Dancing With The Devil: How Sigmund Freud Paved the Way for a Century of Ritual Abuse (Part V)
The final accounting...
“All sorts of corruption began to be practiced. ... The corruption [of the Bacchanalia] was not confined to one kind of evil, the promiscuous violation of free men and of women; the cult was also a source of supply of false witnesses, forged documents and wills, and perjured evidence, dealing also in poisons and in wholesale murders among the devotees, and sometimes ensuring that not even the bodies were found for burial. Many such outrages were committed by craft, and even more by violence; and the violence was concealed because no cries for help could be heard against the shriekings, the banging of drums and the clashing of cymbals in the scene of debauchery and bloodshed.”
— Livy, Commentary on the Bacchanalian Affair. Ab Urbe Condita, Book XXXIX
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The Finders cult occupies a singular position in the history of ritual abuse because it concentrates, within a single documented episode, every element that elsewhere appears only in fragments: organized ritual abuse involving children, an international operational footprint, ideological hostility to the family unit, and direct proximity to the intelligence services.
As we will soon discover, The Finders are not an ambiguous case, nor a confused episode best explained by the supposed cultural hysterias of the 1980’s — they are one of the clearest documented examples of an intelligence-adjacent cult ever to surface in the United States.
The cult first emerged in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960’s. The group, like so many other groups during the “free love” era, was initially organized around communal living and the deliberate rejection of the nuclear family. The Finders were founded and led by Marion Pettie, and any serious account of the case has to begin there. Pettie does not fit the familiar profile of the cult leader: he was not a preacher, nor a prophet, nor a mystic. His immediate family connections to the American intelligence apparatus are numerous and self-admitted (emphasis mine):
…Isabelle Pettie, the wife of Finders leader Marion Pettie, worked for the CIA during the Cold-War era (Pettie also admitted that his son worked for the CIA-linked, Iran Contra-era Air America), and that it was her visas to North Korea, North Vietnam, Russia and elsewhere that had been approved by the State Department. Key documents from the MPD investigation are labeled secret, just as Martinez had claimed, which is bizarre on its face if we are to believe that the Finders were simply an odd “alternative living” commune.
— The Finders: CIA Ties to Child Sex Cult Obscured as Coverage Goes from Sensationalism to Silence
This travel was conducted throughout the late 1950’s to the mid 1970’s, i.e. the height of the supposed “Cold War.” These facts alone establish that the household at the center of the Finders cult was deeply embedded within the national-security complex.
The group remained largely invisible until February 1987, when the Tallahassee police encountered two men associated with the Finders traveling with multiple children in a dirty and foul smelling van. Concerned citizens had contacted the police after witnessing the children in various states of neglect, who, when confronted by police, stated they were on their way to a school for “smart kids” in Mexico. The two men were evasive and uncooperative with police, and, for understandable reasons, both men were immediately arrested and placed on a $500,000 bond. This encounter initiated further coordination with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., where the Finders were headquartered. From there the case escalated in a manner that, at least initially, followed ordinary criminal procedure.
On February 6th, 1987, Special Agent Ramon J. Martinez of the United States Customs Service (USCS) conducted a search of a Finder’s owned warehouse in Washington D.C. What he discovered was beyond the pale (emphasis mine):
…I met Detective Bradly at the warehouse on 4th Street, N.E. I duly advised my acting group supervisor, SS/A Don Bludworth. I was again granted numerous documents which described explicit sexual conduct between the members of the community known as the finders. I also saw a large collection of photographs of unidentified persons. Some of the photographs were nudes, believed to be of members of Finders. There were numerous photos of children some nude, at least one of which was a photo of a child “on display” and appearing to accent the child’s genitals. I was only able to examine a very small amount of the photos at this time. However, one of the officers presented me with a photo album for my review. The album contained a series of photos of adults and children dressed in white sheets participating in a “blood ritual.” The ritual centered around the execution of at least two goats. The photos portrayed the execution, disembowelment, skinning, and dismemberment of the goats at the hands of the children. …
Further inspection of the premises disclosed numerous files relating to activities of the organization in different parts of the world… London, Germany, the Bahamas, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Africa, Costa Rica…“Europe” …“Palestinian.”
— Ramon J. Martinez, Special Agent, USCS. Memo: Customs cooperation/interest in Tallahassee/Washington MPD child abuse investiagtion
The memorandum goes into lengthy detail reviewing the seized material gathered from the premises of the Finder’s warehouse, as well as the location itself. Children’s clothing, videography equipment, and soiled mattresses were all visible on site. This disturbing fact pattern establishes three things simultaneously: the presence of sexualized material involving children, the presence of ritualized activity involving children, and the presence of an international footprint wholly inconsistent with a “quirky” and insular commune.
— (Left) Suspected child traffickers and Finders members Michael Holwell (L) and Doug Ammerman (R). (Right) Finders founder and cult leader, Marion Pettie.
— The alleged child victims of The Finders cult.
— A map of the McMartin preschool was part of the FBI files released on The Finders.
It is precisely at this point — when the case crosses from suspected child abuse into documented abuse — that the investigation ceases to behave like a criminal investigation at all. Martinez later records that he was informed the matter had become a CIA internal issue, that the key reports were classified, and that the case was no longer proceeding through ordinary prosecutorial channels. Seized materials were returned to the group, and the cases were eventually dropped for “lack of evidence” in both D.C. and Tallahassee. While disputed by CIA officials at the time, the release of the Finder’s archive by the FBI show that pages were indeed marked classified, something that not only contradicts the Agency’s public statements, but would be entirely unnecessary if the cult had no intelligence links.
The case resurfaced in December 1993 after an unnamed whistleblower (likely Martinez) came forward alleging a systematic cover-up of the case. On December 17th, the Justice Department acknowledged that it was investigating renewed allegations that the CIA had used a front company run by the Finders to train its employees (emphasis mine):
The Justice Department said Friday it is investigating allegations the CIA used a ″front company″ run by a commune to train agency employees and that the CIA blocked investigation of the group.
The CIA denied any ties to the commune, called the Finders.
Justice Department spokesman John Russell said the department is looking into the allegations, contained in Customs Service documents sent to some members of Congress. …
Christian said Friday the CIA sent some employees to a company called Future Enterprises Inc. for computer training in the 1980s. … Joseph Marinich, vice president of Future Enterprises, said the company has trained CIA employees in computer use and continues to do so, but that it has never been a front for anyone. … Marinich said one Finders member, former Internal Revenue Service employee Robert Garder Terrell, worked for the company before he was let go in February 1987. …
The newspaper also said a police document of Feb. 19, 1987, quotes a CIA agent as confirming that his agency was sending its people to ″a Finders Corp., Future Enterprises, for training in computer operations.″
A later Customs report says the CIA ″admitted to owning the Finders organization as a front for a domestic computer training operation but that it had ’gone bad,‴
— Justice Department Looking At Alleged CIA Ties To Commune (Dec. 17th, 1993)
As we will soon see, The Finders were not operating outside the scope of state awareness, but, rather, within a protected operational environment.
On December 13th, 1993, a mere four days earlier, an FBI memorandum asserts that a reviewer had examined USCS files and interviewed Customs agents, concluding that the USCS file consisted of only one report and that the reviewer “could find no evidence” of abuse (emphasis mine):
[REDACTED] advised that he had reviewed USCS files and interviewed USCS Agents and Supervisors concerning the FINDERS investigation. [REDACTED] related that the Customs file on the FINDERS case in 1987 consisted of only one report, that of SA [Special Agent -SE] [REDACTED] indicated that his review of USCS files revealed no evidence of any FINDERS involvement with child abuse, child sexual exploitation, or child pornography. He indicated that he could find no evidence of any Customs violation of any kind located within the file.
— FBI Memorandum 31C-WF-189911-39 (Dec. 13th, 1993)
In 1987, a federal Customs agent documents and catalogues demonstrable evidence of child abuse. In 1993, the FBI asserts that a review of those same Customs files revealed no evidence of child abuse whatsoever.
These are not different interpretations of the same facts — they are mutually exclusive realities.
Given the facts of the case, we are left with precious few conclusions to draw: either there was gross incompetence by the FBI, they were handed a doctored file lacking SA Martinez’s testimony, or the FBI was yet another federal agency which assisted in the cover-up of The Finder’s activities.
“The key to creating an effective spy or assassin rests in splitting a man’s personality, or creating multipersonality, with the aid of hypnotism….
This is not science fiction. This has and is being done.
I have done it.”
― George H. Estabrooks (32°), Canadian-American Psychologist & Hypnotist (Ross, Ch. 15)
The suppression of the Finders investigation reveals a structural flaw rather than an evidentiary one.
It is at this point that the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) enters into the picture. The FMSF was founded by Peter and Pamela Freyd in response to allegations of sexual abuse by their adult daughter, Jennifer Freyd. Before shutting down in 2019, the FMSF presented itself as a scientific corrective to what it characterized as a wave of spurious abuse allegations generated by “irresponsible” therapeutic practices. Yet, the circumstances of its formation immediately complicate this self-description:
…with the help of about 20 prominent mental health professionals such as McHugh and Elizabeth Loftus, then a psychology professor at the University of Washington, Peter and Pamela co-founded the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). While the Freyds were never sued by Jennifer, many of the early FMSF members did face lawsuits from their adult children.
— Joshua Kendall, The False Memory Syndrome at 30: How Flawed Science Turned into Conventional Wisdom
The Freyds are not clinicians, specialists in trauma, memory, or dissociation — their involvement, like many of the early supporters of the FMSF, was entirely personal and defensive. This establishes the foundation not as a neutral or scientific research body but an explicit advocacy group. Despite this, the FMSF and its associated “experts” have served as key witnesses in high profile sexual abuse cases, from Harvey Weinstein to Ghislaine Maxwell.
After a brief stint at American University in Shiraz, Iran, Freyd was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, another program historically intertwined with U.S. foreign policy and soft-power projection. The Fulbright network repeatedly intersects with Cold War psychological research, and it is within this overlapping academic-government milieu that Freyd plausibly encountered figures such as Dr. Martin Orne — a future member of the FMSF — himself a Fulbright scholar and one of the foremost authorities on hypnosis and dissociation research.
Public claims of misunderstanding and false accusation were contradicted by testimony from within the Freyd household, including statements from Peter Freyd’s own brother:
…William [Freyd] wrote and published a letter to WGBH (a public TV service) detailing his experience with Peter and Pam. Within the letter, he states that he had “no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse” of both daughters within the Freyd household. Throughout the controversy, Willam supported Jennifer.
Michele Landsberg wrote about Peter Freyd in her column titled “Incest: Stop the nonsense and get to the difficult truth.”“Here are some less well-publicized facts - not including the alleged acts of incest - about this “happy family:” Pamela and Peter are step-siblings who married in their teens. Peter boasted to his small daughters about his sexual experiences as an 11-year-old boy, calling himself a “male prostitute.” He had his daughters, at ages 9 and 10, dance naked, adorned with Playboy bunny tails, in front of his friends. He encouraged Jennifer, as a child, to read Lolita. He would sit around the house with his genitals exposed. He was later hospitalized for severe alcoholism. He kept a model of his genitals on display.”
This was not a secondhand account, but a direct familial repudiation of the parents’ version of events.
The full letter, partially cited here, is chilling (emphasis mine):
Peter Freyd is my brother. Pamela Freyd is both my stepsister and sister-in-law. Jennifer and Gwendolyn [their daughters] are my nieces. There is no doubt in my mind that there was severe abuse in the home of Peter and Pam, while they were raising their daughters. Peter said (on your show, ‘Divided Memories’) that his humor was ribald. Those of us who had to endure it, remember it as abusive at best and viciously sadistic at worst. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape. There is no such thing as a False Memory Syndrome. It is not, by any normal standard, a Foundation. Neither Pam nor Peter have any significant mental health expertise. That the False Memory Syndrome Foundation has been able to excite so much media attention has been a great surprise...
— William Freyd, Divided Memories: Letters to PBS and Frontline
These descriptions matter because they do not depend on the theoretical machinery that the FMSF would later target. They are not delayed recollections excavated through hypnosis or dissociation. In that sense, they are fatal to the premise that the problem confronting the Freyds was one of “false memory” rather than an abusive reality.
— (Left) Pamela and Peter Freyd, co-founders of the FMSF. (Right) Their daughter, Jennifer Freyd.
It is against this background that the FMSF’s intellectual strategy must be assessed.
From the outset, the foundation did not attempt to demonstrate that abuse does not occur. Instead, it focused on delegitimizing a particular class of testimony: delayed disclosure, recovered memory, and accounts involving dissociation. The central term around which this strategy cohered — “false memory syndrome” — has never been recognized by any authoritative diagnostic body (emphasis mine):
False Memory Syndrome (FMS) is not a diagnosis recognized in either the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases. It is a contrived term that doesn’t actually describe a “syndrome” or collection of symptoms. Rather, it is a pejorative expression that reassigns blame. Richard Lowenstein (1992) stated: “I know of no clinical research or tradition or clinical description that empirically validates or supports that such a clinical condition exists as such. FMS is a syndrome without signs and symptoms (the defining characteristics of a syndrome).”
— Noblitt & Noblitt, Cult and Ritual Abuse: Narratives, Evidence, and Healing Approaches (Ch. 14)
By reassigning blame from the perpetrators to the accusers (and their therapists), genuine testimony was recast into pathology — a strategy often employed against dissidents within the Soviet Union.
The personnel choices of the Foundation do much to reveal the motivations of those involved. One of the most shocking of these was the inclusion of Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield. Underwager’s prior work was centered on the defense of men accused of sexual abuse (emphasis mine):
…previous board member, the late Ralph Underwager, and his wife, fellow board member Hollida Wakefield, granted an interview to Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, published in Amsterdam. In the course of the interview, Underwager was quoted as saying: “Paedophiles need to become more positive and make the claim that paedophilia is an acceptable expression of God’s will for love and unity among human beings.” … Prior to his association with the FMSF, Underwager founded the organization Victims of Child Abuse Legislation (VOCAL), whose sole purpose was the advocacy of men accused of child sexual abuse.
— Noblitt & Noblitt, Cult and Ritual Abuse: Narratives, Evidence, and Healing Approaches (Ch. 14)
His public statements minimizing and even justifying pedophilic relationships demonstrate an ethical posture fundamentally at odds with any organization genuinely concerned with safeguarding children. That such a figure could occupy a position of authority within the FMSF, and whose wife continued to do so even after these vile remarks, speaks volumes.
This perverse viewpoint is further reinforced by the involvement of John Money, a man who publicly rejected the pathologizing of pederasty (emphasis mine):
If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who’s intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual … then I would not call it pathological in any way.
— John Money, Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia (1991)
Money’s relevance to the FMSF is not limited to ideological sympathy. He functioned as a connective node, introducing international actors to the foundation and facilitating its expansion beyond the United States:
From England, Roger Scotford in late 1992 contacted professor John Money, M.D. at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions to find out if he had ever heard of adult children cutting off all contact with parents after claiming to have recovered repressed memories of childhood abuse. Dr. Money, who had heard about the FMSF, put Mr. Scotford in touch with this writer, who in turn put Mr. Scotford in contact with several other affected families in the UK. Scotford came to Philadelphia for the first FMSF professional conference in April 1993 and then began to organize families in the UK.
Through Money’s mediation, a parallel organization in the United Kingdom was subsequently established to attack and discredit those confronting the scourge of ritual and child abuse.
The public explanation offered for the convergence between Peter Freyd and the cluster of psychiatrists who later populated the FMSF has always been disarmingly ordinary. Freyd, then affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, is said to have encountered these figures through professional and therapeutic channels. That explanation, however, introduces its own ethical problem. Dr. Orne was not merely a disinterested expert offering general advice — he had a prior professional relationship to the Freyd family through his role as the personal therapist of Pamela Freyd. A clinician treating a member of a family involved in abuse allegations cannot plausibly serve as a neutral architect of a framework designed to discredit those same allegations.
— The doctors and advisors of the FMSF (from Left to Right): Jollyon “Jolly” West, Ralph Underwager, Michael Persinger, Martin Orne, Paul McHugh, Richard Ofshe, Theodore Sarbin, John Money.
At this point, the foundation’s advisory structure assumes decisive importance. The FMSF was staffed by a cadre of psychiatrists and psychologists whose professional lives were deeply entangled with the CIA, MK ULTRA, as well as the study — and inducement — of dissociation, amnesia, and altered mental states.
Louis Jolyon West’s career is emblematic of that overlap. For decades, West studied hypnosis, hallucinogenic compounds, coercive persuasion, and the deliberate fragmentation of identity — both in civilian and military contexts (emphasis mine):
In 1980, Dr. West co-authored a chapter in the next edition of this textbook, The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, with Dr. Margaret Singer entitled “Cults, quacks, and nonprofessional psychotherapies.” Dr. Singer thanks, among others, Richard Ofshe and Louis Jolyon West for support of her work in the Acknowledgements to her book Cults in Our Midst. In the Introduction she writes:
After a number of years at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, I went to Washington D.C., as a senior psychologist in the laboratory of psychology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. There, among other things, I worked with people who were studying prisoners of war from the Korean War. I became knowledgeable about, and intrigued with, the forms of coercive persuasion, or thought-reform programs, that not only prisoners of war but also civilians in a variety of milieus had been exposed to…
Dr. West devoted four decades to study, writing and experimentation on dissociation, hypnosis, Communist mind control, hallucinogens, sensory deprivation, and methods of social influence; he concluded that the methods used by destructive cults result in the creation of new identities and dissociated states. The same methods, when applied to experimental subjects under BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE and MKULTRA, also resulted in the creation of amnesia, new identities and dissociated states.
— Collin M. Ross, M.D., The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists (Ch. 10)
The same phenomena affirmed as real, inducible, and reproducible was later dismissed by West and his cohorts as therapist-created artifacts.
The breadth of this affiliation across the FMSF advisory board only deepens this problem (emphasis mine):
Dr. West was co-editor of a book entitled Hallucinations. Behavior, Experience, and Theory. One of the contributors to this book, Theodore Sarbin, Ph.D., is a member of the Scientific and Professional Advisory Board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). Other members of the FMSF Board include Dr. Martin Orne, Dr. Margaret Singer, Dr. Richard Ofshe, Dr. Paul McHugh, Dr. David Dinges, Dr. Harold Lief, Emily Carota Orne, and Dr. Michael Persinger. …
Dr. Sarbin … believes that multiple personality disorder is almost always a therapist-created artifact and does not exist as a naturally-occurring disorder, a view adhered to by Dr. McHugh, Dr. Ofshe, and other members of the FMSF Board. Dr. Ofshe is a colleague and co-author of Dr. Singer, who is in turn a colleague and co-author of Dr. West. Denial of the reality of multiple personality by these doctors in the mind control network, who are also on the FMSF Scientific and Professional Advisory Board, could be disinformation. The disinformation could be amplified by attacks on specialists in multiple personality as CIA conspiracy lunatics.
— Collin M. Ross, M.D., The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists (Ch. 10)
Theodore Sarbin, Martin Orne, Margaret Singer, Richard Ofshe, Paul McHugh, and Michael Persinger — all appear within overlapping editorial boards, advisory panels, and research collaborations. Many shared a commitment to the claim that multiple personality and dissociative disorders were not legitimate medical diagnoses; this despite their own experimental work demonstrating the reality of such conditions.
Martin Orne’s career provides the clearest bridge between the FMSF and the CIA (emphasis mine):
[Dr. Martin Orne] received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard in 1958 while in his first year of training in psychiatry. He received CIA money through MKULTRA Subproject 84 in 1958; Subproject documents indicate that he received TOP SECRET clearance from the CIA in 1960.
In 1962, Dr. Orne founded the Institute for Experimental Psychiatry and married Emily Farrell Carota. Both he and his wife are on the Advisory Board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). …For about thirty years, he was the editor of The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. …
Dr. Orne received research money from the CIA, Army, Navy and Air Force. He published many papers relevant to the creation of amnesia and Manchurian Candidates including one entitled “Can a hypnotized subject be compelled to carry out otherwise unacceptable behavior?”. Another example is a paper entitled “Attempting to breach posthypnotic amnesia”. Coauthor on that paper, Dr. John Kihlstrom is on the Advisory Board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. …
He said of Dr. Louis Jolyon West:
As one reviews Jolly West’s contributions, his depth and breadth are unique, ranging from brainwashing to sleep deprivation, from cults to psychotherapy, from hallucinations to dissociative reactions.
— Collin M. Ross, M.D., The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists (Ch. 11)
Orne was a respected and well known authority in hypnosis research. His own assessment of West’s work confirms the breadth of this network and its preoccupation with the very phenomena the FMSF later disavowed.
The final layer of institutional legitimacy came through academic sponsorship. Under Paul McHugh’s leadership, Johns Hopkins hosted and co-sponsored FMSF conferences, lending further credibility to this thoroughly fabricated syndrome (emphasis mine):
Dr. McHugh became the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1975, a position he holds up to the present. The first two academic conferences held by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) took place in Baltimore and were co-sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. Dr. McHugh was a course director at the second meeting.
Faculty for the second FMSF conference on March 21, 1997 included Godfrey D. Pearlson, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Mental Hygeine, Director, Division of Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His talk was entitled, “Brain Imaging Studies on False Memory and Trauma: A Critical Review.” Johns Hopkins is currently participating in the Human Brain Project, which receives funding from the Office of Naval Research, and has contracts with the Army Research Laboratory for microelectronics development.
— Collin M. Ross, M.D., The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations By American Psychiatrists (Ch. 13)
We can see that the FMSF not only emerged under questionable grounds, it was shaped by individuals with documented histories of studying and inducing dissociation: this was then legitimized by institutions embedded in CIA-funded behavioral research.
One of the clearest documentary refutations that dissociation is merely a therapist-induced artifact appears in MK ULTRA Subproject 136. The project’s stated methodology explicitly identifies dissociative states as both observable and inducible, and — crucially — identifies children amongst the subject populations of interest (emphasis mine):
In working with individual subjects, special attention will be given to disassociative states, which tend to accompany spontaneous ESP experiences. Such states can be induced and controlled to some extent with hypnosis and drugs. … The data used in this study will be obtained from group ESP experiments which have yielded significant results, high scoring subjects (including control series and records taken after they ‘lost’ their ability), from special groups such as psychotics, children and mediums, and from psychological and educational tests…
— Document 00017395: MKULTRA Subproject 136 — An Experimental Analysis of Extrasensory Perception
Any subsequent insistence by the FMSF that the dissociative phenomena in children or adults is implausible, socially constructed, or purely iatrogenic is in direct contradiction of documented CIA-funded research practices, many of which were conducted by those very same doctors.
The FMSF is an organization founded in direct response to intra-familial abuse, staffed by non-clinicians acting in openly defensive capacities, and populated at its highest levels by figures who spent their professional lives proving — under military and intelligence auspices — that dissociation and identity fragmentation could be reliably induced. Cult and Ritual Abuse states the verdict plainly: “The FMSF appears to be an advocacy service designed to assist in the legal defense of alleged perpetrators of child abuse. It promotes its purpose by defending alleged perpetrators against their alleged victims by questioning the credibility of their accusers and, by extension, the advocates of these alleged victims, including therapists.” (Noblitt &Noblitt, Ch. 14)
At this stage, the question is no longer whether the FMSF was mistaken, or even whether it was biased — both are painfully evident. The question is not whether some memories can be false, for of course they can.
The question is why, at precisely the moment when allegations of organized and institutional abuse began to stabilize into a coherent narrative, an apparatus appeared whose sole practical function was to discredit the victims of such abuse.
The public is told that dissociation, amnesia, and identity fragmentation are clinical mirages — manufactured by therapists and weaponized by hysterics — yet the very men underwriting this story built their careers demonstrating the opposite.
Epilogue
Every empire requires a theology — ours crafted psychology.
The harvest of a century of Freudian fruit is all around us. We are medicated like a conquered people. We are “connected” and yet profoundly alone. We are awash in sexualized media and increasing sexually dysfunctional. We talk endlessly about “trauma” while living in a culture built to generate it. The acuteness of this crisis touches us all.
A civilization does not descend into moral chaos merely by accumulating sinners; it truly descends when it acquires a language that can transmute sin into something else — something clinical, something interpretive, something “complex,” something safely handled by accredited men in clean offices — until the act itself, the violation itself, the brute fact that ought to trigger judgment, dissolves into a haze of meanings and counter-meanings, and the public gradually loses the ability to say, with the old simplicity that once kept the wolves at bay: this happened, this is evil, this demands consequences.
The question, from the beginning, was never whether abuse exists; it was whether a culture could be taught to reinterpret abuse as something else.
That is why we began with Freud, and that is why we end with Freud.
Freud is the hinge because he paved the way for the modern retreat from a conclusion too socially explosive to be tolerated: that abuse was not rare, not confined to the gutter, and not inconsistent with “respectability.” Kinsey then arrives as the cultural accelerant: the reduction of sex to behavior and appetite, the demotion of restraint to pathology, and the dissolution of the family as the protective perimeter around children. A society can survive many vices; it cannot survive the systematic weakening of the structures that make vice costly. Once sex is everywhere, once everything is eroticized, once boundaries are treated as neurosis and transgression is sold as identity, you have not created “liberated” men and women — you have created slaves to desire.
A society that cannot name evil plainly will eventually discover that evil no longer has to hide.
— Dancing with the Devil V, digital art, 2025.
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― The Gospel of Matthew 18:6 KJV
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Further Research
Satanic Ritual Abuse — Documentary (NSFW)
The Cult with CIA Ties — Documentary
Cult and Ritual Abuse: Narratives, Evidence, and Healing Approaches by James R. Noblitt & Pamela P. Noblitt
The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists by Colin A. Ross, M.D.
Excellent series. There is a controlled systemic destruction of anything that is good. A good follow up read is your series on Christian Zionism which has degraded the spirit of God and his spirit in the general population.
Great , Thank so much