Svali The Suite 101 Articles Part 2, 6-10
Introduction
These articles were published by Svali on a website called Suite 101 between Mar 2000 and at Oct 2002. Svali is an ex high level programmer in the Illuminati. At first she thought she was a US regional programmer until more memories from mind control surface and she found she was a high level Jesuit programmer.
The articles are available on the wayback archive but they are valuable so I reproduce them here. The best tradeoff of my time / article accessibility is to do them five at a time. It is easier for me to index them all properly at the end of the whole process, but for now I will just include links at the beginning and end of each post.
[6] 2000 May 8 Survivors Speak Out on Remembering: Part two
[7] 2000 May 20 Survivors Speak Out: on Dissociation: Part One
[8] 2000 May 21 On Dissociation: Part Two
[9] 2000 Jun 3 How the Cult Makes Money
[10] 2000 Jun 15 How the Cult Programs People
Survivors Speak Out on Remembering: part two
Survivors Speak Out, part two:
Survivors of ritual abuse come from all over the world. This is not a phenomenon limited to the United States or Europe.
John, a survivor outside the U.S., shares his process of remembering: I did not always remember. As with many sexual assault survivors and because of the violence and threats done to them, I was not able or allowed to remember. In 1974 I was 16 and I saw the movie, The Exorcist. It triggered an uncomfortableness and because of the brainwashing and lies "my family would be killed" I couldn't get consciousness and clarity. I ran away though on this subconcious and yet still powerful fear. I then got brainwashed again and it blotted out all my memory and the abuse that was happening then. In 1992, I met a ritual abuse survivor in an incest survivors group and after about six months of listening to her, I realised that I had been, and was then also being, ritually abused. The brainwashing was so strong that it took six months of listening to another survivor to assist me to have consciousness and clarity.
Abigail is another survivor who has always remembered some things: We always had part memories indicating such, though we didn't know what to label it, i.e. going to grade school and then my father would show up with an excuse to take me out of school. He would take me to the grocery store he worked at and sit me in the cooler room to sort numbers for pricing. Even though it was very cold in that room, he would tell his co-workers that I was sick and he was taking me to the Doctor. We would leave at noon time and then there would be no memory for the next 3 days. I know it was 3 days because the note my mother wrote for me to give my teacher always said that I was absent with a 3 day flu. Other things were almost life-long inexplicable fears and reactions to things that are otherwise pretty much commonplace. Still can't light a match but do ok with a lighter. The fear with an unlighted match in my hand is overwhelming panic and terror feeling very young. There are many others, too long to list here but they are this specific rather than general. Definition of ritual abuse came later in adulthood during a support group for sexual abuse survivors. We, as a group of survivors, were reading and working out of a book together. There were lists for identifying sexually abused girls and boys and then a chapter and list for identifying ritual abuse. All our fears were listed, our reactions, our body pains. All never had explanation before were now explained within the context of ritual abuse and as things fell into place, things began to make sense. Our reaction to this was more, "Oh no, no, that can't be so!" then it was the "Ahhh, now it makes sense." For us, memories have surfaced more in an age-based chronological order with only few exceptions, i.e. related issues at a later age.
Ian, an eleven year old child, shares his experience: I always knew I had inside people. I could see them and talk to them. One time, I remembered something, and two nights later, one of my inside people told my leader that I remembered, it was an inside kid who "squealed" on me. They hit me, and then they shocked me, yelling at me I was to never remember, ever, or it would be worse for me. They then made me run, shooting bullets over my head, and laughing. I was really afraid then, when I first remembered again, when I got away from them. I was sure someone was going to come and get me, or hurt me. In fact, at night, I need someone with me so I can fall asleep. Night is the worst, because that is when we would go to meetings. Daytime is great for me.
Svali also remembered gradually: I had struggled with depression all of my life, but without a reason. I was labeled "endogenous" depression. My ex-husband and I entered marriage counseling for conflicts. One day the therapist told me, "Won't it be good when the tremendous guilt that I see in you is gone." Guilty was out then, and I ran to a corner and crouched, saying "But if the guilt is gone, then I will be gone." I then had a spontaneous memory of being hurt. The counselor had no idea what it was, and neither did I. That night, when I got home, while washing the dishes, I remembered my father abusing me. I ran into my bedroom, stuffed a pillow in my mouth, and screamed as the memory came out. The rage, the hurt, the pain were all there. As time went on, other memories came forward, all spontaneously, usually at home. I had always remembered my family's dysfunctionality: that my stepfather was an alcoholic, that my mother would beat her children, that my sister and brothers and I all tried to commit suicide many times growing up. They had to cut my 8 year old brother down when he tried to hang himself. But other things I had blocked, because it hurt too much until I felt safer and was older, able to deal with it.
Frank remembers: I knew I was different. I would find things in my room that I had never bought, or would wake up in a strange city with no idea how I got there, would find out I had a job for several months, a bank account, a girlfriend! I moved around a lot, was afraid to get close to anyone, or they would find out my "secret". But one day, I was in drug rehab several years ago, and it happened. My grandfather, one of my biggest perpetrators died, and I had flashback after flashback about him. I was given his masonic ring, and just looking at it, I remembered more. I went into therapy, and right away inside people came out and started talking. They figured that once he was dead, it was safe to talk.
Alex, a survivor from the West Coast, shares: I had no idea that it was happening until last year when I started to remember. I'm over 50, so there's a lot to remember! I don't talk about this with my family, I don't want to hurt them. I have all of this stuff about my life growing up that makes sense now. I always knew my family wasn't normal, that things weren't right. I always had a lot of rage, I would throw things against the wall and scream and yell without knowing why. But now, I'm finding out where the rage came from. I am getting better now, and feel better than I ever had in my life, because before all that rage was bottled up inside, and now it is getting released and healed. Someday I will tell my sister, because I want her to get out too, but it isn't time yet. I need to heal more.
As clearly illustrated by these accounts, many survivors HAVE remembered some things all of their life - or had indications that something traumatic happened. Others have progressed through a more gradual process of remembering. All, however, are courageously working at dealing with some of the most overwhelming abuse that a young child or adult can experience (and still survive): Ritual Abuse. I am greatly inspired by their courage and honesty in sharing here.
c. 2000 svali
[6] 2000 May 8 Survivors Speak Out on Remembering: part two https://web.archive.org/web/20040323070645/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39026
Survivors Speak Out: on Dissociation: Part One
Survivors speak out on: Dissociation
One of the most lingering effects of ritual abuse in a survivor's life is the reality of dissociation. Dissociation can take many forms, and describes a complex continuum of methods to cope psychologically with intense pain. Ritual abuse is some of the most horrendous psychological pain and trauma that a human being can face and survive. Often coping with its effects manifests in the form of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and DID (dissociative identity disorder, formerly called MPD).
DID has caused some controversy in the media: is it real, does it exist? The DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, published by the American Psychiatric Association) certainly recognizes it as a reality, and defines it as:
The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states (each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self). At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person's behavior. Inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., blackouts or chaotic behavior during Alcohol Intoxication) or a general medical condition (e.g., complex partial seizures). Note: In children, the symptoms are not attributable to imaginary playmates or other fantasy play. Dissociative Identity Disorder is also referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder. *Note: I find it extremely interesting that supposed "syndromes" such as "false memory" are not listed in the largest book for diagnosing psychological disorders in the world; perhaps because there is absolutely NO objective evidence for the reality of this supposed syndrome?
But what is it like to live with the lasting effects of trauma? In my survey, I asked survivors to share what the reality is like for them, as they deal with DID in their life. I believe that their insights and experiences as well as courage in coping with the effects of ritual abuse in day to day life speaks far more than any scholarly definitions.
Ellen, a survivor of cult abuse, is not DID but describes the symptoms of PTSD that she experienced when first getting out of a cult group: When I was initially out of the cult I would feel waves of terror going through my body. There was nothing that I could do to relieve this. I just had to wait it out. These terror waves would come often during the times that the cult was “praying”. I slept very little the first year that I was out and still have trouble getting quality sleep. That first year I would doze and then awaken in terror with the programming of the cult going through my mind……the warnings of disaster and hell, etc. I would sometimes experience darkness surrounding my bed. I was terrified of the cult coming to kidnap me or to harm my daughter.
It was difficult for me to focus with all of this going on. I would have floating episodes and lose touch withwhat was happening around me. I had been programmed to never speak of the inner workings of the cult or any peculiarities with the leaders. To talk was quite a battle. Once I told someone, I would be up all night trying to work through the fear from breaking the silence which had been imposed upon me. I would often be in a state of full blown panic. I had also been programmed to “never leave my post”……..so I tended to isolate.
It was a major battle to go anywhere. When I did go anywhere, I was fearful of running into a member of the cult. I was programmed to perform ritualistic “prayers” every hour. I no longer performed these rituals; but had to work through lots of guilt feelings and the fear of satan attacking me because I did not do as told. The doubts that maybe I had left the only group to lead the Church and the world into the new era would flood me. I could almost hear the voice of the leader telling me why the bizarre things that were done in the cult were valid. I had to work hard to function since my thoughts were scattered and confused. It took a long time before I could shed some of the props of this cult……..like wearing a rosary with a crucifix around my neck. I feared that if I took them off that satan would attack.
Joanne, another survivor, describes her reaction to her recent diagnosis of DID: Just been diagnosed with it recently and still coming to terms with it, and having a lot of problems with it too, can't even admit to people who know and are aware (like psychiatrists) of what is going on. Nobody other than my therapist and psychiatrist know of my diagnosis, but will only talk about it with my therapist as I know she doesn't judge me in any way. My alters (and I hate that word too) have only just begun to make their presence before other people, usually its when I'm just with my kids or by myself (especially driving), although for a number of years I have been aware of the voices inside my head and I thought I was going crazy. Constantly asked about voices but always denied it because I felt that it was a sign of madness basically, but they were always referring to schitzophrenia voices as in auditary hallucinations and not the voices in my head.
John, a survivor from outside the United States, has some excellent things to say about DID and how he views it: I have issues with the negative term of “dissociative identity disorder”. Firstly, dissociation is a natural and very sane and creative way of dealing with abuse and memories of abuse. It becomes a “disorder” when working people (working and middle class people) are told that they have to fit into what society expects with a work routine. It also puts a sole emphasis upon the abuse that caused and causes the dissociation. There is also an injustice as ritual abuse is generally not accepted by society. It would be better put that the abuse has stopped me from have a fully functional life.
Vicky, a fifteen year old, discusses her experiences with DID which resulted from ritual abuse: I hate that I have people inside sometimes. I wish it would all go away. At school, my friends tease me. They say, "why do you sound just like a little kid?" I joke back and tell them "Oh, you know me, I"m always acting". It's so embarrassing. My littles like stuff, though, like candy or hugs. I didn't ask for this, it just happened, and feels so unfair at times.
copyright 2000 svali
[7] 2000 May 20 Survivors Speak Out: on Dissociation: Part One https://web.archive.org/web/20040224051745/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39908
Survivors Speak Out: On dissociation, Part Two:
Frank, a male survivor of ritual abuse both in the U.S. and Canada, shares what being DID means to him: Being DID has made me feel distrustful of people at times. There was so much hurt to me, and that's why I dissociated, so my protectors don't trust a lot. It has made me hate God at times, too, since I wonder why I have to have this inside, why I have to deal with it. It isn't always easy, trust me.
One good thing: at work, I can work longer and harder than most people, because there are more of me! I work outside in the hot sun, so that helps. Also, I have lots of interests, more than you would expect, since so many inside people like different things. It's never boring, never, inside. I have always had a valley inside, since I was little, peopled with animals, dragons, and people that comforted me when I was going through the worst times.The animals inside still have trouble believeing that they are part of a human being; they protected me through so much that it was easier pretending that I was an animal than a person.
Abigail, a survivor of ritual abuse, discusses the effects of being DID in her life: We were preliminary diagnosed with DID in 1993 and then officially in 1995. Up until diagnosis, nothing made much sense. We would have what we called circle days where you start your day doing something and at the end of the day you're right back where you started. We suffered more from the lack of knowledge and understanding and were the target of much verbal abuse, loss of friends, lacked defenses against abuse to even recognize it, extremely low self esteem, couldn't account for time or things said or done or not done and suffered much verbal degredation and recrimination for 'mistakes'. What couldn't be explained was taken on as something that was our fault.
After the diagnosis, alot of this has remained the same except, now I recognize abuse and will fight to get to the position to stand up against it. When I've lost time, etc. internal communication helps me put the pieces together. We (me and my others) don't regularly work cooperatively together but we do more of that now and days go much smoother for the most part. Circle days are becoming rarer, especially as integration takes place. Self esteem is at a better level but not where it needs to be to be called healthy...but it's getting there.
Strategies to cope/help are making sure I listen to my others and communicate with them. Making time for my others to orient with the present and find or fulfill a dream of theirs before they integrate. Notes and keeping calendars especially. I keep a calendar on the wall in my room...those write on kinds. I keep a small calendar with me to write appointments in when I'm at therapy, drs. etc. I keep an organizer to keep track of everything, calendar, lists, phone numbers, expenses, etc. and I keep a calendar and note pad in my car. At the end of the day or beginning of the day, I review all these to update them and then list out what my day holds even to the most minute detail such as 6am - take a shower.
My struggles are identifying boundaries and maintaining them. I have a very demanding husband and very demanding children who are adults but living at home. I struggle with the perception of everything having to be perfect and perfectly done because I fear punishment, rejection, verbal abuse, emotional detachment, etc. from others. I'm like a tightly wound clock just about every day. I can't think of any joys being DID outside of finding people through the internet that are like me and we can share and identify with each other, encouraging each other as we heal. Humor? Well after my diagnosis and telling my husband and kids about it and what it means. About a year later, my son was cleaning his closet and decided that he didn't have enough room, nor did he want any of his friends to see that he had a couple of suits in his closet. So he put them in mine. Learning some of the signs of multiplicity, varying clothes being one of them, you can imagine my expression and reaction at finding a couple of men's suits in my closet! I was completely flabbergasted! My son, seeing my distress, quickly told me what he had done and why they were there. That provided some relief except for a male alter about my son's size took a real liking to the suits, shoes included. I have more female alters so out in public, we over power his desire so we don't look completely out of whack. :o)
Svali, a survivor of ritual abuse, discusses her DID: I have been working hard to bring everyone together. I admire what my people took for me so much. If they hadn't been there, I would never have survived, I would be a blithering idiot or psychotic. I have told them thank you many many times. It's hard, though, when parts who were so invested in the cult, in working for them and thought they had moved up the ladder, got pissed at me for leaving. Or when untrusting parts try to sabotage therapy, or friendships, because some of them to this day don't trust ANYONE and probably never will. I am co-conscious with most, if not all, of them, though, and they cooperate so I can work and be a Mom. I think some of them are really cool, especially Brogan. He's my favorite, he has an Irish accent and is really smart and helps me out if I need good advice. It's neat to be able to ask myself for advice when I need it, and get an answer!
Not all survivors of ritual abuse dissociate or become DID. In response to the question "If present, how has dissociation affected you" Eric responds: N/A. Although the cracks are there, I never fragmented in a significant way.
Ian, an eleven year old survivor of ritual abuse, shares a younger perspective: My protectors are cool. When I was in California, Jason, one of my inside people who was taught to fight by the cult, could beat ANYONE in a fight. I got into lots of fights at school, because if someone teased me or upset me, Jason would come out. Now, I don't fight as much, I get along with people better. I'm the one who goes to school and does stuff, and he doesn't have to step in for me. But I worry that I'm getting weaker, that I can't fight as good since he doesn't come out as much. I also have someone inside, Mei, who can do karate. It is awesome when he comes out, because I never learned it, but he sure does. He won't let anyone ever beat me up.
copywrite 2000 by svali
[8] 2000 May 21 On Dissociation: Part Two https://web.archive.org/web/20040107020021/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39909
How the Cult Makes Money
How the Cult Makes Money
Besides its agenda of power and spiritual abuse, the cult (specifically here the Illuminati) has another basis for existing: making money.
Many people are unaware of the large amounts of money that have been generated by the illegal/criminal activities that the cult is involved in. In this article, I plan to share some of these activities, based on my memories of being a member of the Illuminati in both Virginia and San Diego, Ca. I will not use names to protect myself, all activities are "alleged". I will let the reader be the one to decide if my "allegations" are credible or not.
Before I address the cult's money making enterprises, I do want to address one other thing: the huge amount of time that the cult spends in silencing its members. From earliest childhood on in generational groups, and as adults as well, members of groups involved in the types of activities that I will discuss have one overriding rule: you do NOT tell, you do NOT remember, or you will be severely punished. A child growing up in this group will have seen set-ups and actual torture sessions where a person who told or remembered was brutally punished. This creates an unforgettable impression on a young mind, of say a three or four year old. They are usually inclined to not tell, either as children or as adults. I am taking a huge risk myself in writing this article, but I feel this information needs to be known. I cannot sit still and let darkness triumph.
In the few cases where children did disclose (see my article on "Survivors speak out on remembering") they were not believed. This is why more members do not speak up on the activities that they have witnessed at night, even when they have left an abusive group. It often takes years of therapy and working through these traumatic memories before the former member feels safe enough to disclose what they know. My hope is that my article will be the first of many that others will write, revealing the seamier underside of these abusive groups. Perhaps the public will decide that these groups must be stopped. This is my greatest wish.
Any group must have income to survive. The logistics demand it: gas for travel, for uniforms, for expenses. Wealthy members may help fund a group, but it is better if the group can come up with its own expenses. And the Illuminati have done this at the local level quite well. How do they make money?
1. Pornography, both child and adult. Pornography is a big money making business around the world. This money is often made at the expense of young children, to feed the appetites of those with money to spend. The cult will often ask parent to "lend" their child for photography sessions, often starting at a very young age. (I have heard of three year olds being used). The child is taken to a private studio, usually based in someone's home. This is the first step in a long and heartbreaking life of being used for pornography, that will continue until the child grows into adulthood.
The child will often be drugged to make it more compliant. It will be praised for a job done well, given candy and praise and attention. (I had to sit in on a few sessions when I was a teenager in Virginia, to learn about this part of the group's activities). Trainers will help create "personalities" that will willingly work in this area of making money, and will then get these personalities addicted to drugs or alcohol to make them more compliant.
The people who create the photos/videos are usually low-ranking cult members, or they may not even be members. The parents who supply children are brokered through other members of the group. But the money is funneled upwards, through four layers (or "buffers" as they are called) to the real financiers of these enterprises. The men/women creating the pornography receive a "cut" of the money, ie paid for what they do. But some of the money is sent to intermediaries, who launder the money through charitable front organizations before it reaches the hands of the upper levels of the cult. They, much like the Mafia, always receive their share of the money, and invest it in banking enterprises. They will also help provide good lawyers and protection (again, through several layers of intermediaries) to protect their "investment".
2.Prostitution. Again, like pornography, this is a huge money-making enterprise. Children and adults are both used, in much the same manner. Cult trainers also work with these individuals to create "personalities" that will come out on cue and perform their duties. This can range from ordinary prostitution to being high level "consorts" to political figures. They are also often taught to set up a political figure, with hidden photos, if the cult wants someone they can blackmail or try to control. They are also occasionally sent to pastors of churches, to break up the church, or to extract information needed from a client. The money is laundered through the same methods discussed above, and the true financiers will invest it either here or abroad. (Belgium, Cairo, Egypt, and Liberia are favorite investment countries). Several large well-known financial institutions involved in national and international banking have been involved in these ways.
3. Gun running. This can involve the shipment or transport of arms anywhere in the world, across the Canadian or Mexican border, or on private ships around the world. Illegal arms generate a lot of money. Again, the true financiers are buffered by several layers from the people doing the actual work. The couriers often have no idea who is actually funding the runs, they are taught to do their jobs unquestioningly. They work on pain of death to not disclose who they are actually working for, and there will always be a dummy "front" group whom they are ostensibly taking shipments for. Again, several layers up the money is laundered. There are benevolent groups that receive checks from hundred of sources for small amounts, that add up over time, and the money is broken up and sent out to these groups, or to the hundreds of sponsers who will reinvest the money at a later time.
4. Drugs. The cult is often involved in making money from drug smuggling and selling. The Mafia is well aware that there is another group of people involved in illegal enterprises, a group that they do not like to mess with. There is an unwritten but well understood division on the streets about which group controls which territory, as well as frequent "business partnerships" between the Mafia and lower level Illuminists who are intermediaries. There are at least three to four levels of intermediaries between the distributors and smugglers who are actually involved, and the people who are behind the financing of the operation. None of the levels know who they are actually working for, as a protective mechanism. Front groups and cooperations are created to divert the knowledge of where the money is finally ending up.
The cult also uses drugs during its programming sessions, to control lower members, and to reward good performance. Higher level members of the group are not allowed to use drugs or alcohol, since it impairs judgement and makes the person a security risk. But they have no qualms about letting lower level members, such as prostitutes or smugglers, become addicted to drugs as a further way to control them. Also, "accidental" overdoses have been known to be used to dispose of someone considered a security risk or no longer useful.
5. Buying and selling military access codes. On military bases around the world, there are large computers with access to almost any other computer system. Access codes that allow entry into these systems go for large amounts of money.
In San Diego, I used to help set up or even acted as a courier a couple of times to buy access codes for Camp Pendleton. There were three people on the base who were contact people, under orders to advise us when codes were going to be changed (on pain of death). Military access codes (to their computers) are changed at random intervals every few months, and the contact people would alert the cult to this fact. An exchange of money or goods would be made in return for the new codes. Often a harmless looking person, such as a housewife, a college student, or even an older teenager would pick up the code by meeting the contact in a specified place off the base, but nearby. The cult (Illuminati) would then make money selling these codes to interested individuals.
There are other activities that the cult is involved in to make money, including selling security information; blackmail and extortion, hired assassinations, to name just a few.
The Illuminati will have administrators on every local leadership council whose job it is to administrate the local group's finances, among other duties. During leadership council meetings they will report to the leader on the accounts, how the money has been invested (using front corporations, of course), and how money has been spent. There is a huge amount of accountability, and no one in their right mind even considers embezzling, since retaliation is swift and sure, that makes the Columbians and Mafia look like charitable people.
Accounts and their access codes are locked up within encrypted programs on disk that only the administrators and the local head of the council can access. Funds are quietly invested in stocks, bonds, in local businesses, in charitable and benevolent groups, in creating false businesses, or even real ones that divert the money flow. This is all accounted for during council meetings, as well as special financial meetings.
The cult is a huge money-making enterprise. As such, they can afford excellent lawyers and expert witnesses to protect their members should any allegations be made against them. They believe with a certainty that they are truly invulnerable to litigation, "above the law" and laugh arrogantly at the thought of ever being caught. It will take years of investigation, courage, and the willingness to survive intense harrassment before the truth about this financial web could be known to the general public. My greatest hope is that someday, this group will no longer be able to profit at the expense of human lives, especially those of the very young and innocent.
copyright 2000 svali
[9] 2000 Jun 3 How the Cult Makes Money https://web.archive.org/web/20031009123409/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/40931
How the Cult Programs People
How the Cult Programs People Part one
This article, consistent with others I have written, is a very difficult one personally. Why? Because it touches on some of the things that I am most ashamed of in my own life. I used to be a cult programmer, or "trainer" as they are called, and here I will share some of what I did or witnessed while in that role. I also went through these things as a child, so this article is also quite autobiographical as well. Autobiography can be a moment of boasting, of quiet joy, or intense pain. Mine falls in the latter category, to say the least. But I am hoping with all of my heart that sharing my pain will help others avoid this pain, or will help society better understand what survivors go through.
This article will in no means be a complete treatment of the subject. Cult programming is a complex subject, one that would fill volumes and volumes if dealt with beyond a surface description. Also, I can only write from my own experiences with the Illuminati, which is one of several groups operating today, and about the techniques used in the Washington, DC area and in San Diego, Ca. Other localities might use very different techniques.
This article does NOT take the place of advice from a qualified therapist, and is meant to be informative only. If you are a survivor of cult abuse, please be aware that this article and the subject it covers could be extremely triggering, and keep yourself safe.
Why does the cult train or program people? In earlier articles, I have mentioned the goals they have of:
making money
secrecy
unquestioning loyalty in their members
Programming, or training, is one method that the cult has found that will ensure that these goals are met. In the Illuminati, the programmers are called "trainers" because the belief is that they are not abusing, but "training" the future generation. The trainers actually believe that they are doing a good thing, "strengthening" the children, helping them to get in touch with their "potential."
Some of these methods have been around for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. I will divide cult programming into five major categories, and address each one separately:
1. training to be silent
2. training to be strong
3. training to be loyal
4. training for jobs in the group
5. spiritual training
The first category, training to be silent, begins at a very young age, frequently preverbal. This is accomplished in several ways, depending upon the child and the trainer, and can include:
Being asked after a ceremony what the child saw and heard. The very young child may just say "bad things", and is punished severely and brutally, and told that no, they didn't really see those things. This is repeated at frequent intervals, until the child learns to block the ceremonies. Often, a "protector" or "guardian" alter will be created from the abuse, whose job is to ensure that the child will not remember what is seen. This protector is told that if the child does remember, brutal punishment will follow.
Another method involves electroshocking the child, and placing them into a deep hypnotic trance, where they are told that they will not remember what they have seen or heard, that it is all "just a bad dream." The child WANTS to forget, and will be eager to agree.
Psychological torture may be used: mock burials, being placed in cages, abandonment, being hung over a bridge, with the child later being "rescued" and told that if they ever tell, they will be returned to the punishment.
Being forced to watch mock or real punishment or killing of a traitor who "told". When I was four years old, I was forced to watch a woman be skinned alive. Her crime: she disclosed to an outside person "family business". Talking to those outside the group is considered one of the worst crimes or betrayals a person can commit. A "traitor's death" is one of the most horrifying imaginable, and will vary from crucifixion upside down, to other gruesome scenarios. Young children do not forget seeing these things, and they become convinced that not disclosing is the safest way to continue living.
These set ups are done to ensure that a young child will not disclose the criminal activities that they are seeing in the course of group activites, or even as an adult, when they are more actively engaged in them.
Another set up also is frequently done: The "no one will believe you scenario" (this is usually done with school age children). The child is told repeatedly that even if they DO disclose that no one will believe them. The child is taken by a mental hospital, or even taken to visit an inmate briefly. Later, the child is told that people who disclose are considered "crazy" and sent to institutions, where they are punished severely and can never leave. These lies are told to reinforce once again the importance of not telling.
Another set up may include the "everyone is part of it" set up. The child is told that actually, everyone is secretly part of the group, but people are just good pretenders during the daytime. The child will be taken to dinner at a member's house, where everyone acts normal, then later a ritual or ceremony follows. The child will then believe that there is no escape, since everyone is part of the group. Since most of the adults close to his/her parents are part of the group, there is no reason to question the logic of what they are told.
The set ups and psychological conditioning to not tell are endless, limited only by the cruel creativity of the adults around the child.
Training to be strong:
This type of training will also begin at a very young age, often in the toddler years. The child is put through a series of conditioning exercises whose goals are to: increase the pain threshold increase physical fitness increase dissociative ability force quick memorization of material (school age child) create fear and the desire to please
These exercise might include: mock military training, with marches, and playing "prisoner and guard"; shocking the child; physical abuse and torture, drugging the child or adult; placing the child into cages, where they are shocked; deprivation of food, water, or sleep; abandonment for varying amounts of time; forcing the child to watch brutalities and the abuse of others. The child is taught to be completely silent during the above; to endure it without question. If the child screams, they are punished extremely, and told that this is "weakness". The child is taught to fear their own emotions, since they are quickly and mercilessly punished for expressing them. The scenes go on and on, the above are just a few methods used.
Training to be loyal
The third area of training encompasses a broad area of behaviour. Loyalty involves agreement with the group, espousing its doctrines and beliefs. This training is at times more subtle, but it also is one of the most powerful pulls to the group.
Adults in the group model complete loyalty to their children. Getting out, leaving, or questioning the group's beliefs are rarely or never seen, and the retaliation for questioning those in authority is quick and brutal. A person seen questioning the rightness of things, or balking at doing their job might be sent in for "retraining", ie being shocked and tortured back into submission.
But often adults often believe the goals of the group are GOOD. They are convinced that they are helping the children, and in classes children are taught why these beliefs are good; about the coming agenda for the group, where they will be the new leaders. Much discussion of the time when the group will "rule the world" is done, to show that they are actually ushering in a new order, when things will be "better for all."
Status and leadership are held out as carrots to group members to work harder and acheive. The rewards of leadership, of moving up, are real, and every member tries to advance themselves. Being higher means less abuse, being able to order others around, and more control in a life that has had precious little control.
Set ups, where a child is allowed to sit in a leader's seat, and is told that one day they, too, will lead, are often done, to increase the loyalty to the group. Awards ceremonies, where those who do well receive badges, jewels, or other rewards in front of others, are frequently done. A child who works hard, who performs well, is praised and allowed to join the adults for coffee or a meal, while the other children look enviously on.
As the child progresses through the system, they do move higher, since adults are always higher than a young child. Now the child who is growing older can boss the younger children, can tell them what to do, can even abuse them with the approval of the adults around. Being very young means being very abused and wounded in these groups; growing older means the chance to finally act out on the rage the abuse has caused. The child begins to identify with the abusing adults, since they are hurt less, and becomes invested in a cult identity as a perpetrator. This is strongly encouraged, as long as the perpetration is not directed at members older or higher than the child or teen.
This locks the child in, as having become "one of them", like them, and the child is bonded to the group by his/her own guilt and shame, as well as the need for outlets for rage and pain that the group allows. The child may feel ambivalence, but also extreme loyalty.
The group or trainer will also tell the child that they are the only ones that really know the child, having seen them act out. That they are the only ones who could see this, and still love them, that no one loves them the way "family" does. The child is bombarded with messages that the group truly accepts them, all of them, knowing the worst about them, to cement the loyalty. The group uses sophisticated techniques based on behavioural psychology to ensure that the child/teen/adult will not even consider leaving the group.
Another form of loyalty programming is "specialness programming". This is where the child is told by the adults or trainer that: they are "high", hidden royalty, or a "hidden" or "adopted" member of a high family line. The child may be told that they will be a world leader who is hidden for now; a special CIA agent, or "one in a thousand, a wunderkind" who will lead as an adult. They may be told that there are very few like them; that no one else can fill their special role; that they are of a special bloodline that is unbroken for thousands of years. This is to increase the child's loyalty to the group. If the child believes that they are merely waiting now for the revealing of their "true, elevated status" one day, they will be much more likely to develop loyalty bonds to the group. This is one of the cruelest tricks the group plays on children, since they have deprived them of normal love and caring, and instead replace it with a false sense of "specialness" or status. Very few survivors getting out of these groups believe that they were low; almost all believe that they were high, or were adopted, but their real family is high, for this reason. This was done to me as well, and as an adult, when I had to tell lies like this to children, I became more and more disillusioned with the group, one of many reasons I finally chose to leave it. I could no longer bear to listen to other trainers and scientists laughing about the gullibility of the people they worked with. I had once been a child, eager to please, and gullible myself. I had believed the lies, and it was a rude awakening to find out I was NOT adopted from a royal line, as I had been told. That I had been manipulated and deceived intentionally to increase my loyalty to the group.
[10] 2000 Jun 5 How the Cult Programs People https://web.archive.org/web/20031206213247/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/41699
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[6] 2000 May 8 Survivors Speak Out on Remembering: part two https://web.archive.org/web/20040323070645/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39026
[7] 2000 May 20 Survivors Speak Out: on Dissociation: Part One https://web.archive.org/web/20040224051745/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39908
[8] 2000 May 21 On Dissociation: Part Two https://web.archive.org/web/20040107020021/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/39909
[9] 2000 Jun 3 How the Cult Makes Money https://web.archive.org/web/20031009123409/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/40931
[10] 2000 Jun 15 How the Cult Programs People https://web.archive.org/web/20031206213247/http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/ritual_abuse/41699
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