Alison Miller, Ph.D.
Keys to Recovery
 Acknowledge your multiplicity.
 Internal leaders should lead the recovery.
 Improve your inner world, government and jobs.
 Become physically safe.
 Recognize the BIG LIE.
 Choose your goal—stability or healing.
 Work through memories systematically, including all internal
participants and all pieces of each memory.
 Choose a safe therapist.
 Allow co-consciousness and integration to happen naturally.
Dissociative Splitting
 Dissociative splitting is an adaptation which enables a child to
live with ongoing trauma, in many or most cases involving his
or her own parents or caregivers.
 Organized groups who abuse children deliberately try to split
and structure their victims’ minds in such a way that they will
not remember what happened, or that if they begin to
remember they will disbelieve their own memories.
 Dissociative splitting affects survivors’ awareness of some or
all of the traumatic events, the circumstances surrounding the
events, and the identity of the abusers, for some period of
their lives.
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What is Mind Control?
Abuse of children (and adults) by an organized group
which deliberately creates, indoctrinates, and trains internal
parts (alter personalities) to do its bidding.
 Deliberate creation of inside parts in infancy
 Creation of a planned structured personality system
 Creation of inner structures and/or an inner world where parts
“live”
 Beliefs implanted and parts trained to do their jobs through
torture, drugs, training and stage magic
 Ritual abuse is mind control by a religious group.
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Programming
“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established
reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically
react in a predetermined manner to things like an auditory,
visual or tactile signal or perform a specific set of actions
according to a date and/or time.” Arauna Morgan
There is only one way to create persons who can engage in
spying, sex slavery, assassination, or ritual murder without any
conscious awareness of this. The way is through abuse and
torture of small children, separating parts of their minds that are
then indoctrinated and trained individually as the abusers see fit.
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RA and MC Survivors are Multiple
 Mind control is only achieved by dividing the mind in
infancy.
 Mind controllers work hard to make sure the
survivor’s “front person” doesn’t find out about the
other parts.
 There is deliberate programming to not know you are
multiple.
Internal Hierarchies
 A mind-controlled personality system is deliberately structured into layers or levels
as well as sections, and everyone has to stay in their place.
 In most mind-controlled or cult personality systems, parts are set up in one or more
hierarchies.
 The bosses and their enforcers issue threats to those who disobey, and administer
punishment for disobedience or disclosures through flashbacks or self-harm or
ordering “programs” to be turned on.
 To really change things, those parts in charge, at the top of the hierarchy , need to
decide to make a break for freedom.
 Those parts, who rarely if ever come out in everyday life, need to learn about how
the survivor’s life circumstances have changed, so that in adulthood freedom is
possible.
 The internal leaders also need to discover that they were deceived by the mind
controllers, that their power is only internal, and that they do not deserve lifelong
slavery.
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Attention, Inner Leaders
 I want your inner leaders to pay attention; I am
talking to you, not the front person.
 You are the key to recovery. You can tell the rest of
the system to change their loyalty, to be loyal to your
own true self.
 Why should you do this?...
 Because you have been deceived by the abusers
The Abusers’ BIG LIE
“We know everything and are all-powerful. We have magical (for young children) or
technological (for older children) ways of knowing what you think and do and say.”
 The walls have ears.
 Satan’s eyes/the All-Seeing Eye watch you.
 We live in the shadows or in the walls.
 The crows/squirrels/spiders report to us.
 Your stuffed animals report to us.
 A microchip/device implanted in your body tell us where you are and what you are
thinking/saying.
 A bomb in your body will go off if you are disloyal.
 Everyone you know is linked to us and will report to us.
 God/Lucifer/Satan (who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-present) is always
watching you.
All these things are simulated in childhood, using hidden microphones, one-way
mirrors, fake surgeries, and other deceptions. It’s all tricks!
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A Lie Plus Some Tricks
 None of these things the abusers tell you about their
knowledge is true.
 Instead, it is hidden parts of you who tell them your
whereabouts or report when you have disobeyed
orders. These reporter parts are hidden from the
system leaders.
 There are also hidden parts who have to return home
in response to cues or misbehavior, or who have to
“come when called.”
 Healing begins with establishing safety.
Calling Home
 If the person discloses secrets, a part who loves family
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feels an urge to call home.
Many survivors call right after therapy.
This part calls (or answers the phone when family calls)
and remembers only a normal conversation.
The family member calls out a reporter who tells what is
happening in therapy and describes any disloyalty.
The family member calls out other parts and gives them
orders, e.g. harass the therapist, cut your arms, or come
to the next ritual.
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Preventing or Stopping Reporting
 It is not true that the abusers know everything. Internal leaders, find out how the
abusers said they knew things, and how they proved it.
 Internal bosses—ask your insiders how the perpetrators’ “magic” knowledge was
actually obtained.
 Ask to speak with the reporter parts. Tell them to stop reporting in order to
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prevent re-abuse.
Reporters are often young kids who believe what adults tell them.
Ask them why the abusers would need them to report if they already know
everything.
Update young child parts about where they live and what year it is. They often
don’t know.
Point out that it’s easy for adults to keep track of a child, but not of an adult who’s
moved away.
Relocation is useless until reporting is disabled.
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Some Kinds of Internal Punishment
 Causing extreme depression, mood swings, and flooding of unpleasant
emotions
 Causing flashbacks and nightmares
 Causing intermittent learning disabilities, or scrambling of sensory
information
 Creating physical pain or apparent illness with no current cause
 Causing apparent seizures (using electroshock memories)
 Creating hallucinations and delusions, distorting what people say
 Causing internal world disasters (flood, lightning, fire, tornado, earthquake)
 Cutting or burning self, especially with patterns or symbols of loyalty
 Suicide attempts
In survivors of organized abuse, all these things are simply caused by insiders
doing their assigned jobs, to punish for disloyalty or disclosures.
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Additional Security
 Internal programmers at control panels turn
on programs when insiders trip “wires” by
disobeying rules.
 Scary outliers (demons, ghosts, gods, entities)
threaten the higher-ups. Don’t be fooled by
them. They are inside parts like anyone else.
 Reporter parts tell external abusers about
security breaches.
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Healing Work Destabilizes
 In the early stages of a survivor’s disobedient pursuit
of recovery, young inside parts who live in the past
follow abusers’ instructions to punish or report.
 Internal leaders can order these programs to be
turned off. Then backups may take over their jobs.
 You can be proactive about backups; ask for them to
listen and join in when you’re working with the first
part.
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Closedowns and Therapists
 If a survivor is remembering too much, and/or speaking up, he or she
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may be sent to a closedown specialist, who may be disguised as a
therapist.
The closedown specialist systematically puts away significant inner
people through torture, hand signals, and threats.
The inside of a closed down person is full of prisons, wells, freezers,
coffins, etc. in which internal people are hidden.
The person ends up “stable,” managing life apparently okay, but no
longer remembering most of the abuse.
Make sure your therapist is a safe person, not a closedown specialist,
especially if he or she is a “ritual abuse expert.” Ask all your insiders.
A naïve therapist who’s willing to learn is better than an expert who
works for the abusers.
Stabilization and Healing
 What’s your goal—to be stabilized, or healed? It may
depend on your age and life responsibilities.
 There is closed-down stabilization, and there is
stabilization created by restructuring your inner world
and redefining your insiders’ jobs.
 You may choose to take back your own life and freedom
by rescuing your inner parts and working through their
memories. That takes much longer but gives you back
your soul.
Building Inner Community
 The internal leaders who the abuser group put in charge should remain in charge at
first, so there won’t be chaos.
 Those leaders can learn to use their authority wisely and kindly. They didn’t have
good examples.
 Gradually move towards democracy in which the leaders in the governing council
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represent all parts’ needs.
Insiders often have names which reflect their roles in the abuse; they can choose
different names.
Costumed insiders can take off the costumes.
Those who resemble perpetrators can become kids again.
You can ask parts to stop doing harmful jobs.
You can ask parts to do jobs when they are helpful, e.g. put away memories, make
everyone forget, help parts stuck in trauma to go to sleep temporarily.
Research each group of insiders—age, likes and dislikes, needs. How could the
system provide for their needs in the external world? In the inner world?
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Giving Insiders New Jobs
Use insiders’ job skills to assist in recovery. New jobs may resemble old
jobs but in the service of help.
 File keepers can keep memories contained and then bring them up
when ready to process them.
 Observers and recorders can watch the survivor’s present life to
make sure he or she is safe.
 Spinners can spin away bad feelings and spin peaceful and calm
feelings out into the system.
 Pain holders can help with medical and dental appointments.
 Soldier parts can get the body to exercise, or take charge of external
safety.
 “Forget” program holders can make reporters forget anything they
may have been trained to report.
 Scary parts can take off their costumes and change their names.
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How Insiders Can Improve their Inner World
 Cut wires, destroy control towers, etc. (with permission).
 Rescue parts who are “stuck” in inner copies of the places where the
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abuse occurred: boxes, cages, cold basement rooms, garbage pits,
bedrooms where a rapist found them.
Give inner kids their own rooms with locks on the inside,
comfortable beds or couches, etc.
Make nurseries for babies, caregivers, stuffed animals, toys,
blankets, pets.
Create mansions, tree houses, whatever is most helpful.
Make places for exercise, sports, anger release.
Create inner TV screens for safely viewing the outer world.
Create an inner movie of life to update insiders.
You can import movie or TV or book characters, e.g. nannies,
doctors.
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Choosing Memories to Work With
 Choose the memories to be worked through strategically in order to
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dismantle the programming.
There is already a filing system for memories, especially the ones that
constitute programs. Use it!
Begin with easy traumatic memories, minor traumas without too much
shock or horror or physical pain, so that your insiders can learn the
process, and other parts can observe and see how it resolves the
trauma.
Then have the system choose memories on a logical basis, with the goal
being safety. Suicide and self-harm and access programs are a priority.
Eventually you can work chronologically to clean up unprocessed
memories, or internal programmers can write out a chart or list of the
programs to be worked through.
Don’t forget the infant memories of the original splits.
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Resolving Traumas
 A memory usually involves several insiders, each of whom
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holds a particular feeling, sensory modality or knowledge.
Everyone must be present.
The “sound track” involving instructions is important.
It is easy to miss a segment because some insider is missing, or
is a recycler hiding a piece.
Insiders often avoid embarrassing parts of memories like
sexual feelings, shameful ones like perpetration, or very
painful parts.
Similar memories can be processed together.
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Involve the Inner Recyclers
 Hidden recycler or reactivator inside people are trained to
deliberately withhold and hide a small piece of each training
memory, so that the training effect cannot be destroyed, and
the perpetrator group can re-create the program from the
missing piece.
 The hidden piece may be words, emotion, something seen, or
physical pain.
 Look for recyclers: ask if anyone inside has the job of keeping
pieces of the memories separate.
 Dialogue with them and make sure their pieces are put in
every time you process a memory.
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Feelings in Memory Work
 A trauma is not resolved until all aspects of it have been
joined: knowledge, sight, hearing, touch and taste, pain,
drugs, and each emotion involved.
 I find it easiest to put all the feelings (bodily and
emotional) into a container while getting the story of the
memory, then at the end adding the feelings in to the
story, naming each feeling while it is added.
 Don’t put any inner people in containers.
Co-Consciousness and Integration
 The goal of mind controllers is to keep you fragmented so
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you can’t take charge of your life.
A cooperative personality system can work together
effectively even if not fully integrated.
Premature integrations can flood you with shame, grief
and despair.
The front person does not have to know everything all the
way through your healing.
Integration happens naturally and gradually as you work
through memories.
Keys to Recovery
 Acknowledge your multiplicity.
 Internal leaders should lead the recovery.
 Improve your inner world, government and jobs.
 Become physically safe.
 Recognize the BIG LIE.
 Choose your goal—stability or healing.
 Work through memories systematically, including all internal
participants and all pieces of each memory.
 Choose a safe therapist.
 Allow co-consciousness and integration to happen naturally.