Smart-talks Podcast Blog

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Synopsis

This is a collection of talks given at the annual SMART conference in Connecticut. Speakers present to tell their stories of their experiences with ritual abuse and/or mind control, their experiences treating patients with such backgrounds, or to raise awareness of the various issues surrounding recovery from ritual abuse/mind control of efforts made to raise awareness with the general public of this issue.

Episodes

  • Survivorship Panel 2012 - History of Survivorship and its Present Day Activities

    19/03/2014

    Survivorship Panel 2012 - History of Survivorship and its Present Day Activities Survivorship is an international non-profit organization for survivors of sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. A history of Survivorship’s last twenty plus years of work helping survivors will be presented with interviews from members of Survivorship. The presentation will include Survivorship’s present day activities and ways survivors can learn more about the organization and get involved. SurvivorshipFJC,470 27th St.Oakland, Ca 94612 Survivorship WebsiteSurvivorship Email:   info@survivorship.orgA transcript of this talk can be found here. 

  • Shamai Currim 2012 - Meaghan’s Story- A Tale of Integration

    09/10/2012

    Shamai Currim 2012 - Meaghan’s Story- A Tale of IntegrationShamai Currim PhD is a retired therapist, educator, and educational consultant. She continues to work with survivors and has been involved with children and families with special needs, AIDS hospice, and Prison communities. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Survivorship and the Steering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis. Her topic is: Meaghan’s Story: A Tale of Integration

  • Maria 2012 - Free At Last

    09/10/2012

    Free At LastUntil age seven, Maria was subject to satanic abuse. Maria experienced perverse worship, torturous brain programming, sexual violence, body dislocations, and was drugged. Although relocated at age seven, molestation from random strangers and family members continued until she moved out. She lives well with profound awareness. She now experiences joy and peace. Her topic is : Free at LastA transcript of this talk can be found here. 

  • Sarah Jacqueline 2012 - Exposing Satanic Abuse

    09/10/2012

    Sarah Jacqueline 2012 - Exposing Satanic Abuse Sarah Jacqueline freed herself through deep self-journey from years of living in hell as an alleged victim of satanic abuse to now survivor.  Born into a family of Satanists and has experienced  and seen some horrific abuse.  She speaks of hope and freeing and illusion. Her topic is: Exposing Satanic Abuse

  • Janet Thomas 2012 - Grief - The Good the Bad the Ugly and the Transcendent

    09/10/2012

    Grief the good the bad the ugly and the transcendent Janet Thomas has been in active recovery from the effects of ritual abuse for more than 25 years. Her book, “Day Breaks Over Dharamsala–A Memoir of Life Lost and Found” chronicles her personal journey. “The Battle in Seattle” an earlier book, chronicles the global struggle for justice that we are now seeing rise.  She writes and teaches writing in India and in the U.S.A transcript of this talk can be found here. 

  • Alexandra 2012 - What I Have Learned So Far

    08/10/2012

    Alexandra 2012 - What I have learned so farAlexandra is a multi-disciplinary therapist.  She incorporates various types of energy work, muscle testing, NLP, essential oils, and color into her cognitive behavioral therapy practice. She has an M. A. in Counseling Psychology and has been working with ritual abuse survivors for over 20 years. Her topic is: What I have learned so far.

  • Neil Brick 2012 - Recent Child Abuse Crimes and Efforts to Unite Survivors

    08/10/2012

    Neil Brick 2012 - Recent Child Abuse Crimes and Efforts to Unite SurvivorsNeil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is: Recent Child Abuse Crimes and Efforts to Unite Survivors.A transcript of this talk can be found here. 

  • Carmen Yana Holiday 2010: Survivors of Extreme Abuse: The Awful Rowing Toward Social Emancipation

    20/08/2012

    Carmen Yana Holiday 2010 Carmen Yana Holiday is a survivor of extreme domestic violence, human trafficking, child pornography, ritual abuse-torture and mind control. She has been an advocate for other survivors since 2001, developing and facilitating trauma recovery workshops and presenting as a survivor of RA-MC for several organizations.Full Text Here

  • Neil Brick 2010: The Move From Blame the Victim to Blame the Helper

    20/08/2012

    Neil Brick 2010 the move to blame the victim Neil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topics today is “The Move from Blame the Victim to Blame the Helper.”Historically speaking, the credibility of the accounts of child abuse and trauma victims stories have been attacked in various ways. Untrue statements were made that rape victims asked for the abuse or that children somehow deserved to be abused or were attracting abusers. Children and women were seen as property or lower in status. Now most people know these ideas are false and that child abuse and rape do exist.This presentation will highlight some of the major attacks on those defending child abuse survivors. I myself have been attacked, but I have decided to fight those attacking me for the sake of making sure that child abuse in all its forms is stopped. I will detail four of the most famous attacks on clinicians in the last 20 years, those of Bennett Brau

  • Lowell Routley 2009 – Dissociation and Time Management

    20/08/2012

    Lowell Routley 2009- Dissociation and Time Management Lowell Routley is executive director of Heartland Trauma Initiative, created to serve survivors of extreme trauma. Over his 36 years of clinical experience in the Midwest, Lowell has listened to survivors to find what works, what doesn’t, and why. Out of those observations, he developed The Core Integrity Model. Through Heartland Trauma Initiative, Lowell provides training and consultation for therapists and survivors to explore, understand, and resolve impasses in healing.A transcript of this talk can be found here:Dr. Routley first spoke at the 2006 SMART Conference on the topic:"What is a Normal Mind Like? How is Mine Different? or What Survivors Have Taught Me Over the Last Thirty Years."Then again in 2007:“Using the Cognitive Compass on the Healing Journey to Core Integrity.”and in 2008:”Am I “Real Me” or Am I “Memorex, y, z”?” also featured here:Dr. Lowell Routley partnered with Jim McCarthy M.A. in founding Heartland Initiative in 1997. It teaches

  • Neil Brick 2010: Fighting the Spin: The Truth About Child Abuse Cases

    20/08/2012

    Fighting the Spin: The Truth About Child Abuse CasesNeil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is: Fighting the Spin : The Truth about Child Abuse Cases.In the last 20 years, many child abuse and ritual abuse cases have been made public. Almost all of these have been subjected to media campaigns and spin by organizations and researchers skeptical of the existence of ritual abuse. These groups have done whatever they can to make sure that only their view on the topic is heard and that ours is not allowed to be made public.We discuss this at our website on a page called “False memory syndrome proponents tactics”:This presentation will briefly review some of the more famous child abuse cases and present the perspective of the victims of these crimes, not the perspectives of the alleged or convicted perpetrators or those defending them... full text here

  • Wanda Karriker Ph.D. 2010: The Ritual Abuse Controversy: A Personal Perspective

    20/08/2012

          Wanda Kerriker 2010Wanda Karriker, Ph.D. is a retired psychologist who spent a career working with survivors of extreme abuse. She is author of the novel, “Morning, Come Quickly,” co-developer of the Extreme Abuse Survey Project and former editor of Survivorship. Her topic is: The Ritual Abuse Controversy: A Personal Perspective.

  • Lynn Schirmer 2010 - Art and Activism Finding Effective Ways to Tell

    18/08/2012

    Lynn Shirmer 2010 Lynn Schirmer is an artist and survivor of ritual abuse-torture and trauma based mind control. She mounts frequent exhibits where she engages audiences about the reality of extreme abuse and tax funded exploitation of children and adults. Her work has been exhibited the US and France. Her topic is: Art & Activism: Finding Effective Ways to TellClick here to see the art work presented in her conference presentation Lynn's Art Website

  • deJoly LaBrier 2011- The Challenges of Recovering From Extreme Abuse

    18/08/2012

    The Challenges of Recovering From Extreme Abuse deJoly has been doing recovery work for 22 yrs. She has spoken publicly about her experiences in a military sex ring, Satanic cult and government experimentation; and is grateful for the serenity and sanity she now experiences.Full text of presentation here

  • Carmen Yana Holiday 2011- The Official Story vs. Reality: Survivors of Extreme Abuse as Whistleblowers

    18/08/2012

    The Official Story vs. Reality- Survivors of Extreme Abuse as Whistleblowers Carmen Yana Holiday is a survivor of child pornography, human trafficking, ritual abuse-torture and mind control. She has been an advocate for other survivors since 2001, developing and facilitating trauma recovery workshops and presenting as a survivor of RA-MC for several organizations. Her topic is: The Official Story vs. Reality: Survivors of Extreme Abuse as Whistleblowers. Full transcript of presentation here.

  • Kristen Constance 2011- Alleged Ritual Abuse by Freemasons and Order of the Eastern Star (Co-Freemasonry) in Australia

    18/08/2012

    Alleged Ritual Abuse by Freemasons and Order of the Eastern Star (Co-Freemasonry) in Australia Kristin Constance has a Diploma in Community Welfare and Professional Counselling. She works with people with disabilities some who have been abused severely. She is a survivor of alleged Masonic and Order of the Eastern Star ritual abuse within a multi-generational family. She has been healing for twenty years.  Her topic is: Alleged ritual abuse by freemasons and order of the eastern star (co-freemasonry) in Australia.Full transcript of presentation here. 

  • Neil Brick 2011- Always Getting Stronger: Giving Survivors a Voice in the World

    18/08/2012

    Always Getting Stronger- Giving Survivors a Voice in the World Neil Brick  is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter.Full text of this presentation here. 

  • Alexandra 2011- What I Have Learned So Far

    18/08/2012

       What I Have Learned So Far Alexandra is a multi disciplinary therapist. She incorporates various types of energy work, muscle testing, NLP, essential oils, and color into her cognitive behavioral therapy practice. She has an M. A. in Counseling Psychology and has been working with ritual abuse survivors for over 20 years. Her topic is: What I have learned so far.

  • Maria 2011- Why I Never Married

    18/08/2012

      Why I Never Married Maria’s success and joy emerged from her innate creativity to survive her childhood. For the first seven years of Maria’s life she was subject to sadistic abuse and child pornography and also ongoing incest from infancy until age of eighteen. She lives well through consistency in healing and self-awareness. Her topic is: Why I never married

  • Janet Thomas 2011- Writing Out Loud: The Power of Story to Save Our Lives and Change the World

    18/08/2012

    Janet Thomas is an author, teacher and activist. Her books include, “Day Breaks Over Dharamsala,” a memoir of healing from ritual abuse, mind control, medical experimentation and sexual exploitation, and “The Battle in Seattle – The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations,” an exploration of the socio-political-cultural issues that shape our times. Her topic is: Writing Out Loud—The Power of Story to Save Our Lives and Change the WorldClick the arrow to play Writing Out Loud- The Power of Story to Save Our Lives and Change the World