Mind Control: 

Systematic control of people’s memories, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by others. It may involve ritual abuse.

 Ritual Abuse: 

Methodical and severe abuse of people with deception, training, and exploitation by others. It always involves mind control.

 Control and Abuse Sources 

Governments

Individuals

and Groups

Mind-Controlled

People

Cults and

Secret Societies

Gangs and

Organized Crime

 Control and Abuse Basics ¹

 Control and Abuse Methods 

1

Individuals are manipulated, isolated, and debilitated.

2

People are conditioned by disguised training, torture, drugs, electroshock, and hypnosis.

3

Tactics cause amnesia, dissociation, trance, and automatic compliance.

4

Controllers manage the people and situations.

5

Imposed behaviors are reinforced and events covered up.

Continuous Cycle

 Control and Abuse Results 

 Controllers 

 Mind-Controlled People 

Dominate people by concealed methods.

Molded into roles such as informer, enforcer, courier, performer, lover, etc.

Use signals (post-hypnotic cues) to trigger conditioned responses.

Repeatedly react with controllers’ prepared behaviors.

The signals include gestures, lights, symbols, words, sounds, smells, touches, substances, etc.

Made to obey but don’t know the signals and believe abusers’ ideas are their own thoughts and motives.

Coordinate the exploitation and secrecy.

Usually unaware of the hidden conditioning, control, and activities.

¹ Based on “Brainwashing, conditioning and DDD (debility, dependency, and dread),” E. Farber, Harry F. Harlow, and Louis Jolyon West, Sociometry, 1957, 20, 271-283; and Cults In Our Midst, Margaret Thaler Singer with Janja Lalich, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, Chapter 11, 1995.