Part 1. Ritual Abuse
Part 2. Multiplicity
Part 3. Mind Control
Part 1. Ritual Abuse
What Is A Ritual?
A ritual is an action that has symbolic meaning. It may be private,
like taking a good luck charm to an exam, or public (socially shared),
like saluting the flag.
Rituals may be reserved for rare occasions — births, unions, deaths,
changes of social status — or may be used daily — saying grace or
gesundheit, kissing a child good night.
What Is Ritual Abuse? (Broad Definition)
Ritual abuse is the abuse of a child, weaker adult, or animal
in a ritual setting or manner.
In a broad sense, many of our overtly or covertly socially sanctioned
actions can be seen as ritual abuse, such as military basic training,
hazing, racism, spanking children, and partner-battering.
Some abuse is private (Jeffrey Dahmer, for example), some public. Public
ritual abuse may be either open or secret.
What Is Ritual Abuse? (Narrow Definition)
The term ritual abuse is generally used to mean prolonged, extreme,
sadistic abuse, especially of children, within a group setting. The
group’s ideology is used to justify the abuse, and abuse is used to teach
the group’s ideology. The activities are kept secret from society at
large, as they violate norms and laws.
What Ideologies Are Used To Justify Ritual Abuse?
Any ideology can be twisted or adapted to abusive ends. In the
United States, Canada, and Europe, people have reported being ritually
abused under the banner of satanism, Christianity, various pagan and
pantheistic belief systems, white supremacy movements, nazism, Santeria,
voodoo, etc. At the present time, satanism is either the most common
ideology under which ritual abuse is practiced, or it is receiving the
most attention.
Who Perpetrates Ritual Abuse?
Ritual abuse is perpetrated by men and women from all walks of life
and geographical areas, both rural and urban. The percent of the population
that perpetrates or that is victimized is unknown.
Perpetrators have been classified as:
- Family or Transgenerational: Adults, who were abused as children,
in turn abuse and indoctrinate their own children. The tradition can
go back for generations.
- Extra-familiar: Adults abuse non-related children. Children
can be accessed at day care, schools, church, or through social groups.
- Ad hoc groups: Adults, who may or may not have had abusive
childhoods, come together and form a new group with its own ideology
and rituals. Teens are thought to comprise many such ad hoc groups.
What Kinds Of Abuse Occur?
Physical, emotional, sexual and spiritual abuse can all occur.
Physical abuse can occur as beatings, electroshock, torture, confinement,
forced ingestion of drugs, blood, and feces. Emotional abuse involves
trickery, deceit, and blaming the victim. Sadistic sex with children
and non-consenting adults and forced perpetration of sexual abuse are
forms that sexual abuse can take. Spiritual abuse can manifest as reversal
of good and evil, a destruction-based morality, and the denial of freedom
of thought.
What Are The Main ‘Holidays’ When Ritual Abuse Occurs?
Please remember that abusive groups steal, pervert and mock the holidays
of legitimate religions. This does not mean that all people who observe
these holidays are abusive. Pagans, in particular, are subject to
prejudice, and it is important to realize that the vast majority
of modern pagans are loving and non-abusive. It is not their fault that
abusive groups choose to defile their sacred days.
In Christian cultures, abusive groups pervert the major Christian holidays:
Christmas, Lent, Easter, etc. The Jewish holidays may also be observed
in an abusive manner.
Similarly, the pre-Christian pagan holidays have been stolen and perverted.
Abusive groups originating in northern and western Europe observe the
winter and summer solstice (12/21 and 6/21) and the spring
and fall equinox (3/21 and 9/21). Four holidays fall between each
solstice and equinox. They are: Candlemas (2/2), Beltane (5/1), Lammas
(8/2) and Samhain, or Halloween (10/31)
(The solstices and equinoxes do not always fall exactly on the 21st
of the month. Some holidays, especially Beltane and Samhain, are often
observed for more than one day.)
Many groups blend traditions. Santeria is a blend of African traditions
and Catholicism. Satanism is a blend of paganism and Christian traditions.
Groups with blended traditions often celebrate two or three sets of holidays.
In addition, secular holidays, such as members’ birthdays, Mother’s Day,
Father’s Day, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, and Independence Day (in
the United States) are often marked.
Some groups mark dates that are symbolically significant to that particular
group, such as a leader’s birthday, the anniversary of some achievement,
or a particular year with numerical significance to the group. There
is a fair amount of variation among similar groups.
Why Do So Few People Believe Ritual Abuse Survivors?
First, abusive groups have a very large stake in remaining undetected,
and they keep their secrets well. Second, abusive groups terrorize their
victims into silence. And third, society as a whole does not want to
believe that its norms and laws have been so blatantly and extremely
violated, so society turns its back in denial.
Are There Any Laws Against Ritual Abuse?
In all States and Canadian provinces, there are laws against particular
physical acts committed during ritual abuse. These include murder,
rape, sexual contact with children, kidnapping, assault and battery,
cruelty to animals, vandalism, and defilement of corpses. Other countries
have laws against most, if not all, of these actions. In some States,
additional penalties can be imposed if it can be proved that the
criminal act was motivated by hate of a particular group.
Ritual abuse can also lead to peripheral crimes, such as income
tax evasion, crossing state boundaries or using the mail to commit a
crime, money laundering, prostitution, pimping and pandering, creation,
distribution and possession of child pornography, selling and possession
of illegal drugs, and conspiracy to commit crimes.
In addition, four states have passed laws against the ritual abuse
of children, specifying particular acts or simulations of acts that
are common in ritual abuse. They are written in such a way that no group’s
freedom of religion is attacked. These states are: Illinois, Idaho,
Texas, and Louisiana.
Massachusetts and Florida are working on legislation against ritual
child abuse. California and Utah are establishing ritual abuse
task forces.
With These Laws, Why Aren’t There More Convictions?
The problem is not one of lack of laws, it is one of credibility.
Police and prosecutors often believe that these cases cannot be successfully
prosecuted, because juries will discount all evidence once any testimony
about religion, ideology, or conspiracy has been introduced. In fact,
many juries have found defendants not guilty on the basis of witnesses
not being credible.
Many people believe that there have been no convictions for abuse involving
rituals This is not true: convictions have been obtained in many states
(OR, NC, TX, NV, FL, IA, NJ, [Reaching Out, 4/93]) and
foreign countries. Statements that no convictions have been obtained,
or that convictions are based on hysteria and a ‘witch hunt mentality’
are disinformation tactics.
What Are The Symptoms Of Ritual Abuse In Children And Adults?
Most symptoms are non-specific to ritual abuse. Trauma is trauma,
and physical and sexual abuse are physical and sexual abuse. Because
the abuse is so severe, the symptoms may be especially severe and recalcitrant.
Symptoms that are suggestive of ritual abuse are either a fascination
with or a phobia of objects, events, or symbols specific to ritual abuse
and not generally encountered in other types of physical and sexual abuse.
Examples of symbols include crosses, crucifixes, pentagrams (stars),
eyes, “magick” and “occult” symbols, certain numbers, and certain colors.
Objects provoking fascination or phobia can include blood, knives, electricity,
coffins, dolls, babies, and certain animals.
Events similar to abusive events may also provoke extreme reactions.
These include the holidays observed by the cult, medical and dental procedures,
and child birth or abortion.
Could You Say Something About Recovery From Ritual Abuse?
I (speaking for myself only) do not like the words recovery and healing.
They imply to me that things can be repaired, and thus minimize the experience
of ritual abuse. If I can be fixed, it wasn’t all that bad.
Instead, I prefer to think about how I can live with my past in a different
way. I prefer to examine my relationship with extreme evil, the concepts
of free will and coercion, the structure of the mind, the nature of connectedness
with life and with other humans. My goals are increased knowledge of
my past and of my internal structure, increased flexibility of thought,
and increased control over my own behavior.
Many RA survivors passionately declare that they have an individual path
that they must follow. Others are able to grasp the guidance of religion,
twelve-step movements, or therapy, and adopt these concepts as their
own. Every person’s path is unique, just as every person is unique.
In general, I think that there are several factors that aid in living
with the reality of this extreme kind of abuse. First is a willingness,
conscious or unconscious, to break the ties that bind us to violence.
Second is the strength and luck to get away, physically. And then there
are imprecise terms, such as soul or love or guiding spirit, that cannot
be defined, but which shape our stance to ourselves and to the world.
Do You Have Any Advice For Other Survivors Trying To Heal?
Trust yourself, whether you think you exist or not. Learn all
you can, at your own pace. Discard ideas and people that feel demeaning
or violent. Try and remember that, given your past experiences, every
day that you do not kill, rape, or maim another person (and that includes
yourself!) or an animal is a triumph. And your triumph, added to others,
is the only hope we have of stopping the carnage.
How Can I Be Sure My Memories Are Of Real Events?
If you have outside confirmation, like photographs or somebody else’s
diary, or if another survivor independently remembers the same event,
you can be pretty sure the events actually happened. It’s harder to decide
without outside evidence.
What you remember is a terrified child’s best guess at what was happening
at the time. The accuracy of your assessment of the situation at the
time depended on how frightened you were, how old you were, how drugged,
how deeply hypnotized, how sleep deprived. It also depended on whether
the perpetrators were trying to trick you, and how skillful they were
at deception.
While any one particular feature of a memory may not be historically
accurate, you would not be having ritual abuse memories unless something
really did happen to you. Non-abused people do not have flashbacks or
memories of ritual abuse events. They may have a nightmare after a horror
film, or an image they read about or saw may haunt them for a while,
but they do not suffer from persistent images with ritual abuse content.
Part 2. Dissociation and Multiplicity
What Is Dissociation?
Dissociation means the separation of things that were, or usually
are, together (e.g., associated). In their minds, people usually
remember a whole event, including sights, sounds, feelings, and meaning.
When dissociation occurs, the remembered event may be devoid of meaning
or feelings, which are separated and stored off in another part of the
mind. In other words, the different parts of the memory are recalled
separately, not as a congruent whole.
Strictly speaking, dissociation is a mental process, a way of recording
and storing information. It is one of the mind’s ways of operating. Some
information may be dissociated, while other information is stored as
a whole.
Sometimes you hear “So-and-so is dissociated.” This is short-hand for
saying that their mind uses dissociation. A person is always a whole
person regardless of how their mind works. Nobody stores their feet in
one place, their nose in another, and their mind someplace else, even
though some days it sure feels that way.
What Causes Dissociation?
Dissociation occurs when a person experiences extreme stress or stimulation.
Under these conditions, life is experienced differently, and the memory
of an event is stored differently in the mind. Research is starting to
suggest that the brain operates differently when experiencing or recalling
stressful and non-stressful events.
Here is a personal example that many people may be able to relate to.
I remember skidding badly on an icy street. As the car skidded, colors
seemed brighter, time passed very slowly, I was enveloped in total silence
even though the radio was on, and I experienced no thoughts or feelings
whatsoever. I was aware of only the visual part of this experience as
it happened. Later, the emotions hit. I was so frightened that my heart
pounded and my legs shook, but I could no longer call up the visual memory.
When a child is severely abused, extreme stress occurs repeatedly.
Many events are experienced in a state of shock, stored in a dissociative
state, and recalled in fragments.
If a child is exposed to enough stress, even memories of less stressful
events can be dissociated. Perhaps the child is still in shock, perhaps
the child’s sensitivity to stress is raised, perhaps the mind comes to
store all material in a familiar way.
There are probably innate temperamental differences between people. Some
people probably dissociate more easily than others, or require less stress
to change over into dissociative mode.
What Is A Flash-Back?
A flash-back is a dissociated memory that returns to consciousness.
It can be a smell, a taste, a sound, a picture, an emotion, or all these
things together. It can last a moment, or linger on for weeks.
People describe smelling alcohol or perfume when none is present, hearing
a word over and over again in their heads, feeling panic or dread for
no logical reason, or seeing pictures, like snapshots or movies behind
their eyes. All these are fragmented memories rising up into consciousness.
They can be extremely vivid and can appear to be happening in the
present. The more fragments come together at the same time, the more
intense the flashback.
Flashbacks are terrifying if you don’t know what they are, and if you
don’t realize they will eventually stop. Experiencing flashbacks doesn’t
mean you are going crazy — it means that you are at a point in your
life when you are able to deal with things that you couldn’t cope with
earlier. They tend to lose their intensity when you have assembled
the fragments into a coherent memory, talked about it, cried about it,
absorbed the memory into your life.
What Is Multiplicity?
If abuse is severe enough, the mental fragments can be organized or
arranged into ‘personalities’ which seem to have a life of their own.
Often the personalities are so separated that they are not aware of each
other’s existence. This is called an amnesiac barrier.
Imagine a child with a mother who is loving one moment and cruel and
sadistic the next. The child will obviously react differently, depending
on the mother’s mood. The child will learn different ways of responding
to the ‘good’ mother and the ‘bad’ mother. All children do this, to some
extent, because no adult is perfectly consistent. Now imagine that the
child is so stressed out that memories of interactions with the ‘bad’
mother are dissociated. When the ‘good’ mother is around, the child has
no knowledge of the ‘bad’ mother, or of the ‘bad’ child. But as soon
as the mother turns nasty, the child switches, and knows exactly how
to react. Voila! Multiplicity.
What Is An Alter?
An alter is one personality of a person with multiplicity. The
personality who is ‘out’ most of the time is often called the host personality,
and personalities seen less frequently are called alternative personalities,
or alters. Some people have only one or two alters, others have hundreds
or even thousands.
Some people with multiplicity experiences each alter as a separate person.
Others experience them as different from their usual self, but not as
different people. Multiplicity is not exactly the same from person
to person, and each person’s experience of their inner reality is unique.
Often alters have names, have a distinct age, and have specific jobs
to do. One may be in charge of feeling anger, another of going to school
or work, another may be the one who decides which alter gets to be in
control of the body at any given time. Alters may have a different gender
from the body or a different sexual orientation from the host. There
may even be alters who are animals, objects, or abstract ideas. Sometimes
people have alters who are experienced as being dead or immortal.
The formation of alters is a natural psychological process, given extreme
early childhood stress. Abusive adults who are aware of the process
can manipulate and train the emerging personalities to their own ends.
Some survivors of ritual abuse have alters trained by their abusers to
do certain tasks and to behave in ways desired by the abusers. And some
survivors have alters organized in elaborate patterns designed by the
cult, with strict rules about how the alters communicate with each other.
What Is Co-Consciousness?
When two or more alters are aware of what is happening in the present,
they are said to be co-conscious. When two or more alters share control
over the body’s actions, they are said to be co-present.
A person may have alters who are unaware of each other, alters who are
always mutually aware of each other, and alters who are aware at some
times but not others. Alters who are aware of the presence of other personalities
know they are multiple, while alters who aren’t in contact with other
personalities firmly believe they are “the only one there.’ An alter
may even be multiple.
What Is Integration?
Integration is used to describe two different processes. One is the process
of alters learning to communicate and cooperate and sharing their memories
with each other. The other sense of the word is the actual merging (or
fusion) of two or more alters to become one. Nothing is lost: all memories,
talents, and personality traits are preserved, but organized in a different
way. One survivor described integration as ‘falling in love with myself,’
rather than as the death of part of herself, as she had feared.
Some people choose not to fuse, and find that their lives are perfectly
satisfactory as long as their alters are communicating well. Others fuse
partially, reducing the number of alters. Most people with many alters
do this in stages, allowing for time for the system to stabilize and
get used to the new internal organization. Some people ‘become one’ for
a period of time, and then either new alters are formed to deal with
new life circumstances, or the former alters split off and become themselves
again.
Living with being multiple is an on-going process, just like living with
not being multiple is. There are choices to be made, decisions that make
life easier or harder. There is no hard and fast rule about what the
‘best’ way is — each person’s path in life is unique.
Part 3. Mind Control
What Is Mind Control?
Mind control, like ritual abuse, has both a broad and narrow definition.
In a sense, all advertising is an attempt at mind control, an attempt
to make people buy certain brands or objects. Propaganda (my country
is right and good and the other country is wrong and bad) is also an
example of attempted mind control.
In the survivor community, however, the definition is much narrower and
more sinister. It means that part of a person’s mind has been programmed
(that is, trained) to obey another person without question, while other
parts of the mind are unaware of this situation.
What Is Programming?
Programming refers both to the process of teaching part of the mind unquestioned
obedience and to the content of what is taught. Thus you can say that
a person has been programmed to suicide under certain conditions, or
you can talk about a suicide program that is triggered (activated) by
certain words or conditions.
The word programming has a heaviness to it, an aura of machine-like inevitability.
It is helpful to remember that programming is something that is done
to a human being by another human being, for a specific reason, using
certain time-tested techniques, at a certain time and place. If you
think of programming as training, some of the heaviness and mystery lifts.
Why Would Anybody Want To Control Another’s Mind?
A person who is programmed, but unaware of this fact, can be made to
do many dangerous or illegal things. Such people make perfect spies,
for example, because they are unable to reveal their mission if captured.
They simply don’t know what they did, or were supposed to do, and cannot
give any information. They would also make good assassins, drug runners,
money launderers, sexual slaves for prostitution, pornography, or blackmail,
etc. — anything that requires secrecy.
Who Practices Mind Control?
Many cults that practice ritual abuse use mind control, in that
their members are not aware, most of the time, that they are participating
in the cult or in abusive acts or ceremonies. Governments also
have experimented extensively with mind control.
Has This Been Documented?
Government involvement has been documented in Nazi Germany, Canada, and
the United States. Some US documents, all of which were originally classified,
have been declassified; many others were secretly destroyed. A few papers
have been published in academic journals, and some private correspondence
has become public. And, of course, there is also the testimony of survivors
who have become conscious of what was done to them.
There is no parallel documentation for the use of mind control in cults,
since cults do not keep records the way governments do. If there is a
cult paper trail, it has not yet come to light. But we can surmise from
ritual abuse survivors’ accounts and behaviors that mind control is widely
used in abusive cults and that the cults and government network in perfecting
techniques.
How Many People Are Controlled In This Way?
It is impossible to say, because many are totally unaware that they have
been programmed and are being used. There is no central registry of survivors
who remember, and the powers that be seem to have much more interest
in hushing up the situation than in doing sound research.
People who say they are mind-control survivors can be found in every
continent. Currently, more people are coming forward as survivors in
the United States of America, Canada, certain European countries, Australia,
New Zealand, and South Africa than elsewhere. It is starting to appear
that survivors are clustered more densely in certain parts of a country
than others, and some locations appear to be centers for mind control
activity.
How Is Multiplicity Used?
It is easy to image that one alter could be programmed to do a certain
task, and other alters kept unaware of the programming, or even the existence
of the programmed alter. Different alters can be programmed in different
ways, either for different jobs, or as a back-up. Multiplicity, dissociation,
and amnesia are keys elements of mind control.
Not all people who have been programmed act like multiples. Some do not
even suspect that have alters. In the absence of an order, cue, or trigger
from a superior, they may lead perfectly ordinary
lives.
What Are Triggers And Cues?
Triggers are situations, actions, or words that bring a memory or feeling
to consciousness, or which activate a program. They are catalysts, so
to speak. Some common devices used to activate programs are telephone
calls, letters or greeting cards, and meaning-laden objects sent as ‘gifts’.
The word trigger is used in a very broad sense, and may mean anything
from following a command after seeing a hand signal to having a flashback
after a dental procedure to getting upset when a friend, co-worker, or
supervisor is rude or thoughtless. For clarity, it’s a good idea
to always specific exactly what was triggered (program, action, emotion,
memory, etc.)
The word cue is usually used more narrowly and refers specifically to
a trigger that activates a program, although it too is starting to be
used in a broader sense. Both trigger and cue can be either nouns or
verbs.
What Is A Screen Memory?
For many years, screen memory meant a sensory memory fragment that carried
the emotion of the entire event. Thus a child who was staring down while
being scolded might later only remember his or her shoes, along with
a vivid sense of shame and anger. Or a whiff of cinnamon might evoke
all the feelings of watching grandmother cook.
In mind control terms, and more increasingly in general usage, a screen
memory is a memory that hides, or screens, another memory. The screen
memory may be of a real event or may be implanted by the programmer through
hypnosis, staged scenes with appropriate costumes and props, movies,
cartoons, or ‘virtual reality’. Some people believe that memories of
past lives, satanic ritual abuse, and alien abductions are examples of
screen memories. The screen memory is designed to provoke disbelief and
serves to protect a programming session or medical or psychological experiment.
Are There Different Systems In Use?
Yes. Sometimes many alters are created and elaborately arranged in hierarchical
patterns. There are people whose alters resemble a medieval feudal village,
with nobility, peons, knights, and scribes. Other patterns resemble a
corporate structure, with a CEO and a council of twelve advisors guiding
the operation of different departments. Some patterns are more abstract
and may resemble an occult symbol, like the pentagram or the Tree of
Life, a geometric form or mathematical formula, the double helix of DNA,
a computer program, or an elaborate video game.
Alters may be taught to group themselves in different patterns at different
times, or two or more groups of alters may be used to form different
patterns. ‘Back-up’ programs are common, and much redundancy is built
in. Alters may be able to self-replicate, or may be created by other
alters. Not all alters have names: some are numbered, some exist only
as fragments.
What Are Some Programming Techniques?
Any technique which induces a deep trance can be used. In practical
terms, this usually means torture, extreme pain, sexual arousal, drugs,
and/or electroshock. Also sleep, food and water deprivation, extremes
of temperatures, loud noise, or strobing lights. Techniques of interrogation
of prisoners of war are used: both torture techniques and psychological
ones, including induction of helplessness and hopelessness, trickery
and deceit, sudden role reversals (the good cop/bad cop technique). None
of the methods are humane.
Can People Be Controlled Mechanically?
There is plenty of documentation that government-sponsored research has
been done on mechanical methods of mind control. Experiments have been
done on control of emotion and behavior by electrodes implanted in the
brain in humans as well as animals. Implantable microchips allow the
tracking of pets, and, by extension, people. Experiments consisting of
giving unsuspecting people LSD or other psychoactive drugs have been
done, and there is literature on using microwaves to eavesdrop or send
messages to people from a distance.
How Do You ‘Deprogram’ Somebody Who Has Been Programmed?
Forcing another belief system on somebody who has been programmed
is not really ‘deprogramming’ — it is further programming. True
‘deprogramming’ involves consent, respect, patience, creativity, re-education,
and kindness. Within this framework, there is a technical and a reconstructive
approach. These approaches may be blended together judiciously.
A. Reconstructive: Giving alters more knowledge
A less technical approach involves broadening alters’ knowledge of
both the past and the outside world. You can ‘talk through’ to hidden
alters by saying “Anybody inside is welcome to listen and to repeat this
to others who aren’t listening. Nobody has to listen,” and then describe
the present in simple terms. Describe flashbacks, explain dissociation,
describe the kinds of food in the refrigerator, describe day to day activities,
explain what a choice is, and demonstrate making choices in every-day
life.
Basically, you are educating alters about the rules of a world they
have never known. Gradually, their interest may be sparked, and they
may grow enough to choose, on their own, to act differently. It’s important
though, not to get into an argument, but simply to offer more knowledge
and options.
Remembering or reliving the past is even more effective. If all alters
involved can remember and share among themselves what it was like to
be programmed, including the sensations and emotions, lasting change
can take place. When they see exactly what was done, by what means, by
whom, the compulsion to follow the program will make sense. “Aha! That’s
how they did it!” The mystery is gone, and the hold of the program is
lessened. Once a programming session is remembered and worked through,
physical symptoms can disappear, emotions are redirected more appropriately,
and the person can consciously choose whether or not to follow instructions,
rather than having to blindly obey, not knowing why.
B. Technical: Changing the programming
Here one leaves the structure alone and assigns the alters a new or modified
job. For example, an alter whose job is to answer the phone and get instructions
may be re-programmed to answer only after fifty rings. Nothing really
changes, but such a band-aid can be useful.
If you think in terms of computers, the internal ‘programmer’ alter can
be asked to de-activate programs, to de-install them, erase them, or
put them in the trash. This can be tricky; some programs are designed
to recreate themselves if they are erased, and erasing a program can
have unforeseen consequences. You don’t want to erase a suicide program,
for example, if erasing the suicide program is the access cue to activate
a homicide program!
Is It Necessary To Integrate All Alters To Be Deprogrammed?
No. Integration and deprogramming and two separate processes. Integration
is the blending together of two or more alters. Deprogramming is simply
learning more: learning that you were programmed, how you were programmed,
that not everybody in the world has been programmed, that you don’t have
to act on programming. It’s learning to make choices, learning what freedom
is. Of course, somebody may use that freedom to integrate, if they wish,
but they may also use it to try coconut ice-cream for the first time,
write a book, do all sorts of things.
Is It Possible To Live A ‘Normal’ Life After Having Been Programmed?
Well, being programmed is not normal, it’s a series of deliberately executed
painful experiences involving forms of torture and coercion that were
forced upon you without your consent or knowledge. Each human being is
unique with different life experiences, and you will define ‘normal’
according to your evolving sense of healing and regained control over
your life. It is perfectly possible to live a satisfying, even a happy
life, and to be content with quite ordinary circumstances and activities.
You can live without losing time, without being involved in events you
want no part of, without being somebody’s puppet. You can chose to be
an activist or to raise sheep in some remote place. You can have strong
and weak points, satisfactions and disappointments, just like everybody
else. But you will always know that your past has included something
which, fortunately, does not happen to most people. You will be a
survivor, healed and healing, all your life.
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