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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

2024 Conference Video Presentations and PowerPoints

 

2024 Conference Video Presentations and PowerPoints

The 2024 Online Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference   August 10 – 11, 2024

Internet conference information: http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/

Research and Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder) 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/

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

Videos and PowerPoints from our 2022 conference https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2022-conference/2022-conference-video-presentations-and-powerpoints/

These presentations may be difficult for survivors to view and listen to.  Survivors may want to have a support person present while viewing. All accusations are alleged.

 

Conference Speakers
Survivors may want to use caution reading this material or read it with a safe support person.

Stabilizing and Healing Techniques for Survivors – Dr. Alison Miller

https://youtu.be/pq7ly3XCsVs 

Stabilizing and Healing Techniques for Survivors Dr Alison Miller - PowerPoint

Survivors have front people and insiders, parts hidden inside, who react to things in the present as if it was the past. Front people have been trained to be in denial about the history of abuse and about the existence of other inside people. Survivors’ overreactions to things in the present come from the insiders. I shall cover a number of stabilizing and healing techniques, the most important one being “Ask inside.”

Dr. Alison Miller is a retired clinical psychologist who practised for over forty years, specializing for the last twenty five years in survivors of ritual abuse and mind control. Her newest book, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, came out July 2024. Her past books have helped many therapists and survivors. They include: Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control, Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse, and (with Wendy Hoffman) From the Trenches: A Victim and Therapist talk about Mind Control and Ritual Abuse.

Traces of Masonic Ritual Abuse in Carl Jung’s Red Book and Black Books – Dr. Lynn Brunet

https://youtu.be/PfT1iodgWWI 

Traces of Masonic Ritual Abuse in Jung's Red Book and Black Books Dr Lynn Brunet - PowerPoint

During his mid-life period the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung (1875–1961) underwent a perplexing and terrifying ‘dark night of the soul’ lasting many years, in which he experienced a series of disturbing fantasies and dreams. Acting as his own therapist, he recorded these experiences in journals that he called the Black Books and, from there, he produced a stunning creative text which he called The Red Book. But he chose not to publish it and it was only released in 2009, with the journals following in 2020. However, while these texts have been long anticipated, they are both confoundingly difficult to understand and have become a mystery in themselves. In late 2018 My Answer to Jung: Making Sense of The Red Book was published. This study demonstrates that Jung’s fantasies are not entirely original but that their plots, characters, settings and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. It argues that the fantasies appear to be memories of an excruciating series of initiatory ordeals, possibly undergone in childhood and/or youth, that suggests an abusive use of the Masonic rites. In Black Book 6 Jung presses his soul to provide a glimpse into what all of this is about. She answers with a series of questions: “Temples in deserts? Secret societies? Ceremonies? Rituals? Colorful robes? Golden images of Gods of terrible aspect?” (BB 6, p. 268). This answer, along with many other details, confirms the thesis of my previous study: that Jung’s active imaginations are entirely associated with the rituals of the secret societies. This presentation will discuss the key features of The Red Book and Black Books which demonstrate that, over a century ago, Jung was recording, in extensive detail, his own memories of a torturous initiatory process that we now identify as ritual abuse.

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.

Attachment Relationship in DID: Survival, Destruction and Healing – Adah Sachs PhD

Attachment Relationship in DID Adah Sachs PhD - PowerPoint

Attachment is a survival instinct. It makes any newborn, from elephant to human to robin reach out and attach to another, because the newborn’s life depends on protection and care. This presentation, however, will discuss in depth how the life preserving instinct of attachment may be corrupted by trauma and abuse, and become a vehicle for harm and destruction. In families where abuse is an inevitable part of life (such as RA families), the intense distress and terror experienced by the child (or adult) intensifies their attachment needs to such an extent that reaching towards the attachment figure, who is also the abuser(s), is unavoidable, creating a vicious cycle of seemingly unstoppable suffering. Clinical examples will illustrate the process of destruction as well as the process of healing, both enabled by attachment.

Adah Sachs PhD is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the Bowlby Centre. She has worked for decades with adults and adolescents in psychiatric care, as consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and as head of psychotherapy for one of the London boroughs, now retired. Adah lectures, assesses and supervises worldwide on trauma, dissociation and attachment. Among her publications on these topics are numerous book chapters, journal articles, a co-edited special issue of the JTD (The Abused and the Abuser: Victim-Perpetrator Dynamics, 2017), three co-edited books (2008, 2018, 2023) and one in print.

Exploring Our Many Facets Through SoulCollage (C) – Patricia Quinn

 

https://youtu.be/KU5FaNRcXb8 

SoulCollage (C) was developed by Seena Frost to explore the different aspects of ourselves and of our lives. It’s popularity has spread worldwide, with in-person and online groups and conferences, because of its appeal and elevation of our inner awareness of ourselves and our world. This simple, poetic exercise of our creativity touches our authentic self/selves and contributes to a sense of community and wellbeing. After selecting and composing images that honor these aspects of ourselves we are then invited to let the image “speak” for itself. This can be done in journaling in the chat, or aloud.

Participants can gather photographic images that attract them before the meeting. All that is needed then are your journal, 5×8 inch pieces of cardboard, glue stick, scissors, and a surface to cut and paste on. In SC any and all parts are welcomed and appreciated to be depicted and fathomed. The 90-minute workshop will include an introduction to SC, an example of card making and time to create and share your cards. To learn more you can research online about SoulCollage.

Patricia Quinn MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NBCCH is an artist and art therapist in private practice in Orange, NY who worked as an addiction clinician and prevention director and supervisor for 23 years. She has taught courses in art therapy, both graduate and undergraduate, for 30 years, including courses based on her book Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addiction and Trauma (Jessica Kingsley 2021). She is currently writing a book on the Neuroscience of Art Therapy for Addiction and Trauma. She served for 3 years as president of the Mental Health Association of Orange County, NY., as chair of the Historical Archives and Affairs Committee of AATA, as a delegate and chair of the Governmental Affairs Committee of NYATA, and on the Community Services Board of the Department of Mental Health in Orange County, NY. She is a SoulCollage facilitator.

Musical Performance and Sharing About Why His Songs Were Written – Michael Skinner

https://youtu.be/W2ISg712xuQ 

 
Mike's website is at https://www.mskinnermusic.com/

Michael Skinner will perform and share about why the songs being shared were written. He uses his music for healing and in speaking out as an advocate addressing the concerns of trauma, abuse and mental health. Music and the creative arts in all of their forms are helpful for everyone in their healing journey. Michael believes that everyone is creative in their own unique way and learning to recognize this is a crucial component for healing from the long term impacts of trauma.

Michael Skinner is an award-winning advocate, educator, writer and critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, addressing the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns through public speaking, writing and his music. He has spoken at the National Press Club, was a keynote presenter for a conference held by the United Nations, The State Department and Georgetown University on the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and adults and he was part of the groundbreaking Oprah Winfrey Shows that addressed the issues of males sexually abused as children.

His role as a consultant and trainer for the Federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors has been crucial in helping to shape the policy initiatives and directives for the delivery and implementation of trauma informed care and services. And he has worked with organizations nationwide to address the stigma of mental health and ending the silence of child abuse and suicide.

Michael is also the founder and director of The Surviving Spirit; a monthly newsletter and website sharing resources to help those impacted by trauma, abuse and mental health challenges.

Please note: None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.

Sunday, August 11, 2024

SMART Reports a Successful 27th International Conference

 

SMART Reports a Successful 27th International Conference

S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Newsletter and Conferences - Neil Brick, Editor https://ritualabuse.us

Conference included Neil Brick, Dr. Alison Miller, Dr. Lynn Brunet, Patricia Quinn and Michael Skinner

SMART reports on the 27th ritual abuse and mind control conference since 1998. The online conference was August 10 - 11, 2024.  http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

Speakers:

Dr. Alison Miller presented on Stabilizing and Healing Techniques for Survivors.  Survivors have front people and insiders, parts hidden inside, who react to things in the present as if it was the past. Front people have been trained to be in denial about the history of abuse and about the existence of other inside people. Dr. Alison Miller is a retired clinical psychologist who practiced for over forty years, specializing for the last twenty-five years in survivors of ritual abuse and mind control. Her new book, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, is available at https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/demystifying-mind-control-and-ritual-abuse-a-manual-for-therapists/97609/   

Dr. Lynn Brunet discussed Traces of Masonic Ritual Abuse in Carl Jung's Red Book and Black Books. Jung recorded these experiences in journals that he called the Black Books and The Red Book. In late 2018 the Answer to Jung: Making Sense of The Red Book was published. This study demonstrates that Jung's fantasies are not entirely original but that their plots, characters, settings and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. Lynn Brunet (PhD) is an Australian art historian, artist and survivor of Masonic ritual abuse. Her book is available at  https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429458262/answer-jung-lynn-brunet

Patricia Quinn talked about Exploring Our Many Facets Through SoulCollage (C). Patricia Quinn MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NBCCH is an artist and art therapist in private practice in Orange, NY. 

Michael Skinner spoke about Musical Performance and Sharing About Why His Songs Were Written. He uses his music for healing and speaking out as an advocate addressing the concerns of trauma, abuse and mental health.  Michael Skinner is an award-winning advocate, educator, writer and critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, addressing the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns.

Proof That Ritual Abuse Exists https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/

Large List of Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse References https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/studies/satanic-ritual-abuse-evidence-with-information-on-the-mcmartin-preschool-case/

Grey Faction, Satanic Temple and Lucien Greaves Fact Sheet https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/grey-faction-satanic-temple-and-lucien-greaves-fact-sheet/

Research Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) https://ritualabuse.us/research/did

Sybil – Proof Sybil had MPD caused by severe trauma  https://ritualabuse.us/research/did/sybil-proof-sybil-had-mpd-and-it-was-caused-by-severe-trauma/

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Ritual Abuse Conference - August 2024, New sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein, Megachurch pastor “inappropriate sexual behavior”

                    

 
The 2024 Online Ritual Abuse Conference August 10 – 11, 2024  Information about the conference is at https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/ 

The speakers include Dr. Alison Miller, Adah Sachs PhD, Dr. Lynn Brunet, Patricia Quinn and Michael Skinner. We are offering special low prices until July 15, 2024. Please feel free to write smartnews@aol.com for more information.

 
 
NYC prosecutors intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein ahead of retrial By  PHILIP MARCELO  July 9, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday that they intend to bring new sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein as they anticipate a November retrial for the disgraced media mogul.

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said in court that prosecutors are actively pursuing claims of rape that occurred in Manhattan within the statute of limitations.
She said some potential survivors that were not ready to step forward during Weinstein’s first New York trial have indicated they are now willing to testify.

But when pressed by the judge, Blumberg said prosecutors have not yet brought their findings to a grand jury. She also said she could not provide the court a timeline for when their investigation will be complete.

“The People are still investigating in a trauma-informed manner,” she said. “That is an ongoing process.”....

Among those in the packed courtroom Tuesday was Jessica Mann, the former actor Weinstein was convicted of raping his 2020 trial.
Mann did not speak to reporters but prosecutors have said she is prepared to testify against Weinstein again.

Weinstein’s other accuser, Mimi Haley, did not attend Tuesday’s hearing and has expressed reluctance about going through the trauma of testifying again. Her lawyer, Gloria Allred, said in an email Tuesday that her client has not yet made her decision about participating in the retrial.

The Associated Press does not generally identify people alleging sexual assault unless they consent to be named, as Haley and Mann have.
Weinstein has maintained that any sexual activity was consensual....

In April, New York’s highest court threw out Weinstein’s rape conviction after determining the trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations from other women that were not part of the case.
The ruling reopened a painful chapter in America’s reckoning with sexual misconduct by powerful figures. The #MeToo era began in 2017 with a flood of allegations against Weinstein.

Weinstein, who had been serving a 23-year sentence in New York, was also convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of another rape and is still sentenced to 16 years in prison in California. But in an appeal filed last month in California’s Second District Court of Appeal, Weinstein’s lawyers argued he did not get a fair trial in Los Angeles. 
 https://apnews.com/article/harvey-weinstein-sexual-misconduct-retrial-metoo-3d7151343d25ee65c3cb7849100e4fa0 

Lawyer for megachurch pastor blamed 12-year-old for initiating ‘inappropriate’ sexual conduct  Letters sent in 2007 by a lawyer for Robert Morris shed light on how the pastor explained his past sexual behavior with a child — and who else might have known about it. Pastor resigns from church after child sex abuse allegation  July 9, 2024 By Mike Hixenbaugh and Antonia Hylton

In 1982, pastor Robert Morris was a 21-year-old husband and father who  traveled the country telling young people about Jesus. Cindy Clemishire was a 12-year-old girl who dressed in flowery pink pajamas and still liked to play with Barbie dolls.

On Christmas that year, Morris — who would go on to found Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, and become a leading figure in the American evangelical movement — began what he would later describe as “inappropriate sexual behavior” with Clemishire while he was staying at her parents’ home in Oklahoma. Clemishire said Morris told her to come see him in his room before bed, and she was the type of girl who listened to instructions from trusted adults.

But 25 years later, when Clemishire hired an attorney and threatened to sue Morris, accusing him of repeatedly molesting her as a child, a lawyer representing Morris responded by blaming Clemishire for what happened to her, according to 2007 correspondence obtained by NBC News.

“It was your client,” wrote lawyer J. Shelby Sharpe, referring to Clemishire at age 12, “who initiated inappropriate behavior by coming into my client’s bedroom and getting in bed with him, which my client should not have allowed to happen.

The Feb. 6, 2007, letter was one in a series of exchanges that year between Sharpe and Gentner Drummond, a lawyer who represented Clemishire at the time. Clemishire said in an interview last week she had been seeking $50,000 in restitution from Morris to cover the cost of counseling. Morris, through his lawyer, instead offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart, Clemishire said, because she was not willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Drummond, who is now Oklahoma’s attorney general, confirmed Clemishire’s description of the 2007 negotiations and declined to comment further.

Monday, June 10, 2024

The 2024 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Conference August 10 – 11, 2024

 

The 2024 Online Annual Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Conference August 10 – 11, 2024

Information about the conference is at https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

The speakers include Dr. Alison Miller, Adah Sachs PhD, Dr. Lynn Brunet, Patricia Quinn and Michael Skinner. They are offering special low prices until July 1, 2024. Please feel free to write smartnews@aol.com for more information.

Dr. Alison Miller will speak about Stabilizing and Healing Techniques for Survivors. Survivors have front people and insiders, parts hidden inside, who react to things in the present as if it was the past. Front people have been trained to be in denial about the history of abuse and about the existence of other inside people. Survivors' overreactions to things in the present come from the insiders. Dr. Alison Miller is a retired clinical psychologist who practised for over forty years, specializing for the last twenty-five years in survivors of ritual abuse and mind control. Her new book, Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists, is coming out in October 2024. 

Dr. Lynn Brunet will speak about Traces of Masonic Ritual Abuse in Carl Jung's Red Book and Black Books. Jung recorded these experiences in journals that he called the Black Books and The Red Book. In late 2018 the Answer to Jung: Making Sense of The Red Book was published. This study demonstrates that Jung's fantasies are not entirely original but that their plots, characters, settings and symbolism are remarkably similar to some of the higher degree rituals of Continental Freemasonry. Lynn Brunet (PhD) is an Australian art historian, artist and survivor of Masonic ritual abuse.

Adah Sachs PhD will speak about Attachment Reationship in DID: Survival, Destruction and Healing. Attachment is a survival instinct. It makes any newborn, from elephant to human to robin reach out and attach to another, because the newborn’s life depends on protection and care. This presentation, however, will discuss in depth how the life preserving instinct of attachment may be corrupted by trauma and abuse, and become a vehicle for harm and destruction. In families where abuse is an inevitable part of life (such as RA families), the intense distress and terror experienced by the child (or adult) intensifies their attachment needs. Adah Sachs PhD is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and a member of the Bowlby Centre. She has worked for decades with adults and adolescents in psychiatric care, as consultant psychotherapist at the Clinic for Dissociative Studies and as head of psychotherapy for one of the London boroughs, now retired.

Patricia Quinn will speak about Exploring Our Many Facets Through SoulCollage (C). SoulCollage's popularity has spread worldwide because of its appeal and elevation of our inner awareness of ourselves and our world. Patricia Quinn MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, NBCCH is an artist and art therapist in private practice in Orange, NY who worked as an addiction clinician and prevention director and supervisor for 23 years.   

Michael Skinner will speak about Musical Performance and Sharing About Why His Songs Were Written. Michael Skinner will perform and share about why the songs being shared were written. He uses his music for healing and in speaking out as an advocate addressing the concerns of trauma, abuse and mental health. Michael Skinner is an award-winning advocate, educator, writer and critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, addressing the issues of trauma, abuse and mental health concerns.