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 | No hard evidence of SRA actually had happened anywhere in North America. |
| A lack of experimental studies showing that memories can be repressed and later recovered. |
| Obvious decline in the mental state of the clients during therapy. |
| Massive destruction of the clients' families of origin due to uncorroborated accusations of CSA and SRA. |
A series of high-profile court cases with multi-million dollar settlements against RMT therapists brought pressure by malpractice insurance companies, mental health professionals, the media, and the general public. By the late 1990s, recovered memory therapy was largely discredited, and belief about the validity of MPR/DID was in rapid decline.
Common SRA memories:
SRA memories usually include being forced to attend Satanic rituals conducted by inter-generational, secret cults. They were forced to watch and sometimes participate while animals and infants were tortured and ritually murdered; the victim's flesh was eaten and their blood consumed. There are many indicators that such cults do not exist and that the SRA memories are actually images that feel like memories of events that never happened.
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Allegations of SRA mind-control programming:
Along with memories of Satanic rituals, many SRA survivors recall being subjected to programming sessions by the cult; this lead to mind control by the cult. The Los Angeles County Task Force on Ritual Abuse 2 described programming as follows:
"Mind control is the cornerstone of ritual abuse, the key element in the subjugation and silencing of its victims. Victims of ritual abuse are subjected to a rigorously applied system of mind control designed to rob them of their sense of free will and to impose upon them the will of the cult and its leaders."
Elements of mind control programming are often believed to include:
| A Satanic (or similar) religious cult, sometimes involved in criminal activities. Alternatively, a secret federal government agency or men's fraternal organization is involved. | ||||||||||
| The cult contains many civic leaders: local government office holders, police, judges, doctors, Christian clergy, etc. Many members attend Christian churches on Sunday and put on Satanic robes at other times. | ||||||||||
| The cult needs to develop robot-like behavior in children so that when they mature, they will take over the organization of the group and continue the abuse into the next generation. | ||||||||||
| The cult tests children at a young age. Those who are have an average or low ability to dissociate are killed in ritual sacrifices; those who can readily dissociate are retained for programming | ||||||||||
| By a highly sophisticated program of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, the children are taught to dissociate. When they are unable to handle the pain and terror, their mind drifts elsewhere to a safe place. They become able to block out the abuse. Eventually, the dissociation becomes so complete that multiple personalities are created. These alternative personalities (or alters) are a natural defense mechanism within the brain of a child when they are confronted with more abuse than they can handle. Each alter adsorbs some of the memories of the abuse. The child will eventually have a single dominant personality which is in control most of the time, and is unaware of the programming and of the presence of the alters. However, control can be transferred to an alter for intervals of time. | ||||||||||
| These alters are programmed to perform certain specific functions. For example:
Neswald et al lists a number of typical ritual abuse programs. 3 | ||||||||||
| Along with alter programming, certain triggers are established that will cause a particular alter to emerge and perform their pre-programmed function. These triggers may be a word, sound, color, picture, time, date, hand sign, etc., or a combination of events. Exorcist and fundamentalist Christian Bob Larson writes: "For example, and [sic] SRA survivor may be programmed so that every time he sees the color red a self-mutilating alter will come out and cut the body." 4 | ||||||||||
| As part of its programming, the child is required to kill animals and/or infants, and to feel guilt for the murder. This reinforces their low self-image and feelings of hopelessness and lack of control and power. | ||||||||||
| As an adult, the survivor is unaware of the programming and SRA. They do not realize that they are suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identify Disorder (DID). Recollections of abuse are locked up in the alters' memories. | ||||||||||
| One of her alters is recalled periodically by the cult for further abuse and programming. This often occurs on "call-back" years, at ages 27, 30, 33 etc. when the survivor feels that she must either return or kill herself. She might be recalled for an entire weekend of abuse; on Monday morning her memories are a complete blank, although her physical condition would be dreadful. | ||||||||||
| A few adults are driven by emotional problems to seek therapy. Under hypnosis and other suggestive treatments, awareness of the alters and of the cult abuse and programming can emerge. Suicide ideation and successful suicides are relatively common among individuals recovering memory of SRA and of programming. |
Is programming a real phenomenon?
We have been unable to uncover hard evidence of its existence. Like SRA itself, there are thousands or tens of thousands of people who have recovered memories of having been programmed in cults. Many have been diagnosed as suffering from MPD/DID. But such memories are highly suspect. 1
We have been unable to find any hard evidence of these forms of abuse motivated by religious principles, like the worship of Satan. There have been no criminal charges or convictions. We have been unable to find any instance where a survivor was followed during a recall to the cult. We have never been able to locate a survivor of cult-induced programming who has had continuous memories of the abuse. We have never found a credible Satanic ritual abuse disclosure by a child. We tentatively conclude that no programming, and in fact no Satanic Ritual Abuse is perpetrated by organized cults in North America. However, with a population of about 300 million, it is possible that Satanic ritual abuse does exist, but is an extremely rare.
Why Do People Believe in Programming?
Foundational beliefs which are commonly held by people who believe in programming and mind control are:
| the psychological programming derived shown in some movies [e.g. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)] are possible in real life. |
| that "brainwashing" techniques used during the Korean war were much more effective than they really were. |
| that the CIA pilot projects in mind control (Artichoke: 1951-1953; MKULTRA: 1953-1963; MKSEARCH: 1963-1973), which used drugs, hypnosis, hallucinogens, sensory depravation etc., were not shut down in the 1970's due to lack of useable results as is generally believed. They have been continued secretly to the present time. |
| that memories recovered during hypnosis and other forms of suggestive therapy are always accurate recollections of real events, no matter how bizarre or improbable they may seem |
Under pressure from the Anti-Cult Movement, the American Psychological Association gave legitimacy to these beliefs in their DSM-IV manual. 5 They described a type of dissociative disorder that can "occur in individuals who have been subjected to periods of prolonged and intensive coercive persuasion (e.g. brainwashing, thought reform, or indoctrination while captive)"
The concepts of programming, triggers and mind control became widely accepted among feminist, religious and social conservatives, and other groups. By 2005, support for these beliefs has almost vanished.
Specific programming techniques:
We suspect that these programming techniques are derived from clients undergoing recovered memory therapy.
| Psychologist Cory Hammond of the University of Utah has lectured on
what he believes to be the Satanic
techniques of mind control. He claims that a team of Nazi doctors had been conducting mind
control experiments in concentration camps. They came to the US after the war to secretly
continue their experiments for the CIA. They allegedly programmed and tortured children on
army bases across the US. At this time, the CIA, NASA, the Mafia, Hollywood and some
business leaders are part of a massive, tightly controlled Satanic network which is
gearing up to rule the world. He asserts that children are programmed from age 3 to
teenage years; this involves disorienting noise, flashing lights and electric shocks. He
believes that alters are created to perform specific functions. Programmed is done in
layers; some are:
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| According to the Los Angeles County Task Force on Ritual Abuse, 2
techniques used by the cult include:
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| Dr. John D. Lovern has described spin programming, a "newly uncovered
technique of systematic mind control which he uncovered during therapy with his
patients". He believes that it is used by Satanic cults to simultaneously modify
the programming of a number (perhaps all) of a survivor's alters. If the patient is aware
of their alters, then she will report that many or all of them are feeling a common
emotion (e.g. fear, depression, etc.). They will complain of dizziness and of a sense of
spinning internally; parts of their body may move rhythmically. The survivors tell of
starting programming at the age of three. Many methods are used:
Dr. Lovern implies that most (perhaps all) survivors may have been exposed to long periods of spin programming. | ||||||||||||||
| A person with MPD called "all of us" has described a color programming method that she believes is in standard use by Satanists worldwide. One color is associated with each alter or grouping of similar alters; it may be the clothes' color that they are visualized as wearing, or the color of the "room" that they live in. Pink are infant alters; red are Witches and sexually compliant alters; black perform rituals; purple are the supervisors; light blue protect the body; dark blue protect the cult; orange handle emergencies; yellows are spiritual alters; green alters maintain ties to the family or origin; browns are disguise alters; sliver are alters with ESP powers; gold are the senior administrators; white is the principle personality; platinum is the ultimate authority. | ||||||||||||||
| Pamela J. Monday and Denny Hilgers describe many programming methods in
their essay "Recognizing and Classifying Programming." Two are:
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References
- C.A. Ross, "Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment", University of Toronto Press, Toronto ON, (1994), P. 139
- Los Angeles County Commission for Women: The Ritual Abuse Task Force, "Ritual Abuse", Los Angeles CA (1991)
- D.W. Neswald, C. Gould, V. Graham-Costain, "Common "programs" observed in survivors of satanic ritual abuse:, California Therapist, (1991-SEP/OCT), P. 47-50.
- Bob Larson, "MPD and Satanic Ritural [sic] Abuse (SRA)," at: http://www.boblarson.org/
- American Psychological Association, "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition", Washington DC (1994)
- P.J Monday & Denny Hilgers, "Recognizing and Classifying Programming," at: http://home.mchsi.com/~ftio/mc-recognizing.htm
Web sites which promote beliefs in mind control programming by Satanic cults:
| "Discovery" has an enormous list of links to mind control programming
web sites at: http://www.heart7.net/ |
| Ritual abuse and healing home page at: http://www.ra-info.org/ |
| MindNet Journal issues often contain information on mind control conspiracies. Back issues are available on line. |
| D.C. Hammond, "The Greenbaum Speech." This is the text of a lecture given to the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality in 1992. It was originally called "Hypnosis in MPD: Ritual Abuse." See: ftp://ftp.calweb.com/users/j/jmprice/ |
| Mark Phillips & Cathy O'Brien, "Mind Control: Index and Introduction," at: http://ic.net/%7Ecelano/markmain.html |
| Vexen Crabtree, "Ritual Mind Control Tactics," at: http://www.dpjs.co.uk/cultcontrol.html |
| Ann S. Earle, "Cult and Ritual Abuse," at: http://www.davidicke.net/mindcontrol/ |
Web sites which are skeptical of mind control programming by Satanic cults:
| Evan Harrington, "Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia: Notes from a Mind-Control Conference," This is a skeptical review of the 1995 conference sponsored by the Society for the Investigation, Treatment and Prevention of Ritual and Cult Abuse (SITPRCA), titled "Cult and Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and Dissociation: A Multidisciplinary Dialogue." See: http://www.csicop.org/ |
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