Healing The Effects of Ritual Abuse and Mind Control Experiments
by Robert Lingenfelter
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.]
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