-Caveat Lector- The following selection is excerpts from "Ritual Abuse - What It Is, Why It Happens, How to Help" by Margaret Smith, HarperSanFrancisco, c 1993 p 82 - 90 Sincerely, Neil Brick PS I think the real trick is to recognize when one is under mind control or in a cult or cultish group online or offline (this of course applies to me as well) This may be very triggering for survivors of abuse. Programming Many groups deliberately program ideas and beliefs into their victims during overwhelmingly painful torture sessions...Survivors are usually programmed with specific information about how to behave outside the cults. While being tortured, they are told to never talk about the abuse. They are told how to act and who to have as friends....Hypnosis and torture are used to gain control of every aspect of victims' lives...hypnosis and torture are used to program where to go to school, what to do as a job, and even who to marry. Programming also involves teaching children that they are somehow superior to others. This common brainwashing tactic alienates the children from any sense of belonging with other(s)... (IMO, this may occur in online and offline cults) Triggers Victims are programmed under torture to respond to specific triggers, such as certain colors or words. Using the trigger stimulus, the cults are able to contact the personalities who were born during the torture. After being triggered, survivors forget what they did in the other personality. The groups use trigger words or symbols to bring survivors to meetings or rituals against their will...programming is about control. It is about brainwashing...programming is designed to protect the group's secrecy...without even realizing it, survivors respond to triggers and programs they learned during their childhood. (Programming is stronger) when brainwashing is intertwined with the survivors' true feelings. (My note: online and offline cults may use a person's feelings to manipulate them and possibly even make them very codependent.) ...Children raised together in violent cults develop powerful bonds....cults use their close relationships to keep survivors bonded to the group. ...the fact that most people do not believe that ritual abuse exists adds to the power cults have over their victims...many survivors never find the help they need to break free...groups are able to move in and pull survivors back at their weakest moments....violent cults want children to believe they are all-powerful...that they have magical powers. (My note: online and offline cults may use fear to scare people into believing that they shouldn't talk badly about that group.) DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
