This is a collection of talks given at the annual SMART conference in Connecticut. Speakers present to tell their stories of their experiences with ritual abuse and/or mind control, their experiences treating patients with such backgrounds, or to raise awareness of the various issues surrounding recovery from ritual abuse/mind control of efforts made to raise awareness with the general public of this issue.
Lynn Schirmer is an artist and survivor of ritual abuse-torture and trauma based mind control. She mounts frequent exhibits where she engages audiences about the reality of extreme abuse and tax funded exploitation of children and adults. Her work has been exhibited the US and France. Her topic is: Art & Activism: Finding Effective Ways to Tell
Click here to see the art work presented in her conference presentation
Wanda Karriker, Ph.D. is a retired psychologist who spent a career working with survivors of extreme abuse. She is author of the novel, “Morning, Come Quickly,” co-developer of the Extreme Abuse Survey Project and former editor of Survivorship. Her topic is: The Ritual Abuse Controversy: A Personal Perspective.
Carmen Yana Holiday is a survivor of extreme domestic violence, human trafficking, child pornography, ritual abuse-torture and mind control. She has been an advocate for other survivors since 2001, developing and facilitating trauma recovery workshops and presenting as a survivor of RA-MC for several organizations.
Neil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is: Fighting the Spin : The Truth about Child Abuse Cases.
In the last 20 years, many child abuse and ritual abuse cases have been made public. Almost all of these have been subjected to media campaigns and spin by organizations and researchers skeptical of the existence of ritual abuse. These groups have done whatever they can to make sure that only their view on the topic is heard and that ours is not allowed to be made public.
This presentation will briefly review some of the more famous child abuse cases and present the perspective of the victims of these crimes, not the perspectives of the alleged or convicted perpetrators or those defending them...
Neil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topics today is “The Move from Blame the Victim to Blame the Helper.”
Historically speaking, the credibility of the accounts of child abuse and trauma victims stories have been attacked in various ways. Untrue statements were made that rape victims asked for the abuse or that children somehow deserved to be abused or were attracting abusers. Children and women were seen as property or lower in status. Now most people know these ideas are false and that child abuse and rape do exist.
This presentation will highlight some of the major attacks on those defending child abuse survivors. I myself have been attacked, but I have decided to fight those attacking me for the sake of making sure that child abuse in all its forms is stopped.
I will detail four of the most famous attacks on clinicians in the last 20 years, those of Bennett Braun, Judith Peterson, David Calof and Anna Salter. There have been many others....full text
Lowell Routley is executive director of Heartland Trauma Initiative, created to serve survivors of extreme trauma. Over his 36 years of clinical experience in the Midwest, Lowell has listened to survivors to find what works, what doesn’t, and why. Out of those observations, he developed The Core Integrity Model. Through Heartland Trauma Initiative, Lowell provides training and consultation for therapists and survivors to explore, understand, and resolve impasses in healing.
Dr. Routley first spoke at the 2006 SMART Conference on the topic:
"What is a Normal Mind Like? How is Mine Different? or What Survivors Have Taught Me Over the Last Thirty Years."
Then again in 2007:
“Using the Cognitive Compass on the Healing Journey to Core Integrity.”
and in 2008:
”Am I “Real Me” or Am I “Memorex, y, z”?” also featured here:
Dr. Lowell Routley partnered with Jim McCarthy M.A. in founding Heartland Initiative in 1997. It teaches the methodology and theory behind:
Finding Core Integrity After Life's Trauma- Training and Consultation Programs of Heartland Initiative.
Heartland Initiative exists to serve survivors of traumatic experiences through education programs that establish effective treatment, consultation services that facilitate therapeutic progress, research resources that document trauma contexts and phenomenology, and fundraising programs that create affordable services.
The Routley Center for Solution-Focused Counseling, PC, exists primarily to promote emotional and spiritual health in individuals and to strengthen the institutions of marriage, family, and church. It is to that end that we provide counseling, coaching, consultations, and education. We seek to achieve this mission with the highest regard for the human being and his/her emotional, intellectual, and spiritual welfare.
Hal Pepinsky reflects on the experience of learning from and teaching with ra/mc survivors and advocates from 1993 until his retirement from criminal justice at Indiana University this past spring, including progress in and around SMART conferences since 1998 in building popular recognition of the reality of ra/mc, and progress in the healing of survivors he has known.
Hal Pepinsky, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, Hal is the author of many books, including "The Geometry of Violence and Democracy" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991) and "A Criminologist's Quest for Peace" (2000). He is co-editor with Richard Quinney of "Criminology as Peacemaking."
Hal's special areas of concern are: criminology and criminal justice, peacemaking, violence against children, and healing processes.
DeJoly LaBrier has been doing recovery work for 20 yrs. She has spoken publicly about her experiences in a military sex ring, Satanic cult and government experimentation; and is grateful for the serenity and sanity she now experiences.
A written transcript of this talk can be found here:
Shamai Currim PhD is a healed survivor from a multi-generations SRA family and a therapist working in private practice in CT. She is a member of RA/MC advocate, study, and online groups, has worked with perpetrators in prisons, and has spoken up for injustice in third world countries.
Neil Brick is a survivor of alleged Masonic Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is : Ritual Abuse, the trenches of the stopping child abuse movement.
Smart-Talk Excerpt:
"I will be focusing on why the support of the existence of ritual abuse by all the child abuse movement is crucial to the protection of the child abuse movement as a whole. Ritual abuse crimes are often the most difficult to believe because of the extreme nature of these crimes. Societies have a tendency in general to not want to believe that horrible things can happen right next door or down the street from them. Many of the atrocities that have happen throughout history have occurred in populated areas. Yet members of societies have stated after the fact that they did not know that anything was going on or that any atrocities were committed. This denial is at times encouraged by those that may have a vested interest in society maintaining a high level of denial or they may simply have trouble cognitively having an accurate world view, possibly due to their own psychodynamic issues."
Jennie P. is a lawyer, a librarian, and a poet, presently working as a contractor in the biotech industry while completing her first book, “Happy Girl: From the Basements to the Rooftops, A Memoir and Guide to Healing From Trauma.” After years of struggle, she has successfully healed from satanic ritual abuse.
A written transcript of this presentation can be found here:
Lowell Routley is a therapist in the Midwest who helps survivors of extreme trauma. Lowell has listened to survivors to find what works, what doesn’t and why. As director of Heartland Initiative, he actively trains therapists and consults with client and therapist to resolve impasses in healing. His topic is ”Am I “Real Me” or Am I “Memorex, y, z”?”
Dr. Routley first spoke at the 2006 SMART Conference on the topic:
"What is a Normal Mind Like? How is Mine Different? or What Survivors Have Taught Me Over the Last Thirty Years."
Then again in 2007:
“Using the Cognitive Compass on the Healing Journey to Core Integrity.”
Dr. Lowell Routley partnered with Jim McCarthy M.A. in founding Heartland Initiative in 1997. It teaches the methodology and theory behind:
Finding Core Integrity After Life's Trauma- Training and Consultation Programs of Heartland Initiative.
Heartland Initiative exists to serve survivors of traumatic experiences through education programs that establish effective treatment, consultation services that facilitate therapeutic progress, research resources that document trauma contexts and phenomenology, and fundraising programs that create affordable services.
Leslie was born in 1954 in Detroit, Michigan. She was raised in a multi-generational cult and used in mind control training. Desperately struggling with the effects of being traumatized all her life, she finally found help that has transformed her life.
Dr. Katherine Glenn is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist in private practice in Greensboro, North Carolina. She specializes in trauma and addictions, and belongs to the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and RA Survivor Support. She has worked with survivors for 16 years.
Eileen Schrader LCSW, BA is a therapist and a journalist and a survivor of RA/MC, who has the privilege of treating fellow survivors. She wants all survivors to live the best lives possible, and has advocated for them at the United Nations. She is grateful to her husband, Henry, for his humor and dedication. Her topic is "Programming and Beyond --the obvious and subtler effects of mind control in survivors of ritual abuse and mind control."
Eileen recently was a presenter at the 13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma, held September 17, 2008, in San Diego, CA along with Wanda Karriker, Ph.D., Randy Noblitt, Ph.D., and Ellen P. Lacter, PhD. Their presentation was entitled: Torture-Based mind Control: Empirical Research, Programmer Methods, Effects & Treatment.
Joanne is a survivor of RA, family and government mind control and medical experimentation. She has been working on recovery for 14 years and has been instrumental in helping her three dissociative children heal. She leads a life as an active professional in her chosen field in her community.
A written transcript of this presentation can be found here:
Hal Pepinsky - Since the fall of 1993, Hal has as far as he knows been the only university professor to bring more than one ra/mc survivor to his classes. Hal has taught criminal justice for 37 years. Surviving ritual abuse and mind control has become a foundation for his larger thinking on what he calls "peacemaking," establishing safe relations in the face of violence. His topic is: "Weighing and Responding to Evidence of Abuse."
Professor of Criminal Justice at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, Hal is the author of many books, including "The Geometry of Violence and Democracy" (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991) and "A Criminologist's Quest for Peace" (2000). He is co-editor with Richard Quinney of "Criminology as Peacemaking."
Hal's special areas of concern are: criminology and criminal justice, peacemaking, violence against children, and healing processes.
Ritual Abuse in a Different Perspective, Reflected on by Data from a Series of Surveys on Extreme Abuse- SMART Conference Presentation 2008
Thorsten Becker is a social worker who lives in Lueneburg, Germany. From 1984 until March 2000, he was a counselor on cult-related problems. Since then, freelancing as a supervisor and case-consultant/manager for therapists, social workers and investigators, he has specialized in issues of ritual violence. In 1994, he was awarded the German Child Protection Award for his work with ritually abused children.
His topic is : "Ideologically Motivated Crimes - Ritual Abuse in a different perspective, reflected on by data from a series of survey on extreme abuse."
Thorsten Becker was a contributing author to the newly released "Ritual Abuse in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social, and Political Considerations" By: Randy Noblitt and Pamela Perskin Noblitt
Chapter 8: Re-Searching for New Perspectives: Ritual Abuse/Ritual Violence as Ideologically Motivated Crime- Thorsten Becker
Thorsten collaborated with Wanda Karriker, Bettina Overkamp PhD, and Carol Rutz on the Extreme Abuse Survey Trilogy.
A retired psychologist, Wanda Karriker, PhD, wrote the novel, "Morning, Come Quickly," to share what she has learned about the aftereffects of RA/MC. In advocacy for survivors, she has appeared on CourtTV and in 2007 presented papers at a UN conference for women and at the ISSTD conference in Philadelphia. Her topic is: "Voice, Visibility, and Validation for Survivors. Highlights of the Extreme Abuse Survey Trilogy."
Morning Come Quickly- A Novel Dedicated to the Unwitting Initiates Into Organized Evil. "In Morning Come Quickly author Wanda Karriker has woven together the fictional story of therapist Emily Kein and her clients who have come to her with memories of incest, ritual abuse torture and government mind control. She finds herself not only trying to understand how humanity can sink to the depths of depravity that she is hearing her clients expose, but face her own flashbacks and memories of some of these same horrors." Carol Rutz- Amazon Review
Neil Brick is a survivor of alleged Masonic Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. - A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is: "Debating the nonbelievers. Getting equal time for survivors' views."
A written transcript of this presentation can be found here.
Satanic ritual abuse exists all over the world. There have been reports, journal articles, web pages and criminal convictions of these horrific crimes against children and adults.
Recovered Memory Data with information on recovered memory corroboration, theories on recovered memory, legal information, physiological evidence for memory suppression, replies to skeptics and books and articles on memory
Basic Information on Dissociative Identity Disorder with sections on Basic Information on DID from the DSM‑IV‑TR, The History of DID/MPD, Diagnosing DID, Responses to those that state that DID is iatrogenic or a social construct, MPD/DID connection to severe abuse, Recent information and DID resources
