes and sex trafficking took place between 1990 and 2010 in Utah,
Juab and Sanpete counties. Their investigation began in April 2021 and
“discovered that other victims had previously reported similar forms of
ritualistic sexual abuse and trafficking.” No suspects had previously
been named by authorities. Utah County Attorney David Leavitt, who was
vying for re-election at the time, was the one to confirm he’s named in a
victim statement contained in hundreds of pages of police investigative
reports he said are tied to the investigation….<br />
Leavitt provided copies of a 151-page document labeled as a “victim
statement” that describes the alleged crimes in detail. The statement
names Leavitt and more than a dozen others as part of a group that
practiced ritual sexual abuse of children.
https://ksltv.com/507134/suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-investigation/</h3>
<h3>Roselle “Rosie” Stevenson Arrested For Sodomy on a Child Charge<br />
08/09/2023 Rosie Stevenson was arrested today and booked into jail on
one count of sodomy on a child for an incident that happened 30 years
ago.<br />
Roselle “Rosie” Anderson Stevenson, age 70, of Provo, was arrested today
on one count of sodomy on a child, a first degree felony, for an
offense against a girl under age 13. The incident occurred in Spring
City, Utah in or around the year 1994. This case is directly related to
charges that were previously filed against David Hamblin in September of
2022. These cases are part of an ongoing investigation involving sexual
abuse of children that occurred in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties in
the 1980’s and 1990’s. A Judge has ordered that Stevenson be held
without bail.
https://sheriff.utahcounty.gov/media/sheriffNewsDetails?ID=245943</h3>
<h3><strong>Disturbing Details Emerge as Former Psychologist Charged with ‘Ritualistic Sexual Abuse’ of Children</strong>
Jerry Lambe Sep 30th, 2022 A 68-year-old former psychologist in Utah is
behind bars this week after being accused of “ritualistic sexual abuse
and child sex trafficking” that is alleged to have gone on for decades.<br />
David Lee Hamblin was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with a
spate of first-degree felonies, including one count of rape of a child,
three counts of sodomy on a child, and two counts of aggravated sexual
abuse of a child, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.</h3>
<h3>Hamblin was also charged with one misdemeanor count of lewdness
involving a child. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by
Law&Crime, a female victim in April 2022 reported to the Utah County
Sheriff’s Office that she had been “repeatedly sexually assaulted” by
Hamblin for years, beginning in the mid ’80s, when she was approximately
6 or 7. The victim grew up in the same Provo neighborhood where Hamblin
resided and told police that she regularly played with Hamblin’s
children and “had been babysat on numerous occasions by David,” per the
affidavit.</h3>
<h3>The victim told police that the first assault she could remember
occurred when she and two other children were in the basement of
Hamblin’s home, documents say….<br />
Investigators said they interviewed the two other children present
during the alleged assault and said that both “corroborated what the
victim has disclosed.”<br />
The victim told investigators that the second alleged sexual assault she
could remember took place when she was approximately 7 or 8, noting
that it was just prior to her baptism, per the affidavit. The assault
allegedly took place at Hamblin’s<br />
residence….<br />
The affidavit further notes that Hamblin was a therapist whose license
was revoked by the state “due to allegations that he was sexually
abusing his client(s).”<br />
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/
disturbing-details-emerge-as-former-psychologist-charged-with-ritualistic-sexual-abuse-of-children/</h3>
<h3><strong>Invisible predators: the shifting behaviour of paedophiles has Australian police playing catch-up</strong>
As a former childcare worker stands accused of more than 1,600 charges,
experts say changing technology habits are making offenders harder to
detect Andrew Messenger, Ben Smee and Jordyn Beazley Fri 4 Aug 2023</h3>
<h3>In the Brisbane office of the taskforce Argos, scrawled on a
whiteboard was a “most-wanted” list containing the online identities of
dozens of global members of a dark web paedophile forum. The man now
accused of being the country’s worst-known serial child sexual abuse
offender was not on that list. Police this week revealed the former
childcare worker stands accused of 1,623 child abuse offences against 91
young girls at a dozen centres over a period of 15 years.</h3>
<h3>Unlike many of the prolific online posters Argos helped put away,
the accused man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – is alleged to
have shared only a very small number of images and videos online,
relating to two girls at a suburban Brisbane childcare centre. Police
were reportedly stunned when they raided his home and found cameras and
phones containing almost 4,000 child abuse images and videos dating back
to 2007. The man remains in custody and his case is scheduled for a
mention in Brisbane magistrates court on 21 August.</h3>
<h3>An internet arms race<br />
For serial child abusers, the internet has proven the biggest resource
and the biggest threat. The dark web can be a source of money, illegal
images, prestige – and community. But it also brings danger.<br />
The illegal chat boards and forums have always been designed to be hard
to access, but police have repeatedly cracked in, with often devastating
results. In the case of Argos, police succeeded in taking the forum
over completely.</h3>
<h3>In recent years researchers and law enforcement agencies have
noticed a shift in language from the sorts of men who visited those
wretched forums. Criminals aren’t stupid – they don’t need the media to
tell them the cops are watching. Online offender communities have become
“very aware” and cautious of law enforcement surveillance, says Michael
Salter, an associate professor of criminology at the University of New
South Wales and an expert in child sexual exploitation.</h3>
<h3>“Offenders know that law enforcement are crawling offender forums
across the dark web and they’re responding accordingly,” Salter says.
“We see on the dark web a lot of complaints about what offenders call
‘hoarding’; that producers are producing CSAM (child sexual abuse
material) that they’re not sharing … with the offender community, or
they’re creating locked-down online groups where there’s far less
accessibility….
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/05/invisible-predators-the-shifting-behaviour-of-paedophiles-has-australian-police-playing-catch-up</h3>
<h3><strong>Convicted abuser and ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed in prison</strong> – report by Edwin Rios July 10, 2023<br />
Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics
doctor who was convicted of decades of abuse of women and girls under
the guise of medical treatment, was reportedly stabbed at a federal
prison in Florida on Sunday….</h3>
<h3>In 2018, in an end to the biggest sexual abuse scandals in US sports
history, hundreds of women and girls gave victim impact statements
against Nassar, detailing allegations of abuse as far back as the 1990s.<br />
Several athletes, including the Olympians Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman and
McKayla Maroney, testified that they relayed allegations to coaches,
trainers and others which were not reported to authorities. More than
100 women, including the Olympian Simone Biles, sued the US government
for more than $1bn over the FBI’s failure to take action after learning
of allegations against Nassar in 2015. That inaction allowed Nassar to
continue to abuse women and girls for more than a year before he pleaded
guilty in 2017.<br />
Michigan State University, whose president, Lou Anna Simon, and athletic
director, Mark Hollis, resigned amid fallout from the scandal, agreed a
$500m settlement with more than 300 women and girls, a sum far larger
than the $60m Penn State University paid to victims of the former
assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.</h3>
<h3>MSU had been accused of ignoring and failing to act to stop Nassar
during his decades of abuse. USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and
Paralympic Committee agreed a $380m settlement with more than 500 women
and girls. In 2018, a judge in Michigan sentenced Nassar to more than
175 years in prison…..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/convicted-abuser-and-ex-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-stabbed-in-prison-report/ar-AA1dFU1a</h3>
<h3><strong>Simone Biles and others to sue FBI for $1bn over Larry Nassar investigation</strong><br />
Published 8 June 2022 By Holly Honderich BBC News, Washington</h3>
<h3>Women who say they were sexually assaulted by a disgraced US
national gymnastics team doctor plan to sue the FBI for $1bn (£800m).<br />
Claimants say the FBI mishandled credible complaints of sexual assaults
by Larry Nassar. They include Olympic gymnastics gold medallists Simone
Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney. Nassar is serving up to 175
years in prison for molesting gymnasts. The agency’s own watchdog found
the FBI disregarded allegations about Nassar and made early errors in
its investigation.</h3>
<h3>Last year, a long-awaited report from the US justice department’s
Office of the Inspector General gave a scathing assessment of the
federal agency’s investigation into Nassar. Various missteps and
cover-ups by FBI agents allowed Nassar’s abuse to continue for more than
a year after the case was first opened in 2015, the report found. The
majority of claimants in these suits say Nassar assaulted them after his
abuse was reported to the FBI in 2015. Most were athletes with the USA
Gymnastics programme or with Michigan State University, where Nassar
maintained a clinic. The FBI field office Nassar’s abuse was reported to
took limited action and did not document any investigation or alert
other authorities.</h3>
<h3>“My fellow survivors and I were betrayed by every institution that
was supposed to protect us – the US Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics,
the FBI and now the Department of Justice,” McKayla Maroney, an Olympic
gold medallist, said in a statement.</h3>
<h3>“It is clear that the only path to justice and healing is through
the legal process.” Two weeks ago, the US Justice Department decided not
to prosecute the two FBI agents accused of mishandling the
investigation. The plaintiffs are seeking different amounts in damages
but their total claims are expected to exceed $1bn.<br />
The Collective Administrative Claims are being filed under the Federal
Tort Claims Act, which allows people who have been harmed by negligent
or wrongful actions of the federal government to seek compensation.
Under federal law, the FBI has six months to respond to the claims.
Lawsuits may follow, depending on the FBI’s response.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61735319</h3>
<h3><strong>Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has died at 56</strong> Updated July 26, 2023 Heard on All Things Considered By Neda Ulaby, Anastasia Tsioulcas</h3>
<h3>Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer known for her intense and
beautiful voice, her political convictions and the personal tumult that
overtook her later years, has died. She was 56 years old.<br />
O’Connor’s recording of “Nothing Compares 2 U” was one of the biggest
hits of the early 1990s. Her death was announced by her family. The
cause and date of her death were not made public. The statement said:
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved
Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy
at this very difficult time.” ….</h3>
<h3>“I grew up in a severely abusive situation, my mother being the
perpetrator,” O’Connor told NPR in 2014. “So much of child abuse is
about being voiceless, and it’s a wonderfully healing thing to just make
sounds.”<br />
O’Connor started making sounds in a home for juvenile delinquents, after
a childhood spent getting booted out of Catholic schools and busted,
repeatedly, for shoplifting. But a nun gave her a guitar and she began
to sing, on the streets of Dublin and then with a popular Irish band
called In Tua Nua.<br />
O’Connor came to the attention of U2’s guitarist The Edge, and she got
herself signed to the Ensign/Chrysalis label. Her second studio album, I
Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, went double platinum in 1990, partly
because of a hit love song written by Prince: “Nothing Compares 2 U.”<br />
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got was a distillation of O’Connor’s
prayerful sense of music and her fury over social injustice. She
rejected its four Grammy nominations as being too commercial — and, in
her words, “for destroying the human race.” She was banned from a New
Jersey arena when she refused to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” for
its lyrics glorifying bombs bursting in air.</h3>
<h3>In 1992, at the height of her fame, Sinéad O’Connor appeared on
Saturday Night Live. In her performance, she raised her voice against
racism and child abuse. There was dead silence when she ended the song, a
version of Bob Marley’s “War,” by ripping up a picture of then-Pope
John Paul II.<br />
What followed in the media was a collective howl of outrage. It drowned
out a prescient protest against abuse in the Catholic church. Years
later, in 2010, O’Connor told NPR she’d known exactly what to expect.
“It was grand, to be honest,” she said. “I mean, I knew how people would
react. I knew there would be trouble. I was quite prepared to accept
that. To me, it was more important that I recognized what I will call
the Holy Spirit.”….<br />
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/529671631/irish-singer-sinead-oconnor-has-died-at-56</h3>
<h3><strong>The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor</strong> By Michael Agresta Oct 3 2012<br />
Twenty years ago today, Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope on
Saturday Night Live—and the media largely misunderstood why. Is America
finally ready to hear her out?<br />
In the weeks and months after Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope
John Paul II on live television, commentators in the media sought to
explain the motives of her protest. Very few, however, made use of the
traditional tools of journalism: interviews, research, and textual
analysis. Instead, most commentators seem to have consulted their own
imaginations….</h3>
<h3>Also inexplicably ignored were O’Connor’s own words, in an interview
published in Time a month after her SNL appearance: It’s not the man,
obviously—it’s the office and the symbol of the organization that he
represents… In Ireland we see our people are manifesting the highest
incidence in Europe of child abuse. This is a direct result of the fact
that they’re not in contact with their history as Irish people and the
fact that in the schools, the priests have been beating the shit out of
the children for years and sexually abusing them. This is the example
that’s been set for the people of Ireland. They have been controlled by
the church, the very people who authorized what was done to them, who
gave permission for what was done to them.</h3>
<h3>Her interviewer seemed confused by the connection O’Connor was
making between the Catholic Church and child abuse, so O’Connor opened
up about her own history of abuse:<br />
Sexual and physical. Psychological. Spiritual. Emotional. Verbal. I went
to school every day covered in bruises, boils, sties and face welts,
you name it. Nobody ever said a bloody word or did a thing. Naturally I
was very angered by the whole thing, and I had to find out why it
happened… The thing that helped me most was the 12-step group, the Adult
Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families. My mother was a Valium
addict. What happened to me is a direct result of what happened to my
mother and what happened to her in her house and in school.</h3>
<h3>The interviewer remained skeptical of O’Connor’s characterization of
Irish schools as playgrounds and training grounds for child abusers,
and the interview moved on to different topics.<br />
By now, the history of sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic
school system is familiar. As late as 2007, the Church controlled 93% of
the schools in Ireland, giving most children no hope of escaping the
often-sadistic system. As in America, serial child molesters like
Brendan Smyth were shuttled from parish to parish and school to school
to keep a step ahead of police and complaining parents. The culture of
permissiveness towards abuse affected all communities, but probably the
worst off were poor, orphaned, and troublemaking children sent to
residential reformatory and industrial schools. To read the 2009 Ryan
Report covering crimes carried out against children in these settings is
to court a special sort of nausea—the kind that comes from bearing
witness to an organized effort to deny the dignity of individual life
and make the bodies of the powerless available to service the needs of
the powerful. In this case, the powerless were disadvantaged minor
teenagers and children.</h3>
<h3>Sexual abuse in several industrial schools was described as a
“chronic problem.” Clergy whose behavior drew complaints from parents of
day-school students were transferred to industrial schools where their
abuses drew less attention. Some schools seem, on the evidence, to have
been more labor camps than institutions of learning. At one notorious
industrial school in Dublin, each child was required to string 60
rosaries each weekday and 90 on Saturdays. Students who did not reach
their quotas were beaten….<br />
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/the-redemption-of-sinead-oconnor/263020/</h3>
<h3><strong>Sinead O’Connor claims ‘possessed’ mother ‘delighted’ in sexually abusing her and forced singer to repeat ‘I am nothing’</strong> as she speaks to Dr Phil in first interview since recent breakdown<br />
Sinead O’Connor speaks with Dr. Phil on Tuesday in her first interview
since she was hospitalized following a mental breakdown in August. The
singer details the alleged sexual and physical abuse she suffered as a
child at the hands of her mother, who she claims was ‘possessed.’ ‘She
ran a torture chamber, it was a torture chamber. She was a person who
would smile and delight when she was hurting you,’ says O’Connor ‘She
used to make me say over and over again “I am nothing. I am nothing”
while she was beating me., claims O’Connor, who says she ran away at 13.
O’Connor, 50, can be seen giving more detail about her difficult past
on Tuesday’s episode…. By Chris Spargo 11 September 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4873530/Sinead-O-Connor-says-possessed-mother-sexually-abused-her.html</h3>
<h3><strong>Sinead O’Connor Details Years of Physical and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Her Mother</strong>: ‘She Ran a Torture Chamber’ By Maria Pasquini September 11, 2017<br />
Sinead O’Connor is opening up about the horrifying sexual abuse she
suffered at the hands of her mother in an emotional interview on Dr.
Phil. The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, speaking with Dr. Phil McGraw,
detailed how her mother Marie O’Connor “ran a torture chamber” and
tormented her until she ran away from home at 13…. “She ran a torture
chamber. It was a torture chamber. She was a person who took delight and
smile in hurting you.”….<br />
https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-emotional-sexual-abuse-mother/</h3>
<h3><strong>The clergy sexual abuse crisis at forty with 100 bishops out
of office Gilbert Gauthe’s case, back in July 1983, marks the beginning
of the sexual abuse crisis; we reach its 40th anniversary with no end
on sight</strong><br />
English Edition Rodolfo Soriano-Núñez Sábado, 01 Julio, 2023</h3>
<h3>On the 40th anniversary of the sexual abuse crisis, Bishop Richard
Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the 100th bishop forced to resign.
Religion and public life: Jason Berry and Richard Sipe provided two key
elements to understan the clergy sexual abuse crisis an
accountability-centered-narrative and the so-called scarlet bond.
Sometime in July of 1983, then priest Gilbert Gauthe was relieved from
his duties at the St. John parish in the Lafayette diocese in Louisiana.
His dismissal, accurately depicted by Jason Berry in a series of
stories published in 1985 started what we now see as the 40-year long
crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.</h3>
<h3>For the last four decades a deluge of news about sexual predator
priests has been inundating news outlets all over the world. In all its
misery, the crisis has helped make the global public opinion aware of
the crisis in the Catholic Church, in other religious organizations, and
in many other institutions and settings….<br />
If Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward proved how “the most powerful man in
the world” could be forced out of office by the media, Jason Berry and
his colleagues in news outlets all over the world have played a role in
forcing out of office at least 100 Catholic bishops and countless
priests, because of their role in the sexual abuse crisis. Thanks to
Berry and those who followed him, like the journalists at The Boston
Globe’s Spotlight team, a narrative on the need to make clergy
accountable of their behavior took hold.<br />
Https://losangelespress.org/noticias/the-clergy-sexual-abuse-crisis-at-forty-with-100-bishops-out-of-office-20230629-5731.html</h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-66584237433070874342023-09-11T20:58:00.002-07:002023-09-11T20:58:27.627-07:00Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for two rapes - Scientology, ritualistic child sex abuse investigation<p> </p><h3><strong>Danny Masterson sentenced to 30 years to life for two rapes</strong> By Regan Morris in Los Angeles and Max Matza BBC News September 7, 2023</h3>
<h3>US actor Danny Masterson has been sentenced to serve 30 years to
life in prison for raping two women. Masterson starred on That ’70s
Show, a TV series that was airing at the time of his crimes in the early
2000s. Prosecutors argued Masterson, 47, had relied on his status as a
prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability. Judge Charlaine Olmedo
allowed the victims of his crimes to read impact statements in court
ahead of his sentencing. Prominent former Scientologist and actress Leah
Remini attended Thursday’s hearing and comforted the women before and
after they delivered their statements….The actor was convicted after
three women testified that he had sexually assaulted them at his
Hollywood home from 2001-03 – during the height of his television fame.</h3>
<h3>The jury heard testimony that he had given them drugs before he
assaulted them. He was found guilty of rape against two of his three
accusers. The charges brought by the third accuser were declared a
mistrial and prosecutors said they do not plan to retry the case. Alison
Anderson, a lawyer representing two of the victims, said in a statement
sent to BBC News that the women “have displayed tremendous strength and
bravery, by coming forward to law enforcement and participating
directly in two gruelling criminal trials”.<br />
“Despite persistent harassment, obstruction and intimidation, these
courageous women helped hold a ruthless sexual predator accountable
today,” she said. Throughout the trial, prosecutors argued that the
Church of Scientology had helped cover up the assaults – an allegation
the organisation has categorically denied. At the time of the attacks,
Masterson and all three of his accusers were Scientologists. Several of
the women said it took them years to come forward because Church of
Scientology officials discouraged them from reporting the rape to
police.</h3>
<h3>Scientology officials told one survivor she would lose her
membership of the community unless she signed a non-disclosure agreement
and accepted a payment of $400,000 (£320,000), according to
prosecutors. During the trial, Judge Olmedo allowed both sides to
discuss the dogma and practices of Scientology, angering the
organisation….<br />
In court on Thursday, one woman described being shunned by her mother,
who is still a practising Scientologist. “She texted me and told me to
never contact her again,” she said, reported the LA Times. “She had
warned me ahead of time she wanted to see Danny Masterson locked away
for what he’d done to me, but not at the expense of her religion.”
Another woman said she had been victimised by the Church of Scientology
ever since she spoke out. “Since the week I came forward to police I
have been terrorised, harassed and had my privacy invaded daily by the
cult of Scientology for almost seven years now,” she said, adding: “But I
don’t regret it.” <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66744480">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66744480</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Ex-wife of former Utah County therapist arrested in connection to ritualistic child sex abuse case</strong> Aug 9, 2023 BY MICHAEL HOUCK KSLTV.com</h3>
<h3>UTAH COUNTY, Utah — The wife of a former Utah County therapist
accused of sexually abusing young patients for decades was arrested on
Wednesday. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said Roselle “Rosie”
Anderson Stevenson, 70, of Provo, was arrested for the first-degree
felony of sodomy on a child. The sheriff’s office said the incident
happened in Spring City, Utah, around 1994. The victim was a girl under
the age of 13 years old. “This case is directly related to charges that
were previously filed against David Hamblin in September of 2022,” the
sheriff’s office release stated. According to the sheriff’s office, a
judge ordered Stevenson to be held without bail.</h3>
<h3><strong>Ritualistic Child Sex Abuse Investigation</strong><br />
In September 2022, Hamblin was arrested for multiple felony charges of
rape and sexual abuse of a child as the Utah County Sheriff’s Office was
investigating a ritualistic child sex abuse case. Detectives with the
UCSO Special Victims Unit said the alleged crimes and sex trafficking
occurred between 1990 and 2010 in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties.
Their investigation began in April 2021 and “discovered that other
victims had previously reported similar forms of ritualistic sexual
abuse and trafficking,” according to a previous press release.<br />
<a href="https://ksltv.com/575904/ex-wife-of-former-utah-county-therapist-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-case/">https://ksltv.com/575904/ex-wife-of-former-utah-county-therapist-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-case/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Suspect arrested in connection to ritualistic child sex abuse investigation</strong> Sep 28, 2022 BY JOSH ELLIS AND LARRY D. CURTIS, KSL TV KSLTV.com</h3>
<h3>SPANISH FORK, Utah — The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced a
suspect has been arrested in connection with a ritualistic child sex
abuse investigation.<br />
UCSO Sgt. Spencer Cannon said 68-year-old David Hamblin, of Provo, was
arrested Wednesday and booked into the Utah County Jail on six
first-degree felony sexual offenses against a child. Cannon postponed,
perhaps indefinitely, a 3 p.m. Wednesday press briefing but did provide a
press release. It said Hamblin, was booked on suspicion of:</h3>
<h3>Three counts of sodomy of a child, a first-degree felony<br />
Rape of a child, a first-degree felony<br />
Two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first degree felony<br />
Lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemeanor</h3>
<h3>At the time the press release was issued, a judge had not yet set
bail and the probable cause court document had not yet been approved for
release. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office announced its investigation
on June 1. Detectives with the UCSO Special Victims Unit say the alleged
crimes and sex trafficking took place between 1990 and 2010 in Utah,
Juab and Sanpete counties. Their investigation began in April 2021 and
“discovered that other victims had previously reported similar forms of
ritualistic sexual abuse and trafficking.” No suspects had previously
been named by authorities. Utah County Attorney David Leavitt, who was
vying for re-election at the time, was the one to confirm he’s named in a
victim statement contained in hundreds of pages of police investigative
reports he said are tied to the investigation….<br />
Leavitt provided copies of a 151-page document labeled as a “victim
statement” that describes the alleged crimes in detail. The statement
names Leavitt and more than a dozen others as part of a group that
practiced ritual sexual abuse of children.
<a href="https://ksltv.com/507134/suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-investigation/">https://ksltv.com/507134/suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-ritualistic-child-sex-abuse-investigation/</a></h3>
<h3>Roselle “Rosie” Stevenson Arrested For Sodomy on a Child Charge<br />
08/09/2023 Rosie Stevenson was arrested today and booked into jail on
one count of sodomy on a child for an incident that happened 30 years
ago.<br />
Roselle “Rosie” Anderson Stevenson, age 70, of Provo, was arrested today
on one count of sodomy on a child, a first degree felony, for an
offense against a girl under age 13. The incident occurred in Spring
City, Utah in or around the year 1994. This case is directly related to
charges that were previously filed against David Hamblin in September of
2022. These cases are part of an ongoing investigation involving sexual
abuse of children that occurred in Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties in
the 1980’s and 1990’s. A Judge has ordered that Stevenson be held
without bail.
<a href="https://sheriff.utahcounty.gov/media/sheriffNewsDetails?ID=245943">https://sheriff.utahcounty.gov/media/sheriffNewsDetails?ID=245943</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Disturbing Details Emerge as Former Psychologist Charged with ‘Ritualistic Sexual Abuse’ of Children</strong>
Jerry Lambe Sep 30th, 2022 A 68-year-old former psychologist in Utah is
behind bars this week after being accused of “ritualistic sexual abuse
and child sex trafficking” that is alleged to have gone on for decades.<br />
David Lee Hamblin was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with a
spate of first-degree felonies, including one count of rape of a child,
three counts of sodomy on a child, and two counts of aggravated sexual
abuse of a child, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.</h3>
<h3>Hamblin was also charged with one misdemeanor count of lewdness
involving a child. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by
Law&Crime, a female victim in April 2022 reported to the Utah County
Sheriff’s Office that she had been “repeatedly sexually assaulted” by
Hamblin for years, beginning in the mid ’80s, when she was approximately
6 or 7. The victim grew up in the same Provo neighborhood where Hamblin
resided and told police that she regularly played with Hamblin’s
children and “had been babysat on numerous occasions by David,” per the
affidavit.</h3>
<h3>The victim told police that the first assault she could remember
occurred when she and two other children were in the basement of
Hamblin’s home, documents say….<br />
Investigators said they interviewed the two other children present
during the alleged assault and said that both “corroborated what the
victim has disclosed.”<br />
The victim told investigators that the second alleged sexual assault she
could remember took place when she was approximately 7 or 8, noting
that it was just prior to her baptism, per the affidavit. The assault
allegedly took place at Hamblin’s<br />
residence….<br />
The affidavit further notes that Hamblin was a therapist whose license
was revoked by the state “due to allegations that he was sexually
abusing his client(s).”<br />
<a href="https://lawandcrime.com/crime/ disturbing-details-emerge-as-former-psychologist-charged-with-ritualistic-sexual-abuse-of-children/">https://lawandcrime.com/crime/ disturbing-details-emerge-as-former-psychologist-charged-with-ritualistic-sexual-abuse-of-children/</a></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-50811355410196728212023-08-23T21:42:00.001-07:002023-08-23T21:42:50.291-07:00 2023 Conference Video Presentations and PowerPoints<p> </p><h3><strong>The 2023 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference </strong>August 19 – 20, 2023</h3>
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<h3>If you are interested in participating in our conference next year or getting on a mailing list, please write: <a href="mailto:smartnews@aol.com">smartnews@aol.com</a></h3>
<h3>Internet conference information: <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/">http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Research and Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder)</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/</a></h3>
<h3 class="yiv0818657066userEdit"><strong>Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD and it was caused by severe trauma </strong><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/</a></h3>
<h3>Judith Herman: “In order to escape accountability for his crimes,
the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If
secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If
he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one
listens.” <em>Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror</em></h3>
<h3><strong>Videos and PowerPoints from our 2022 conference <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/</a></strong></h3>
<h3><span lang="0"><strong>These presentations may be difficult for
survivors to view and listen to. Survivors may want to have a support
person present while viewing. </strong></span><strong>All accusations are alleged.</strong></h3>
<p> </p>
<div>
<div>
<h3><strong>Conference Speakers</strong><strong><br />
Survivors may want to use caution reading this material or read it with a safe support person. </strong></h3>
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<h3><strong>Artificially Rooted in the Natural - Wendy Hoffman<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwkWt2qpFg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHwkWt2qpFg</a></strong></h3>
<h3>Many of us wonder why recovery from criminal mind control takes so
long and is so painful and consuming. This workshop explores one aspect
of the difficulties we experience. Perpetrators don’t pull mind control
programs out of the blue. They have studied and continue to study what
is natural to human emotions, behaviors and motivations. Their mind
control tactics stem from those observations. Perpetrators artificially
root their commands in the natural tendencies of the human brain,
personality and soul, such as dissociation, the need for love and many
others. The purpose of this workshop is to help survivors understand
some of the unwanted potency of programming and relieve some of the
shame and suffering they may feel as they go through their recovery, or
even decide whether to start their investigation of themselves, their
brains and hearts.</h3>
<h3><strong>Wendy Hoffman</strong> has published three memoirs, <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> (Karnac Books, 2014, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019), <em>White Witch in a Black Robe</em> (Karnac Books, 2016, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019) and <em>A Brain of My Own</em> (Aeon Books, 2020). <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> has been translated and published in Germany (Asanger-Verlag, 2021). Her book of poetry, <em>Forceps</em>, was also published (Karnac books, 2016) along with a book of essays, <em>From the Trenches</em>, written with Dr. Alison Miller (Karnac Books, 2018, re-issued Routledge Books, 2019). Her fourth memoir, <em>After Amnesia</em>, is published on the SmartNews and Survivorship websites (2022). It also has been translated into German. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/</a></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>False Memories – The Deception That Silenced Millions – Lynn Crook <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z35sA9kixb4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z35sA9kixb4</a></strong></h3><h3><strong></strong></h3><strong></strong></div></div><div>
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<h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> explains why accused child molesters
needed a defense, why they selected false memories and how they sold it
to the media. She’ll explain how the media then sold false memories to
the public with rhetoric and false, false memory research results.
Prevalence rates were forgotten. As the media coverage slowed, FMSF
recruited therapy patients for lawsuits against therapists. Today,
psychology students learn about false memories in their textbooks.
Although false memory claims are no longer making headlines except when
celebrities are on trial, they have become a “given” as reporters
paraphrase memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus.</h3>
<h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> received an M. Ed. from the University
of Washington. She worked at a sexual assault agency in eastern
Washington as a community educator and treated clients in crisis. She
admired the courage of her clients and soon discovered that she, too,
was molested as a child. She sued her parents for damages in 1991. The
judge declared in her favor in 1994, as false memories were making
headlines. She discovered an oddity in the deposition of her parents’
expert, Elizabeth Loftus. That investigation led to her recent book, “<em>FALSE MEMORIES – The Deception That Silenced Millions LLC</em>.” <a href="http://www.lynncrook.com">http://www.lynncrook.com</a></h3>
</div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors – Dr. Randall Noblitt <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVB9a8GWrg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVB9a8GWrg</a></strong></h3><h3><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/Randy Noblitt Conference 2023 PowerPoint Triggers.pptx">The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors – Dr. Randall Noblitt – PowerPoint</a></h3>
<h3>Extreme abuse survivors sometimes seek psychotherapy services
because of the overwhelming consequences of previous or ongoing
incidents of abuse. Repeated severe circumscribed abuse often leaves
survivors with trigger-responsive dissociation of identity and
traumagenic amnesia, including initially impaired awareness of the abuse
and its effects. This workshop will discuss methods for safely
exploring, identifying, and desensitizing triggers where the goal is to
assist clients in reclaiming effective self-regulation, autonomy, and
quality of life.</h3>
<h3><strong>Randy Noblitt</strong> is a professor of Clinical Psychology
at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed
psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse
survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the
book<em> Cult and Ritual Abuse</em> with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited <em>Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century</em> (2008) and they have authored a recent book, <em>Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates</em> (2020). <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland – Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddGxBR0ioo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddGxBR0ioo</a></strong></h3></div><h3><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/Laurie Matthew Conference 2023 PowerPoint.pptx">Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland – Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE – PowerPoint</a></h3>
<h3>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland – Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddGxBR0ioo <br /></h3>
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<h3>This presentation will explore the ongoing work carried out by
survivor led non-profit organisations based in Scotland. Ritual Abuse
Network Scotland (RANS) has provided support and information to adult
survivors of ritual abuse for the past 20 years and Eighteen And Under
has provided support services for young abuse survivors for the past 30
years. Both organisations have been at the frontier of raising awareness
about ritual abuse in the UK and beyond. She will also share findings
from recent survivor led participatory research highlighting the
importance of involving survivors as researchers with lived experience
in all aspects of research from deciding the research question, to
agreeing methodology, gathering data, analysing results and
dissemination of the findings..</h3>
<h3><strong>Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</strong> is founder and Manager of
Eighteen And Under an award winning charity providing confidential
support services to young people who have been sexually abused. She is
also a founder member and advisor to Ritual Abuse Network Scotland the
UK’s leading charity for survivors of organised and ritual abuse. She is
the author of several books about ritual abuse and the
multi-award-winning Violence Is Preventable abuse prevention programmes
for children and young people. She has over 40 year’s experience of
directly supporting abuse survivors. Her published research includes
participatory research with adult ritual abuse survivors and
participatory research with young survivors of sexual abuse.<br />
<a href="http://www.18u.org.uk">http://www.18u.org.uk </a> <a href="http://www.rans.org.uk">http://www.rans.org.uk</a></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz <a href="https://youtu.be/JYF1hUQFcsQ ">https://youtu.be/JYF1hUQFcsQ </a></strong></h3><h3><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/Rainer Kurz SMART Conference 2023 PowerPoint Presentation.pptx">Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz PowerPoint</a></h3>
<div>
<h3>This presentation builds on a decade-long investigation into two
index incidents that led to the transfer of parental responsibility for a
toddler from a mother to a Local Authority, and eventually adoption by
the foster carer in suspicious circumstances marred by procedural
irregularities. Index Incident 1, dismissed as untrue by a Family Court
Judge, concerned the mother’s claim that she gave birth to a baby as a
young teenager that succeeded from incestuous rape by her father and
‘disappeared’. Index Incident 2, that was also dismissed in the same
judicial process, concerned a daytime sexual assault on the toddler in
broad daylight. The presentation draws on a 60-minute audio recording
describing the two index incidents and information submitted to a
document review by complex trauma specialists in the process of
preparing an appeal application. The content of the presentation is
potentially triggering but provides rare insights into the workings of
an Organized Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) in the midst of society.</h3>
<h3><strong>Rainer Kurz</strong> is a Chartered Psychologist based in
London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles
for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the
validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+
psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a
Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre
(PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma
assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma,
dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that
are available here: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</a></h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick <a href=" https://youtu.be/ORtHBsA2wbU"> https://youtu.be/ORtHBsA2wbU</a></strong></h3></div><h3><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/wp-content/uploads/Neil Brick SMART Conference 2023 - The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery.pptx">The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick PowerPoint</a></h3>
<h3><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery – Neil Brick – PowerPoint Transcript</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-effects-of-social-movements-on-survivor-support-systems-and-survivor-recovery-neil-brick/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-effects-of-social-movements-on-survivor-support-systems-and-survivor-recovery-neil-brick/</a></h3>
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<h3>Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the
effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical
information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He
will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor
support systems and survivor recovery.</h3>
<h3><strong>Neil Brick</strong> is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His
work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and
ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse
newsletter S.M.A.R.T. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us">https://ritualabuse.us</a> has been published for over 28 years. <a href="http://neilbrick.com">http://neilbrick.com</a></h3>
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<h3>Please note: None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</h3>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-1309039321049479012023-08-07T21:33:00.002-07:002023-08-07T21:33:26.835-07:00 Ritual Abuse Online Conference August 19-20 - Special Prices - as low as $50 - Only a few days left to register. <p> </p><div class="yiv8605026882userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ritual Abuse Online Conference August 19-20 - Special Prices - as low as $50 - Only a few days left to register. </span><br /></span></div><div class="yiv8605026882userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div class="yiv8605026882userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speakers include: Lynn Crook, Wendy Hoffman, Randy Noblitt, Neil Brick, Laurie Matthew and Rainer Kurz</span></span></div><div class="yiv8605026882userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div class="yiv8605026882userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><h3><strong>The 2023 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference </strong>August 19 – 20, 2023</h3><h3>If you are interested in participating in our conference or getting on a mailing list, please write: <a href="mailto:smartnews@aol.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">smartnews@aol.com</a></h3><h3>Internet conference information: <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/\</a></h3><div> </div><div><h3><strong>Conference Speakers </strong></h3><h3><strong>These descriptions may be heavy for survivors to read. You may want to read them with a support person.</strong></h3><h3><strong>Artificially Rooted in the Natural</strong><br />Wendy Hoffman</h3><h3>Many of us wonder why recovery from criminal mind control takes so long and is so painful and consuming. This workshop explores one aspect of the difficulties we experience. Perpetrators don’t pull mind control programs out of the blue. They have studied and continue to study what is natural to human emotions, behaviors and motivations. Their mind control tactics stem from those observations. Perpetrators artificially root their commands in the natural tendencies of the human brain, personality and soul, such as dissociation, the need for love and many others. The purpose of this workshop is to help survivors understand some of the unwanted potency of programming and relieve some of the shame and suffering they may feel as they go through their recovery, or even decide whether to start their investigation of themselves, their brains and hearts.</h3><h3><strong>Wendy Hoffman</strong> has published three memoirs, <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> (Karnac Books, 2014, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019), <em>White Witch in a Black Robe</em> (Karnac Books, 2016, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019) and <em>A Brain of My Own</em> (Aeon Books, 2020). <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> has been translated and published in Germany (Asanger-Verlag, 2021). Her book of poetry, <em>Forceps</em>, was also published (Karnac books, 2016) along with a book of essays, <em>From the Trenches</em>, written with Dr. Alison Miller (Karnac Books, 2018, re-issued Routledge Books, 2019). Her fourth memoir, <em>After Amnesia</em>, is published on the SmartNews and Survivorship websites (2022). It also has been translated into German. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/</a></h3><h3><strong>Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study</strong> – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz</h3><h3>This presentation builds on a decade-long investigation into two index incidents that led to the transfer of parental responsibility for a toddler from a mother to a Local Authority, and eventually adoption by the foster carer in suspicious circumstances marred by procedural irregularities. Index Incident 1, dismissed as untrue by a Family Court Judge, concerned the mother’s claim that she gave birth to a baby as a young teenager that succeeded from incestuous rape by her father and ‘disappeared’. Index Incident 2, that was also dismissed in the same judicial process, concerned a daytime sexual assault on the toddler in broad daylight. The presentation draws on a 60-minute audio recording describing the two index incidents and information submitted to a document review by complex trauma specialists in the process of preparing an appeal application. The content of the presentation is potentially triggering but provides rare insights into the workings of an Organized Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) in the midst of society.</h3><h3><strong>Rainer Kurz</strong> is a Chartered Psychologist based in London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+ psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre (PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma, dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that are available here: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</a></h3><h3><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery</strong> – Neil Brick</h3><h3>Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor support systems and survivor recovery.</h3><h3><strong>Neil Brick</strong> is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us</a> has been published for over 28 years. <a href="http://neilbrick.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://neilbrick.com</a></h3><h3><strong>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland </strong>– Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</h3><h3>This presentation will explore the ongoing work carried out by survivor led non-profit organisations based in Scotland. Ritual Abuse Network Scotland (RANS) has provided support and information to adult survivors of ritual abuse for the past 20 years and Eighteen And Under has provided support services for young abuse survivors for the past 30 years. Both organisations have been at the frontier of raising awareness about ritual abuse in the UK and beyond. She will also share findings from recent survivor led participatory research highlighting the importance of involving survivors as researchers with lived experience in all aspects of research from deciding the research question, to agreeing methodology, gathering data, analysing results and dissemination of the findings..</h3><h3><strong>Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</strong> is founder and Manager of Eighteen And Under an award winning charity providing confidential support services to young people who have been sexually abused. She is also a founder member and advisor to Ritual Abuse Network Scotland the UK’s leading charity for survivors of organised and ritual abuse. She is the author of several books about ritual abuse and the multi-award-winning Violence Is Preventable abuse prevention programmes for children and young people. She has over 40 year’s experience of directly supporting abuse survivors. Her published research includes participatory research with adult ritual abuse survivors and participatory research with young survivors of sexual abuse.<br /><a href="http://www.18u.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.18u.org.uk </a> <a href="http://www.rans.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.rans.org.uk</a></h3><h3><strong>The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors</strong> – Dr. Randall Noblitt</h3><h3>Extreme abuse survivors sometimes seek psychotherapy services because of the overwhelming consequences of previous or ongoing incidents of abuse. Repeated severe circumscribed abuse often leaves survivors with trigger-responsive dissociation of identity and traumagenic amnesia, including initially impaired awareness of the abuse and its effects. This workshop will discuss methods for safely exploring, identifying, and desensitizing triggers where the goal is to assist clients in reclaiming effective self-regulation, autonomy, and quality of life.</h3><h3><strong>Randy Noblitt</strong> is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the book<em> Cult and Ritual Abuse</em> with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited <em>Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century</em> (2008) and they have authored a recent book, <em>Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates</em> (2020). <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></h3><h3><strong>False Memories – The Deception That Silenced Millions </strong>– Lynn Crook</h3><h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> explains why accused child molesters needed a defense, why they selected false memories and how they sold it to the media. She’ll explain how the media then sold false memories to the public with rhetoric and false, false memory research results. Prevalence rates were forgotten. As the media coverage slowed, FMSF recruited therapy patients for lawsuits against therapists. Today, psychology students learn about false memories in their textbooks. Although false memory claims are no longer making headlines except when celebrities are on trial, they have become a “given” as reporters paraphrase memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus.</h3><h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> received an M. Ed. from the University of Washington. She worked at a sexual assault agency in eastern Washington as a community educator and treated clients in crisis. She admired the courage of her clients and soon discovered that she, too, was molested as a child. She sued her parents for damages in 1991. The judge declared in her favor in 1994, as false memories were making headlines. She discovered an oddity in the deposition of her parents’ expert, Elizabeth Loftus. That investigation led to her recent book, “<em>FALSE MEMORIES – The Deception That Silenced Millions LLC</em>.” <a href="http://www.lynncrook.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.lynncrook.com</a></h3><h3>The conference is sponsored by S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations. <a href="mailto:SMARTNEWS@aol.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SMARTNEWS@aol.com</a> <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ritualabuse.us/</a></h3><h3>The conference is co-sponsored by <strong>Survivorship</strong>. Survivorship is one of the oldest and most respected organizations supporting survivors of extreme child abuse, including sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. Survivorship provides resources, healing, and community for survivors; training and education for professionals who may serve survivors; and support for survivors’ partners. <a href="https://survivorship.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://survivorship.org</a></h3><h3>Please note: None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</h3></div><div> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-77921062460210025682023-08-07T21:28:00.002-07:002023-08-07T21:28:16.960-07:00 Invisible predators: the shifting behaviour of paedophiles has Australian police playing catch-up<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <strong><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">Invisible predators: the shifting behaviour of paedophiles has Australian police playing catch-up</span></strong></span></p><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />As a former childcare worker stands accused of more than 1,600 charges, experts say changing technology habits are making offenders harder to detect</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Andrew Messenger, Ben Smee and Jordyn Beazley Fri 4 Aug 2023</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />In the Brisbane office of the taskforce Argos, scrawled on a whiteboard was a “most-wanted” list containing the online identities of dozens of global members of a dark web paedophile forum.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />The man now accused of being the country’s worst-known serial child sexual abuse offender was not on that list.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Police this week revealed the former childcare worker stands accused of 1,623 child abuse offences against 91 young girls at a dozen centres over a period of 15 years.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />Unlike many of the prolific online posters Argos helped put away, the accused man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – is alleged to have shared only a very small number of images and videos online, relating to two girls at a suburban Brisbane childcare centre. Police were reportedly stunned when they raided his home and found cameras and phones containing almost 4,000 child abuse images and videos dating back to 2007.<br />The man remains in custody and his case is scheduled for a mention in Brisbane magistrates court on 21 August.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />An internet arms race<br />For serial child abusers, the internet has proven the biggest resource and the biggest threat.<br />The dark web can be a source of money, illegal images, prestige – and community. But it also brings danger.<br />The illegal chat boards and forums have always been designed to be hard to access, but police have repeatedly cracked in, with often devastating results. In the case of Argos, police succeeded in taking the forum over completely.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />In recent years researchers and law enforcement agencies have noticed a shift in language from the sorts of men who visited those wretched forums. Criminals aren’t stupid – they don’t need the media to tell them the cops are watching. Online offender communities have become “very aware” and cautious of law enforcement surveillance, says Michael Salter, an associate professor of criminology at the University of New South Wales and an expert in child sexual exploitation.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />“Offenders know that law enforcement are crawling offender forums across the dark web and they’re responding accordingly,” Salter says.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br />“We see on the dark web a lot of complaints about what offenders call ‘hoarding’; that producers are producing CSAM (child sexual abuse material) that they’re not sharing … with the offender community, or they’re creating locked-down online groups where there’s far less accessibility....</span></span></div><div class="yiv9915942294userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/05/invisible-predators-the-shifting-behaviour-of-paedophiles-has-australian-police-playing-catch-up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/05/invisible-predators-the-shifting-behaviour-of-paedophiles-has-australian-police-playing-catch-up</a> <br /></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-48389320228960569922023-07-26T20:26:00.004-07:002023-07-26T20:26:57.474-07:00 The 2023 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference August 19 – 20, 2023<p> <strong>The 2023 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference </strong>August 19 – 20, 2023</p>
<h3>If you are interested in participating in our conference or getting on a mailing list, please write: <a href="mailto:smartnews@aol.com">smartnews@aol.com</a></h3>
<h3>Internet conference information: <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/">http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Research and Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder)</strong> <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/</a></h3>
<h3 class="yiv0818657066userEdit"><strong>Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD and it was caused by severe trauma </strong><a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/</a></h3>
<h3>Judith Herman: “In order to escape accountability for his crimes,
the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If
secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If
he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one
listens.” <em>Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror</em></h3>
<h3><strong>Videos and PowerPoints from our 2022 conference <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/</a></strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Conference Goals</strong></h3>
<h3>– To help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse<br />
– To help survivors of ritual abuse<br />
– To name the groups that have participated in alleged illegal activities<br />
– To unite those working to stop ritual abuse</h3>
<h3>Please note: S.M.A.R.T. has no paid employees and all money paid to
S.M.A.R.T. goes toward efforts to educate survivors and the general
public about survivor issues and research.</h3><h3><strong>Conference Information</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Conference Participants</strong></h3>
<h3>The conference will include those either recovering from ritual
abuse and/or helping those recovering from ritual abuse. This includes
survivors, co-survivors and therapists working with ritual abuse
survivors. Members of secret organizations, acting out perpetrators,
and/or members of unsympathetic organizations are excluded from the
conference. This is for the protection and safety of those in
attendance. S.M.A.R.T. recommends that you try to bring a support person
that is familiar with mind control techniques.</h3>
<h3></h3>
<h3><strong>S.M.A.R.T. 2023 Conference Schedule – August 19 – 20</strong><br />
(Please note : this schedule may be subject to change. Please write us for the latest schedule.)</h3>
<h3>Saturday<br />
9:00 am – 4:00 pm</h3>
<h3>Sunday<br />
9:00 am – 3:30 pm</h3>
<h3><strong>Conference Speakers </strong></h3>
<h3><strong>These descriptions may be heavy for survivors to read. You may want to read them with a support person.</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Artificially Rooted in the Natural</strong><br />
Wendy Hoffman</h3>
<h3>Many of us wonder why recovery from criminal mind control takes so
long and is so painful and consuming. This workshop explores one aspect
of the difficulties we experience. Perpetrators don’t pull mind control
programs out of the blue. They have studied and continue to study what
is natural to human emotions, behaviors and motivations. Their mind
control tactics stem from those observations. Perpetrators artificially
root their commands in the natural tendencies of the human brain,
personality and soul, such as dissociation, the need for love and many
others. The purpose of this workshop is to help survivors understand
some of the unwanted potency of programming and relieve some of the
shame and suffering they may feel as they go through their recovery, or
even decide whether to start their investigation of themselves, their
brains and hearts.</h3>
<h3><strong>Wendy Hoffman</strong> has published three memoirs, <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> (Karnac Books, 2014, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019), <em>White Witch in a Black Robe</em> (Karnac Books, 2016, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019) and <em>A Brain of My Own</em> (Aeon Books, 2020). <em>The Enslaved Queen</em> has been translated and published in Germany (Asanger-Verlag, 2021). Her book of poetry, <em>Forceps</em>, was also published (Karnac books, 2016) along with a book of essays, <em>From the Trenches</em>, written with Dr. Alison Miller (Karnac Books, 2018, re-issued Routledge Books, 2019). Her fourth memoir, <em>After Amnesia</em>, is published on the SmartNews and Survivorship websites (2022). It also has been translated into German. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study</strong> – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz</h3>
<h3>This presentation builds on a decade-long investigation into two
index incidents that led to the transfer of parental responsibility for a
toddler from a mother to a Local Authority, and eventually adoption by
the foster carer in suspicious circumstances marred by procedural
irregularities. Index Incident 1, dismissed as untrue by a Family Court
Judge, concerned the mother’s claim that she gave birth to a baby as a
young teenager that succeeded from incestuous rape by her father and
‘disappeared’. Index Incident 2, that was also dismissed in the same
judicial process, concerned a daytime sexual assault on the toddler in
broad daylight. The presentation draws on a 60-minute audio recording
describing the two index incidents and information submitted to a
document review by complex trauma specialists in the process of
preparing an appeal application. The content of the presentation is
potentially triggering but provides rare insights into the workings of
an Organized Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) in the midst of society.</h3>
<h3><strong>Rainer Kurz</strong> is a Chartered Psychologist based in
London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles
for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the
validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+
psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a
Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre
(PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma
assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma,
dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that
are available here: <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</a></h3>
<h3><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery</strong> – Neil Brick</h3>
<h3>Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the
effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical
information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He
will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor
support systems and survivor recovery.</h3>
<h3><strong>Neil Brick</strong> is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His
work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and
ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse
newsletter S.M.A.R.T. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us">https://ritualabuse.us</a> has been published for over 28 years. <a href="http://neilbrick.com">http://neilbrick.com</a></h3>
<h3><strong>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland </strong>– Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</h3>
<h3>This presentation will explore the ongoing work carried out by
survivor led non-profit organisations based in Scotland. Ritual Abuse
Network Scotland (RANS) has provided support and information to adult
survivors of ritual abuse for the past 20 years and Eighteen And Under
has provided support services for young abuse survivors for the past 30
years. Both organisations have been at the frontier of raising awareness
about ritual abuse in the UK and beyond. She will also share findings
from recent survivor led participatory research highlighting the
importance of involving survivors as researchers with lived experience
in all aspects of research from deciding the research question, to
agreeing methodology, gathering data, analysing results and
dissemination of the findings..</h3>
<h3><strong>Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</strong> is founder and Manager of
Eighteen And Under an award winning charity providing confidential
support services to young people who have been sexually abused. She is
also a founder member and advisor to Ritual Abuse Network Scotland the
UK’s leading charity for survivors of organised and ritual abuse. She is
the author of several books about ritual abuse and the
multi-award-winning Violence Is Preventable abuse prevention programmes
for children and young people. She has over 40 year’s experience of
directly supporting abuse survivors. Her published research includes
participatory research with adult ritual abuse survivors and
participatory research with young survivors of sexual abuse.<br />
<a href="http://www.18u.org.uk">http://www.18u.org.uk </a> <a href="http://www.rans.org.uk">http://www.rans.org.uk</a></h3>
<h3><strong>The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors</strong> – Dr. Randall Noblitt</h3>
<h3>Extreme abuse survivors sometimes seek psychotherapy services
because of the overwhelming consequences of previous or ongoing
incidents of abuse. Repeated severe circumscribed abuse often leaves
survivors with trigger-responsive dissociation of identity and
traumagenic amnesia, including initially impaired awareness of the abuse
and its effects. This workshop will discuss methods for safely
exploring, identifying, and desensitizing triggers where the goal is to
assist clients in reclaiming effective self-regulation, autonomy, and
quality of life.</h3>
<h3><strong>Randy Noblitt</strong> is a professor of Clinical Psychology
at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed
psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse
survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the
book<em> Cult and Ritual Abuse</em> with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited <em>Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century</em> (2008) and they have authored a recent book, <em>Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates</em> (2020). <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></h3>
<h3><strong>False Memories – The Deception That Silenced Millions </strong>– Lynn Crook</h3>
<h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> explains why accused child molesters
needed a defense, why they selected false memories and how they sold it
to the media. She’ll explain how the media then sold false memories to
the public with rhetoric and false, false memory research results.
Prevalence rates were forgotten. As the media coverage slowed, FMSF
recruited therapy patients for lawsuits against therapists. Today,
psychology students learn about false memories in their textbooks.
Although false memory claims are no longer making headlines except when
celebrities are on trial, they have become a “given” as reporters
paraphrase memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus.</h3>
<h3><strong>Lynn Crook</strong> received an M. Ed. from the University
of Washington. She worked at a sexual assault agency in eastern
Washington as a community educator and treated clients in crisis. She
admired the courage of her clients and soon discovered that she, too,
was molested as a child. She sued her parents for damages in 1991. The
judge declared in her favor in 1994, as false memories were making
headlines. She discovered an oddity in the deposition of her parents’
expert, Elizabeth Loftus. That investigation led to her recent book, “<em>FALSE MEMORIES – The Deception That Silenced Millions LLC</em>.” <a href="http://www.lynncrook.com">http://www.lynncrook.com</a></h3>
<h3>The conference is sponsored by S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that
examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive
organizations. <a href="mailto:SMARTNEWS@aol.com">SMARTNEWS@aol.com</a> <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/">http://ritualabuse.us/</a></h3>
<h3>The conference is co-sponsored by <strong>Survivorship</strong>.
Survivorship is one of the oldest and most respected organizations
supporting survivors of extreme child abuse, including sadistic sexual
abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. Survivorship
provides resources, healing, and community for survivors; training and
education for professionals who may serve survivors; and support for
survivors’ partners. <a href="https://survivorship.org/">https://survivorship.org</a></h3>
<h3>Please note: None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-10779624637362549292023-07-26T20:18:00.003-07:002023-07-26T20:18:59.840-07:00Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56, sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system<p> </p><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56, sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system</span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">- Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56</span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Sinead O’Connor claims ‘possessed’ mother ‘delighted’ in sexually abusing her and forced singer to repeat ‘I am nothing’</span></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor Details Years of Physical and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Her Mother: ‘She Ran a Torture Chamber’</span><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>"By now, the history of sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system is familiar.</strong><span> </span>As late as 2007, the Church controlled 93% of the schools in Ireland, giving most children no hope of escaping the often-sadistic system. As in America, serial child molesters like Brendan Smyth were shuttled from parish to parish and school to school to keep a step ahead of police and complaining parents. The culture of permissiveness towards abuse affected all communities, but probably the worst off were poor, orphaned, and troublemaking children sent to residential reformatory and industrial schools. To read the 2009 Ryan Report covering crimes carried out against children in these settings is to court a special sort of nausea—the kind that comes from bearing witness to an organized effort to deny the dignity of individual life and make the bodies of the powerless available to service the needs of the powerful. In this case, the powerless were disadvantaged minor teenagers and children."</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Sexual abuse in several industrial schools was described as a “chronic problem.”</strong><span> </span>Clergy whose behavior drew complaints from parents of day-school students were transferred to industrial schools where their abuses drew less attention. Some schools seem, on the evidence, to have been more labor camps than institutions of learning. At one notorious industrial school in Dublin, each child was required to string 60 rosaries each weekday and 90 on Saturdays. Students who did not reach their quotas were beaten…."</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56</strong><span> </span>Updated July 26, 2023 Heard on All Things Considered By Neda Ulaby, Anastasia Tsioulcas</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinéad O'Connor, the Irish singer known for her intense and beautiful voice, her political convictions and the personal tumult that overtook her later years, has died. She was 56 years old.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor's recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U" was one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s. Her death was announced by her family. The cause and date of her death were not made public. The statement said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time." ....</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"I grew up in a severely abusive situation, my mother being the perpetrator," O'Connor told NPR in 2014. "So much of child abuse is about being voiceless, and it's a wonderfully healing thing to just make sounds."</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor started making sounds in a home for juvenile delinquents, after a childhood spent getting booted out of Catholic schools and busted, repeatedly, for shoplifting. But a nun gave her a guitar and she began to sing, on the streets of Dublin and then with a popular Irish band called In Tua Nua.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor came to the attention of U2's guitarist The Edge, and she got herself signed to the Ensign/Chrysalis label. Her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, went double platinum in 1990, partly because of a hit love song written by Prince: "Nothing Compares 2 U."</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got was a distillation of O'Connor's prayerful sense of music and her fury over social injustice. She rejected its four Grammy nominations as being too commercial — and, in her words, "for destroying the human race." She was banned from a New Jersey arena when she refused to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," for its lyrics glorifying bombs bursting in air.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1992, at the height of her fame, Sinéad O'Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live. In her performance, she raised her voice against racism and child abuse. There was dead silence when she ended the song, a version of Bob Marley's "War," by ripping up a picture of then-Pope John Paul II.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What followed in the media was a collective howl of outrage. It drowned out a prescient protest against abuse in the Catholic church. Years later, in 2010, O'Connor told NPR she'd known exactly what to expect.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"It was grand, to be honest," she said. "I mean, I knew how people would react. I knew there would be trouble. I was quite prepared to accept that. To me, it was more important that I recognized what I will call the Holy Spirit."....</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/529671631/irish-singer-sinead-oconnor-has-died-at-56" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/529671631/irish-singer-sinead-oconnor-has-died-at-56</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor</strong><span> </span>By Michael Agresta Oct 3 2012</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Twenty years ago today, Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live—and the media largely misunderstood why. Is America finally ready to hear her out?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the weeks and months after Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on live television, commentators in the media sought to explain the motives of her protest. Very few, however, made use of the traditional tools of journalism: interviews, research, and textual analysis. Instead, most commentators seem to have consulted their own imaginations….</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also inexplicably ignored were O’Connor’s own words, in an interview published in Time a month after her SNL appearance:</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s not the man, obviously—it’s the office and the symbol of the organization that he represents… In Ireland we see our people are manifesting the highest incidence in Europe of child abuse. This is a direct result of the fact that they’re not in contact with their history as Irish people and the fact that in the schools, the priests have been beating the shit out of the children for years and sexually abusing them. This is the example that’s been set for the people of Ireland. They have been controlled by the church, the very people who authorized what was done to them, who gave permission for what was done to them.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her interviewer seemed confused by the connection O’Connor was making between the Catholic Church and child abuse, so O’Connor opened up about her own history of abuse:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sexual and physical. Psychological. Spiritual. Emotional. Verbal. I went to school every day covered in bruises, boils, sties and face welts, you name it. Nobody ever said a bloody word or did a thing. Naturally I was very angered by the whole thing, and I had to find out why it happened… The thing that helped me most was the 12-step group, the Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families. My mother was a Valium addict. What happened to me is a direct result of what happened to my mother and what happened to her in her house and in school.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The interviewer remained skeptical of O’Connor’s characterization of Irish schools as playgrounds and training grounds for child abusers, and the interview moved on to different topics.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By now, the history of sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system is familiar. As late as 2007, the Church controlled 93% of the schools in Ireland, giving most children no hope of escaping the often-sadistic system. As in America, serial child molesters like Brendan Smyth were shuttled from parish to parish and school to school to keep a step ahead of police and complaining parents. The culture of permissiveness towards abuse affected all communities, but probably the worst off were poor, orphaned, and troublemaking children sent to residential reformatory and industrial schools. To read the 2009 Ryan Report covering crimes carried out against children in these settings is to court a special sort of nausea—the kind that comes from bearing witness to an organized effort to deny the dignity of individual life and make the bodies of the powerless available to service the needs of the powerful. In this case, the powerless were disadvantaged minor teenagers and children.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sexual abuse in several industrial schools was described as a “chronic problem.” Clergy whose behavior drew complaints from parents of day-school students were transferred to industrial schools where their abuses drew less attention. Some schools seem, on the evidence, to have been more labor camps than institutions of learning. At one notorious industrial school in Dublin, each child was required to string 60 rosaries each weekday and 90 on Saturdays. Students who did not reach their quotas were beaten….</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/the-redemption-of-sinead-oconnor/263020/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/the-redemption-of-sinead-oconnor/263020/</a></span></div><div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Sinead O’Connor claims ‘possessed’ mother ‘delighted’ in sexually abusing her and forced singer to repeat ‘I am nothing’</strong><span> </span>as she speaks to Dr Phil in first interview since recent breakdown</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor speaks with Dr. Phil on Tuesday in her first interview since she was hospitalized following a mental breakdown in August</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The singer details the alleged sexual and physical abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her mother, who she claims was ‘possessed’</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘She ran a torture chamber, it was a torture chamber. She was a person who would smile and delight when she was hurting you,’ says O’Connor</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘She used to make me say over and over again “I am nothing. I am nothing” while she was beating me., claims O’Connor, who says she ran away at 13</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O’Connor, 50, can be seen giving more detail about her difficult past on Tuesday’s episode…. By Chris Spargo 11 September 2017<span> </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4873530/Sinead-O-Connor-says-possessed-mother-sexually-abused-her.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4873530/Sinead-O-Connor-says-possessed-mother-sexually-abused-her.html</a></span></div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor Details Years of Physical and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Her Mother: ‘She Ran a Torture Chamber’</span></strong></div></div></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"By now, the history of sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system is familiar. As late as 2007, the Church controlled 93% of the schools in Ireland, giving most children no hope of escaping the often-sadistic system. As in America, serial child molesters like Brendan Smyth were shuttled from parish to parish and school to school to keep a step ahead of police and complaining parents. The culture of permissiveness towards abuse affected all communities, but probably the worst off were poor, orphaned, and troublemaking children sent to residential reformatory and industrial schools. To read the 2009 Ryan Report covering crimes carried out against children in these settings is to court a special sort of nausea—the kind that comes from bearing witness to an organized effort to deny the dignity of individual life and make the bodies of the powerless available to service the needs of the powerful. In this case, the powerless were disadvantaged minor teenagers and children.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sexual abuse in several industrial schools was described as a “chronic problem.” Clergy whose behavior drew complaints from parents of day-school students were transferred to industrial schools where their abuses drew less attention. Some schools seem, on the evidence, to have been more labor camps than institutions of learning. At one notorious industrial school in Dublin, each child was required to string 60 rosaries each weekday and 90 on Saturdays. Students who did not reach their quotas were beaten…."</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv3247468575userEdit" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has died at 56</strong><span> </span>Updated July 26, 2023 Heard on All Things Considered By Neda Ulaby, Anastasia Tsioulcas</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinéad O'Connor, the Irish singer known for her intense and beautiful voice, her political convictions and the personal tumult that overtook her later years, has died. She was 56 years old.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor's recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U" was one of the biggest hits of the early 1990s. Her death was announced by her family. The cause and date of her death were not made public. The statement said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time." ....</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"I grew up in a severely abusive situation, my mother being the perpetrator," O'Connor told NPR in 2014. "So much of child abuse is about being voiceless, and it's a wonderfully healing thing to just make sounds."</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor started making sounds in a home for juvenile delinquents, after a childhood spent getting booted out of Catholic schools and busted, repeatedly, for shoplifting. But a nun gave her a guitar and she began to sing, on the streets of Dublin and then with a popular Irish band called In Tua Nua.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O'Connor came to the attention of U2's guitarist The Edge, and she got herself signed to the Ensign/Chrysalis label. Her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, went double platinum in 1990, partly because of a hit love song written by Prince: "Nothing Compares 2 U."</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got was a distillation of O'Connor's prayerful sense of music and her fury over social injustice. She rejected its four Grammy nominations as being too commercial — and, in her words, "for destroying the human race." She was banned from a New Jersey arena when she refused to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner," for its lyrics glorifying bombs bursting in air.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In 1992, at the height of her fame, Sinéad O'Connor appeared on Saturday Night Live. In her performance, she raised her voice against racism and child abuse. There was dead silence when she ended the song, a version of Bob Marley's "War," by ripping up a picture of then-Pope John Paul II.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What followed in the media was a collective howl of outrage. It drowned out a prescient protest against abuse in the Catholic church. Years later, in 2010, O'Connor told NPR she'd known exactly what to expect.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"It was grand, to be honest," she said. "I mean, I knew how people would react. I knew there would be trouble. I was quite prepared to accept that. To me, it was more important that I recognized what I will call the Holy Spirit."....</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/529671631/irish-singer-sinead-oconnor-has-died-at-56" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/529671631/irish-singer-sinead-oconnor-has-died-at-56</a></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Redemption of Sinead O’Connor</strong><span> </span>By Michael Agresta Oct 3 2012</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Twenty years ago today, Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope on Saturday Night Live—and the media largely misunderstood why. Is America finally ready to hear her out?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the weeks and months after Sinead O’Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on live television, commentators in the media sought to explain the motives of her protest. Very few, however, made use of the traditional tools of journalism: interviews, research, and textual analysis. Instead, most commentators seem to have consulted their own imaginations….</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also inexplicably ignored were O’Connor’s own words, in an interview published in Time a month after her SNL appearance:</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s not the man, obviously—it’s the office and the symbol of the organization that he represents… In Ireland we see our people are manifesting the highest incidence in Europe of child abuse. This is a direct result of the fact that they’re not in contact with their history as Irish people and the fact that in the schools, the priests have been beating the shit out of the children for years and sexually abusing them. This is the example that’s been set for the people of Ireland. They have been controlled by the church, the very people who authorized what was done to them, who gave permission for what was done to them.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her interviewer seemed confused by the connection O’Connor was making between the Catholic Church and child abuse, so O’Connor opened up about her own history of abuse:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sexual and physical. Psychological. Spiritual. Emotional. Verbal. I went to school every day covered in bruises, boils, sties and face welts, you name it. Nobody ever said a bloody word or did a thing. Naturally I was very angered by the whole thing, and I had to find out why it happened… The thing that helped me most was the 12-step group, the Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families. My mother was a Valium addict. What happened to me is a direct result of what happened to my mother and what happened to her in her house and in school.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The interviewer remained skeptical of O’Connor’s characterization of Irish schools as playgrounds and training grounds for child abusers, and the interview moved on to different topics.</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By now, the history of sexual and physical abuse in the Irish Catholic school system is familiar. As late as 2007, the Church controlled 93% of the schools in Ireland, giving most children no hope of escaping the often-sadistic system. As in America, serial child molesters like Brendan Smyth were shuttled from parish to parish and school to school to keep a step ahead of police and complaining parents. The culture of permissiveness towards abuse affected all communities, but probably the worst off were poor, orphaned, and troublemaking children sent to residential reformatory and industrial schools. To read the 2009 Ryan Report covering crimes carried out against children in these settings is to court a special sort of nausea—the kind that comes from bearing witness to an organized effort to deny the dignity of individual life and make the bodies of the powerless available to service the needs of the powerful. In this case, the powerless were disadvantaged minor teenagers and children.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sexual abuse in several industrial schools was described as a “chronic problem.” Clergy whose behavior drew complaints from parents of day-school students were transferred to industrial schools where their abuses drew less attention. Some schools seem, on the evidence, to have been more labor camps than institutions of learning. At one notorious industrial school in Dublin, each child was required to string 60 rosaries each weekday and 90 on Saturdays. Students who did not reach their quotas were beaten….</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/the-redemption-of-sinead-oconnor/263020/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/10/the-redemption-of-sinead-oconnor/263020/</a></span></div><div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Sinead O’Connor claims ‘possessed’ mother ‘delighted’ in sexually abusing her and forced singer to repeat ‘I am nothing’</strong><span> </span>as she speaks to Dr Phil in first interview since recent breakdown</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor speaks with Dr. Phil on Tuesday in her first interview since she was hospitalized following a mental breakdown in August</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The singer details the alleged sexual and physical abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her mother, who she claims was ‘possessed’</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘She ran a torture chamber, it was a torture chamber. She was a person who would smile and delight when she was hurting you,’ says O’Connor</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">‘She used to make me say over and over again “I am nothing. I am nothing” while she was beating me., claims O’Connor, who says she ran away at 13</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O’Connor, 50, can be seen giving more detail about her difficult past on Tuesday’s episode…. By Chris Spargo 11 September 2017<span> </span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4873530/Sinead-O-Connor-says-possessed-mother-sexually-abused-her.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4873530/Sinead-O-Connor-says-possessed-mother-sexually-abused-her.html</a></span></div><div> </div><div><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor Details Years of Physical and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of Her Mother: ‘She Ran a Torture Chamber’</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Maria Pasquini September 11, 2017</span></div><div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sinead O’Connor is opening up about the horrifying sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother in an emotional interview on Dr. Phil.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer, speaking with Dr. Phil McGraw, detailed how her mother Marie O’Connor “ran a torture chamber” and tormented her until she ran away from home at 13….</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“She ran a torture chamber. It was a torture chamber. She was a person who took delight and smile in hurting you.”….</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-emotional-sexual-abuse-mother" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-emotional-sexual-abuse-mother</a></span></div><div> </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-66926909615164959992023-07-10T19:17:00.004-07:002023-07-10T19:17:54.053-07:00 Convicted abuser Larry Nassar stabbed in prison, Sue FBI $1 billion over Nassar investigation, Clergy sexual abuse crisis at forty with 100 bishops out of office<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div class="userEdit" style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span><strong>Convicted abuser and ex-gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar stabbed in prison</strong> – report by Edwin Rios July 10, 2023</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Larry Nassar, the former Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics doctor who was convicted of decades of abuse of women and girls under the guise of medical treatment, was reportedly stabbed at a federal prison in Florida on Sunday....</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>In 2018, in an end to the biggest sexual abuse scandals in US sports history, hundreds of women and girls gave victim impact statements against Nassar, detailing allegations of abuse as far back as the 1990s.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Several athletes, including the Olympians Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney, testified that they relayed allegations to coaches, trainers and others which were not reported to authorities.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>More than 100 women, including the Olympian Simone Biles, sued the US government for more than $1bn over the FBI’s failure to take action after learning of allegations against Nassar in 2015. That inaction allowed Nassar to continue to abuse women and girls for more than a year before he pleaded guilty in 2017.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Michigan State University, whose president, Lou Anna Simon, and athletic director, Mark Hollis, resigned amid fallout from the scandal, agreed a $500m settlement with more than 300 women and girls, a sum far larger than the $60m Penn State University paid to victims of the former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>MSU had been accused of ignoring and failing to act to stop Nassar during his decades of abuse.</span><br /><span>USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee agreed a $380m settlement with more than 500 women and girls.</span><br /><span>In 2018, a judge in Michigan sentenced Nassar to more than 175 years in prison..... <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/convicted-abuser-and-ex-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-stabbed-in-prison-report/ar-AA1dFU1a">https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/convicted-abuser-and-ex-gymnastics-doctor-larry-nassar-stabbed-in-prison-report/ar-AA1dFU1a</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span>Simone Biles and others to sue FBI for $1bn over Larry Nassar investigation</span></strong><br /><span>Published 8 June 2022 By Holly Honderich BBC News, Washington</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Women who say they were sexually assaulted by a disgraced US national gymnastics team doctor plan to sue the FBI for $1bn (£800m).</span><br /><span>Claimants say the FBI mishandled credible complaints of sexual assaults by Larry Nassar.</span><br /><span>They include Olympic gymnastics gold medallists Simone Biles, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Nassar is serving up to 175 years in prison for molesting gymnasts.</span><br /><span>The agency's own watchdog found the FBI disregarded allegations about Nassar and made early errors in its investigation.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Last year, a long-awaited report from the US justice department's Office of the Inspector General gave a scathing assessment of the federal agency's investigation into Nassar.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span> Various missteps and cover-ups by FBI agents allowed Nassar's abuse to continue for more than a year after the case was first opened in 2015, the report found.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The majority of claimants in these suits say Nassar assaulted them after his abuse was reported to the FBI in 2015. Most were athletes with the USA Gymnastics programme or with Michigan State University, where Nassar maintained a clinic. The FBI field office Nassar's abuse was reported to took limited action and did not document any investigation or alert other authorities.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>"My fellow survivors and I were betrayed by every institution that was supposed to protect us - the US Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, the FBI and now the Department of Justice," McKayla Maroney, an Olympic gold medallist, said in a statement.</span><br /><span>"It is clear that the only path to justice and healing is through the legal process."</span><br /><span>Two weeks ago, the US Justice Department decided not to prosecute the two FBI agents accused of mishandling the investigation. The plaintiffs are seeking different amounts in damages but their total claims are expected to exceed $1bn.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>The Collective Administrative Claims are being filed under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows people who have been harmed by negligent or wrongful actions of the federal government to seek compensation.</span><br /><span>Under federal law, the FBI has six months to respond to the claims. Lawsuits may follow, depending on the FBI's response. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61735319">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61735319</a></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Gilbert Gauthe’s case, back in July 1983, marks the beginning of the sexual abuse crisis; we reach its 40th anniversary with no end on sight</span><br /><span>English Edition Rodolfo Soriano-Núñez Sábado, 01 Julio, 2023</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>On the 40th anniversary of the sexual abuse crisis, Bishop Richard Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, is the 100th bishop forced to resign.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Religion and public life: Jason Berry and Richard Sipe provided two key elements to understan the clergy sexual abuse crisis an accountability-centered-narrative and the so-called scarlet bond.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Sometime in July of 1983, then priest Gilbert Gauthe was relieved from his duties at the St. John parish in the Lafayette diocese in Louisiana. His dismissal, accurately depicted by Jason Berry in a series of stories published in 1985 started what we now see as the 40-year long crisis of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>For the last four decades a deluge of news about sexual predator priests has been inundating news outlets all over the world. In all its misery, the crisis has helped make the global public opinion aware of the crisis in the Catholic Church, in other religious organizations, and in many other institutions and settings....</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>If Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward proved how “the most powerful man in the world” could be forced out of office by the media, Jason Berry and his colleagues in news outlets all over the world have played a role in forcing out of office at least 100 Catholic bishops and countless priests, because of their role in the sexual abuse crisis.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span>Thanks to Berry and those who followed him, like the journalists at The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, a narrative on the need to make clergy accountable of their behavior took hold. </span><br /><span><a href="Https://losangelespress.org/noticias/the-clergy-sexual-abuse-crisis-at-forty-with-100-bishops-out-of-office-20230629-5731.html">Https://losangelespress.org/noticias/the-clergy-sexual-abuse-crisis-at-forty-with-100-bishops-out-of-office-20230629-5731.html</a> </span></span></div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7058065245218857723.post-33897031719941422732023-07-02T14:52:00.000-07:002023-07-02T14:52:01.446-07:00Ritual Abuse Newsletter - Unabomber and MK-ULTRA, August Conference, Clergy Abuse<p> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>S.M.A.R.T.</strong><br /><strong>(Stop Mind control And Ritual abuse Today)</strong><br /><strong> P. 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color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet<a href="https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/" style="color: #2255aa;"> https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Research and Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD and it was caused by severe trauma <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Judith Herman: “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.” Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Videos and PowerPoints from our 2022 conference <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>These descriptions may be heavy for survivors to read. You may want to read them with a support person.</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Artificially Rooted in the Natural –</strong> Wendy Hoffman</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Many of us wonder why recovery from criminal mind control takes so long and is so painful and consuming. This workshop explores one aspect of the difficulties we experience. Perpetrators don’t pull mind control programs out of the blue. They have studied and continue to study what is natural to human emotions, behaviors and motivations. Their mind control tactics stem from those observations. Perpetrators artificially root their commands in the natural tendencies of the human brain, personality and soul, such as dissociation, the need for love and many others. The purpose of this workshop is to help survivors understand some of the unwanted potency of programming and relieve some of the shame and suffering they may feel as they go through their recovery, or even decide whether to start their investigation of themselves, their brains and hearts.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Wendy Hoffman has published three memoirs, The Enslaved Queen (Karnac Books, 2014, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019), White Witch in a Black Robe (Karnac Books, 2016, new edition by Aeon Books, 2019) and A Brain of My Own (Aeon Books, 2020). The Enslaved Queen has been translated and published in Germany (Asanger-Verlag, 2021). Her book of poetry, Forceps, was also published (Karnac books, 2016) along with a book of essays, From the Trenches, written with Dr. Alison Miller (Karnac Books, 2018, re-issued Routledge Books, 2019). Her fourth memoir, After Amnesia, is published on the SmartNews and Survivorship websites (2022). It also has been translated into German. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/wendy-hoffman/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study</strong> – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">This presentation builds on a decade-long investigation into two index incidents that led to the transfer of parental responsibility for a toddler from a mother to a Local Authority, and eventually adoption by the foster carer in suspicious circumstances marred by procedural irregularities. Index Incident 1, dismissed as untrue by a Family Court Judge, concerned the mother’s claim that she gave birth to a baby as a young teenager that succeeded from incestuous rape by her father and ‘disappeared’. Index Incident 2, that was also dismissed in the same judicial process, concerned a daytime sexual assault on the toddler in broad daylight. The presentation draws on a 60-minute audio recording describing the two index incidents and information submitted to a document review by complex trauma specialists in the process of preparing an appeal application. The content of the presentation is potentially triggering but provides rare insights into the workings of an Organized Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) in the midst of society.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Rainer Kurz is a Chartered Psychologist based in London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+ psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre (PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma, dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that are available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery</strong> – Neil Brick</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor support systems and survivor recovery.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us</a> has been published for over 28 years. <a href="http://neilbrick.com/" style="color: #2255aa;">http://neilbrick.com</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Ongoing Work by Survivor Led Non-profit Organisations in Scotland –</strong> Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">This presentation will explore the ongoing work carried out by survivor led non-profit organisations based in Scotland. Ritual Abuse Network Scotland (RANS) has provided support and information to adult survivors of ritual abuse for the past 20 years and Eighteen And Under has provided support services for young abuse survivors for the past 30 years. Both organisations have been at the frontier of raising awareness about ritual abuse in the UK and beyond. She will also share findings from recent survivor led participatory research highlighting the importance of involving survivors as researchers with lived experience in all aspects of research from deciding the research question, to agreeing methodology, gathering data, analysing results and dissemination of the findings..</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Dr. Laurie Matthew OBE is founder and Manager of Eighteen And Under an award winning charity providing confidential support services to young people who have been sexually abused. She is also a founder member and advisor to Ritual Abuse Network Scotland the UK’s leading charity for survivors of organised and ritual abuse. She is the author of several books about ritual abuse and the multi-award-winning Violence Is Preventable abuse prevention programmes for children and young people. She has over 40 year’s experience of directly supporting abuse survivors. Her published research includes participatory research with adult ritual abuse survivors and participatory research with young survivors of sexual abuse. <a href="http://www.18u.org.uk/" style="color: #2255aa;"> http://www.18u.org.uk </a> <a href="http://www.rans.org.uk/" style="color: #2255aa;">http://www.rans.org.uk</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Identification and Use of Trauma Triggers in the Treatment of Extreme Abuse Survivors –</strong> Dr. Randall Noblitt</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Extreme abuse survivors sometimes seek psychotherapy services because of the overwhelming consequences of previous or ongoing incidents of abuse. Repeated severe circumscribed abuse often leaves survivors with trigger-responsive dissociation of identity and traumagenic amnesia, including initially impaired awareness of the abuse and its effects. This workshop will discuss methods for safely exploring, identifying, and desensitizing triggers where the goal is to assist clients in reclaiming effective self-regulation, autonomy, and quality of life.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Randy Noblitt is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the book Cult and Ritual Abuse with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century (2008) and they have authored a recent book, Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates (2020). <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>False Memories – The Deception That Silenced Millions</strong> – Lynn Crook</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Lynn Crook explains why accused child molesters needed a defense, why they selected false memories and how they sold it to the media. She’ll explain how the media then sold false memories to the public with rhetoric and false, false memory research results. Prevalence rates were forgotten. As the media coverage slowed, FMSF recruited therapy patients for lawsuits against therapists. Today, psychology students learn about false memories in their textbooks. Although false memory claims are no longer making headlines except when celebrities are on trial, they have become a “given” as reporters paraphrase memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Lynn Crook received an M. Ed. from the University of Washington. She worked at a sexual assault agency in eastern Washington as a community educator and treated clients in crisis. She admired the courage of her clients and soon discovered that she, too, was molested as a child. She sued her parents for damages in 1991. The judge declared in her favor in 1994, as false memories were making headlines. She discovered an oddity in the deposition of her parents’ expert, Elizabeth Loftus. That investigation led to her recent book, “FALSE MEMORIES – The Deception That Silenced Millions LLC.” <a href="http://www.lynncrook.com/" style="color: #2255aa;">http://www.lynncrook.com</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The conference is sponsored by S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations. SMARTNEWS@aol.com <a href="http://ritualabuse.us/" style="color: #2255aa;">http://ritualabuse.us/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The conference is co-sponsored by Survivorship. Survivorship is one of the oldest and most respected organizations supporting survivors of extreme child abuse, including sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. Survivorship provides resources, healing, and community for survivors; training and education for professionals who may serve survivors; and support for survivors’ partners. <a href="https://survivorship.org/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://survivorship.org</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Please note: None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Survivorship of Extreme or Ritualistic Abuse 2023 Online Conference Presentations – Videos and PDFs</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Regular Conference – Saturday and Sunday May 20 – 21, 2023</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Clinician’s Conference – Friday May 19, 2023 <a href="https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2023-conference-presentations/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2023-conference-presentations/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Conference Information is at: <a href="https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2023-online-conference/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://survivorship.org/the-survivorship-ritual-abuse-and-mind-control-2023-online-conference/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">For survivors of ritual abuse, mind control and torture and pro-survivors https://www.survivorship.org info@survivorship.org</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Survivors may want to read or watch the material on this page with a safe support person as this material may remind people of their programming.</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>None of the material on this page, on linked pages or from the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Researching Ritual Abuse and Mind Control in Art and Literature: One Art Historian’s Journey</strong> – Lynn Brunet PhD – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Lynn is an art historian, artist and survivor of Masonic ritual abuse. She first began to remember her abuse in her mid-forties but realised that she had been unknowingly making art about it for most of her career as a professional artist. In 1999, alongside her recovery, she began a PhD into Masonic themes and trauma in contemporary art. It was based on the realisation that artists can make disturbing art, often for a lifetime, without realising where it comes from. She was a lecturer in art history and theory at the time, and during the 1990s in my field there was a lot of interest in the relation between art, memory and trauma. Her talk will trace the series of case studies where she has uncovered traces of ritual abuse in the work of some key artists and writers in contemporary art and from earlier in the 20th century. In 2017 she came across Carl Jung’s Red Book, a magnificent volume containing his disturbing mid-life fantasies along with his own exquisite paintings. She recognised at the first reading that this could be ritual abuse and in 2019 published Answer to Jung: Making Sense of the Red Book. It demonstrated that his fantasies were not entirely original but were based on abusive forms of Masonic rites practiced in Switzerland when he was a child. This talk will be accompanied by a slide show depicting examples of these artists’ work.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Lynn Brunet (PhD) is an Australian art historian, artist and survivor of Masonic ritual abuse. Her research examines the coupling of trauma and ritual in modern and contemporary Western art and literature. In particular, it traces the connection between Masonic and other fraternal initiation rites and complex trauma in the work of so-called ‘tortured’ artists and writers.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Effects of Social Movements on Survivor Support Systems and Survivor Recovery –</strong> Neil Brick – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Neil Brick will speak about the history of ritualistic abuse and the effects of social movements on survivors. He will present historical information regarding the literature of clinicians and researchers. He will describe the effects of social and historical movements on survivor support systems and survivor recovery.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Neil Brick is a survivor of ritualistic abuse. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritualistic abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritualistic abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 28 years.<a href="http://neilbrick.com/" style="color: #2255aa;"> http://neilbrick.com</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>How to Create a Successful Recovery Path for Disassociated Survival Skills and DID</strong> – Shelby Rising Eagle – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">How to create a successful path of recovery for DSS (disassociated survival skills) (DID) of Satanic/Ritual Abuse. Topics will include: Understanding our boundaries as a victim. Learning what boundaries are for healthy people. Healthy boundaries. How to recognize toxic shame vs. healthy shame. Self-Honesty guidelines. Learning to see life from different viewpoints for similar situations. Understanding memories. Learning to understand and see what happened in the past and how it affects you today. Creating your life as you want it to be. Healthy boundaries, life skills that work in a positive manner for your happiness. Never give up and always believe in yourself.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Shelby Rising Eagle was born in the SF Bay Area raised in the Mormon Church. Mother was a multi-generational Mormon; father was a convert. She reports both parents participated in satanic worship, pedophile sex ring in the church. She has done over 20 years of recovery work. She is the writer of two books – How Would You Know? & How Would You Know My Whole Story? She owns and operates a Martial Arts School and is a Master in her style of martial arts and now testing for her 6th degree black belt. She is a master gardener and loves growing vegetables and flowers. She does workshops with therapists on working with victims with DID and the recovery process. She practices meditation for centering her life and progress towards a better life. She is committed to helping to up lift others in their recovery work. She teaches that everyone that they can recover and claim their life back from extreme abuse.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>The Enmeshment of the British False Memory Society and the British Psychological Society.</strong> – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">This presentation builds on an article ‘The Policy Alignment of the British False Memory Society and the British Psychological Society’ published in 2022 by Dr Ashley Conway and Prof David Pilgrim in the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation. It outlines the exemplary response of the British Psychological Society (BPS) in 1995 to the ‘Memory Wars’, subsequent ‘policy capture’ in 2008 through individuals associated with the British False Memory Society (BFMS), and the ongoing battle to restore a credible position on Memory-Based Evidence that moves from a biased ‘false-positive-only view of the uncertainties about testimonies involving historical trauma to equally consider False negatives.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The presentation will feature examples where a Discourse of Disbelief derailed proper procedures in the UK. Furthermore, the practical relevance of the questions raised will be illustrated with the analysis of 27 US cases in Silberg & Dallam (2019) where allegations of child sexual abuse were initially dismissed by family courts but the custody decisions that followed overturned later on. In 67% of the cases the rationale of the judge not protecting at Time 1 was ‘Pathology’ of the protective parent leveraging the ‘Discourse of Disbelief’ propelled by False Memory research claims. Based on their analysis they offer 9 recommendations to improve outcomes for children who have the misfortune to be both abused and entangled in a custody dispute several of which relate to trauma-informed practice. Most central is their call that ‘all evidence admitted in custody and parenting adjudications should be subject to evidentiary admissibility standards and courts must reject pseudoscientific concepts that pathologize parents seeking to protect children’. Brewin, Li, McNeilis, Ntarantana, & Unsworth (2020) warn in a similar vein about the increasing bias towards invalid false memory arguments and assumptions that sway medico-legal decision making.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Child Trafficking through Family Court Proceedings: A UK Case Study</strong> – Dr. Rainer Hermann Kurz – PDF</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">This presentation builds on a decade-long investigation into two index incidents that led to the transfer of parental responsibility for a toddler boy from a mother to a Local Authority, and eventually adoption by the foster carer in suspicious circumstances marred by procedural irregularities. Index Incident 1, dismissed as untrue by a Family Court Judge, concerned the mother’s claim that she gave birth to a baby at age 14 that succeeded from incestuous rape by her father and ‘disappeared’. Index Incident 2, that was also dismissed in the same judicial process, concerned a daytime sexual assault on the toddler boy in broad daylight. The presentation draws on a 60-minute audio recording describing the two index incidents and information submitted to a document review by complex trauma specialist in the process of preparing an appeal application. The content of the presentation is potentially triggering but provides rare insights into the workings of an Organized Ritual Crime Abuse Network (ORCAN) in the midst of society.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Rainer Kurz is a Chartered Psychologist based in London. Since 1990 Rainer has worked in Research & Development roles for leading test publishers. His PhD dissertation was on enhancing the validity and utility of ability testing. Rainer developed 50+ psychometric tests and authored more than 100 publications. He is a Consultant Editor for Test Reviews at the Psychometric Testing Centre (PTC) of the BPS. Rainer has been investigating complex trauma assessment problems since 2012. He presented 30+ posters on trauma, dissociation and healing at international peer-reviewed conferences that are available here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rainer_Kurz2</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Some Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines and Standards Relevant to the Psychological Care of Extreme Abuse Survivors</strong> – Dr. Randall Noblitt – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">We will review the APA’s (2021) Professional Practice Guidelines for Evidence-Based Psychological Practice in Health Care, and discuss its relevance to the care of extreme abuse survivors. We will also critically examine Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Adults (APA, 2017) and the ISSTD (2011) Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision. Included will be discussion of the roles of common factors and empirically supported treatments in implementing guidelines and standards.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Randy Noblitt is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University, Los Angeles and a licensed psychologist in Texas. He has evaluated and treated extreme abuse survivors clinically since 1979. He has authored three editions of the book Cult and Ritual Abuse with Pam Noblitt (1995, 2000, 2014). Together they also edited Ritual Abuse in the 21st Century (2008) and they have authored a recent book, Navigating Social Security Disability Programs: A Handbook for Clinicians and Advocates (2020). <a href="https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/" style="color: #2255aa;">https://ritualabuse.us/smart/randy-noblitt/</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Creating Calm</strong> – Patricia Quinn – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Art making is a form of expression available to all, though many have felt discouraged to continue to enjoy it. It’s sensory and motor aspects engage the reward system of the brain (Kaimal et al 2017). Using art materials can help modulate the survival-oriented mid-brain with the higher cortex which we use to plan, and contextualize experience (Lusebrink 2004; Lusebrink & Hinz 2019). We can use various art materials to bring ourselves into the present and to help focus us on what we want. Using a future-oriented directive to attain a feeling of stability and peace, along with a brief lead in describing stabilizing elements of nature, participants will learn a way to use art for restoring the nervous system.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Patricia Quinn is an artist and art therapist who worked in the fields of psychiatry and addiction for 30-plus years. She’s taught graduate and undergraduate students in art therapy since 1994, and has recently published “Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma” (Jessica Kingsley Publ., 2021). She has served for the past ten years on the committees and boards of several large mental health agencies that provide addiction, mental health, and developmental disabilities services. She strives to promote awareness of the effects of ritual abuse and complex trauma.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Dr. Ellen Lacter – Systematic and Organic Psychological Mechanisms that Perpetuate the Cycle of Extreme Abuse</strong> – PDF and Video of Presentation</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">This presentation will examine the psychological mechanisms that perpetuate the cycle of extreme child abuse, including ritualistic abuse, torture, production of sadistic child abuse materials, and sex-trafficking of young children to multiple perpetrators. We will explore many of the ways that the cycle of extreme abuse can be perpetuated: 1) within victims, as in ongoing abuse, abuse re-victimization, psychological suffering, self-injury, suicidality, harmful relationships, re-enactments of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, etc., and sometimes, 2) by victims, in abuse against others, including abuse of one’s children (intergenerational transmission).</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Two mechanisms by which extreme abuse is perpetuated will be presented: 1) externally-applied, calculated, manipulation of victims’ dissociated self-states to control victims long-term to serve abuser agendas, i.e., programming, and, 2) naturally-occurring internal responses that yield long-term psychological symptoms, suffering, and, in some case, harm to others. Finally, we will discuss broad approaches to treatment to break the cycle of extreme abuse.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Ellen P. Lacter, Ph.D., is a California licensed Clinical Psychologist and Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. She is Academic Coordinator of the Play Therapy Certificate program at University of California – San Diego, Division of Extended Studies. She worked in community mental health settings from 1975 to 1984, and in private practice thereafter. In the mid-1990s, she acquired expertise in the treatment of dissociative disorders and extreme abuse, particularly victims of ritualistic abuse, torture, child sex-trafficking, and production of sadistic child abuse materials. She is an activist on behalf of survivors of extreme abuse, based in her website: https://www.endritualabuse.org .</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">“As a sophomore, he was recruited for an experiment conducted on 22 undergraduates by an eminent Harvard psychology professor, Henry A. Murray. It turned out to be a brutal experience: Three years of deliberately abusive and humiliating mock interrogations, aimed at studying how people react under stress.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The experiment resembled screening processes for secret agents that Professor Murray had helped develop during World War II. In 2018, the Central Intelligence Agency described Professor Murray’s experiment as part of MK-Ultra, a project that studied mind control, and it cited characterizations of Professor Murray’s work as “disturbing” and “ethically indefensible.”</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society. Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics, businessmen and random civilians with homemade bombs from 1978 to 1995, killing three people and injuring 23 with the stated goal of fomenting the collapse of the modern social order — a violent spree that ended after what was often described as the longest and most costly manhunt in American history — died on Saturday in a federal prison medical center in Butner, N.C. He was 81….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">After he was captured by about 40 F.B.I. agents in April 1996, Mr. Kaczynski’s particular ideology was less the subject of debate than the question of whether his crimes should be dignified with a rational motive to begin with.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Victims railed against commentators who took seriously a 35,000-word manifesto that he had written to justify his actions and evangelize the ideas that he claimed inspired them….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">After his arrest, Mr. Kaczynski’s extraordinary biography emerged. He had scored 167 on an I.Q. test as a boy and entered Harvard at 16. In graduate school, at the University of Michigan, he worked in a field of mathematics so esoteric that a member of his dissertation committee estimated that only 10 or 12 people in the country understood it. By 25, he was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Then he dropped out — not just from Berkeley, but from civilization. Starting in 1971 and continuing until his arrest, he lived in a shack he built himself in rural Montana. He forsook running water, read by the light of homemade candles, stopped filing federal tax returns and subsisted on rabbits….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Mr. Kaczynski’s manifesto — published jointly by The New York Times and The Washington Post in 1995 under the threat of continued violence — argued that damage to the environment and the alienating effects of technology were so heinous that the social and industrial underpinnings of modern life should be destroyed….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The unique circumstances of the manifesto’s distribution — William Finnegan, writing in The New Yorker, called it “the most extraordinary manuscript submission in the history of publishing” — prompted a debate about the ethics of disseminating a terrorist’s views. The publicity seemed vindicated, however, after news of the Unabomber reached Linda Patrik, an associate philosophy professor vacationing in Paris. At first jokingly, then insistently, she told her husband that the manifesto reminded her of what he had said about his eccentric loner brother.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Ms. Patrik’s husband was David Kaczynski. When he read the manifesto online, his “jaw dropped,” he later told The Times. The language was reminiscent of letters Ted had written to David. He soon reached out to the authorities.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Since 1979, an F.B.I. team that grew to more than 150 full-time investigators, analysts and others had gone through tens of thousands of leads without getting close to a real suspect. After hearing from David Kaczynski, the authorities zeroed in on a 10-by-12-foot wooden shack in rural Montana. The area was so remote that during an 18-day stakeout, one agent saw a cougar kill a deer.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The home had two windows set on high; they caught light but kept the home hidden. Agents could not see inside. On April 3, 1996, one of them shouted that a forest ranger needed help. A thin, shaggy man emerged from the cabin. He was grabbed from both sides….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">As a sophomore, he was recruited for an experiment conducted on 22 undergraduates by an eminent Harvard psychology professor, Henry A. Murray. It turned out to be a brutal experience: Three years of deliberately abusive and humiliating mock interrogations, aimed at studying how people react under stress.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The experiment resembled screening processes for secret agents that Professor Murray had helped develop during World War II. In 2018, the Central Intelligence Agency described Professor Murray’s experiment as part of MK-Ultra, a project that studied mind control, and it cited characterizations of Professor Murray’s work as “disturbing” and “ethically indefensible.”</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Mr. Kaczynski went straight from college to graduate school in Michigan. His department would learn about new work of his by discovering, without any advance notice, his papers published in respected journals. “It was as if he could write poetry while the rest of us were trying to learn grammar,” Joel Shapiro, a fellow student, later told The Times.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Mr. Kaczynski arrived at Berkeley in 1967. He taught by lecturing from the textbook and did not answer questions. Yet he continued to publish distinguished work and received a promotion in the math department. Two years later, he resigned, without explaining the decision to his colleagues.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The Kaczynski brothers split the cost of the property in Montana, then had a falling-out when David got engaged in 1989. After Ted’s arrest, New York Times reporters searched for friends of his in the seven states he was known to have lived in or visited. They found nobody. Some fellow students of his in graduate school said they were amazed to find that they did not remember him at all. He was widely reported never to have had a romantic relationship.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">During his Montana years, Mr. Kaczynski had the librarian in Lincoln, the town closest to his shack, obtain for him obscure volumes of science and literature, sometimes in the original German or Spanish. In an interview after his arrest with the British publication Green Anarchist, he described inventing gods for himself, including a “Grandfather Rabbit,” who was responsible for the existence of the snowshoe rabbits that were his main source of meat in the winter….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-dead.html</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Harvard’s Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of ’62 An odd footnote to Kaczynski’s class reunion. </strong> Posted May 25, 2012 Jonathan D Moreno Ph.D</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">During Ted Kaczynski’s sophomore year at Harvard in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that would last three years.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The experiment Ted Kaczynski participated in at Harvard involved psychological torment and humiliation.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">For 18 years, using homemade explosive devices, Ted Kaczynski terrorized those he saw as agents of antihuman technology before his 1996 arrest….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">For all the reporting about the 50th-anniversary reunion dustup, an odd twist to the Harvard Unabomber story has not been mentioned: During Kaczynski’s sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation, a story I include in my book Mind Wars: Brain Research and the Military in the 21st Century.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The Harvard study aimed at psychic deconstruction by humiliating undergraduates and thereby causing them to experience severe stress. Kaczynski’s anti-technological fixation and his critique itself had some roots in the Harvard curriculum, which emphasized the supposed objectivity of science compared with the subjectivity of ethics. Before his arrest, he demanded that The Washington Post and The New York Times publish a 35,000-word manifesto called “Industrial Society and Its Future,” a document that expressed his philosophy of science and culture….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Henry Murray was a native New York blueblood who became a Boston Brahmin. He attended the finest schools, Groton and Harvard, and earned an M.D. from Columbia and a doctorate in biochemistry from Cambridge University. He dropped medicine and natural science for psychology after reading Carl Jung, publishing a landmark work in 1938 called Explorations in Personality. Before World War II, the U.S. government asked him to do a psychological profile of Hitler, and during the war, he helped the Office of Strategic Services (later to become the CIA) to assess its agents. In the 1950s, Murray’s personality test, the thematic apperception test, or TAT, was used to screen Harvard students.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">In yet another odd twist that shows why history is stranger than fiction, while Kaczynski was undergoing those humiliation experiments, a young Harvard researcher named Timothy Leary was beginning his research career on psychedelics. In 1960, Leary returned from a vacation in Mexico with a suitcase full of magic mushrooms. Murray himself is said to have supervised psychoactive drug experiments, including Leary’s. According to Alston Chase, author of Harvard and the Unabomber, Leary called Murray “the wizard of personality assessment who, as OSS chief psychologist, had monitored military experiments on brainwashing and sodium amytal interrogation.”…</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/impromptu-man/201205/harvards-experiment-the-unabomber-class-62</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Mind Wars: Brain Science and the Military in the 21st Century</strong> – May 1, 2012 by Jonathan D. Moreno (Author)</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The first book of its kind, Mind Wars covers the ethical dilemmas and bizarre history of cutting-edge technology and neuroscience developed for military applications. As the author discusses the innovative Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the role of the intelligence community and countless university science departments in preparing the military and intelligence services for the twenty-first century, he also charts the future of national security.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Fully updated and revised, this edition features new material on deep brain stimulation, neuro hormones, and enhanced interrogation. With in-depth discussions of “psyops” mind control experiments, drugs that erase both fear and the need to sleep, microchip brain implants and advanced prosthetics, supersoldiers and robot armies, Mind Wars may read like science fiction or the latest conspiracy thriller, but its subjects are very real and changing the course of modern warfare.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Jonathan D. Moreno has been a senior staff member for three presidential advisory commissions and has served on a number of Pentagon advisory committees. He is an ethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the editor-in-chief of the Center for American Progress’ online magazine Science Progress. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Wars-Science-Military-Century/dp/193413743X</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Unabomber – A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.</strong> By Alston Chase</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">There, from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962, Harvard psychologists, led by Henry A. Murray, conducted a disturbing and what would now be seen as ethically indefensible experiment on twenty-two undergraduates. To preserve the anonymity of these student guinea pigs, experimenters referred to individuals by code name only. One of these students, whom they dubbed “Lawful,” was Theodore John Kaczynski, who would one day be known as the Unabomber, and who would later mail or deliver sixteen package bombs to scientists, academicians, and others over seventeen years, killing three people and injuring twenty-three….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/06/harvard-and-the-making-of-the-unabomber/378239/</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>CIA Document 2018 Project MK-ULTRA</strong></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Document Release Date: December 14, 2018</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Sequence Number: Case Number: F-2018-01345 Publication Date:</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">April 3, 2018 File: Attachment Size</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">PDF icon project mk-ultra[15545700].pdf 470.62 KB</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Body: Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia Doc ID: 6613524 Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 W (U) Project MK-ULTRA From Intellipedia (b) (3) – P.L. 86-36 (U) This page has not been edited since October 02, 2011. Please help with completing or updating the page if it has intelligence value (U) See inteilipedia:Abandoned pages for more information about pages with this banner. (U) See the discussion Page for more information about the status of this page. 9 Oa Project MK-ULTRA, MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the . early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it supposedly used United States citizens as unwitting test subjects.E11[21[311’he published evidence indicates that Project MK-ULTRA involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methods, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function. Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms’ destruction order.1-41 Although the CIA insists that MK-ULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MK-ULTRA was abandoned a “cover story.451161 On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an “extensive testing and experimentation” program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens “at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.” Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to “unwitting subjects in social situations.” At least one death, that of Dr. Frank Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 Sidney Gottlieb approved of an MKULTRA subproject on LSD in this lone 9.1953 letter. Division, followed by the word ULTRA (which had previously been used to designate the most secret classification of World War II intelligence). Other related cryptonyrns include MK-NAOMI and MK-DELTA. A precursor of the MK-ULTRA program began in 1945 when the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip. Operation Paperclip was a program to recruit former Nazi scientists. Some of these scientists studied torture and brainwashing, and several had just been identified and prosecuted as war criminals during the Nuremberg Trials.191″1 Several secret U.S. government projects grew out of Operation Paperclip. These projects included Project CIIATTER (established 1947), and Project BLUEBIRD (established 1950), which was later renamed to Project ARTICHOKE in 1951. Their purpose was to study mind-control, interrogation, behavior modification and related topics. Headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the MK-ULTRA project was started on the order of CIA director Allen Dulles on April 13, 1953,011 largely in response to Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean use of mind-control techniques on U.S. prisoners of war in Korea.1121 The CIA wanted to usc similar methods on their own captives. The CIA was also interested in being able to manipulate foreign leaders with such techniques,1131 and would later invent several schemes to drug Fidel Castro. Experiments were often conducted without the subjects’ knowledge or consent”) In some cases, academic researchers being funded through grants from CIA front organizations were unaware that their work was being used for these purposes.115)</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">In 1964, the project was renamed MK-SEARCII. The project attempted to produce a perfect truth drug for use in interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War, and generally to explore any other possibilities of mind control. Sidney Gottlieb Another MK-ULTRA effort, Subproject 54, was the Navy’s top secret “Perfect Concussion” program, which used sub-aural frequency blasts to erase mcmory.1161 Because most MK-ULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA Director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MK-ULTRA and related CIA 171 programs.[ Goals The Agency poured millions of dollars into studies probing dozens of methods of influencing and controlling the mind. One 1955 MK-ULTRA document gives an indication of the size and range of the effort; this document refers to the study of an assortment of mind-altering substances described as follows:” I. Substances which will promote illogical thinking and impulsiveness to the point where the recipient would be discredited in public. 2. Substances which increase the efficiency of mcntation and perception. 3. Materials which will prevent or counteract the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 4. Materials which will promote the intoxicating effect of alcohol. 5. Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases inn reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc. 6. Materials which will render the induction of hypnosis easier or otherwise enhance its usefulness. 7. Substances which will enhance the ability of individuals to withstand privation, torture and coercion during interrogation and so-called “brain-washing”. 8. Materials and physical methods which will produce amnesia for events preceding and during their use. 9. Physical methods of producing shock and confusion over extended periods of time and capable of surreptitious use. IS. Substances which produce physical disablement such as paralysis of the legs, acute anemia, etc. II. Substances which will produce “pure” euphoria with no subsequent let-down. 12. Substances which alter personality structure in such a way that the tendency of the recipient to become dependent upon another person is enhanced. 13. A material which will cause mental confusion of such a type that the individual under its influence will find it difficult to maintain a fabrication under questioning. 14. Substances which will lower the ambition and general working efficiency of men when administered in undetectable amounts. IS. Substances which promote weakness or distortion of the eyesight or hearing faculties, preferably without permanent effects. 16. A knockout pill which can surreptitiously be administered in drinks, food, cigarettes, as an aerosol. etc., which will be safe louse, provide a maximum of amnesia, and be suitable for use by agent types on an ad hoc basis. 17. A material which can be surreptitiously administered by the above routes and which in very small amounts will make it impossible for a man to perform any physical activity whatsoever. Historians have asserted that creating a “Manchurian Candidate” subject through “mind control” techniques was a goal of MK-ULTRA and related CIA projects.”‘…</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia Budget Approved for Release: 2018/12/12006760269 A secretive amangement granted the MK-ULTRA progratn a percentage of the CIA budget. The MK-ULTRA director was granted six percent of the CIA ‘operating budget in 1953, without oversight or accounting.101An estimated USSIOm or more was spent.I’ll Experiments CIA documents suggest that “chemical, biological and radiological” means were investigated for the purpose of mind control as part of MK-ULTRAP21 LSD Early efforts focused on LSD, which later came to dominate many of MK -ULTRA’s programs. Experiments included administering LSD to CIA employees, military personnel, doctors, other government agents, prostitutes, mentally ill patients, and members of the general public in order to study their reactions. LSD and other drugs were usually administered without the subject’s knowledge or informed consent, a violation of the Nuremberg Code that the U.S. agreed to follow after World War II. Efforts to “recruit” subjects were often illegal, even discounting the fact that drugs were being administered (though actual use of LSD, for example, was legal in the United States until October 6, 1966). In Operation Midnight Climax, the CIA set up several brothels to obtain a selection of men who would be too embarrassed to talk about the events. The men were dosed with LSD, the brothels were equipped with one-way mirrors, and the sessions were filmed for later viewing and study.123I Some subjects’ participation was consensual, and in many of these cases, the subjects appeared to be singled out for even more extreme experiments. Inane case, volunteers were given LSD for 77 consecutive days.1241 LSD was eventually dismissed by MK-ULTRA’s researchers as too unpredictable in its resultsP1 Although useful information was sometimes obtained through questioning subjects on LSD, not =commonly the most marked effect would be the subject’s absolute and utter certainty that they were able to withstand any forte of interrogation attempt, even physical torture. Other drugs Another technique investigated was connecting a barbiturate IV into one arm and an amphetamine IV into the other.1261The barbiturates were released into the subject first, and as soon as the subject began to fall asleep, the amphetamines were released. The subject would begin babbling incoherently at this point, and it was sometimes possible to ask questions and get useful answers. Other experiments involved heroin, morphine, temazepam (used under code name MK-SEARCH), mescaline, psilocybin, scopolamine, marijuana, alcohol, sodium pentothal.1271 and ergine (in Subproject 22). Hypnosis and Magic Declassified MK-ULTRA documents indicate hypnosis was studied in the early 1950s. Experimental goals included: the creation of “hypnotically induced anxieties,” “hypnotically increasing ability to learn and recall complex written matter.” studying hypnosis and polygraph extuninations. “hypnotically increasing ability to observe and recall complex arrangements of physical objects.” and studying “relationship of personality to susceptibility to hypnosis.”Eni</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">In addition, the CIA used the services of American magician John Mulholland to write two manuals on sleight of hand and undercover communication techniques. hi 1973, virtually all documents related to MKULTRA were destroyed. Mulholland’s manuals were thought to be among them until a single surviving copy of each was discovered in the agency’s archives around 2008-2009. Bob Wallace and H. Keith Melton published “The Official CIA Manual qf Thicket:I, and Deceplion” to chronicle this research into the use of illusion for the agency’s field agents.1291 Canadian experiments The experiments were exported to Canada when the CIA recruited Scottish psychiatrist Donald Owen Cameron, creator of the “psychic driving” concept, which the CIA found particularly interesting. Cameron had been hoping to correct schizophrenia by erasing existing memories and reprogramming the psyche. He commuted from Albany, New York to Montreal every week to work at the Allan Memorial Institute of McGill University and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKULTRA experiments there. In addition to LSD. Cameron also experimented with various paralytic chugs as well as electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power. His “driving” experiments consisted of putting subjects into drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple repetitive statements. His experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression, many of whom suffered pernmnently from his actions.130/ His treatments resulted in victims’ incontinence, artmesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.Pli His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist Dr. William Sargant at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, and Belmont Hospital, Surrey. who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and who experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.1321 Dr. Cameron and Dr. Sargant are the only two identified Canadian experimenters, but the MKULTRA file makes reference to many other unnamed physicians who were recruited by the CIA.16″u”!””dedi It was dining this era that Cameron became known worldwide as the first chairman of the World Psychiatric Association as well as president of the American and Canadian psychiatric associations. Cameron had also been a member of the Nuremberg medical tribunal in 1946-1947….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12006760269 In 1973. CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed. Pursuant to this order, most CIA documents regarding the project were destroyed, making a full investigation of MK-ULTRA impossible. In December 1974, The A’ew Mt* 7711ICA reported that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. That report prompted investigations by the U.S. Congress, in the form of the Church Conunittee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission that looked into domestic activities of the CIA, the FBI. and intelligence-related agencies of the military. In the summer of 1975, congressional Church Committee reports and the presidential Rockefeller Commission report revealed to the public for the first time that the CIA and the Department of Defense had conducted experiments on both unwitting and cognizant human subjects as pan of an extensive program to influence and control human behavior through the use of psychoactive drugs such as LSD and mescaline and other chemical, biological, and psychological means. They also revealed that at least one subject had died after administration of LSD. Much of what the Church Committee and the Rockefeller Commission learned about MKULTRA was contained in a report, prepared by the Inspector General’s office in 1963, that had survived the destruction of records ordered in 1973.1341 However, it contained little detail. The congressional committee investigating the CIA research, chaired by Senator Frank Church. concluded that “Iplrior consent was obviously not obtained from any of the subjects”. The committee noted that the “experiments sponsored by these researchers … call into question the decision by the agencies not to fix guidelines for experiments.” Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited “experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject” and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission. Subsequent orders by Presidents Carter and Reagan expanded the directive to apply to any human experimentation. On the heels of the revelations about CIA experiments, similar stories surfaced regarding U.S. Army experiments. In 1975 the Secretary of the Army instructed the Army Inspector General to conduct an investigation. Among the findings of the Inspector General was the existence of a 1953 memorandum penned by then Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson. Documents show that the CIA participated in at least two of Department of Defense committees during 1952. These committee findings led to the issuance of the “Wilson Memo,” which mandated in accord with Nuremberg Code protocols that only volunteers be used for experimental operations conducted in the U.S. armed forces. In response to the Inspector General’s investigation, the Wilson Memo was declassified in August 1975. With regard to drug testing within the Army, the Inspector General found that “the evidence clearly reflected that every possible medical consideration was observed by the professional investigators at the Medical Research Laboratories.” However the Inspector General also found that the mandated requirements of Wilson’s 1953 memorandum had been only partially adhered to: he concluded that the “volunteers were not fully informed, as required, prior to their participation; and the methods of procuring their services. in many cases, appeared not to have been in accord with the intent of Department of the Army policies goveming use of volunteers in research.” Other branches of the U.S. armed forces, the Air Force for example, were found not to have adhered to Wilson Memo stipulations regarding voluntary drug testing. In 1977, during a hearing held by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to look further into MKULTRA, Admiral Stansfield Turner, then Director of Central Intelligence, revealed that the CIA had found a set of records. consisting of about 20,000 pages,1351 that had survived the 1973 destruction orders, due to having been stored at a records center not usually used for such documents.1341 These files dealt with the financing of MKULTRA projects, and as such contained few details of those projects, but much more was learned from them than from the Inspector General’s 1963 report.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">In Canada, the issue took much longer to surface, becoming widely known in 1984 on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news show, The Fifth Etat, It was learned that not only had the CIA forded Dr. Cameron’s efforts, but perhaps even more shockingly, the Canadian government was fully aware of this, and had later provided another $500,000 in funding to continue the experiments. This revelation largely derailed efforts by the victims to sue the CIA as their U.S. counterparts had, and the Canadian government eventually settled out of court for 5100,00010 each of the 127 victims. None of Dr. Cameron’s personal records of his involvement with MKULTRA survive, since his family destroyed them after his death from a heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967.1361 U.S. General Accounting Office Report The U.S. General Accounting Office issued a report on September 28, 1994, which stated that between 1940 and 1974. DOD and other national security agencies studied thousands of human subjects in tests and experiments involving hazardous substances. The quote from the study: … Working with the CIA, the Department of Defense gave hallucinogenic drugs to thousands of “volunteer” soldiers in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to LSD, the Army also tested quinuclidinyl benzilate, a hallucinogen code-named BZ. (Note 37) Many of these tests were conducted under the so-called MKULTRA program, established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing techniques. Benveen 1953 and 1964, the program consisted of 149 projeets involving drug testing and other studies on unwitting human subjects…1371 Legal issues involving informed consent The revelations about the CIA and the Army prompted a number of subjects or their survivors to file lawsuits against the federal government for conducting illegal experiments. Although the government aggressively, and sometimes successfully, sought to avoid legal liability, several plaintiffs did receive compensation through court order, out:of-coun settlement, or acts of Congress. Frank Olson’s family received $750,000 by a special ad of Congress, and both President Ford and CIA director William Colby met with Olson’s family to publicly apologize. Previously, the CIA and the Army had actively and successfully sought to withhold incriminating information, even as they secretly provided compensation to the families. One subject of Army drug experimentation, James Stanley, an Army sergeant, brought an important, albeit unsuccessful, suit. The government argued that Stanley was barred from suing under a legal doctrine known as the Foes doctrine, after a 1950 Supreme Court case. Fetes v. United Slates that prohibits members of the Armed Forces from suing the government for any harms that were inflicted “incident to service.” In 1987, the Supreme Court affirmed 4 of 8 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Project MK-ULTRA- Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 this defense in a 5-4 decision that dismissed Stanley’s case.13S1 The majority argued that “a test for liability that depends on the extent to which particular suits would call into question military discipline and decision making would itself require judicial inquiry into, and hence intrusion upon, military matters.” In dissent. Justice William Brennan argued that the need to preserve military discipline should not protect the government from liability and punishment for serious violations of constitutional rights: The medical trials at Nuremberg in 1947 deeply impressed upon the world that experimentation with unknowing human subjects is morally and legally unacceptable. The United States Military Tribunal established the Nuremberg Code as a standard against which to judge German scientists who experimented with human subjects…. [tin defiance of this principle, military intelligence officials … began surreptitiously testing chemical and biological materials, including LSD. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing a separate dissent, stated: No judicially crafted rule should insulate from liability the involuntary and unknowing human experimentation alleged to have occurred in this case. Indeed. as Justice Brennan observes, the United States played an instrumental role in the criminal prosecution of Nazi officials who experimented with human subjects during the Second World War, and the standards that the Nuremberg Military Tribunals developed to judge the behavior of the defendants stated that the ‘voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential … to satisfy moral, ethical, and legal concepts.’ If this principle is violated, the very least that society can do is to see that the victims are compensated, as best they can be, by the perpetrators. This is the only Supreme Court case to address the application of the Nuremberg Code to experimentation sponsored by the U.S. government. And while the suit was unsuccessful, dissenting opinions put the Army and by association the entire government on notice that use of individuals without their consent is unacceptable. The limited application of the Nuremberg Code in U.S. courts does not detract from the power of the principles it espouses. especially in light of stories of failure to follow these principles that appeared in the media and professional literature during the 1960s and 1970s and the policies eventually adopted in the mid-1970s. In another law suit. Wayne Ritchie, a former United States Marshall, alleged the CIA laced his food or drink with LSD at a 1957 Christmas party. While the government admitted it was, at that time, drugging people without their consent, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel found Ritchie could not prove he was one of the victims of MKULTRA and dismissed Use case in 2007.1391 Extent of participation Forty-four American colleges or universities, fifteen research foundations or chemical or pharmaceutical companies and the like including Sandoz (currently Novartis) and Eli Lilly& Co., nvelve hospitals or clinics (in addition to those associated with universities), and three prisons arc known to have participated in MKULTRA.14O114II Notable subjects A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Theodore Kaczynski. also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored MK-ULTRA experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962..0’1 During World War Henry Murnry, the lead researcher in the Harvard experiments, served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was a forerunner of the CIA. Murray applied for a grant funded by the United States Navy, and his Harvard stress experiments strongly resembled those run by the 05S.1421 Beginning at the age of sixteen, Kuczynski participated along with twenty-one other undergraduate students in the Harvard experiments, which have been described as “disturbing” and “ethically indefensible:4421431 Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, author of One Flew Over ihe Cuckoo, Nem, volunteered for MK-ULTRA experiments while he was a student at Stanford University. Kesey’s ingestion of LSD during these experiments led directly to his widespread promotion of the drug and the subsequent development of hippie culture.1441Candy Jones. American fashion model and radio host, claimed to have been a victim of mind control in she ‘600451 Infamous Irish mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger volunteered for testing while in pris…1461</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Robert Hunter is an American lyricist. singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Hunter was an early volunteer test subject for the MKULTRA program. He was paid to take LSD. psilocybin, and mescaline and repon on his experiences, which were creatively formative for him: Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep- very-softly mist…and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell like (must I take you by the hand, every so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resoundingbells….By my faith if this be insanity, then for the love of God permit me to remain insane. (McNally 42-43)1″ Incidents Dr. Frank Olson Commits Suicide (U) Early on 28 November 1953, Frank Olson, a US Army civilian biochemist and biological weapons researcher, jumped to his death from a hotel room in New York City after suffering a severe reaction to LSD that he consumed as part of a CIA-led research program on the intelligence applications of drugs and other behaviorial modification techniques. The program, codenamed MKULTRA, was disclosed in 1975 during the Rockefeller Commission and Church Comminee investigations of dubious Agency activities and became one of the most notorious episodes publicized during CIA’s “time of troubles” in the mid-1970s. Over the years, the revelations about Olson’s death have generated many unfounded conspiracy talcs that still circulate in publications and movies 5 of 8 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 For time=170jecl_MK-U L I … and on the Intemet.1481 (U) US Government interest in the potential intelligence implications of pharmaceuticals dates to World War II, when the OSS’s Research and Development Branch conducted research into their behavioral effects, as well as those of biological and chemical weapons.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The US Army picked up on those efforts in the late 1940s. Reports at that time indicated that the Soviet Union was experimenting with mind-control substances, which heightened CIA’s interest in the development of drugs and the investigation of “mind control” methods so it could develop defensive measures against them.i”) (U) After the end of the Korean War in 1953 and the return of US POWs from China and North Korea, feats arose that the Communist had discovered ways to control minds through “brainwashing” techniques or the use of mind-altering drugs, such as LSD. The purported victims of such treatment would become unwitting pawns of the Communists, who could “program” them for nefarious purposes. Feeding this anxiety in the late 1940s and early 1950s were displays of disoriented or inexplicable behavior by prisoners th Communist “show trials” and persistent charges that Moscow had attempted to corner the world supply of LSD chemicals, then manufactured only in Switzerland.1481 (S) Such concerns in the aftermath of several failed Agency operations in Eastern Europe, most notably in Albania, prompted the Agency’s Office of Security under DCI Walter Bedell Smith to launch an investigation, Project BLUEBIRD, to determine whether the polygraph or hypnosis assisted by “truth scrums” could detect “brainwashing” among government employees. Another project growing from BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, conducted by CIA’s Technical Services Staff (TSS), and officially launched 00 29 October 1952. began research and experimentation with a variety of psychiatric and psychological methods including the use of various narcotics to see if these could alter attitudes and behaviors.1481 (S) Under DCI Allen W. Dulles, who publicly declared that the Soviets were developing “brain perversion techniques” in a “sinister battle for men’s minds,” the behavionil programs significantly expanded in April 1953 on the suggestion of Richard Helms, head of CIA opemtions. The Agency soon joined its research efforts with Army programs under the cryptonym MKULTRA. Run by TSS chief Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the program came to include 149 separate animal and human behavior modification projccts, some conducted by Agency and Army researchers, but most involving one of 80 participating American and Canadian universities, hospitals, and reiearch institutions operating under contracts that did not reveal Agency funding or associations.(“) (S) As part of these drug research efforts, on 18 November 1953 Gottlieb met with a group of CIA and Army researchers at a lodge in Deep Creek Lake, MD, to discuss work that included the use of LSD. During the meeting, eight of the ten men present including Frank Olson consumed a small dose of the hallucinogen in a liquor drink passed among them. According to Gottlieb, all present were wining of the drugs in the beverage. However, the Agency’s internal investigation concluded that while Gottlieb had conducted the experiment with Olson’s knowledge, neither he nor the others in the group knew what drug they had ingested until some 20 minutes later. In the days that followed, according to Olson Family members and his colleagues. Olson began to act strangely and appeared depressed. Realizing that Olson may have a serious illness. Gottlieb referred him for psychiatric counseling in New York. Olson worsened, and his associates decided to send him to a sanatorium near Rockville, MD. On the night before their departure, Olson clashed through a closed hotel window and hurtled 10 stories to his death. His CIA companion woke in time to sec the suicide but not prevent it.1481 (S) Gottlieb reported the death to Dulles, who ordered the CIA inspector general, Lyman Kirkpatrick. to conduct an investigation.Kirkpatrick recommended a reprimand for Gottlieb, who he asserted had exercised poor judgment in conducting uncontrolled experiments that “could seriously affect the record and reputation of the Agency.” Kirkpatrick further faulted Gottlieb for not knowing of Olson’s prior bouts of depression. implying that the LSD experiment had acted as a triggering mechanism directly contributing to his death. Kirkpatrick and Lawrence Houston, the Agency’s general counsel, expressed dismay with the casual manner in which TSS personnel conducted the experiments, and were outraged to learn that that Gottlieb had ingested LSD at least twelve times himself. They determined that TSS personnel assumed risks in a cavalier manner that lay well beyond the normal standards of the scientific process. However, Dulles overruled the IC, and Gottlieb received only an off-the-record admonition. MKULTRA continued, albeit with significant changes and additional oversight, until 1967; remnants of it continued under another project until 1973.1481 (U) Olson’s wife initially received word that her husband had died of a “classified illness” and only later learned how he had been killed. Not until 1975, with the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee disclosures. did Olson’s family hear more of the truth. They disputed much of what came out and claimed that the Agency or the Army had murdered Olson before he could go public with the details of the drug testing programs. In 1976. the family received a $750,000 settlement from the US Government and formal apologies from President Gerald R. Ford and DCI William E. Colby.1401 (U)</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The complete record of the case was hard to reconstruct because in 1973, at Helms’s behest. Gottlieb had destroyed his office’s records on MKULTRA. In 1977. thousands of pages of related material about the program turned up in budget records and, when released under the Freedom of Information Act, became the basis for an expos ook by former State Departnaent officer John Marks called The Search for the “Manchurian Candidate”: The CIA and Mind Control. Members of Olson’s family continued pursuing allegations of Agency foul play for many years but in 2002 announced that they were dropping the matter. Journalist H.P. Albarelli resuscitated the Olson version of events in 2009 in a poorly sourced and unreliable book titled A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments. Trustworthy accounts of the story are in John Ranelagh, The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA (pp. 202-07, 755-58 notes 27-61) and Benjamin Fischer, Fitly Years of Supporting Operations. 1951-2001: A I listory of CIA’s Office of Technical Service (,pp. 101-041401 See also “Tinker, tailor, soldier… illusionist? When the CIA tried its hand at magic,” Tom Scocca, Boston Globe. I November 2009 (Media Highlights) (http://www.mh.cia/news/Mh I I 0 I 09/TinIcertailorsoldierillusionist.htm) 0</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> (U) New research on influencing the mind: Emerging Technology Alert: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (https://ciawire.cia.ic.gov/documents /OCS-ETA086-20 I I) Web links U.S. Congress: The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence 6 of 8 4/3/2018 8:13 AM Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Approved for Release: 2018/12/12 006760269 Project MK-ULTRA – Intellipedia nups:ri mien rpeata.interinic.le.gov/w/index.php?litle=Project_MK-ULT… (Church Committee report), report no. 94-755, 94th Cong., 2d Sets. (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1976), 394 (htm://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church /mpons/bookl/contents.htm). U.S. Senate: Joint Fleming before The Select Committee on Intelligence and The Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, 95th Cong., 1st Sets. August 3 1977 (http://wwwdruglibrary.org/schafferrnistory/e1950/mkultrafindex.htm). Short documentary about MKULTRA and the Frank Olson incident (http://wwxv.add-productions.net/Isd) The Most Dangerous Game (http://www.archive.org/movics/details-db.php?collection=independent_news&collectionidrnmdg) Downloadable 8 minute documentary by independent filmmakers GNN GIP scans of declassified MKULTRA Project Documents (http://www.michael-robinett.corn/declass/c000.htm) Interview (http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid-06/02/17/1522228) of Alfred McCoy on CIA mind control research U.S. Supreme Court CIA v. SIMS, 471 U.S. 159 (1985) 471 U.S. 159 (http:/Raws.findlaw.cornrus(471/159.html) U.S. Supreme Court UNITED STATES v. STANLEY, 483 U.S. 669 (1987) 483 U.S. 669 (http://laws.findlaw.com/us/483/669.html) References I. Richelson, .17 (ed.) (2001-09-10). Science, Technology and the CIA: A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book (http://www.gwu.edu /-nsarchiv/NSAEBBN5AEB054/). George Washington University. Retrieved on 2009-06-12. 2. Chapter 3, part 4: Supreme Court Dissents Invoke the Nuremberg Code: CIA and DOD Human Subjects Research Scandals (http://www.hss.energy.gov thcalthsafety/ohretroodmap/achre/chap3_4.html). Advisor; Committee on Human Rudic,tjr,o Wm-intents Final Report. Retrieved on 2005-08-24. 3. The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Foreign and Military Intelligence (http://vArAvaarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/book Uhtml/ChurchB1_0200b.htm). 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ISBN 0-7679-1186-5. 48. https://historyandheritage.ciaitniction/permalink/Heritage2011 Retrieved from “hrms://intellipedia.intelink.ic.gov/w/index.php?title=Project_MK-ULTRA&oldid 28 113011” Categories: Abandoned since 2011 Articles with unsourced statements from December 2008 History of the United States government Military history of the United States 1953 establishments History of Intelligence . CIA Classified By: Franc Paula M NSA USA GOV Derived From: Declassify On: March 26, 2043 SECRET 8 of 8 This page has been accessed 4,774 times. 5 (hups://intellipedia.intelink.ic.gov/wAndex.php?ritle=Special:WholsWatching&ns &page=Project_MK-ULTRA) watching users This page was last modified 07:46,26 March 2018 by intellipedia.bot.intelink.ic.gov csca-server DNI USA. Most recent editors LISA GOV, Mojica Damian I NSA USA CTR and Moreau Sheri NSA USA CTR and others….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese adds 42 names to list of staff credibly accused of sexual abuse</strong> By Lee O. Sanderlin and Jean Marbella Baltimore Sun Jun 30, 2023</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The Archdiocese of Baltimore added more than 40 names to its public list of Catholic Church staff credibly accused of sexually abusing children, including for the first time deacons, nuns and lay teachers.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The additions, approved at the direction of Archbishop William Lori, mark the largest single expansion of the archdiocese’s credibly accused list since it first published 57 names in 2002 as part of its response to the national clergy abuse scandal. With Friday’s update, the church’s list now runs to more than 180 names….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The additions mark a step toward recognition of some of the horrors survivors have dealt with. Among others, the archdiocese’s list now includes John Merzbacher, a former Catholic teacher who spent the last 28 years of his life in prison for the rape and torture of a student. Merzbacher died May 12 in prison…..</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Michael Joseph Miller also was added Friday to the credibly accused list, despite not being included in the attorney general’s report. A former member of the Conventual Franciscan Friars, Miller was arrested in Connecticut in 2011 on child pornography charges and was sentenced in 2013 to five years in prison plus 20 years of probation. Miller was a faculty member at Archbishop Curley High School during the 1994 and 1995 school years, and again from 2003 to 2006. He celebrated Mass occasionally at St. Isaac Jogues in Carney and St. Margaret in Bel Air from 2003 to 2006.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">….According to reports in the Hartford Courant, Miller chatted on Facebook with seven teenagers about sexual issues, inviting one to come over and watch porn and engage in sex. Pornographic videos of children and adults turned up on computers he used, according to news coverage of his trial. The Hartford archdiocese said he was removed from the ministry in 2011.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-baltimore-catholic-church-credibly-accused-list-20230630-u2z5kiiz3jhz5ab25yg6rvktiu-story.html</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Illinois report details scale of Catholic clergy sex abuse</strong> – 23 May 2023 By Mike Wendling Reporting from Chicago</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Hundreds of Catholic priests and church officials in the US state of Illinois have been named in a new report detailing sexual abuse by clergy.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The state’s top prosecutor said 451 clergy in Illinois had sexually abused 1,997 children since 1950.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The church had acknowledged only 103 individual abusers before the start of the investigation in 2018.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Nearly every survivor interviewed struggled with mental health issues after being abused, the report said.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Several US states launched investigations into Catholic sexual abuse after a Pennsylvania grand jury report in 2018 found that 300 priests had abused more than 1,000 children over a period of 70 years.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">The nearly 700-page report released by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Tuesday includes dozens of harrowing stories of rape and sexual abuse, and details how allegations were ignored and abusers were shifted from church to church….</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">One Chicago priest, Father Daniel McCormack, was called “one of the most infamous child abusers anywhere in Illinois.”</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Complaints against McCormack go back to his training period as a priest in the late 1980s. Church officials later admitted that he should have been removed from a seminary and never allowed to become a priest. Instead, McCormack was placed in several parishes and held teaching and coaching positions in several mostly African-American neighbourhoods on Chicago’s west side throughout the 1990s and 2000s.</h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">After numerous complaints and two arrests, he pleaded guilty to abusing five young boys and was sentenced to five years in prison in 2007. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65652001</h3><div class="postmeta" style="background-color: white; border-top: 1px dotted rgb(153, 153, 153); color: #202020; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px 0px; width: 510px;"><div class="postmetaleft" style="display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; width: 385px;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com