“I now believe that ritual abuse programming is widespread, is systematic, is very organized from highly esoteric information which is published nowhere, has not been on any book or talk show, that we have found all around this country.”
Dr. Corydon Hammond, Licensed Psychologist, Professor at Utah School of Medicine
What is Ritual Abuse?
Ritual abuse refers to prolonged, extreme, and sadistic abuse (particularly of children) within a group context. These cults trigger dissociation in their victims and then push that defense to the limit to create a dissociative system (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. The group’s ideology justifies the abuse and uses it to indoctrinate its beliefs. The group’s illegal and immoral practices, such as sex trafficking of young children, drug distribution, blackmail, and other crimes, are kept secret from society.
What Ideologies Are Used to Justify Ritual Abuse?
Any ideology can be twisted to rationalize ritual abuse. These ideologies can be religious, political, or cultural. Reports from the United States, Canada, and Europe indicate that ritual abuse occurs under the guise of Satanism, Christianity, various pagan and pantheistic beliefs, white supremacy movements, Nazism, Santería, voodoo, apocalyptic groups, fraternal organizations such as the Freemasons, terrorism, and other ideologies. Currently, Satanism is either the most prevalent ideology under which ritual abuse is practiced or the ideology receiving the most attention.
As mentioned, the perpetrators’ use of such ideology or another to justify their actions says nothing about the ideology itself. It’s a manipulative use by the perpetrators to justify their deeds supposedly, and it has no real connection to the ideology or its true believers.
Evidence of the Existence of Ritual Abuse
There is substantial evidence supporting the existence of ritual abuse as a worldwide phenomenon. Bottoms, Shaver, and Goodman (1993) evaluated 2,292 alleged ritual abuse cases and found that 15% of perpetrators in cases involving adults and 30% in cases involving children had confessed to the abuse.
A 1991 survey of 2,709 members of the American Psychological Association found that 30% had encountered cases of ritual or religion-related abuse. Of those psychologists, 93% believed the reported harm had occurred, and 93% believed in the existence of the alleged rituals.
Nancy Perry’s 1992 national survey of therapists working with dissociative disorder clients found that 88% of 1,185 respondents believed that ritual abuse involving mind control and programming was real.
Anne Johnson Davis, in her book Hell Minus One, reported that her parents confessed to her abuse both in writing and verbally to clergymen and detectives from the Utah Attorney General’s Office. Her suppressed memories, which surfaced in her mid-thirties, were fully corroborated by her parents.
Scientific journal articles have discussed the reality and extreme nature of ritual abuse, highlighting connections between ritual abuse, dissociative identity disorder, mind control, and childhood trauma symptoms. A study of 270 cases of sexual abuse in daycare settings found that 13% included allegations of ritual abuse.
The project “50 Voices of Ritual Abuse” features firsthand accounts from 50 survivors, providing evidence that ritual abuse and mind control are real and pervasive worldwide. The survivors recorded are from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, England, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, and other countries. To listen to these testimonies, click HERE.
In addition, there have been over 40 court convictions related to ritual abuse crimes, including a $1 million civil judgment awarded to Paul Bonacci in the Franklin case.
Extreme Abuse Surveys
Rutz, Becker, Overcamp, and Karriker conducted the Extreme Abuse Surveys (EAS), which consist of three parts: the Extreme Abuse Survey for Adult Survivors (EAS), the Professional-Extreme Abuse Survey (P-EAS) for specialists, and the Child-Extreme Abuse Survey (C-EAS) for caregivers (2007).
The survey’s website endured port scanning attacks at a rate of 9,000 per hour and a complex brute-force attack on its Windows server. Despite these challenges, multiple servers kept the data secure. The surveys collected responses from 1,471 participants across more than 30 countries.
Key findings include: 64% of 985 participants reported memories of incest, and 48% of 977 participants reported memories of extreme abuse before seeking therapy. This contradicts allegations that therapists are the ones implanting the abuse memories into clients’ minds.
Among 257 respondents who reported secret government or military mind-control experiments during childhood, 69% also reported experiencing cult abuse. This suggests a likely collaboration between cults and intelligence organizations.
Additionally, 65% of 1,007 EAS participants were diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), with even higher percentages reported by therapists and caregivers of children.
High levels of physical abuse, sexual abuse by multiple perpetrators, and child pornography were reported across all three surveys. In the C-EAS, medical evidence consistent with extreme abuse was found in 53% of 80 respondents, and psychological symptoms were found in 91% of 88 respondents.
Documentation of Mind Control
“Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature, such as self-preservation?”
Dr. José Delgado
CIA document — Project Artichoke — MORI ID 144686 — 1952
Mind control has been explored and documented through various historical and contemporary sources, offering insights into its methods and effects. Key examples include declassified documents from Projects Artichoke and MK-Ultra—covert CIA operations conducted during the 1950s and 1960s. These projects involved experimentation with mind control techniques, including torture, drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation.
In Nazi Germany, mind control and brainwashing research in the camps was documented with the aim of enforcing ideological conformity. Operation Paperclip — a well-documented U.S. government initiative — involved bringing over 1,600 Nazi scientists and their families to the United States to contribute to scientific and military projects.
As part of this operation, Project 63 allegedly recruited Nazi mind control experts, such as Josef Mengele, to train in these techniques. This is said to have contributed to the development of the Monarch Project.
The Monarch Project is said to be a covert mind control program developed by the CIA. The project purportedly aimed to create mind-controlled operatives through a combination of trauma-based conditioning, including the use of torture, hypnosis, and drugs. It is also said to use advanced techniques, such as electroconvulsive therapy (which induces seizures in the brain) and electromagnetic weapons.
Additionally, while non-state ritual abuse groups are careful not to leave a paper trail, testimonies from survivors shed light on systematic and similar trauma-based mind control techniques.
What is Dissociation?
Dissociation is a mental process in which an individual feels detached from their thoughts, feelings, or surroundings. It often manifests as gaps in memory, a sense of being disconnected from one’s body or emotions, or a feeling of being in a dreamlike state. In the context of ritual abuse, dissociation becomes a critical defense mechanism.
What Causes Dissociation?
Victims subjected to extreme, sustained trauma dissociate as a way to endure the unbearable experiences inflicted upon them. This disconnection helps them manage overwhelming stress by compartmentalizing painful memories and emotions.
In the context of ritual abuse, dissociation is not only a natural response to intense trauma but is also deliberately manipulated by perpetrators. Abusers exploit this psychological mechanism to control and isolate their victims further. Through sustained and severe abuse, victims are conditioned to dissociate more deeply, making it easier for abusers to inflict trauma without detection or resistance.
What Leads to the Creation of Alters in DID?
Dissociation in response to extreme and prolonged trauma can lead to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), where the brain creates multiple alters to manage and separate traumatic experiences during early childhood when the personality is still developing. This fragmentation shields the individual from the full impact of their trauma, resulting in distinct alternative identities, or “alters,” each managing different aspects of the trauma.
For example, if resisting the abuse brings about worse abuse and even death threats, a passive alter might be created, sometimes even a part unable to speak.
Another alter might absorb the intense anger resulting from abuse and betrayal, ensuring these emotions are not expressed in unsafe situations. Similarly, an alter created to endure abuse involving foul odors might significantly dull their sense of smell to help cope.
This compartmentalization helps the individual navigate and survive the abuse but also allows abusers to exploit these alters for specific tasks or behaviors, maintaining control through carefully orchestrated programming and manipulation.
The perpetrators are likely to program an alter that has no memory of the abuse to attend kindergarten and school, appear as ordinary children, and deny any abuse if asked.
What is an Alter or a Personality?
An alter, or an alternative personality, is one of the distinct identities within a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). The main personality, often called the “host,” is typically present most of the time, while alters may emerge less frequently.
Alters can have their own names, genders, ages, roles, and characteristics, and they manage specific tasks or emotions. In the context of ritual abuse, alters play a critical role in both the victim’s survival and the abusers’ control strategies.
For example, alters may be programmed to execute specific tasks, such as drug smuggling or submitting to abusive rituals, without the knowledge of the host personality.
This compartmentalization allows perpetrators to manipulate and exploit the individual, making it easier to carry out their agendas and maintain secrecy. Thus, the creation and exploitation of alters are central to the dynamics of ritual abuse and mind control.
What Are Mind Control and Programming?
Mind control involves manipulating an individual’s thoughts, behaviors, and perceptions to exert influence or obedience, often through concealed techniques. In everyday contexts, mind control can be seen in practices such as advertising or propaganda.
However, in ritual abuse scenarios, mind control takes on a more sinister and systematic form. Perpetrators use mind control to program victims, often employing methods such as torture, drugs, hypnosis, and psychological manipulation.
This programming may include creating specific triggers or commands that compel victims to act in ways that serve the abusers’ agendas, such as participating in illegal activities or engaging in self-destructive behaviors. For example, an abuser might use an innocent-sounding sentence like “We miss you at home” to trigger an alter to switch out and drive to an abusive ritual without the host personality’s knowledge. Many survivors are also programmed to commit suicide if they are about to remember or talk about the trauma.
By controlling the victim’s mind and actions, abusers maintain dominance and secrecy beyond childhood, extending their control over the individual and keeping their activities hidden from outside scrutiny.
Why Control Another’s Mind?
Controlling another’s mind serves various strategic purposes, from exerting power and maintaining secrecy to exploiting individuals for illicit activities. In the context of ritual abuse, mind control ensures that victims remain under the abusers’ control, executing tasks or following commands without conscious awareness or resistance. This manipulation allows perpetrators to use victims for activities such as drug mulling, sexual blackmail, or illicit financial transactions, all while keeping their operations covert.
Who Practices Mind Control?
Mind control is employed by various groups and entities with the intent to manipulate and exploit individuals for their own agendas. Cults and secret societies engaged in ritual abuse frequently use mind control techniques to maintain dominance over their members and ensure compliance with their commands. These groups often employ extreme psychological and physical intimidation to program their victims.
Additionally, governments and intelligence agencies have historically conducted mind control experiments for purposes such as espionage and covert operations. Notable examples include the CIA’s MK-Ultra program, which explored mind control through drugs, experimentation, torture, and psychological manipulation. Furthermore, organized criminal networks may use mind control to manage and exploit individuals in illegal activities, such as sex trafficking or money laundering.
How is Multiplicity Exploited?
Multiplicity, or the presence of multiple distinct identities within an individual, can be exploited to serve various agendas, particularly in contexts involving mind control and ritual abuse. This exploitation involves programming different alters to perform specific tasks or behaviors, often without the knowledge or consent of the host personality.
For instance, in a ritual abuse scenario, one alter might be programmed to carry out illegal activities such as drug trafficking or espionage, while another might be conditioned to perform specific rituals or obey particular commands.
This compartmentalization allows abusers to use the individual for multiple purposes, maintaining control and secrecy by ensuring that different alters handle various aspects of the operation. An illustrative example is a survivor of ritual abuse who might have one alter designed to act as a “handler” for other victims while another alter is programmed to execute covert tasks for the abuser’s network.
This sophisticated, albeit immoral, use of multiplicity helps perpetuate individual control and exploitation, compartmentalizing and concealing the various aspects of their programming.
How Do They Get Away with It?
Underground ritual abuse groups evade justice through a sophisticated mix of blackmail, mind programming of victims, infiltration, public relations, and deceptive facades.
Victims are terrorized and programmed not to remember and certainly not to report their abusers. The group’s members maintain a façade of respectability within mainstream society. In fact, in some groups, one cannot be a leader unless involved in philanthropy and public service. Therefore, if there are any allegations against them, they are less likely to be believed. The bizarre nature of the rituals also makes them easily mistaken for delusions.
The group’s infiltration of law enforcement and government further shields them. High-profile cases like the Franklin and Epstein scandals reveal the depth of their networks and the extent of their connections. These cases highlight how extensive cover-ups allow such groups to evade full accountability.
Intentional media and public relations campaigns aim to discredit the existence of these organized crime rings and undermine the credibility of survivors’ reports. For instance, the notion of ‘satanic panic’ dismisses accusations as mere ‘witch hunts.’ Similarly, the concept of ‘false memory syndrome’—which is not a legitimate syndrome—asserts that survivors’ memories are not genuine but are instead implanted by therapists.
The sensationalization of ritualistic themes in horror movies also provides a basis for some to argue that media portrayals rather than actual events.
These systemic barriers, combined with sophisticated deception and manipulation, allow ritual abuse groups to continue their activities while avoiding public scrutiny and legal repercussions.