MIND CONTROL / PROGRAMMING BY SATANIC CULTS

Approximately 20% of the clients who recover memories of CSA also uncover memories of ritual abuse or of Satanic or Sadistic Ritual Abuse (SRA).

Active debate exists within the mental health community about the accuracy of such memories. It has produced a split among professionals. Most memory researchers believe that recovered memories should not be regarded as valid unless corroboration is first obtained (1). Many therapists believe that the memories represent real events. Various professional organizations have recommended against accepting recovered memories as accurate without external verification.

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 false.

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) describes 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. Alternately, 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 behaviour 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:
  • return the survivor to the cult upon command for further abuse or programming
  • commit suicide if the survivor discloses information that might threaten the safety and security of the cult
  • disrupt therapy, through thought-stealing, mind scrambling, emotional outbursts or distancing from the therapist
  • burn, cut or otherwise mutilate the body
  • send status reports back to the cult, etc.
  Neswald et al (3) list typical ritual abuse programs.
• 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.
• 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 is 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.

Does Programming Exist?

We have been unable to find any criminal charges or convictions relating to these forms of abuse. 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.

Why Do People Believe in Programming?

• 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 project in mind control (MKULTRA), which used drugs, sensory depravation etc, were not shut down in the 1970's due to lack of useable results as is generally believed. They were 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 Counter-Cult Movement, the American Psychological Association gave legitimacy to these beliefs in their DSM-IV manual (4). 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)"

With these beliefs, an effective communication network, and real concern for women with recovered memories, the concepts of programming, triggers and mind control have become widely accepted among feminist and other groups.

Specific Techniques of Programming

• Psychologist Cory Hammond of the University of Utah has lectured on the Satanic techniques of mind control. (5) 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:
  • Alpha layer is general programming
  • Beta controls sexual behaviour including knowledge to make kiddy-porn
  • Delta are assassins and are responsible for slashing
  • Theta are psychic killers; through mental energy, they can cause another person to develop a malignant brain tumor
  • Omega self-mutilate and commit suicide
  • Gamma provide misinformation and create confusion
  • Zeta has information to produce snuff films
• According to the Los Angeles County Task Force on Ritual Abuse, (2), technique used by the cult include:
  • physical abuse: starvation, thirst, pain, drugs, exhaustion, physical isolation, sexual abuse, disorienting bright lights.
  • emotional abuse: the creation of moods of terror, guilt, shame, emotional isolation and rage.
  • cognitive abuse: being kept in a state of ignorance, confusion; being taught that God has abandoned them and that Satan is in control
• Dr. John D. Lovern has described spin programming, a "newly uncovered technique of systematic mind control which he uncovered during therapy with his patients". (6) 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:
  • lying horizontally on a rotating table
  • horizontal spinning about the long axis of the body
  • suspended vertically on a rotating table (like the arms on a clock)
  • attached to a vertical spinning pole
  • confined upright inside a vertical spinning cylinder
  Dr. Lovern believes that most (perhaps all) survivors 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.

References

1. C.A. Ross, "Satanic Ritual Abuse: Principles of Treatment", University of Toronto Press, Toronto ON, (1994), P. 139
2. Los Angeles County Commission for Women: The Ritual Abuse Task Force, "Ritual Abuse", Los Angeles CA (1991)
3. 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.
4. American Psychological Association, "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition", Washington DC (1994)
5. R. Ofshe & E. Watters, Making Monsters, Scribners, New York, NY, (1994), P.187-193
6. Ritual abuse and healing home page at: http://www.xroads.com/rahome/lovern.html
7. MindNet Journal issues often contain information on mind control conspiracies. Back issues are available on line.
8. A list of books that support belief in Satanic programming is at: http://www.xroads.com/rahome/fav_book.html
9. Ritual Abuse Hot-Line Training material is published at http://www.xroads.com/rahome/ra_hotl.html