A note to survivors of

Satanic/Sadistic Ritual Abuse

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This essay is directed to survivors of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) - sometimes called Sadistic Ritual Abuse.

Memories of SRA are profoundly damaging. A study of adult survivors in Washington State showed that most people who recover memories of this type of abuse have extreme difficulties holding down a job, maintaining their relationships, maintaining their marriage, and avoiding hospitalization. Many are suicidal; some attempt to kill themselves; a few succeed.

As you probably know, some people believe in the reality of SRA; others are skeptics. This shows up in their predictions of the number of children killed each year in the U.S. by Satanic cults. The numbers vary from 50,0000 to 0. Satanic ritual abuse is a crime for which there are no available accurate statistics.

We feel that there are three possible beliefs about SRA:

1. that the "believers" are correct. SRA is very widespread. There are tens of thousands of victims - perhaps more.
2. that the "skeptics" are correct. SRA does not exist in reality. It exists only in the memories of survivors; and these memories are false. They are real-feeling memories of events that never happened.
3. that the true scope of SRA is somewhere between the beliefs of the "believers" and the "skeptics"

Unfortunately, very little effort is being invested to prove which one of the alternatives is true.

What are the other alternatives?

Consider a situation that is unrelated to SRA. Suppose for a minute, that there was a way in which ordinary nightmares could be converted into memories that feel real. That is, a person would start with memories of frightening events during a nightmare. They would go through some sort of process. When they came out the other side, the memories would still be present. But their source would be forgotten. The person would not recall that the frightening events were part of a nightmare; the events would be remembered as part of their real life. For example, one night, you may have a nightmare of having been chased by a car whose driver was shooting at you. Later, you go through some process, which causes the scenes in that nightmare to becomes a real memory of a scary event that happened to you. You forget that the memories were part of a nightmare; you actually remember having been chased by a man in a car who was shooting at you.

We believe that there is such a process. This process is often called "recovered memory therapy" or RMT. It generates a type of "source amnesia" in which memories of nightmares become dislodged from their origins and coalesce into real-feeling memories of events that seem as if they really happened. Similarly, memories from horror stories may become separated from their origins in a movie, novel, TV program or comic book and become associated with happenings in the person's life. 

Disclaimer:

The above only applies to survivors who have recovered memories under the influence of RMT. If you have had always-present memories of childhood abuse by Satanic cults, then we would like to hear from you. Because of the unreliable nature of recovered memories, we are only interested in persons who have had SRA continuously from the time of the abuse until now. It is our hope that we detect common features among survivors that will help us identify the group that is responsible for the abuse. Please reply using the E-mail button below. Your Emails will be kept in strict confidence.