Satanic Cult Awareness Part 1: Definitions, Psychological Manipulation, and Types of Torture

WARNING: SENSITIVE INFORMATION! PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

Satanic Cult Awareness: Gayland W. Hurst and Robert L. Marsh presented a guide.

The Occult - A New Police Problem

EXACTLY HOW IS A DESTRUCTIVE RELIGIOUS CULT (DRC) DEFINED?

A DRC is any group which uses psychological manipulation (1) to impair, destroy or make captive an individual's freedom of thought or reasoning abilities. This is done with the hidden purpose of promoting the wealth, power or vanity of charismatic cult leaders. The recruitment (2) practice is usually deceptive and the victim enters the cult without informed consent. Cult leaders demand blind faith in their teachings, restrict the freedom of their followers, and direct them to engage in criminal activity(3).

CULT TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION:

ISOLATION

loss of reality induced by physical separation from society and rational reverences.

HYPNOSIS

state of high suggestibility induced by hypnosis, often thinly disguised as meditation.

PEER GROUP PRESSURE

suppression of doubt and resistance to new ideas achieved by exploiting the natural need to belong.

LOVE BOMBING

sense of family and belonging contrived through hugging, kissing, touching, and flattery.

REMOVAL OF PRIVACY

loss of ability to evaluate, logically achieved by preventing private. contemplation.

SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND FATIGUE

disorientation and vulnerability created by prolonged mental and physical activity and withholding adequate rest and sleep.

GAMES

need for direction when playing games with obscure rules increases dependence on the group.

META COMMUNICATION

subliminal messages implanted by stressing certain keywords or phrases in long confusing lectures.

NO QUESTIONS

automatic acceptance of beliefs accomplished by discouraging questions.

CONFUSING DOCTRINE

complex lectures on an incomprehensible doctrine, encourage rejection of logic and blind acceptance.

REJECTION OF OLD VALUES

acceptance of new lifestyle accelerated by constantly denouncing former values and beliefs.

CONFESSION

destruction of personal egos, increased vulnerability to new teachings, and recruits' weaknesses revealed, through sharing innermost secrets.

GUILT

teachings of eternal salvation reinforced by exaggerating sins of the former lifestyle.

FEAR

loyalty and obedience to group maintained by threatening soul, life, or limb for the slightest "negative thought, word or deed.

CHANTING.AND SINGING

non-cult input screened out by demanding repetition of mind-narrowing chants or phrases, when faced with non-cult ideas.

DISINHIBITION

abdication of adult responsibility encouraged by orchestrating childlike behavior.

CHANGE OF DIET

disorientation and increased susceptibility to emotional arousal achieved by depriving the nervous system of necessary nutrients, through the use of low-protein, child-like food.

CONTROLLED APPROVAL

vulnerability and confusion maintained by alternately rewarding and punishing similar actions.

DRESS

individuality removed by demanding conformity to the group dress code.

FLAUNTING HIERARCHY

acceptance of cult authority produced by promising advancement, power, and salvation.

FINGER POINTING

false sense of righteousness created by pointing to the shortcomings of the outside world and other cults.

REPLACEMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS

pre-cult families destroyed by arranging cult marriages and "families".

FINANCIAL COMMITMENT

increased dependence on the group achieved by "burning bridges" to past, through the donation of all assets.

DECEPTIVE RECRUITMENT:

• Most cults recruit members in their teens when prospective members are young, impressionable, and troubled.

• In the initial approach, potential recruits are often unaware they are being recruited, (i.e., they are solicited to attend discussion sessions on non-religious political subjects; weekend seminars, dinners, etc.). The goal of this technique is to get the recruit alone with other cult members so that psychological manipulation can begin.

• Not every recruit joins; at each step of the recruitment process, the worldly, sophisticated, "street-wise," independent recruits are separated. only those who are idealistic, submissive, and emotional are asked to join.

• Interpersonal bonds are then established by other cult members. Conversion takes place not because of the appeal of its ideology, but because of the acceptance of the opinions of one's new "friends".

INITIATION OF A NEW CULT MEMBER:

The illustration in the following pages depicts the complete initiation process of a destructive cult. starting at the bottom and continuing upwards, there are 27 different steps in the recruitment, indoctrination, and disorientation process. After the Recruitment and indoctrination phases, physical and mental changes appear in the Disorientation state. Of the total 27 steps of psychological coercion, only 17 need to be used in a 48-hour period to result in a disoriented person.

TYPES OF ABUSE AND TORTURE:

Confinement/isolation in small places, often with sensory deprivation: Blackhole/pit, cage, coffin, or grave. Often the container is filled with bones or a body (animal or human), snakes" spiders, etc. Children are told that worms will eat their brains out. Often they are left for days in absolute filth. This abuse is involved in significant rituals or may be utilized as punishment. Being reborn int;o satanism (hauled out of live burial) through symbolic death is a standard ritual for children.

Sexual torture: Is continuous and almost always with multiple perpetrators (both male and female); as well as trained animals. Infants and toddlers are physically prepared for later sexual abuse with objects forced into every body opening. The role of the mother figure is crucial in this early sexual abuse preparation. Sexual rituals are common and generally involve the letting of blood (girls are cut vaginally, and boys are cut on the penis). “Sexual orgies” among cult members always involve the balance of pleasure with pain to serve satan. Girls are impregnated as early as possible and are taught that unanesthetized abortions are an honor.

Physical deprivation: Chronic disruption of sleep, starvation, excessive exposure to heat or cold. This breaks down resistance and increases susceptibility to brainwashing.

Forced participation in abuse/murder: For children, this may be real (adult hand guides child's hand to stab baby) or staged (the victim was already dead, or child's participation was suggested under hypnosis). The child is then labeled a murderer, unlovable, a criminal who will be locked up by the police, crazy, and awaiting psychiatric lock up. Ultimately, many of the children will be programmed to murder for the cult on cue. They are taught by “trainers” how to kill and collect blood and skin victims. Even high-level “trainers” still go through continuous torture in order to stay vicious.

Psychiatric abuse: Children are often routinely taken to an actual psychotherapist (cult member) or a person posing as one. Routine "psychotherapeutic behaviors" are associated with pain and fear, thus effectively sabotaging legitimate therapy for the survivor in the future. Some survivors also report being locked up and restrained in “psychiatric hospitals” or undergoing ECT as children.

Varied emotional abuse: Targeted at destroying a child's self-esteem and self-confidence. Standard caring societal messages (I love you, you're special) are linked with torture and abandonment. A child is ordered to complete ~ a paradoxical or impossible task, then is tortured for not following orders or is blamed for the torture or murder of another child. Children are told they are worthless, dirty, stupid, ugly, and evil, and are lucky the cult will keep them.

Religious/spiritual abuse: Often in real or staged Christian churches, always targeted against any future acceptance of Christianity (even though many cult families masquerade as active Christians), always emphasizing control of child by satan and his demons. Children are reaped with symbolic Christian objects and are told that Jesus approved and believes they are bad. Rituals involving the insertion of eyeballs into the vagina or rectum symbolize that demons are inside the child always watching. children are "placed under numerous curses" during rituals. Especially important to uncover is the "curse of silence" (if they tell of the cult, they and the non-cult listener will die). Although special children are taught they can develop great powers by serving satan, fear of the diety's rage seems to-predominate the belief system. Most of the cult abuse is intertwined with religious dogma. Male and female children and adults are "married to Satan" (who is considered bisexual) at various ages.

General physical torture: Mutilation/marking the body for satan, drawing blood, banging by arms or feet, tubal insertion in body opening to allow for fluids to be introduced. Electric shock to the spine/knees, dragging with rope or leash around the neck, generally being treated like an animal, immersion in feces/blood buckets/urine, pulling/drilling teeth, being burned (trial by fire), blood transfusions, and skin grafts from sacrificial victims.

Drug abuse: Begins in infancy, is routinely part of general brainwashing and rituals. Drugs are very sophisticated and often administered by medical professionals (IV, IM, gas masks, orally). Most survivors report that drugs are administered through cranial burr holes as well. The effects of drugs are complex, such as resulting in paralysis from the neck down, and are very carefully induced. Some ritual torture need not be fully experienced by the child and simply serves symbolic or spiritual purposes. The cult also uses sodium amytal to gain information.

Brainwashing: Often in conjunction with drugs, is sophisticated hypnosis which involves the associative pairing of induced pain/terror + the cult message + the trigger cue(s). Trigger cues are planted in the subconscious and are too numerous to list. They are later utilized by the cult to control the survivor without his or her conscious awareness (visual symbols on greeting cards, flower colors, and arrangements, common hand gestures, verbal phrases, body postures, and facial movements). Brainwashing is an integral part of ritual abuse and cult indoctrination and also serves to create amnesia for cult information such as names, places, etc., thus protecting cult secrecy. Hypnotic introduction of visual images during abuse can hamper later therapeutic efforts to uncover accurate memories.

Near-death experiences: Particularly common via suffocation torture, near drownings (head is held underwater). These are utilized for punishment, to promote "out-of-body experiences," and are a common part of certain rituals. Victims may be resuscitated with oxygen.

Forced eating of flesh, excrement, and other fetid material: This is routine and is generally force-fed or given to a child as a trick, concealed as something else after the child has been starved for days. "Ritual meals" of blood, flesh, semen, urine, etc., are consumed by all cult members during sacrifices to satan. (These are commonly accompanied by nausea and vomiting). It is quite common for survivors to be very suspicious of food in general and to avoid many food types due to color or texture. Some survivors seem anorexic and others compulsively eat to combat "taste memories".

Staged birthing of "bad babies": Dead snakes, rats, and objects are seemingly pulled from between the legs of small girls who are told they are giving birth to bad, rotten things. This serves to practice birthing and also is more "evidence" of how bad they are inside and need to be purified (by more abuse).

Teaching cognitive contusion: Opposites are constantly reconciled in cult behavior and training (be obedient/rebel, sex without pain is not pleasure, love and hate are the same, black is white, ugly is pretty, left is right). children learn that none of society's concepts are stable and often represent their opposite. The child must split inside to function within this cult confusion vs. the non-cult world. cult families frequently evidence different rules at home vs. at cult gatherings.

Part 2 coming out soon.