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Ritual Abuse and Its Political Implications
As a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control, I have personally had
the opportunity to examine how I was discouraged from expressing myself
and forced to follow others. This eventually caused me to constantly
examine my surroundings and create my own intellectual reality.
I have seen others blindly follow proscribed sex roles in terms of
dress, behavior and career and blindly follow proscribed religious and
political guidelines. I somehow seem to have escaped much of this, only
following what was absolutely necessary to survive in the world.
Some of my discussion will quote billie rain’s ’02 conference
transcript from our August ’02 ritual abuse conference. (listed as BR)
It is available on the web at https://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/conf2002/the-healing-journey-as-a-site-of-resistance/
1) How mind control encourages silence
from BR : “When my abusers were raping me, they had me convinced that
nobody would believe me if I told, and if that didn’t deter me, they
would kill me….In her book Thinking Class, Joanna Kadi writes: Child
sexual abuse teaches us lessons about power- who has it and who doesn’t.
These lessons, experienced on a bodily level, transfer into the deepest
levels of our conscious and subconscious being, and correspond with
other oppressive systems. Widespread child sexual abuse supports a
racist, sexist, classist and ableist society that attempts to train
citizens into docility and unthinking acceptance of whatever the
government and big business deem fit to hand out (Kadi, 73).” https://books.google.com/books/about/Thinking_Class.html?id=Y9IANdKL51YC
Being believed has been shown to help people heal. Part of the false
memories emphasis on discreditation has been to slow down the healing of
survivors, especially ritual abuse survivors. Several of the people in
the false memory field have been tied to mind control experimentation
and pro-pedophilia philosophies. It is well known in the child abuse
field that ritual abuse exists. But the big lie has been promoted
throughout the mainstream media that the opposite is true. This has
encouraged some survivors to be silent. Others, like myself, have spoken
out more.
Fear of harm would also be another proponent that could cause a
survivor to be silent. If the statistics are true that child abuse is
endemic and that ritual abuse is widely spread, then child abuse could
be scaring people into silence.
from “Cultural and Economic Barriers to Protecting Children from
Ritual Abuse and Mind Control,” Catherine Gould, Ph.D. “Among 2,709
members of the American Psychological Association who responded to a
poll, 2,292 cases of ritual abuse were reported (Bottoms, Shaver, &
Goodman, 1993). …Childhelp USA logged 1,741 calls pertaining to ritual
abuse,… Real Active Survivors tallied nearly 3,600, Justus Unlimited of
Colorado received almost 7,000, and Looking Up of Maine handled around
6,000.” “Evidence also continues to accumulate that the ritual abuse of
children constitutes a child abuse problem of significant scope.”
(Studies and numbers are listed.) “Finkelhor, Williams and Burns
(1988)…substantiated reports of sexual abuse …involving 1,639 … child
victims…” Other reports of possible ritual abuse include: Kelly (1988;
1989; 1992a; 1992b; 1993) 35 day care victims, Waterman et al.(1993) 82
children, Faller (1988; 1990) 18 children, Bybee and Mowbray(1993) 62
children, 53 children seeing others being ritually abused, Snow and
Sorenson (1990) 39 children reporting ritual abuse, in Utah, and Jonker
and Jonker-Bakker(1991) 48 victims of ritual abuse.” “..58% of the
ritual abuse cases in the Finkelhor(1988) study that went to trial
resulted in convictions. In the Kelly (1992b) study, convictions were
obtained in 80% of the ritual and sexual abuse cases combined.”
“convictions were obtained in 11% of all ritual child abuse cases
studied by Bottoms et al. (1991; 1993).”
Denying Ritual Abuse of Children – Catherine Gould, The Journal of Psychohistory 22 (3) 1995 https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/denying-ritual-abuse-of-children-catherine-gould/
Cult and Ritual Abuse (Noblitt and Perskin, Praeger, 1995),
Page 170, “One of the best sources of evaluative research on ritual
abuse is the article “Ritual Abuse: A Review of Research” by Kathleen
Coulborn Faller (1994)….in a survey of 2,709 members of the American
Psychological Association, it was found that 30 percent of these
professionals had seen cases of ritual or religion- related abuse
(Bottoms, Shaver & Goodman, 1991). Of those psychologists who have
seen cases of ritual abuse, 93 percent believed that the reported harm
took place and 93 percent believed that the alleged ritualism occurred.
This is a remarkable finding. Mental health professionals are known to
be divergent in their thinking and frequently do not agree with one
another regarding questions of the diagnosis and etiology of psychiatric
problems…this level of concurrence in a large national sample of
psychologists…would be impressive….the similar research of Nancy Perry
(1992) which further supports (the previous findings)…Perry also
conducted a national survey of therapists who work with clients with
dissociative disorders and she found that 88 percent of the 1,185
respondents indicated “belief in ritual abuse, involving mind control
and programming” (p. 3).”
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
These numbers show us that many people are mind controlled into
silence through extreme fear, and torture. Healing from abuse is one
way to empower oneself and get one’s voice back. A variety of
statistical studies have shown that between ten to thirty three percent
of children are sexually abused before the age of 18.
The History of Childhood As the History of Child Abuse – Lloyd
deMause, “The historical record points to childhood being a nightmare
from which we have only recently begun to awaken. Children have
historically been killed, abandoned, terrorized, and sexually abused by
their caretakers…. Rather than the incest taboo being universal, it is
incest itself that is universal.”
The History of Child Abuse – Lloyd deMause https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/the-history-of-child-abuse-lloyd-demause-the-journal-of-psychohistory/
From BR : “I know too many people, male and female, who were sexually
abused as children. Most of them were not able to comprehend what
happened to them or speak out about it until they were adults. Child
sexual abuse is such a crime, not because it is illegal, but because of
the incredible damages it does to a young mind, body and heart.”
Ritualized forms of abuse have also occurred in institutionalized
settings. Many court trails and hearings have occurred in Canada.
Several of these have also concerned cultural genocide.
School abuse suits may cost $1 billion FSIN is outraged government is
adding more lawyers to handle influx of lawsuits James Parker – The
StarPhoenix 9/4/02 “The federal government and the churches that ran the
residential schools on behalf of Ottawa are facing more than 4,500
cases involving about 11,000 individuals. About 540 cases have been
settled since 1996. So far, the government has paid out $37 million to
compensate plaintiffs for physical and sexual abuse and expects to spend
more than a $1 billion dealing with the cases. Some suits also claim
the schools perpetrated cultural genocide.” http://www.canada.com/
Fear is a major component of abuse. The abuser may tell the child
that something will happen to themselves or others if they tell. The
political implications of this are fairly obvious. It will be much more
difficult for a survivor of child abuse to speak out about world
injustices due to their trained silence and disempowerment.. Many
survivors have severe adjustment and addiction problems (as cited in our
newsletter), making political advocacy and analysis nearly impossible
for some until healing occurs.
Not only has child abuse been used to control and manipulate people,
but it has also been used by the US government to control internal and
foreign policy.
Mind Control – Experiments On Children – CIA Experiments With Mind
Control on Children by Jon Rappoport, Source: Perceptions Magazine,
September/October 1995
“Officially spanning ten years from 1952-62,
MK-ULTRA involved the use of LSD on unwitting military and civilian
subjects in the United States. LSD and more powerful compounds were
given under duress as brainwashing and truth serum drugs. The program’s
aim was to find drugs which would irresistibly bring out deep
confessions or wipe a subject’ s mind clean and program him or her as “a
robot agent.” ….Dr. Louis “Jolly” West of UCLA, who tried to establish a
center for “the study of violence” at the university in the 1970s. This
center’s specialty would have been psychosurgery, a horrendous melting
of brain connections, supposedly to curb people’s “violent tendencies.” ”
Mind Control – The CIA, Mind Control & Children – CKLN-FM Mind
Control Series – Part 10, A Talk by John Rappoport – CKLN FM 88.1 –
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.whale.to/b/rappoport_i.html
Claudia Mullin spoke at the “Statement to Presidential Report on
Radiation, Claudia S. Mullen, March 15, 1995. From Smart Issue #15
“Between the years of 1957 and 1984, I (allegedly) became a pawn in a
government scheme, whose ultimate goal was mind control and ultimately
to create the “perfect spy”. All through the use of chemicals,
radiation, drugs, hypnosis, electric shock, isolation in large tubs of
hot or cold water, sleep deprivation, brainwashing; and verbal, physical
and emotional abuse. By the time I was 9, I was also being sexually
abused and humiliated as a coercive technique.” https://ritualabuse.us/2008/10/issue-15-july-1997/
From Rappoport : “Claudia Mullin, the other of Dr. Wolf’s patients
who testified before the President’s Committee on Radiation, said her
experiences with CIA mind-control experiences began when she was seven
years old: "In 1958, 1 was to be tested, they told me, by some important
doctors coming from a place called the ‘Society’ [the Human Ecology
Society, a CIA front]. I was told to cooperate; answer any of their
questions. Then, since the test ‘might hurt,’ I would be given ‘shots,
x-rays, and a few jolts of electricity.’I was instructed not to look at
anyone’s face too hard and to ignore names,’ as this was ‘a very secret
project’ but to be brave an all those things would help me forget…”A Dr.
John Gittinger tested me and Dr. Cameron gave me the shocks and Dr.
Greene the x-rays…By the time I left to go home, just like every time
from then on, I would recall nothing of my tests or the different
doctors. I would only remember whatever explanations Dr. Robert G. Heath
[of Tulane Medical School] gave me for the odd bruises, needle marks,
burns on my head and fingers and even the genital soreness. I had no
reason to believe otherwise. Already, they had begun to control my
mind!”The next year, I was sent to a place in Maryland called Deep Creek
Cabins to learn how to ‘sexually please men.’ Also, I was taught how to
coerce them into talking about themselves. It was Richard Helms (Deputy
Director of the CIA), Dr. Gottlieb, Captain George White and Morse
Allen, who all planned on filming as many high government and agency
officials and heads of academic institutions and foundations as
possible…I was to become a regular little ‘spy’ for them, after that
summer, eventually entrapping many unwitting men, including themselves,
all with the use of a hidden camera. I was only nine when this kind of
sexual humiliation began.”
There are also two more excellent personal accounts now available on
how children were ritually abused and used for political purposes.
From a book review written by Lynn Hersha, one of the authors of the
book, “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, P O Box 669 Far Hills, NJ 07931 – ISBN
0-88282-196-2. http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/lynn-hersha-dale-griffis-ted-schwarz/
“In the United States, the American public have had the knowledge of
the CIA’s Top Secret Program, MKUltra, and its experimentation in Mind
Control on adult volunteers and unwitting subjects. Now, we have 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″
A Nation Betrayed: The Chilling and true story of Secret Cold War
Experiments Performed on Our Children and Other Innocent People by Carol
Rutz
“A Nation Betrayed is the culmination of documentation obtained from
over 18,000 pages of declassified documents and testimony from survivors
of these experiments. Rutz’s book gives us a first hand view of a
government in such fear of communism that it loses sight of the safety
of it’s own people. To counter the threat of communism, the CIA
conspires to build the perfect spy from our country’s innocent children.
After being imported for their knowledge and expertise, some of the
same Nazi scientists and doctors who performed grizzly experiments
carried out in the death camps during World War II join forces with the
U.S. Government in these efforts.
Her book walks us through her horrifying journey of experimentation
and training by her CIA torturers beginning at the age of four as part
of the government sanctioned Bluebird/Artichoke and MKULTRA Projects.
Using electroshock, drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, and insidious
trauma, our government performs Mind Control experiments on her and
other innocent children. The objective is creation of a Manchurian
Candidate-a sleeper assassin-as well as instilling skills in ESP and
remote viewing.” Table of Contents and Preface can be read at
http://www2.dmci.net/users/casey . casey@dmci.net
“Deviant Scriptualism and Ritual Satanic Abuse Part Two: Possible
Masonic, Mormon, Magick, and Pagan Influence,” by professor Stephen A.
Kent, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada).
His article was originally published by Religion (1993) 23, 355-367, c
1993 Academic press Limited. “…This study compares portions of people’s
accounts (using interviews and diaries from several alleged survivors),
with doctrinal precedents for satanic ritual abuse in deviant
interpretations of Masonic, Mormon, Magick and Pagan traditions… Just as
parts of the Bible may provide direct inspiration or justification for
satanic worshipers, so too may some of these same parts provide
additional sanctification of satanic worship through aberrant
Freemasonry.” https://skent.ualberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Satanic-abuse-2nd-Masonic.pdf
LETTER FROM PROFESSOR STEPHEN KENT Ph.D., SOCIOLOGY DEPT, AT
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY. I am a sociologist of religion who has presented
research findings about ritual abuse allegations at a conferences about
ritual abuse. I will be pleased to snail-mail you three published
articles that I have written about ritual abuse allegations, two of
which contain sections on the deviant Masonic accounts that I have
heard. In essence, no other philanthropic group shows up in so many
accounts as does Freemasonry. Specifically in one of the articles, I
discuss why this may be so–what is it about Freemasonry that could
harbor paedophiles and abusers. Please know that I maintain appropriate
academic detachment in my analysis, so that the lack of definitive proof
for these allegations forces me to stop short of saying that they
represent accurate memories. Nonetheless, I sure do hear lots of tales
about very bad abuse in deviant Masonic settings, and I take them VERY
seriously. Best Regards, Steve Kent
My note: Ritual abusers do not normally leave any evidence around,
so personal accounts are often the only data available to researchers.
2) How mind control discourages freedom of thought
I have already begun to touch upon how freedom of thought would be
limited in the previous section. Reiterating a previous quote from BR :
“Joanna Kadi writes: Child sexual abuse teaches us lessons about power-
who has it and who doesn’t. These lessons, experienced on a bodily
level, transfer into the deepest levels of our conscious and
subconscious being, and correspond with other oppressive systems.
Widespread child sexual abuse supports a racist, sexist, classist and
ableist society that attempts to train citizens into docility and
unthinking acceptance of whatever the government and big business deem
fit to hand out (Kadi, 73).”
“…ritual abuse groups may share the following characteristics with
coercive cults: …dogma is more important than people, …a radical
separation of good and evil,…a demand for purity,” members are watched
all the time and their loyalty is tested “…the dogma is enacted through
rituals,… regularly observe(d) rituals, rituals frequently invoke
supernatural intervention,… staged events such as planned spontaneity…
mystical manipulations, cults capitalize on members’ fear and
ignorance,…a sense of separateness (is promoted) through an “us” and
“them” mentality, … siege mentality with a paranoid view of the outside
world, humor is forbidden, resistance of members is worn down through
physical and emotional manipulations, a person’s identity is destroyed…
to create a new one,” members give up their autonomy to be approved,”
mind control is used to indoctrinate the victim into the group’s belief
system, individuality is uniformly suppressed,… a well-defined
hierarchy,” members are used to benefit leader(s), “mind control is used
…to convert the victim to the group’s belief system,… to insure
secrecy… and to carry out cult instructions.”(“Safe Passage to Healing” p 47 – 48) “Safe Passage to Healing – A Guide for Survivors of Ritual
Abuse” Chrystine Oksana, HarperCollins, c 1994
http://www.abebooks.com/Safe-Passage-Healing-Guide-Survivors-Ritual/14041286994/bd
Cult techniques have been well documented to control thought. Ritual
abuse is a combination of a cult techniques and severe child abuse. A
survivor’s decreased mental capacity and organic brain damage due to the
abuse may inhibit a survivor’s ability to make choices and to see
choices, thereby inhibiting freedom of thought. An unrecovered survivor
may be even more likely than the brainwashed general populace to follow
the media and its instructions in terms of day-to-day political beliefs.
The recovered survivor will obviously be much more cynical of the
government and therefore much more likely to analyze its lies and
propaganda and find their own reality.
As mentioned previously, fear may cause a survivor’s silence, this
could also cause a survivor to follow the acceptable social mores and
beliefs, even if these are at times sociopathic and genocidal, thereby
limiting a survivor’s freedom of thought. More research is needed on
this topic, but I feel a case has been made to back up the postulation that
ritual abuse has very serious political implications in our society and
in the world at large.
