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.
