A Survivor’s View of Recovery from Ritual Abuse by Neil Brick
Presented at the 2019 Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference on August 17 – 18, 2019 by Neil Brick
Please note: All accusations are alleged. This presentation may be triggering for some survivors. None of the material on these pages or at the conference is meant as therapy, or to take the place of therapy.
A Survivor’s View of Recovery from Ritual Abuse by Neil Brick
Recovery from ritual abuse can take many years. Recovery may include working through memories, building functionality and developing more effective ways of interacting and integrating emotions. Every individual has different experiences that lead them through the recovery path. Neil Brick will discuss his long journey healing from severe abuse. This will include ways he has learned more about himself, ways he has learned to develop healthier interactions with others and ways he has helped others along the recovery path.
Neil Brick is a survivor of ritual abuse and mind control. His work continues to educate the public about child abuse, trauma and ritual abuse crimes. His child abuse and ritual abuse newsletter S.M.A.R.T. https://ritualabuse.us has been published for over 24 years. http://neilbrick.com
Defining Terms:
(These are self defined. Not necessarily meant to be definitions for others.)
What is a survivor?
A person who has survived.
What did they survive?
In my case, severe trauma. An attempt to break my will and destroy my soul. Neither of which happened.
What is recovery?
Healing from an event. In my case, a lifelong battle to uncover myself from the damage done to me and the lies fed to me.
What is Ritual Abuse?
There are many definitions. Mine is severe abuse repeated in a ritualistic manner to manipulate and hurt others.
Recovery from ritual abuse can take many years.
Working through severe trauma takes a lifetime. There is always more to learn. There are always different ways to look at trauma and see how it has effected our lives.
Recovery may include working through memories.
We have to know our past to learn where we came from, how it effected us and how we can heal from the past.
Building functionality
How do we become more functional? Does this mean we become less damaged, more able to navigate the world we live in? Does this mean being able to work, to pay bills, to take care of our basic needs?
I have always been fairly good at these things. I have survived with minimal support all of my life. I have also helped others survive.
Developing more effective ways of interacting and integrating emotions.
How do we build awareness and improve our interactions? Are our interactions chaotic? Are we emotionally all over the place or blunted? Are we causing more damage in the world by our drama or are we moving toward a place of healing and peace we can present to others?
Bring all of our emotions together into one part of ourselves is very important. Having our ideas, voices and feelings in one place in our mind is crucial to healing and being aware. This development of the natural way we would have been without trauma allows us more effective ways of living with others and our world.
Every individual has different experiences that lead them through the recovery path.
There are similarities in our paths, such as building an awareness of what happened, processing feelings about what happened and living a new way. There are differences, like following different recovery paths and using different techniques.
I will discuss my long journey healing from severe abuse. This will include ways I’ve learned more about myself, ways I’ve learned to develop healthier interactions with others and ways I’ve helped others along the recovery path.
This journey will continue and includes the present moment. Never believe someone when they say they have fully healed. To me, Nirvana is not an end point but a process where progress has been made. The rosy picture of Nirvana is meant to attract people in the earlier stages of recovery.
Sorting out and clarifying what is in my mind has been the major part of my recovery. Being able to say that something is wrong, something needs to be fixed, things need to change is living without denial. Those that deny there is grave injustice in the world, that the United States is evil and is horribly flawed, that things are getting worse in the world are unable to see what is going on.
Those that need to join a group to think, to feel, to believe are drugging themselves. These are not healthy interactions. There is no way to really help others in these situations. One is teaching spiritual and intellectual death.
We can’t help others if we haven’t helped ourselves get better. Of course, this is a process. What is considered the 12th step in recovery programs (carrying the message to others) can be done at all levels of healing, but it is more effective with deeper healing.
One cannot truly help others if one is still programmed.
Those that have not worked through their memories and the connected parts of these can’t really help others. This applies to helping professionals as well. If one is not grounded, but is uncontrollably emotionally labile, or fear driven, they are not healed and present an unhealthy model.
What works for me?
Learning – always being willing to learn, wanting to know more, reading between the lines and not taking things as present value. Like the news were are given every day. Understanding why certain stories are given to us and others are never reported.
Understanding that programming runs from media and social control to controlling human beings by ritual abuse and mind control. We aren’t thinking for ourselves if we are copying others without analyzing our motives.
How others manipulate (unethical actions).
They control information. Important data about social injustice (poverty, hunger, lack of housing or health care) or severe child abuse is hidden from most of the public.
Bullying to silence the abused. Name calling, insults, harassment, threats, creating false fear.
Ad hominem, off topic discreditation:
Instead of debating a person’s position, make fun of them or insult a point not related to their research to make them look bad
Attempt to destroy their professional status:
destroy careers, licenses, ignoring the detrimental effects this may cause.
They have developed a severely distorted view of reality, the opposite of what is going on in the world.
Damage of negative philosophies and actions.
What we do and how we do it is more important than the results. (Means vs Ends)
We have built a world where disrespect is often the norm and encouraged.
This has developed due to an unmonitored Internet with almost no repercussions, the decay of family and social systems, the continued reliance on capitalistic economic systems and the increase and development of social propaganda and mind control techniques.
George Orwell:
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Breaking free.
Recovering and growing regardless of social decay and the development and promotion of evil philosophies.
Follow your own path. Most paths are corrupted. Some that pretend to be just and fair are the opposite. Don’t get fooled by others. See things clearly.
Refuse to give in. Do what is right. Help others. Care about others. Give all you can of yourself to make things better.
Things appear to be falling apart, at least here in America. More shootings, more roads falling apart, more homeless and lost people and more hate everywhere.
This does not stop personal growth. It can increase it and increase our awareness of how things are and what is right.
Do the right thing.
