WARNING: SENSITIVE INFORMATION! PROCEED WITH CAUTION! The Pace memorandum was a 1990 memorandum written by Glenn L. Pace, a general authority in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), describing to a committee of the church the complaints of sixty members of the church that claimed they had been subjected to satanic ritual abuse (SRA) by family members and other members of the church. The state of Utah conducted a 30-month investigation of the claims after the Pace memorandum was leaked to the press in 1991, concluding that there was no evidence found to substantiate the testimony of the alleged victims. In July 1990, Pace, who at the time was a member of the church's presiding bishopric, fulfilled a request by the church's Strengthening Church Members Committee by writing a memorandum about his investigations into alleged incidents of SRA among Latter-day Saints in Utah, Idaho, California, Mexico, and elsewhere. The memorandum was leaked to the press in October 1991.
When you start reading about SRA, it becomes impossible not to believe it when you start seeing patterns emerge. Dissociation symptoms follow a pattern as well. I've read alot of victim testimonies and they are all sound the same, with same events, same type of torture, same reaction by the victims and also the utter loss of memory until later in life when the conditioning begins to break down and memories begin to break through to the conscious. As a retired mental health therapist, this is what I found when I read the testimonies of these poor victims of evil. First time I came across this was back in the 1980 with the McMartin day care center in California. I recommend reading "Trance-formation" of America and "Thanks for the Memories" there is alot of info in those 2 books, written by survivors. Listen to the survivors and you will see patterns emerge. Concrete Conspiracy - many thanks for publishing this Pace memo and for writing about this. It's very important to get this info out so that hopefully, we can take steps to put an end to this horrifying nightmare that happens to far too many adults and children.
When you start reading about SRA, it becomes impossible not to believe it when you start seeing patterns emerge. Dissociation symptoms follow a pattern as well. I've read alot of victim testimonies and they are all sound the same, with same events, same type of torture, same reaction by the victims and also the utter loss of memory until later in life when the conditioning begins to break down and memories begin to break through to the conscious. As a retired mental health therapist, this is what I found when I read the testimonies of these poor victims of evil. First time I came across this was back in the 1980 with the McMartin day care center in California. I recommend reading "Trance-formation" of America and "Thanks for the Memories" there is alot of info in those 2 books, written by survivors. Listen to the survivors and you will see patterns emerge. Concrete Conspiracy - many thanks for publishing this Pace memo and for writing about this. It's very important to get this info out so that hopefully, we can take steps to put an end to this horrifying nightmare that happens to far too many adults and children.
What a concise primer on SRA. This will help in communicating this to others, thank you.