#ellen p lacter

[creature-wizard]

In Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs, Ellen Lacter presents Svali's work as if it dates back to 1996.

However, Svali's work isn't that old. She began writing in 2000. You will find this information on just about any mirror of her old content.

1996 is when Suite 101, the website where Svali started publishing, was launched.

[creature-wizard]

Also in Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs, Ellen Lacter talks about an Internet survey that was conducted in 2007, "in which 1471 people from at least forty countries responded as survivors." A number of them gave responses that would appear to suggest the kind of abuse methods that Mark Phillips, Cathy O'Brien, Fritz Springmeier, and Cisco Wheeler, and those downstream of them (eg, Svali) claim exist.

So I went and looked up the actual survey, and a few problems with it immediately stuck out to me, including:

Participants were not asked how they realized they had been subjected to extreme abuse - eg, did it involve hypnosis or trance states of any kind? Did a therapist suggest it? Did a book or article on the Internet seemingly trigger memories?

The survey did not ask participants whether they had any familiarity with the work of people such as Svali, Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler, Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips, etc.

The survey asked questions that could be indicative of paranoid schizophrenia if answered affirmatively, such as believing that one has been implanted with spying devices. It did not ask whether participants had ever been diagnosed with or had a history of paranoid schizophrenia in their families.

Again, this was an Internet survey conducted in 2007. Conspiracy theorists had websites and online communities and everything at this point. Svali had been writing on Suite 101 for seven years at that point. The Cutting Edge had been promoting Satanic Panic and its related conspiracy theories since the late 90's. Trance-Formation of America had a website in 1998. Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler's books were easy to find or buy online. And after 9/11, conspiracism had a huge boom. If a person was on the Internet in the 2000s, they had a pretty good chance of coming across this type of thing. The fact that no quality control questions were asked in this survey is both extremely concerning and extremely telling.