Presented at the 20th Annual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference
September 20, 2023
Neil Brick
This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors (Karriker, 2008). The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988). Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018). Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors. Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed. Finally, there will be a discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.
Trigger Warning: This presentation contains information (written, spoken, or visual) that may be triggering or (re)traumatizing to attendees.
Presentation Objectives
Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors
Describe research studies that show how these techniques work
Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors
Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control
Ritual Abuse, Sex Trafficking and Mind Control Presentation Video
1) This presentation will explain how ritual abuse, mind control, and different suggestive techniques work to control sex trafficking survivors. (Karriker, 2008).
– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors
Definition of Terms:
Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is a type of human trafficking and is a form of modern-day slavery. It is a serious public health problem that negatively affects the well-being of individuals, families, and communities. Human trafficking occurs when a trafficker exploits an individual with force, fraud, or coercion to make them perform commercial sex or work. Sex trafficking is defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 as “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” It involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to make an adult engage in commercial sex acts. However, any commercial sexual activity with a minor, even without force, fraud, or coercion, is considered trafficking. Understanding the shared risk and protective factors for violence can help us prevent trafficking from happening in the first place. (Sex Trafficking – CDC)
Human Trafficking
There are two types of a severe form of trafficking in persons:
Labor Trafficking — Individuals are compelled to work or provide services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion.
Sex Trafficking — Individuals are compelled to engage in commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. When a person under 18 years old is induced to perform a commercial sex act, it is a crime regardless of whether there is any force, fraud, or coercion. (What is Human Trafficking)
Ritual Abuse
Ritual abuse has been defined as:
a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, and involving the use of rituals. Ritual does not necessarily mean satanic. However, most survivors state that they were ritually abused as part of satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into satanic beliefs and practices. Ritual abuse rarely consists of a single episode. It usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended as means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual/indoctrination, which includes mind control techniques and mind altering drugs, and ritual/intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of the cult members and of the evil spirits they believe cult members can command. Both during and after the abuse, most victims are in a state of terror, mind control, and dissociation in which disclosure is exceedingly difficult. (Report of the Ritual Abuse Task Force – Los Angeles County Commission for Women)
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WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (BROAD DEFINITION) Ritual abuse is the abuse of a child, weaker adult, or animal in a ritual setting or manner. In a broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially sanctioned actions can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training, hazing, racism, spanking children, and partner-battering. Some abuse is private…some public. Public ritual abuse may be either open or secret. (Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)
WHAT IS RITUAL ABUSE? (NARROW DEFINITION) The term ritual abuse is generally used to mean prolonged, extreme, sadistic abuse, especially of children, within a group setting. The group’s ideology is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach the group’s ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at large, as they violate norms and laws. (Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)
Pazder (“Michelle Remembers”) introduced the term “ritualized abuse” in 1980, describing the experiences of an adult survivor that was disclosing satanic abuse memories. He defined the phenomenon as “repeated physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual assaults combined with a systematic use of symbols, ceremonies, and machinations designed and orchestrated to attain malevolent effects.”
Later definitions came mostly from professionals addressing ritual abuse in child care settings. Finkelhor, Williams, Burns, and Kalinowski elaborated on Pazder’s definition, defining ritual abuse as “abuse that occurs in a context linked to some symbols or group activity that have a religious, magical or supernatural connotation, and where the invocation of these symbols or activities are repeated over time and used to frighten and intimidate the children.” (Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study – Executive Summary)
Kelley referred to ritual abuse as the “repetitive and systematic sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of children by adults as part of cult or satanic worship” (Van Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility – Dissociation Vol. III, No. 1)
Mind Control
WHAT IS MIND CONTROL?
Mind control, like ritual abuse, has both a broad and narrow definition. In a sense, all advertising is an attempt at mind control, an attempt to make people buy certain brands or objects. Propaganda (my country is right and good and the other country is wrong and bad) is also an example of attempted mind control.
In the survivor community, however, the definition is much narrower and more sinister. It means that part of a person’s mind has been programmed (that is, trained) to obey another person without question, while other parts of the mind are unaware of this situation.(Survivorship – Frequently Asked Questions)
Propaganda vs Cult Trauma
Propaganda – Name Calling, Glittering Generalities, Exaggeration, Emotional Manipulation, Subliminal Commands, Changing the Topic, Repetition, Testimonials, Logical Fallacies, Unwarranted Extrapolation. (Propaganda & Mind Control)
Name Calling
This can include being called negative names (used inappropriately) like liar, psychotic, paranoid, crazy, communist, etc. The purpose, intentional or unintentional, of the usage of these names is to discredit the person they are being used on, without discussing the facts of the debate or topic. Sometimes names are used to shock the listener, which may put the listener into a more susceptible mind state and not critically think about the topic but simply accept the negative name or opinion subliminally.
Glittering Generalities
Democracy, capitalism or other ideas are often discussed in these terms. These terms may be described positively without a critical analysis of all sides of the issue. The important thing is to look at the ideas behind the terms and analyze them critically. A group may also only discuss the positives of the organization, ignoring any negative criticism about the group. The important thing is to check out any group or organization as completely as possible before joining. But I believe it is also important to trust people when they are safe, so that we can recover by sharing and connecting.
Exaggeration
A user of propaganda may use terms like “many,” “a lot,” “numerous,” or “a few” without backing up these numbers or statistics. The usage of these words may make a person or organization look better or worse without data or substantial proof.
Emotional Manipulation
Sometimes it is important to look at the argument(s) with as little emotion as possible, and try to see the facts only.
“…there are four elements to a successful fear appeal: 1) a threat, 2) a specific recommendation about how the audience should behave, 3) audience perception that the recommendation will be effective in addressing the threat, and 4) audience perception that they are capable of performing the recommended behavior.” Groups may also use these techniques on their members. They may say, “If you don’t do this, then the world will end, we will close our doors, etc.” For members that are very needy or attached to the organization or person making the statement, this threat may be very difficult to ignore.
In E-mail, this may be caused by the use of numerous brackets in bold or the use of capital letters. The writer may say things like, “apples are always red,” and then, “apples are always blue,” to cause confusion in the reader and make them more susceptible to the ideas in the Email. While the mind is trying to figure out which statement is true, the reader’s mind may become more susceptible to the suggestion or idea.
Subliminal Commands
These will be discussed more under Suggestive Techniques.
Changing the Topic
Rather than deal with the specific topic, a group or person may try to change the topic, or discredit the other side, rather than deal with the criticisms or arguments in the debate. A variety of propaganda techniques may be used to try and do this. This technique has occasionally been used by politicians and others.
Repetition
One way of remembering something is to constantly repeat it. This is one way we learn to remember new words and songs. Rather than debating the points of the debate, a debater may simply continue calling a person a liar or crazy or a traitor, etc. (see “name calling”) without backing up their statements. How often is an idea in an argument presented without a source or logical backing. This is one place in a debate or argument where a debater may show their “true colors.” Are they interested in debating the points of the argument or are they using propaganda and mind control techniques?
Testimonials
Individuals that are not qualified to discuss the particulars (the specific facts) of a debate or product may join the debate or ad campaign and make statements that may have little or no logical backing or factual basis. Organizations and companies may use a variety of techniques to encourage such participation.
Band Wagon
The user of propaganda may encourage people to join the cause without asking them to think about the facts and other side of the argument. This may include a kind of hero worship, including fancy clothes, high expenditures, claims of a large following, etc. I think the most important thing is to follow your instincts and recovery, not someone else. Other people may have valid and helpful things to say, but I believe our recovery has to be our own.
Logical Fallacies
These will be intentionally used by the user of propaganda to manipulate opinion.
Example: John likes apples.
Hitler liked apples.
John likes Hitler.
This can be used in politics. Equating communism to fascism because one or several communist governments may have been fascist is an example of this. A person may agree with someone on one topic and disagree with the same person on another topic. The user of propaganda may try to lump the two people or a group of people together that disagree with them, suggesting a conspiracy, when it may only be people agreeing on a certain topic.
Unwarranted Extrapolation
This is another logical fallacy. A person receiving a criticism may claim that a critique of themselves or their group may cause divisiveness in society or their movement. (“Love it or leave” is an example of this.) In all logical fallacies, and in terms of propaganda in general, try to see the other possible conclusions of the argument, not simply those presented by the user of propaganda.
Suggestive Techniques
Many triggers or cues are innate. An example of a trigger or cue could be a hot feeling when going near an oven burner. Almost instinctively, a person would pull their hand away from the burner. This would be an unconditioned response. There are conditioned and unconditioned triggers or stimuli and conditioned or unconditioned responses. Pavlovian classical conditioning involves pairing an unconditioned stimuli with a conditioned stimuli to get a conditioned response.
The famous example of dogs salivating when a bell rings is an example of classical conditioning. The dogs were conditioned to do this. The unconditioned stimuli may have been the smell of food and the unconditioned (normal) response was salivation. The unconditioned stimuli, the smell of food was paired with the soon to be conditioned stimuli, the bell. Eventually when one withdraws the smell of food stimuli, the bell alone produces salivation. This is the new conditioned response.
Programming is similar to this in several ways. A survivor may be tortured repeatedly until an new alter is created. This alter will be given a cue to let them know when to come out, this could be a smell, word, number, sound, color and so on. This cue is either paired with the alter’s creation and is given to the alter to listen for or to look for. (How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda – Neil Brick)
William Sargant (Battle for the Mind) first looked at combat PTSD and compared it to Pavlov’s classical conditioning. He extended Pavlov’s model to explain how people could change their world view suddenly. This was caused by intense trauma, followed by a person’s personality breaking down, followed by the application of new ways of thinking. Pavlov’s dogs during a flood either forgot or reversed their previous training.
Current models of PTSD suggest that PTSD can be understood as learned helplessness, a set of foci in the brain firing repeatedly and inappropriately. Cognitively, a person’s world view is so changed as to become untenable. Pavlov’s observations on animals breaking down under extreme stress could be applied to humans and survivors.
Pavlov (Beyond freedom and dignity) was able to build up and break down behavior patterns in dogs. Pavlov’s work seems to have influenced confession getting and brainwashing techniques….Each type reacted differently to stress. Pavlov could cause a dog to break down by increasing the intensity of a signal (electricity), delaying the time between the signal and food, confusing them with positive and negative signals interchanged or tampering with its physical condition. If a dog of stable temperament acquires a behavior after extreme stress, it is hard to break this behavior. This could be compared to a person of strong character becoming a one-track minded fanatic.
According to Sargant, various types of beliefs can be implanted in people after brain functioning has been disturbed by fear, anger or excitement. These cause heightened suggestibility and impaired judgement. These group manifestations may be classified as the herd instinct, they appear most strongly in wartime and periods of common danger. (Battle for the Mind)
The implications for survivors of ritual abuse and their symptoms are obvious. Increased trauma could cause dissociation, making a person more susceptible to suggestion. The delay of gratification could also make one more suggestible. Positive and negative signals interchanged, like praise and insults given rapidly can cause a break. Or the lack of sleep, food or drugging can also make one more suggestible. And once a survivor becomes suggestible, they are easier to program or reprogram. (How Cues and Programming Work in Mind Control and Propaganda – Neil Brick)
Sutphen in his article talks about “Shock and Confusion,” how people go into a meditative state when scared and are more likely to be compliant to the second suggestion. If people are made to feel guilty that they were given something, they are more likely to follow the next command, like give money, etc.
The Birth of Conversion
CONVERSION is a “nice” word for BRAINWASHING….Jonathan Edwards accidentally discovered the techniques during a religious crusade in 1735 in Northampton, Massachusetts. By inducing guilt and acute apprehension and by increasing the tension, the “sinners” attending his revival meetings would break down and completely submit. Technically, what Edwards was doing was creating conditions that wipe the brain slate clean so that the mind accepts new programming. The problem was that the new input was negative.
Once a preacher, cult leader, manipulator or authority figure creates the brain phase to wipe the brain-slate clean, his subjects are wide open. New input, in the form of suggestion, can be substituted for their previous ideas. (THE BATTLE FOR YOUR MIND by Dick Sutphen)
2) The presenter will describe different historical examples of how mind control and ritual abuse have been used. Legal cases will also be discussed from various parts of the world (McGonigle, 1999; New York Times, 1988).
Mind Control
“Between 1953 and 1966, the Central Intelligence Agency financed a wide-ranging project, code-named MKULTRA, concerned with ‘the research and development of chemical, biological, and radiological materials capable of employment in clandestine operations to control human behavior.’ The program consisted of some 149 subprojects which the Agency contracted out to various universities, research foundations, and similar institutions. At least 80 institutions and 185 private researchers participated. Because the Agency funded MKULTRA indirectly, many of the participating individuals were unaware that they were dealing with the Agency.” (The Law and Mind Control)
“MKULTRA was established to counter perceived Soviet and Chinese advances in brainwashing and interrogation techniques. Over the years the program included various medical and psychological experiments, some of which led to untoward results. These aspects of MKULTRA surfaced publicly during the 1970’s and became the subject of executive and congressional investigations”. Id. 162. (The Law and Mind Control)
“MKULTRA began with a proposal from Richard Helms, then the Agency’s Assistant Deputy Director for Plans. Helms outlined a special funding mechanism for highly sensitive Agency research and development projects that would study the use of biological and chemical materials in altering human behavior. MKULTRA was approved by Allen Dulles, then the Director of Central Intelligence, on April 13, 1953”. (The Law and Mind Control)
“Several MKULTRA subprojects involved experiments where researchers surreptitiously administered dangerous drugs, such as LSD, to unwitting human subjects. At least two persons died as a result of MKULTRA experiments, and others may have suffered impaired health because of the testing.” (The Law and Mind Control)
In 1977, the Agency located some 8,000 pages of previously undisclosed MKULTRA documents. These consisted mostly of financial records that had inadvertently survived the 1973 records destruction. Upon this discovery, Agency Director Stansfield Turner notified the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and later testified at a joint hearing before the Select Committee and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Resources of the Senate Committee on Human Resources. Although the Joint Committee was given a complete list of the MKULTRA researchers and institutions, the Committee honored the Agency’s request to treat the names as confidential. Respondents sought the surviving MKULTRA records that would provide this information. (The Law and Mind Control)
The US Supreme Court again confronted issues related to MKULTRA and the use of LSD on unwitting human subjects in United States vs Stanley, 483 U.S. 669 (1987). In February 1958, James B. Stanley, a master sergeant in the Army stationed at Fort Knox, Kentucky, volunteered to participate in a program ostensibly designed to test the effectiveness of protective clothing and equipment as defenses against chemical warfare. He was released from his then-current duties and went to the Army’s Chemical Warfare Laboratories at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Four times that month, Stanley was secretly administered doses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), pursuant to an Army plan to study the effects of the drug on human subjects. (The Law and Mind Control)
“During the war, Cameron was part of an international committee of psychiatrists and social scientists who studied the origins and nature of nazi culture. He published numerous articles on mass psychology during wartime”. Congressional Record – Senate, 99th Cong. 1st Session, Volume 131 No. 106, Part 2, 131 Cong. Rec. S. 11008 quoting The Experiments of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, Washington Post July 28, 1985. (The Law and Mind Control)
“To erase or ‘de-pattern’ personality traits, cameron gave his subjects megadoses of lsd, subjected them to drug-induced “sleep therapy” for up to 65 consecutive days and applied electroshock therapy at 75 times the usual intensity. To shape new behavior, cameron forced them to listen to repeated recorded messages for 16-hour intervals, a technique known as ‘psychic driving,’ Cameron and the CIA were interested in brainwashing and the ability to redirect thought and action. The patients did not consent to the treatment and were never told they were being used for research”. Congressional Record – Senate, 99th Cong. 1st Session, Volume 131 No. 106, Part 2, 131 Cong. Rec. S. 11008 quoting The Experiments of Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, Washington Post July 28, 1985 (The Law and Mind Control)
The CIA stonewalled and despite pleas by Senate members to settle the claims, the suit dragged on for years settling in 1988 for the relatively modest sum of $750,000.00, split among the remaining eight plaintiffs. (The Law and Mind Control)
The Justice Department announced today that it had settled a lawsuit by nine Canadians who charged that the C.I.A. made them the subjects of mind-control experiments involving drugs.
In a statement, the department said the plaintiffs would share $750,000. The plaintiffs were patients of D. Ewen Cameron, a psychiatrist at McGill University in Montreal who received money from the C.I.A. to do research into drugs that could be used to control human behavior.
According to Government records, the nine were not told that they were the subjects of the experiments, which were conducted in the 1950’s. The plaintiffs were subjected to heavy doses of the hallucinogen LSD. They were also given shock treatments and large doses of barbiturates…The statement said that in 1957, the C.I.A. gave Dr. Cameron a grant of $60,000, which Dr. Cameron used along with a $200,000 grant from the Canadian Government to finance his experiments. ”His treatment was not designed, directed or controlled by the C.I.A.,” the statement said. (U.S. to Pay $750,000 In Suit on LSD Testing – New York Times)
Gottlieb admits that he made approximately six trips to New York in 1952, and that he “visited George White on two or three occasions in 1952 to discuss his becoming a consultant for the CIA in LSD research.” Gottlieb Declaration P4. White, a Bureau of Narcotics Agent, conducted LSD tests on unsuspecting persons in New York, including one experiment in which he gave LSD to a group of his friends in his New York apartment in November 1952. The record also reflects that beginning in June 1953, White covertly administered LSD to people in New York with whom he came into contact in his role as a narcotics agent. Gottlieb testified before the Kennedy Committee that White may have conducted his tests on one or more occasions by administering the drug to an unsuspecting person in a bar. (The Law and Mind Control)
Ritual Abuse
The Dublin Hellfire Club (Montpelier Hill)
“The Irish Hellfire Club quickly gained notoriety by their open mockery of the church, that took the Enlightenment’s questioning of organised religion to a new level. An interesting letter from 1738, that purported to be written by a member of the club who used the pseudonym ‘Molock’, describes the Hellfire Club and its practices, including ‘the sacrifice of maidens’. . .”
The Dublin Hellfire Club (Montpelier Hill)
“The Hellfire Club soon became notorious for its excesses, which were often conducted in public. Its heavy drinking sessions were sometimes attended by sexual assault and violence, ending in murder on at least one recorded occasion”. (A History of Ritual Abuse 2) (Chapter 6 – Empirical Evidence of Ritual Abuse)
The following cases describe legal proceedings held in Juvenile, Family, Civil and Criminal Courts around the world where there have been allegations of Satanism or the use of Ritual to abuse others. Any religion or organization can be used as a front to hide ritual abuse activity, including Christianity, Buddhism, Shamanism, Hinduism, Masonry, Mormonism, Pagan and Satanic religions; however, not all Satanists commit crimes and not all occultism is Satanism. It is imperative that investigators and professionals familiarize themselves with cross-cultural belief systems so as not to target any particular group. (Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive)
Entire families have been implicated in the ritual abuse of children which proves the fact that generational Satanism exists. See the following legal cases: Parker (1995), Figured/Hill (1994), and Gallup (1991). Perpetrators have been found to be professionals who work in law enforcement, the military or daycare, and Christian fronts have been used in some instances as a means of hiding the satanic motivation of the perpetrators. See Cannaday (1994), Wright (1992), Gallup (1991), and Orr (1984). In several cases the perpetrators have confessed to the satanic element of the crime or participation in prior satanic offenses. See Helms (2006), Cala (2003), Smith (2003), Delaney (2002), Morris (2001), South (2000), Page (2000), T. Kokoraleis (1999), Bonacci (1999), Brooks (1996), Hughes (1996), Penick (1995), Alvarado (1995), Ingram (1992), Rogers (1992), and Fryman (1988). (Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive)
In addition to court documents this archive also references news articles that document the ritual elements of the crime which include perpetrator confessions, cannibalism, murder, mutilation in the context of Satanism, and there is ample evidence to prove the existence of cult groups who sacrifice their victims as an offering to Satan. This proves beyond doubt that unusual occult belief systems exist and the bizarre acts committed by these individuals are not only not unusual, they are commonplace. (Satanism and Ritual Abuse Archive)
McMartin
February 1984 Seven defendants are arrested and charged with 207 counts of child molestation and conspiracy. Over 90 McMartin parents, file a civil suit against Virginia McMartin, Peggy Buckey, Betty Raidor, Babette Spitler, Peggy Ann Buckey and Ray Buckey for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress with one attorney. Others file suit with other attorneys. All suits are eventually dropped by civil attorneys after the 6 year statute of
limitations expired before the trial ended. Civil suits by families are never refiled.
March 11, 1984 A number of other daycare centers in the Los Angeles area are closed by the California State Department of Public Social Services. Ten additional schools are closed in the South Bay area.
March 22, 1984 Teachers Peggy Buckey, Virginia McMartin, Ray Buckey, Peggy Ann Buckey (Ray’s sister), Mary Ann Jackson, Betty Raidor, and Babette Spitler are indicted on 115 counts of child sexual abuse.
April 2, 1984 The L. A. Times reports that students at McMartin have been fondled, raped, drugged, photographed nude, forced to witness animals being slaughtered and threatened to keep silent.
May 23, 1984 The prosecution files 93 new counts. The indictment count reaches 208, involving 40 alleged child victims.
Fall 1983 to March 1984 Nearly 400 children were interviewed at Children’s Institute International. Forty-one children are listed as victims in a complaint filed by the State. The count of those diagnosed as sexually abused reaches 360 students. DA Robert Philibosian announces the 1976 Karen Klass murder case will be reexamined to determine if it could be linked to the McMartin case. Klass was the ex wife of Righteous Brother Bill Medley. She had been murdered approximately an hour after leaving her 5 year old son at the pre school. Klass’ husband also died shortly after the McMartin indictments in March 1984. His death was ruled an accident after he drove off a mountain road one afternoon in Oregon.
March 22, 1984, Los Angeles Grand Jury issues indictment charging 7 former teachers with 115 counts
April 7, 1984 Bail revoked for 5 defendants who had been free on bail when 400 additional sex acts are presented.
May 24, 1984 An additional 92 counts of child molestation are filed against all 7 defendants. A charge of conspiracy to commit lewd and lascivious acts by force or threat of force on a child under 14. Count is now 207 against 42 children….
January 18, 1990 The jury returns its verdict in the first McMartin trial. Peggy and Ray Buckey are acquitted on 52 counts. The jury deadlocks on 13 counts, all against Ray Buckey. The jurors are polled and say they believe molestation took place at the preschool but that the prosecution did not prove the case. The expressed disappointment at not hearing more from the children.
January (late) 1990 District Attorney Reiner announces that he will retry Ray Buckey on eight of the 13 counts involving three girls.
February 5, 1990 Deputy District Attorneys Joe Martinez and Pam Ferraro are assigned to the case. Incredibly, after the trial, it is discovered that Pam Ferraro was a former student of the McMartin Preschool. Photographs of her sitting on Peggy Buckey’s lap reading a book, sitting at a table with Peggy, Virginia and several of other students as well as a McMartin preschool class picture including Peggy and Virginia.
April May, 1990 Tunnels are found under the foundation of the McMartin preschool building by a team of Archaeologists headed by Dr. Gary Stickel. Ground Penetrating Radar recently developed by the U.S. Army is used to define the location of anomalies under ground. Three segments of tunnel, one over 45 feet in length with a 9 x 9 room area are found exactly where the children said they were. District Attorney does not use the evidence because of time and money constraints and the fact that they would have to start a new investigation of their own at the site as they did in 1985. The discoveries are widely reported in the news.
May 30, 1990 With the entire team of archaeologists, geologists still uncovering evidence of filled in tunnels, the McMartin Preschool is demolished by a bulldozer ordered by the new owner, developer, Arnold Goldstein. Final cost of the archaeological project, paid for by parents and donations, exceeds $53,000.
July 27, 1990 On their 15th day of deliberations, the jury tells the judge they are hopelessly deadlocked on all 8 counts. The judge declares a mistrial. Juror L. I., a 64 year old treasury department employee said , “I don’t know how you could get 12 people to be unanimous in this case. There are too many unanswered questions. Too much time has passed.” Again because of money and time constraints, DA Ira Reiner decides not to ask for a third trial of Ray Buckey. The first two prosecutions have consumed over $15 million and seven years of court time. He is under tremendous political pressure because he has failed in prosecuting the case. (McMartin Preschool Case – What Really Happened and the Coverup)
3) Research studies, like the Extreme Abuse Survivors Survey, will be presented, as well as examples of different cults and their techniques (Hassan, 2018).
– Describe research studies that show how these techniques work
– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors
The Extreme Abuse Surveys (EAS) were created to develop a qualitative and quantitative base of data regarding the accounts of survivors of extreme abuse.
The international online survey was divided into three parts. The Extreme Abuse Survey for adult survivors (EAS), was conducted between January 1 and March 30, 2007. The Professional-Extreme Abuse Survey (P-EAS) was conducted between April 1 and June 30, 2007. This survey was for therapists, clergy, counselors and other persons that had worked professionally with at least one victim of extreme abuse. The Child-Extreme Abuse Survey (C-EAS) was conducted between July 8 and October 8, 2007. This survey was for caregivers of child survivors of extreme abuse and mind control. (Extreme Abuse Surveys)
The main objective of the surveys was to gather preliminary data on the nature and extent of extreme abuse….The target population of the study was defined as all survivors of extreme abuse.
Fourteen hundred and seventy-one participants from more than thirty countries answered at least one question of the EAS. The survey was given in both German and English. Sixty-four percent of 985 participants reported memories of incest and 48% of 977 participants reported memories of extreme abuse before they sought therapy. Sixty-nine percent of 257 respondents that reported secret mind control experiments on them when they were children also reported that they were abused in a cult. (Extreme Abuse Surveys)
Of 1007 participants in the EAS, 65% stated that they had been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Higher percentages were found in the C-EAS and the P-EAS. High percentages of physical abuse, sexual abuse from multiple perpetrators and child pornography were found in all three surveys. In the C-EAS, medical evidence consistent with extreme abuse was found in 53% of 80 respondents, psychological symptoms consistent with extreme abuse were found in 91% of the 88 respondents and the symptoms abated when the child was able to tell about the abuse in 78 respondents (Extreme Abuse Surveys)
What is a Cult?
Here is a summary of 10 themes of cult membership Stephen Hassan listed in “Combatting Cult Mind Control”
1) The Doctrine is Reality – The cult’s beliefs allow no interpretation or other theories.
2) Reality is Black and White, Good Versus Evil – no outside group is valid, “no room for
interpretation”
3) Elitist Mentality – they are the chosen ones
4) Group Will Over Individual Will – “the self must submit to the group” “conformity is
good”
5) Strict Obedience: Modeling the Leader – the leader is imitated by everyone
6) Happiness through good performance – behaviors are controlled by shaming,
competition
7) Manipulation through fear and guilt – includes exit phobias, the devil, God, communism,
etc. will hurt you
8) Emotional highs and lows – from great productivity to crashing (due to individual’s
inadequacies)
9) Changes in Time Orientation – pre-cult life is bad, the present is crucial (pressure to meet
quotas, etc.)
10) No Way Out – There is never a legitimate reason for leaving
(Combating Cult Mind Control)
Cults also use “love bombing,” lots of flattery early on to “suck people in”. In ritual abuse, fear is used much more often, especially with children. Torture is often used to control peoples’ minds (allowing suggestions to enter the mind), causing DID, instead of fatigue and lectures, though fatigue and starvation may also be used. Ritual abuse suggestions are planted in alternate personalities. A person in the cult may have one belief system for work and day-time society and another for the cult at night.
Hassan’s book explains how to recognize and avoid cults. They are often dishonest, having a hidden agenda. (Ritual Abuse and Secret Societies Information Outline)
Mind control refers to a specific set of methods and techniques, such as hypnosis or thought-stopping, that influence how a person thinks, feels, and acts.
Steven Hassan developed the BITE Model to describe cults’ specific methods to recruit and maintain control over people. “BITE” stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control. The BITE model should be used within the Influence Continuum Model to help determine authoritarian control. Not every group or relationship uses every one of these. Some are universal such as deception (Information control), indoctrinating people to distrust critics and former members, or installing phobias to make people afraid of questioning or leaving.
(BITE Model of Authoritarian Control)
Cults
Cults have made headlines around the world for many years and continue to fascinate in documentaries and popular podcasts. The stories behind these cults’ origins, leaders and demises are riveting — and often disturbing. (The most terrifying cults in history)
NXIVM founder Keith Raniere was accused of running an abusive sex cult through his Albany-based seminar company.
He denied the charges after his March 2018 arrest, but a judge ordered him held without bail until trial.
Before Raniere’s arrest, in 2017, a New York Times exposé accused NXIVM of fronting a cult called “DOS” or “The Vow.” The Times reported that female cult members were branded, used as sex slaves, punished by their “masters” and blackmailed.
Here, attorneys representing Raniere prepare to hold a news conference after he was arrested on sex trafficking charges in March 2018. He pleaded not guilty.
Actress Allison Mack Arrives At Court Over Sex Trafficking Charges
“Smallville” actress Allison Mack (seen here) was subsequently accused of recruiting “DOS” slaves by convincing women they were joining a female empowerment group that would help them overcome weaknesses.
Mack was arrested and indicted on federal charges, including sex trafficking. She initially pleaded not guilty.
Raniere at a hearing in April 2018. The following March, Raniere faced new charges of exploiting a child and possessing child pornography.
He was found guilty on all counts on June 19, 2019. In October 2020, a judge sentenced him to 120 years in prison. (The most terrifying cults in history)
4) Mental health diagnoses, like Dissociative Identity Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and their origins in sex trafficking survivors will be explained. The forced development of these diagnoses and their symptoms will be connected to how they are used to control sex trafficking survivors.
– Describe research studies that show how these techniques work
– Explain how different mental health diagnoses symptoms are used to help sex trafficking survivors
– Discuss techniques used to control sex trafficking survivors
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder (formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD) is defined as the presence of two or more personality states or distinct identities that repeatedly take control of one’s behavior. The patient has an inability to recall personal information. The extent of this lack of recall is too great to be explained by normal forgetfulness. The disorder cannot be due to the direct physical effects of a general medical condition or substance.
In DSM-5, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is described as a disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession. The clinician may observe or the patient may report that these personality states demonstrate marked discontinuity in sense of self and/or agency, accompanied by changes in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. In addition, the person experiences dissociative amnesia (DA), a disruption in autobiographical memory (see Chapter 26, “Dissociative Amnesia”) that includes gaps or difficulties in recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events.
DID entails a failure to integrate certain aspects of memory, consciousness and identity. Patients experience frequent gaps in their memory for their personal history, past and present. Patients with DID report having severe physical and sexual abuse, especially during childhood. The reports of patients with DID are often validated by objective evidence. (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
PTSD
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events or set of circumstances. An individual may experience this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being. Examples include natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist acts, war/combat, rape/sexual assault, historical trauma, intimate partner violence and bullying,
People with PTSD have intense, disturbing thoughts and feelings related to their experience that last long after the traumatic event has ended. They may relive the event through flashbacks or nightmares; they may feel sadness, fear or anger; and they may feel detached or estranged from other people. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong negative reactions to something as ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch. (What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
Research Studies
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma
1. Ritual abuse/mind control (RA/MC) is a global phenomenon.
2. A diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder is common for persons who report histories of
RA/MC. (84% of EAS respondents who answered that they have been diagnosed with DID [N=655] reported that they are survivors of RA/MC).
3. Ritual abuse (RA) is not limited to SRA, i.e., satanic ritual abuse, sadistic abuse, satanist abuse.
4. RA is reported to involve mind control techniques.
5. Some extreme abuse survivors report that they were used in government-sponsored mind control experimentation (GMC).
6. RA/MC is reported to be involved in organized “known” crime.
7. RA/MC is reported to be involved in clergy abuse.
8. Most often reported memories of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
9. Most often reported possible aftereffects of extreme abuse are similar across all surveys.
10. In rating the effectiveness of healing methods, therapists tend to favor stabilization techniques; survivors are more open to alternative ways to cope with indoctrinated belief systems. (10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma)
Secret Weapons is 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 (Secret Weapons)
Twenty-Two Faces documents how the only known survivor-intended-victim of a modern-day human sacrifice ceremony six year-old Jenny Hill, overcomes multiplicity resulting from brainwashing, her perpetrators having subjected the child to insidious mind-control techniques culled from Nazi Germany. As is the case for thousands of children across the globe unfortunate enough to be born into families still practicing these aberrant religious rites. Using a lone resource: faith in God, Jenny tries to make sense of a life where she jumps from one day to the next. Eventually with help of a psychologist: she takes charge of her divided mind by facing alter personalities and their traumatic repressed memories, overcomes family-society rejection, confronts and forgives abusers, showing an ability of the human spirit to overcome against all odds, profound emotional shock and miraculously healing from severe childhood trauma.
(Twenty Two Faces)
A new book, Twenty Two Faces: Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-two Multiple Personalities, by retired, Saratoga Springs-based psychiatrist Judy Byington, tells the story of Hill, who, according to Byinton, was the victim of sexual assaults by both her father and by neighborhood boys. Hill told Byington that on June 21, 1965, in Garden Grove, Calif., she was tortured on an altar and forced to watch the murder of a 6-year-old by a satanic coven.
Subsequently, Hill was subjected to mind control experiments which resulted, Byington says, in Hill having 22 personalities. Hill moved to Utah County and ended up spending a year in the Utah State Hospital under the care of Weston Whatcott between 1984 and 1985. In a press release by the book’s publisher, Whatcott acknowledges that Hill’s multiple personalities were a result of childhood trauma, “namely repeated sexual assaults coupled with ritual abuse.”
Byington says Hill “really wanted her story told.” Byington drew on journals Hill and some of her other personalities kept from when she was 5 to 24. “We could all be multiple personalities if we have gone through all the trauma that these people have gone through,” Byington says.”Children under tremendous torture, their minds can separate into different personalities.”
Hill went to the FBI looking for the parents of the child she had seen killed, Byington says. While an FBI agent who looked at Hill’s medical records told Byington that there was confirmation that horrendous torture had occurred, “he wouldn’t open up a case for her.”
Byington has also investigated local satanic covens in Utah, she says, and talked to a special-investigations unit at the Utah Attorney General’s office in 2006 on ritual abuse cases. “”It’s still very much of a problem,” Byington says. “These covens are very active and it’s very difficult to prove what’s going on.” (22 Faces revives ritual sexual abuse controversy)
5) The presenter will discuss his personal experiences of being in a cult as a child experiencing torture, sexual abuse, and mind control techniques.
(Please use caution reading this if you are survivor. It may remind people of their traumatic memories.)
2001 presentation:
All of the pieces of memories I had been having the last few years came together more for me. I have been having a fair amount of lab and ECT memories and men in white coats. I realized I was programmed to go on missions. I was very small and I was kept small and thin by programming until the age of 9, when a primary perpetrator went into the hospital for a while and I was no longer afraid to eat. This programming started around the age of 3. This is why I am so small today and I am smaller than my siblings. I was kept small to fit into vents and ducts to work on missions to go into places to open doors, to let others in, steal materials or records, spy on meetings or kill people. I have memories of internally going on missions (at least one as an adult in my 20’s), but am unsure if it was internally or externally, I was triggered by people having sex in the next room.
I have one memory of killing someone in Eastern Europe, it felt like that part of the world. He was sort of asleep and he knew this would happen, it must have been in the late 60’s by the way he looked. He was some sort of up and coming political person the CIA/Illuminati didn’t want in power. He knew it was his time though. He said (in his own language) go ahead and do it, or at least I perceived this. So I did it.
I have memories of being on lab tables with men in white suits and their assistants, sometimes perps, sometimes sort of decent (though cautious).I also have memories of going on missions by looking at maps and learning the plans. I was taught the triggers necessary to open the necessary alters to do the perps work. They used ECT afterwards to make sure I’d forget and to punish me if I told or made a mistake. Drugs were sometimes used to control me if I became stubborn of if I needed to be put into a meditative state to be programmed. I believe that I would be brought to a Masonic meeting late at night and/or driven to a lab in Boston late at night. My primary perps received money for this since they were having financial difficulties at the time. (My Most Recent Memories and My Personal Growth)
2002:
From all this, I have remembered specific rituals and programming sessions. The hemisphere signal (double hand signal) was in a laboratory setting with lights flashing on both sides. It was meant to program both sides of my brain. The hand signal was meant to turn off or close the program(s) that I had opened up and remembered. The sleep programming signal was from both lab settings and Masonic ritual abuse settings. In the lab, I would be cued to remember something and drugged to purposefully fall asleep whenever I did. In the ritual abuse settings, the training for this would be done late at night after rituals when we were very tired and they would ask us to tell them what we remembered, then they would say it is easier to fall asleep and forget it. Being so tired from the horrible rituals, we did. Of course, it isn’t easier. It is better to remember and heal.
These are examples of how I have learned a lot about myself, while speaking at conferences and trying to help others. By learning a lot about myself, I have learned how to educate other survivors.
Another thing I have learned is how to recognize some programming triggers in writing, either in newsletters or on the web. I did this to help others. But it also taught me to recognize the triggers in my own writing and some of the programs in me that would cause me to put them in my writing. An example of this is the use of the words “current” and “currently.” For me, this is from electroshock programming, either programming to scare me into silence or to destroy a particular memory. The use of the word was meant to remind me of what would happen if I talked. Since this is only programming, none of this happened when I talked and I actually got healthier sharing my feelings and memories when I spoke. So the cult was wrong.
I also had a tendency to follow heroes. This is cult programming. Following the cult leaders or head programmers in the laboratory was necessary for the success of the cult. I have discussed hero worship and its dangers at other conferences. By giving our power to others, we lose our own power and are more easily controlled by other people. I have noticed that the safest survivor advocates with the most recovery are the most human and the least power hungry. They don’t have an entourage traveling around them. They don’t feel the need to tell others how to recover and they don’t need to ask for money for themselves. They don’t act like movie stars or try to impress others. By working with survivors and seeing others follow “heroes,” I learned that I to a lesser extent I did also. This was a very deep part of my programming, to always follow orders unquestioning. I do this at work, I am always obedient. But I am learning to question things and speak up as I break my programming more and more. For me, it wasn’t a conscious fear of authority, but more a need to follow or allegiance to power. Now I know I do not need to follow others. I can be free and make decisions for myself.
People in the survivor of other movements may say they have the answer or they have information that can help everyone. I’ve learned that I need to find my own answers, my own truth. If I follow someone else (without thinking), I am being mind controlled. (My Healing and Helping Others)
6) Ways to expose and prevent ritual abuse, mind control, and sex trafficking will be discussed.
– Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control
The Importance of Prevention
Red flags that everyone should know and watch out for:
A predator:
is mean,
is outwardly charming and pretends friendship,
likes to humiliate others,
enjoys pushing others into risks,
brags about hurting others,
thinks life is a game that they must win.
(Opening Our Minds – on Predators and Prevention)
Not all predators openly do this.
For survivors, I think the important thing is to realize when these techniques are being used on us. To fight the second suggestion and not follow it blindly. This may entail leaving the area immediately and going to a safe spot. Online this may mean reading certain E-mails with support people present. And to avoid those that may use these suggestions on us whenever possible. Learning how to develop safe support systems and safe resources can help with this. I believe it is dangerous to believe that we can’t be mind controlled.
Guilt may also be used as a technique, especially on survivors. Making people feel like they haven’t done enough for a particular group or organization, asking people to do things without considering all sides of the issue or their own needs.
Neediness can also be used. Survivors may be looking for approval, acceptance and a place to discuss their feelings. So they may not be able to critically decide what support systems may be the safest for them. Groups will first be very nice or overly nice to them (love bombing), but this will often disappear later and emotional manipulation and threats or guilt may be used to try to cause the desired behavior. Abusers will often apologize after their behavior, but I believe a sincere apology would be to try and change the behavior. (Propaganda & Mind Control)
Becoming Aware of Trance States
How to Avoid Blindly Accepting Propaganda and Being Mind Controlled
(Please note: these are only suggestions. You may want to analyze each of them to see if they have any value to you and if necessary, add some of your own.)
“The subjects easiest to influence are usually young, trusting, gullible, and noncritical people from protective backgrounds or people who may be particularly vulnerable because of some recent unsettled transition (my note: survivors may also fit in this category)… the rejects are likely to be individuals who have easy access to accurate, critical, or counterbalancing information. Insolent, self centered, streetwise, highly critical or recalcitrant individuals are generally culled out…” Though everyone is susceptible to some degree.
1) Try to find out both sides of the story.
2)Learn about propaganda and mind control techniques and learn how to recognize them. If necessary, learn to avoid those using these techniques (this may be online or offline.) The media and advertisements may be a good place to start either learning about these techniques or avoiding them. At times, advertisements don’t even discuss the product or its attributes at all.
3) When in a potential situation where you can be MC’ed or propagandized, learn how to recognize the feelings of going into a meditative state and learn some of the techniques for getting out of these states. I believe that avoidance of these situations is usually the best way to keep from being MC’ed or propagandized.
4) The user of propaganda or mind control techniques may exhibit a “lack of morals,” lying and/or disregarding the rules of the debate, list, group or society. This is similar to the “us vs them” or may be justified by “the ends justify the means” arguments organizations may use.
5) Try to use your gut feelings. If something doesn’t feel right, step back or remove yourself from the situation. I believe that a legitimate group or organization will give an individual the time and room to make their own choices.
I believe the following statement also applies to being MC’ed and/or fooled by propaganda. “No one “joins a cult.” People recruited into destructive groups think they are doing something else, something beneficial and worthwhile. Anyone can be recruited given the right sales pitch and the right conditions in one’s life. We are all potential victims.” While I believe it is necessary to learn from our mistakes, I think that feeling too much guilt doesn’t help. It may be necessary to make an amends when safe. This may be simply by getting healthy and possibly educating others.
As always, please use your own judgement and try to research everything as fully as possible. Don’t accept anything anyone says simply because they say it or claim to be an expert or whatever. Try to check it out for yourself. I am not an expert, and I am continually learning new things about myself and the above topics. (Propaganda and Mind Control)
(Please use caution reading this if you are survivor. It may remind people of their traumatic memories.)
Trigger management is one of the keys to recovery. It may be as important as memory retrieval, or at least connected to it. By being able to manage one’s triggers, one can hopefully keep from being triggered into alter states that could possibly be used to get people to return to the cult. This entails knowing the trigger and the feeling accompanying the trigger, the memory connected to the trigger and the action required of the trigger. An example could be, when one sees ice cream, they are to walk down the street and touch a light pole on the corner. The memory could be being put into a deep hypnotic state and then having a picture of ice cream flashed in front of one’s eyes with the instruction constantly being whispered in your ear, walk to the light pole on the corner.
Trigger management in this case could be having the memory and learning the accompanying trigger (ice cream) and subliminal instruction (walk to the light pole). Or it could be from the trigger, losing time after the trigger and not knowing why, and realizing that somehow you are at a light pole. Eventually, remembering the memory for all this.
Trigger management could also be learning the feeling of falling or going into a deep hypnotic state, and then trying to figure out why. Also, learning how not to fall into these states while feeling the “pull” of them. One technique I use is: I shake my head side to side (fairly hard) or walk around. (Trigger Management and Conference Safety Presentation)
Using grounding techniques, taking breaks, talking to a safe support person to work with triggers.
7) Discussion of the future of advocacy efforts to stop ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control.
– Discuss ways people can educate others to help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse, sex trafficking, and mind control
Media bias and recent progress in our field.
Critical Thinking Skills
How to avoid cults?
How to educate others?
References:
10 Extreme Abuse Survey Findings Helpful to Understanding Ritual Trauma from Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys – Handout for Karriker, Wanda. (2008, November). Understanding ritual trauma: A comparison of findings from three online surveys. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL. https://ritualabuse.us/mindcontrol/eas-studies/understanding-ritual-trauma-a-comparison-of-findings-from-three-online-surveys/
Benschoten, Susan C. (1990). Multiple Personality Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse: the Issue Of Credibility – Dissociation Vol. III, No. 1
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/1492
BITE Model of Authoritarian Control https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/
Finklehor, Williams, Burns, Kalinowski – Sexual Abuse in Day Care: A National Study – Executive Summary – March 1988 https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/113095NCJRS.pdf
Hassan, S. (2018) Combating Cult Mind Control. Park Street Press
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 Chapter 6 – Empirical Evidence of Ritual Abuse
Opening Our Minds – on Predators and Prevention with Jon Atack – Steven Hassan
https://freedomofmind.com/opening-our-minds-on-predators-and-prevention-with-jon-atack/
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 https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/
Sex Trafficking – CDC https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/trafficking.html
Skinner, B.F. (1971). Beyond freedom and dignity New York: Bantam/Vintage Books
The 2019 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
https://polarisproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Polaris-TVPRA-2019-Analysis.pdf
The Battle for Your Mind by Dick Sutphen – Persuasion & Brainwashing Techniques Being Used On The Public Today https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/TR/sutphen.html
The most terrifying cults in history https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/cults-dangerous-deadly-history/3/
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking/key-legislation
Twenty-Two Faces – Inside the Extraordinary Life of Jenny Hill and Her Twenty-Two Multiple Personalities Judy Byington MSW, LCSW, ret. Tate Publishing May, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1620240328 https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/
U.S. to Pay $750,000 In Suit on LSD Testing https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/12/world/us-to-pay-750000-in-suit-on-lsd-testing.html
What is Human Trafficking https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/about/what-human-trafficking
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd
Please use caution while reading all of these papers.
Some of the information may be very heavy for survivors.
If in doubt, download the page and wait to read it
until you are with your therapist or a trusted support person.
