Healing The Effects of Ritual Abuse
and Mind Control Experiments Nearly all educated adults acknowledge that intelligence
agencies of every major government, including the United States, have
embarked on efforts to establish and perfect
technologies of mind control. Ironically, most people are
unwilling to accept testimony of those who claim to have been
victims of such experiments. This is especially true when a
victim identifies military abuse at the hands of U.S. agencies;
Americans, after all are supposed to be the good guys. When
exposed to one such case, someone close to me remarked that he
would have no trouble accepting any of it...if it had happened
in the Soviet union.
Those who have done even cursory reading into the
subject of mind control have heard of the CIA's 1960s project,
MK-ULTRA, or its predecessor, ARTICHOKE. These cold war programs gave
the CIA carte blanche to explore the possibilities of controlling the
human mind. Virtually every reference to such experiments includes
documentation of these two programs as proof of our government's
willingness to do things that most of us would not approve. What is
rarely mentioned is that these "umbrella" programs encompass scores of
individual projects.
Although details about individual projects are sparse at
best, in Search for the Manchurian Candidate (Random House, 1980), a
well-established primer for this subject, author John D. Marks
documents what was left of their financial trails. Most investigators
overlook one very important fact: This
documentation applies only to the CIA. Until recently, mind
control activities of other intelligence agencies have only been
sources of speculation.
Similarly, when considering issues of government
coverups, including UFOs, it is assumed that the CIA is "the big dog
on the block." Why? Probably because the CIA is the most visible
facet of U.S. intelligence, and most of us have been raised to
associate these three initials with anything "secretive" about the
United States government. It is becoming increasingly clear that this
might not be the case.
:: A New Perspective Emerges ::
A body of information, which grows more compelling
almost daily, has surfaced in the past few years. A new perspective
on issues that range from mind control to "nonhuman" contact is
available for the first time. This perspective might have remained
hidden forever if not for the immeasurable strength and courage of
victims of various experiments who are beginning to come forward.
These people are beginning to recover memories suppressed by
technological means and to heal wounds inflicted upon them in the name
of national security. As noted in Gordon Thomas' Journey Into
Madness, The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse
(Bantam, 1989), these are not merely victims of random experiments
funded by the CIA at medical or academic institutions such as Canada's
Allen Memorial Hospital (some of whom have received out-of-court
settlements from the CIA in response to legal action). An increasing
number of victims now emerging recall details of experiments that
involve different agencies and military installations, and even
include being used by "operations" as mind-controlled human tools.
Why have such memories surfaced? How can spontaneous
memories of being used as an emotionless military-human tool be put
into context? What do these victims and their accounts have in
common? Are there researchable facts?
For decades the psychological community's knee-jerk
reaction and that of society as a whole has been that anyone who
claims experiences beyond what fit into the observer's comfort zone is
clearly "crazy." I have interviewed dozens of clinicians across the
country who proudly say that they are "not" investigators and feel no
compulsion to aid patients who seek corroboration of seemingly
outlandish memories that surface in the course of therapy. I have
also been involved in a case in which four therapists disregarded
corroborated memories as delusions, solely because of the horrific
nature of the abuse.
For most of this century, victims of sexual abuse were
thought to be "neurotic" or delusional. Until the past decade, people
struggling to heal from multiple personalities and ritualized abuse
were diagnosed as schizophrenic or as suffering from a schizophrenic
disorder. Ritual abuse does not necessarily mean Satanism. Rather it
includes repeated, highly-structured abuse over a long period of time.
The patterns of abuse can be
superimposed on virtually any orthodox belief system.
Survivors have been hospitalized and drugged until they
stopped displaying "symptoms" that were unpalatable to clinicians.
Yet, these symptoms are often an integral part of the natural healing
processes. This is where the connection lies.
When multiple personality disorder began to gain
acceptance as an identifiable and treatable product of extreme
dissociation, it forced the psychological community to accept the
existence of a form of child abuse that was previously inconceivable.
Only recently have the multifaceted systems of personalities in such
victims been identified as structured MPD- the creation of alter
personalities who carry certain beliefs or "jobs" as a result of
deliberately structured patterns of abuse. In other words... mind
control.
Simply put, when subjected to extreme trauma, many
children dissociate or withdraw into their own minds as a form of
escape. This leaves a void that is filled by the creation of another
personality who bears the pain. When the trauma ceases, the original
person is unaware of what happened. Because it
happened to "someone else," the victim is spared the horror or
pain. As more and more abuse is inflicted, more "alters" are
created. This establishes a "system of traumatized victims"
residing beneath amnesiac barriers within the mind of the
"multiple." These "traumatized alters" can be hollow and
fragmented or they can be complete "snap shots" of the victim at
the time of splitting that have remained frozen in pain though
decades passed. Until alters are allowed to emerge and heal,
memories as well as physical trauma are preserved with
photographic accuracy. When this includes reliving horrific
experiences through abreaction, it becomes one of the symptoms"
that has confused psychological professionals for years.
Once a propensity for splitting is established, other
personalities are created, often to care for the injured
children "inside." Other personalities may emerge as protectors
or to keep the secrets of abuse hidden, because letting out the
information would bring the "group" more abuse. These natural
survival mechanisms can and have been manipulated to create
"layers" of alters on more subliminal levels. These adaptive
alters can be programmed to perpetuate the will of the abusers
and even respond to "triggers" to carry out tasks without the
knowledge of the "host personality."
Deeper layers of "programmed" alters have been
discovered in adult multiples who have had the strength, courage and
support to heal their internal "family." Often these are enemies
within who attempt to stifle the healing process rather than to allow
the secrets out. After successful deprogramming, levels of
sophisticated mind-control efforts that penetrate deeper and deeper
into the mind have been discovered. Some have identified specific
government agencies using drugs, excessive electro-convulsive therapy
(ECT) "tones" and other technology to induce complex "altered states"
and break down the victim's personal defenses.
:: A Brutal History ::
It is from this hidden place, deep within the minds of
helpless victims, that some of the most brutal endeavors in human
history have been waiting to be revealed. By manipulating natural
processes of dissociation, perpetrators preserved in their victims the
very memories they sought to erase. They pushed the mechanisms of
multiple personalities in the minds of children beyond their limits at
a time when the international
psychological community thought the condition was a myth.
Wait! Experimenting on children? Adults finding that
their lives are shattered by emerging memories of horrific abuse?
"Layers" of hidden places within minds trying to heal from severe
trauma, including brutal sexual, physical and emotional abuse? How
credible could such accounts be? Why?
Patients in advanced stages of their healing processes
have spontaneously recalled and "relived" being exchanged or handed
over to government or military personnel as early as age three.
Completely independent cases recall being among groups of children who
were tested for their psychic ability and debriefed in military
settings. Interrogations by one intelligence agency to find out what
another agency was doing was common. Experiments included attempts to
communicate with dolphins. Other reports from underground facilities
in Nevada, New Mexico and California have included exposure to
extraterrestrials.
Bizarre? Yes, and unbelievable if not for researchable
consistency. Victim testimony for example, includes aspects of the
inner workings of the National Security Agency (NSA), such as the use
of color coding in security compartmentalization. They have clearly
identified medical and mind-control technology that is known to exist,
such as electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) as a memory disruption tool.
This was one of the noted side effects of ECT, which was taken to an
extreme in CIA-funded experiments. At least one victim has accurately
described remote facilities that have been confirmed to exist, such as
an NSA retreat nicknamed "The Farm," near Wilmington, Virginia. This,
combined with the sheer numbers of spontaneously emerging cases,
offers a compelling body of information.
This is the coupling of perhaps the most complex
psychological, political and conspiratorial issues ever raised. Has
the government been involved in fostering occult activity in certain
groups for the sake of creating a "farming ground" for mind-control
subjects? CIA funding of occult research is well
documented through the remaining financial record of that
agency's operations. Is there truth to the content of memories
preserved through suppression for nearly three decades? My own
research indicates there is. Details have been as striking as
literal translations of foreign languages overheard by victims;
and of corroborations between unrelated cases that have
identified the same perpetrator in the same place at the same
time.
Just as UFO abductee claims gain impetus from the sheer
number of unrelated, yet nearly identical cases, many surfacing
mind-control victims describe identical experiences. One big
difference is that beneath complex layers of conditioned
responses and barriers to memory, these victims are identifying
human technology that can be verified to exist, including the
use of tone-generating devices and electro-convulsive-therapy
equipment as tools to manipulate the mind or to suppress the
memory.
Accounts of "nonhuman" contact or of witnessing
abductions of "civilians" are consistent with abductee reports. In
fact, the only real obstacle to receiving these reports with some
degree of credibility is the belief that no individual could endure so
much. It is a conceptual limitation not a contradiction in the memory
of the victim.
[Bob Lingenfelter is the significant other of one such
survivor and is founder of the Society for the Investigation of
Dissociative Response, a professional association dedicated to
research, therapeutic development and survivor support.]
From Perceptions, March/April 1995
by Robert Lingenfelter