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“Often it isn鈥檛 the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.”
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
― Gift of the Dreamtime - Reader's Companion
“Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.”
― Satan's High Priest
― Satan's High Priest

“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.
Valerie Sinason, (Forward)”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Valerie Sinason, (Forward)”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.”
― The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
― The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.”
― Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law
― Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“I won't let that night ruin you forever." But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.”
― The Secret of Ella and Micha
― The Secret of Ella and Micha

“I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.
I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?”
― Girls Like Us
I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?”
― Girls Like Us
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders, personality disorders, psychotic thinking, and a host of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance abuse. In my view, DID is simply an extreme version of the dissociative structure of the psyche that characterizes us all.”
― The Dissociative Mind
― The Dissociative Mind
“The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child鈥檚 world to be devastated. A single experience can have a profound impact on a child鈥檚 life. A man sticks his hand in his daughter鈥檚 underpants, or strokes his son鈥檚 penis once, and for that child, the world is never the same again.”
― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
― Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
“The power we discover inside ourselves as we survive a life-threatening experience can be utilized equally well outside of crisis, too. I am, in every moment, capable of mustering the strength to survive again鈥攐r of tapping that strength in other good, productive, healthy ways.”
― Before the World Intruded
― Before the World Intruded

“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or cast and case traumatic shadows over the whole of adult life?
We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. However, accepting the way a hurt and hurting parent or stranger re-enacts their disturbance with a vulnerable child or children remains far easier to digest than to consider the intellectually planned, scientific, methodical, procedures of organized child-abusing perpetrators-in other words, torture.”
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We might, as a society, slowly find it possible to accept that one in four citizens are likely to have experience some form of emotional, psychical, sexual or spiritual abuse (McQueen, Itzin, Kennedy, Sinason, & Maxted, 2008), in itself a figure unimaginable and hidden twenty years ago. However, accepting the way a hurt and hurting parent or stranger re-enacts their disturbance with a vulnerable child or children remains far easier to digest than to consider the intellectually planned, scientific, methodical, procedures of organized child-abusing perpetrators-in other words, torture.”
―

“...Things happened
when you were little. Things you
don't remember now, and don't want
to. But they need to escape,
need to worm their way out
of that dark place in your brain
where you keep them stashed.”
― Fallout
when you were little. Things you
don't remember now, and don't want
to. But they need to escape,
need to worm their way out
of that dark place in your brain
where you keep them stashed.”
― Fallout
“鈥s methodical abuse, often using indoctrination, aimed at breaking the will of another human being. In a 1989 report, the Ritual Abuse Task Force of the L.A. County Commission for Women defined ritual abuse as: 鈥淩itual Abuse usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful,humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim.The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members 鈥ost victims are in a state of terror, mind control and dissociation鈥 (Pg. 35-36)”
― Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
― Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse

“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided with beautiful tools for understanding the impact of trauma. We become adept at understanding the dynamic of why the messenger is always shot and broadcast the Bionic insight of why the visionary is not bearable to the group.
However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and deliberately created dissociative identity disorder, we enter the least resourced field of all.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
However, when it comes to military mind control, abuse within religious belief groups or cults, and deliberately created dissociative identity disorder, we enter the least resourced field of all.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“Since the 1980s, therapists have reported encountering clients or patients who had experienced extreme abuses featuring physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive aspects, along with a premeditated structure of torture-enforced lessons. The phenomena was first labeled "ritual abuse," and, later, as our understanding developed, "mind control.”
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
― Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control

“Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.”
― Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
― Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism

“The observer self, a part of who we really are, is that part of us that is watching both our false self and our True Self. We might say that it even watches us when we watch. It is our Consciousness, it is the core experience of our Child Within. It thus cannot be watched鈥攁t least by anything or any being that we know of on this earth. It transcends our five senses, our co-dependent self and all other lower, though necessary parts, of us.
Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense 鈥渇alse observer self鈥 since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it 鈥渟paces鈥 or 鈥渘umbs out.鈥 It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.”
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
Adult children may confuse their observer self with a kind of defense they may have used to avoid their Real Self and all of its feelings. One might call this defense 鈥渇alse observer self鈥 since its awareness is clouded. It is unfocused as it 鈥渟paces鈥 or 鈥渘umbs out.鈥 It denies and distorts our Child Within, and is often judgmental.”
― Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families

“I鈥檝e seen daggers pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.”
―
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.”
―
“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life”
― Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse
― Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse

“He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.”
― Winter Birds
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.”
― Winter Birds
“Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted crosses, sounds like the stuff of which B-grade horror movies are made. Some think amoral religious cults only populate the world of Rosemary's Baby, but don't exist in real life.
Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill.”
― Twenty-Two Faces
Or, do they? Ask Jenny Hill.”
― Twenty-Two Faces

“There are no injuries that run so deep that one can't add insult to them and make them feel even worse.”
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“Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.”
― Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse
― Heart of Darkness: How I Triumphed Over a Childhood of Abuse
“By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states, each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature鈥 (p52)”
― Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country
― Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed to Kill for Their Country

“A bad thing happened to you kids, Dad said. But it could have been worse.
So much worse, Mom said.
But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.
You did so good, Mom said.
Did beautiful, Dad said.”
― Tenth of December
So much worse, Mom said.
But because of you kids, Dad said, it wasn't.
You did so good, Mom said.
Did beautiful, Dad said.”
― Tenth of December
“Ritual abuse diagnosis research 鈥 excerpt from a chapter in: Lacter, E. & Lehman, K. (2008).Guidelines to Differential Diagnosis between Schizophrenia and Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Traumatic Stress. In J.R. Noblitt & P. Perskin(Eds.), Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-first Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations, pp. 85-154. Bandon, Oregon: Robert D. Reed Publishers. quotes: A second study revealed that these results were unrelated to patients鈥 degree of media and hospital milieu exposure to the subject of Satanic ritual abuse. 鈥淚n fact, less media exposure was associated with production of more Satanic content in patients reporting ritual abuse, evidence that reports of ritual abuse are not primarily the product of exposure contagion.鈥 Responses are consistent with the devastating and pervasive abuse these victims have experienced, so often including immediate family members.”
― Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations
― Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations
“Lewis's mental map of reality had difficulty accommodating the trauma of the Great War. Like so many, he found the settled way of looking at the world, taken for granted by many in the Edwardian age, to have been shattered by the most brutal and devastating war yet known." (51) Part (McGrath suggests) of Lewis's well-documented search for truth and meaning, that search that ultimately led him to Christianity, emerges from the desire to make sense of his traumatic experience in ways that satisfied him spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually.”
― C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
― C. S. Lewis - A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children 鈥 LLOYD DEMAUSE
The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994
"Extending these local figures to a national estimate would easily mean tens of thousands of cult victims per year reporting, plus undoubtedly more who do not report.(2) This needn鈥檛 mean, of course, that actual Cult abuse is increasing, only that-as with the increase in all child abuse reports-we have become more open to hearing them. But it seemed unlikely that the surge of cult memories could all be made up by patients or implanted by therapists. Therapists are a timid group at best, and the notion that they suddenly begin implanting false memories in tens of thousands of their clients for no apparent reason strained credulity. Certainly no one has presented a shred of evidence for massive 鈥渇alse memory鈥 implantations.”
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The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994
"Extending these local figures to a national estimate would easily mean tens of thousands of cult victims per year reporting, plus undoubtedly more who do not report.(2) This needn鈥檛 mean, of course, that actual Cult abuse is increasing, only that-as with the increase in all child abuse reports-we have become more open to hearing them. But it seemed unlikely that the surge of cult memories could all be made up by patients or implanted by therapists. Therapists are a timid group at best, and the notion that they suddenly begin implanting false memories in tens of thousands of their clients for no apparent reason strained credulity. Certainly no one has presented a shred of evidence for massive 鈥渇alse memory鈥 implantations.”
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“you are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.”
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“Look at us. One bleeding body, one corpse, and a husk who's been half dead for years. No one who took an objective look at this room could think it was anything but too late, Ruth. For all of us.”
― The Dead Lie Down
― The Dead Lie Down
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