Kinds of Torture Endured in
Ritual Abuse and Trauma-Based Mind Control (Ellen P. Lacter, Ph.D., March 4, 2004 )
Knowledge of the methods of
torture used within ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control provides a basis
for recognition of related trauma disorders. Individuals subjected to these
forms of torture may experience intense fear, phobic reactions, or
physiological symptoms in response to associated stimuli. In some cases, the
individual, or particular dissociated identities, experience a preoccupation
with, or attraction to, related stimuli.
Victims may be able to describe
the torture they have endured, or they may fear doing so. In many cases of
ritual abuse and mind control trauma, the abuse remains dissociated when the
individual first seeks treatment. Typically, the initial presenting problems
are symptoms of anxiety, depression, or trauma derived from childhood sexual
abuse, usually by a family member, who is eventually understood as a
participant in the abuser group.
The following is a partial list of these forms of torture:
1. Sexual abuse and torture.
2. Confinement in boxes, cages,
coffins, etc, or burial (often with an opening or air-tube for oxygen).
3. Restraint; with ropes, chains,
cuffs, etc.
4. Near-drowning.
5. Extremes of heat and cold,
including submersion in ice water, and burning chemicals.
6. Skinning (only top layers of
the skin are removed in victims intended to survive).
7. Spinning.
8. Blinding light.
9. Electric shock.
10. Forced ingestion of offensive
body fluids and matter, such as blood, urine, feces, flesh, etc.
11. Hung in painful positions or
upside down.
12. Hunger and thirst.
13. Sleep deprivation.
14 Compression with weights and
devices.
15. Sensory deprivation.
16. Drugs to create illusion,
confusion, and amnesia, often given by injection or intravenously.
17. Ingestion or intravenous
toxic chemicals to create pain or illness, including chemotherapy agents.
18. Limbs pulled or dislocated.
19. Application of snakes,
spiders, maggots, rats, and other animals to induce fear and disgust.
20. Near-death experiences;
commonly asphyxiation by choking or drowning, with immediate resuscitation.
22. Forced to perform or witness
abuse, torture and sacrifice of people and animals, usually with knives.
23. Forced participation in child
pornography and prostitution.
24. Raped to become pregnant; the
fetus is then aborted for ritual use, or the baby is taken for sacrifice or
enslavement.
25. Spiritual abuse to cause
victim to feel possessed, harassed, and controlled internally by spirits or
demons.
26. Desecration of
Judeo-Christian beliefs and forms of worship; Dedication to Satan or other
deities.
27. Abuse and illusion to
convince victims that God is evil, such as convincing a child that God has
raped her.
28. Surgery to torture,
experiment, or cause the perception of physical or spiritual bombs or implants.
29. Harm or threats of harm to
family, friends, loved ones, pets, and other victims, to force compliance.
30. Use of illusion and virtual
reality to confuse and create non-credible disclosure.
To illustrate, ritual abuse
survivors may experience intense phobic reactions to spiders or maggots (item
19). They may fear water and baths (item 4). They often fear hypodermic needles
(item 16). They become easily too cold, too hot (item 5), or thirsty (item 12).
They may have aversive reactions to cameras (item 23). They may become upset
upon seeing babies, dolls, or particular animals, or they may strongly identify
with abused and abandoned animals and children (items 22 and 24). Sexual
aversions are common (items 1, 23, and 24), as are vulnerability to repeated
sexual victimization, sexual compulsions, and in some cases, paraphilias, such
as sadism (Young, Sachs, Braun, & Watkins, 1991).
Food aversions and eating
disorders are common. Ritual abuse survivors may not be able to eat food that
is brown or red because these remind them of feces and blood. They are often
repulsed by meat, are vegetarian, or fast excessively, or regurgitate food,
derived from forced ingestion of body matter and fluids (item 10).
Ritual abuse survivors, by and
large, believe in the presence and power of spiritually evil forces, and often
feel personally plagued by these (items 25, 26, 27, and 28). They may
experience anxiety or an aversion to God and religion (item 26 and 27), or may
alternatively be devout in their spiritual beliefs and practices.
Art productions, creative
writing, and sand trays, will often reflect their torture; including knives,
religious symbols, frightening figures, coffins, burials, etc. Children
unconsciously reenact elements of torture they have witnessed or experienced
with toys and other objects. For example, a 3-year-old boy wrapped a rope three
times around his neck and pulled upward, as if to hang himself. A 3-year-old
girl sang about marrying Satan.
External or internal reminders of
torture-related stimuli often precipitate dissociative responses, such as
entering a trance state, falling asleep, or an other personality taking
executive control of the individual. Torture-associated stimuli may also elicit
disturbing impulses to re-enact unprocessed trauma, such as impulses to
self-mutilate, or thoughts of stabbing or sexually assaulting an other person.
Somatoform and conversion
reactions occur frequently in response to ritual abuse and mind control
trauma-reminders. Individuals often experience localized pain, especially
genitourinary, musculoskeletal, and gastrointestinal, motor inhibitions,
nausea, or even swelling in the affected area, prior to retrieval of any visual
or narrative memory of the related torture. These are generally very
distressing to the affected individual. Once the trauma is re-associated and
processed within the context of psychotherapy or other forms of support, these somatoform
and conversion reactions usually dissipate.
Survivors of trauma-based mind
control often respond with anxiety to fluorescent lighting, since so much
programming utilizes intense lighting (item 8). They may startle in response to
a telephone ringing, related to programming to receive or make calls to
abusers. They may believe they have microphones inside their heads that will
relay their disclosures to their abusers (item 27). Fears of electronic or
spiritual surveillance, and threats to loved ones (item 29) inhibit their
ability to defy and escape their abusers or to disclose their abuse.
Victims of trauma-based mind
control also usually experience intense or odd reactions to benign stimuli that
were used in their programming. For example, they may have been programmed to
remember to forget every time they see an apple, or to remember they are being
watched every time they hear a police or fire siren. Similarly, they may make
repetitive, robotic statements that do not make sense in the context of dialogue,
e.g., "I want to go home", a common programmed statement intended to
keep them obedient to the abuser group and reporting to their abusers. Specific
songs may be compulsively sung for similar programmed purposes.
All of these symptoms can occur prior
to the individual having any conscious understanding of the related abuse. This
point is critical. Dissociative and neurobiological responses to overwhelming
trauma (van Der Kolk, McFarlane, & Weisaeth, 1996) often prevent these
experiences from being processed into a coherent narrative memory. The
diagnostician cannot rely on the patient to put the pieces together of their
clinical picture.
Finally, generalized guilt and
survivor guilt are strongly associated with ritual abuse, since participation
in victimization of others is a mainstay of ritual abuse and mind control
torture (items 22 and 29).
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