Satanic Ritual Abuse & Programming
Introduction
After reading many texts on DID, SRA/DID and trauma, talking to counselors, and reading and listening to information from various ministries focused on helping people who are DID or SRA/DID, it is obvious that there is not a consensus on how to help people. Some say that it is okay to remain dissociated as long as the parts of people are co-conscious and the wounds are healed. Others say that you can “do an integration” and pray the right prayers and the person will be healed. Still others go into great detail about the types of programming used, rituals used, and/or the names of principalities and powers used to program people’s DID systems. They say you must know every type so that you can carefully undo the programming.
All of this gets very confusing and time consuming. If people remain dissociated and perceive the world in parts, how are they functioning as a cohesive person like the Lord created us to be? How can they give themselves fully to the Lord except by faith, never experientially? If DID came to be in a person’s life because they were so overwhelmed as children by the abuses they endured without any comfort or help so that they needed to compartmentalize it to survive, not just physically but mentally, why would a “one and done” prayer bring healing? This is not to say that the Lord could not heal every aspect of the person, resolve all of the internal conflicts, and bring the person into complete integration all at once, but the process of integration is multifaceted and has to do with sanctification of the whole person. Repentance, forgiveness on many levels, and growing trust in Jesus Christ are all a part of the integration process. If it is a “one and done,” where do repentance, forgiveness and trust come in?
Finally, when there is complex programming done, it is anchored in the spirit, not the soul, with the base splitting having to do with a belief in Jesus Christ versus the idolization of Satan. That is the root of the conflict which holds the whole system in place. If counselors and ministers get stuck in the programming realm of the soul and not in the core of the person, they will go round and round in circles, watching out for “bombs” and “booby-traps” and trying to reverse the different types of programming and rituals used. Instead, people must be facilitated to take responsibility for their lives and actions, to agree with the Word of God, and say “yes” to His leading as they begin to connect with the little girl/boy who was there in the beginning, who God first breathed to life, the essence of who they are.
Reactive vs. Structured DID
One area that can lead to a lot of confusion and lengthen the time it takes to heal from DID is the area of reactive versus structured DID. Reactive DID occurs when children are chronically abused between conception and six or seven years old. It is a God-given ability that spontaneously occurs in reaction to ongoing trauma in a hopeless environment which enables the children to survive and grow up. Typically, there are not internal “structures” or ways of seeing their internal world, but there may be more simplistic ideas such as “rooms,” a “house,” a “field,” or just “a part of my head” where the various parts live. There are not as many parts in reactive DID systems in comparison to structured DID because the parts were merely created over time by the children’s minds as needed to survive the horrors of their childhoods. Basically, only as many parts are created as needed for survival and growing up. No more than that.
Structured DID, on the other hand, is where nefarious people know how trauma affects children, have studied it, and know how to produce splitting in people. People related to government agencies around the world, Satanic and Luciferian groups, sex trafficking rings, and more use these methods to create mind-control slaves to carry out their plans. Children are subjected to heinous abuses, usually starting in the womb but at least at birth to produce splitting. Once core splitting has been produced, the parts are given names so that the abusers can call them out to do certain tasks at the appropriate times. Different groups have different names that they give to their subjects. These names can be human names, objects, colors, planets, demons, principalities, etc. Also, they are usually given protective parts that can be told they are to commit suicide, kill the body, kill other parts, set off internal bombs, etc. in order to keep the secrets contained in the mind of the person safe, and ultimately the system of DID in place.
In addition to all of the splitting that is done by the perpetrating group, the children also create personalities on their “front side” (presenting side) in order to carry out the tasks of everyday life or to take abuses that are also experienced in everyday life. Thus, people with structured DID often have many more parts than those people with reactive DID, often have complex internal structures of cities, tunnels, castles, bunkers, cemeteries, mazes, trees, and more in order to allow the handlers (people who watch over those who are programmed and know how and when to “call up” certain parts for certain jobs) to more easily access the parts that they need.
With SRA/DID, children are also usually placed into homes where there will be additional, “every day” abuses. These abuses in their home life serve to cover the initial and continuing abuses in the cult environment. That way, even if people go to counseling or ministry and begin to remember those abuses by their “fathers and mothers”, they will never go further than that. It is a layered system which is designed to bury the cult’s secrets deep within the person so that they can continue to be used for the satanic agenda.
This is also true regarding government programming. The government programming is often a shield for the deeper, satanic agenda. That way, even if people get through the “family” layer of abuses to the government programming layer, they will still not go further than that. The spiritual abuses and links to principalities and powers that are involved in the satanic, core splitting of people are the worst atrocities for people to bear. Thus, they are likely to stop short of connecting with their core person.
Although structured DID tends to be more complex, it is still based on the same premise of how God created children to be able to cope with extreme trauma and survive. In both structured and reactive DID, there is major internal conflict that exists where each part of the person does not want to be any of the others or to even keep doing his/her job! What is important is to not get pulled into all of the protection or programming tricks and stick to seeking the core, or essence, of who the person is.
General Principle Regarding DID: Conflict
Although from an outside perspective, DID is very complex, it is based on a fairly simple concept: “This is too overwhelming. It can’t be happening to me.” This is common for anyone who has been through a traumatic experience. Denial is the first line of defense to rise up inside as people try to understand what has happened to them. Children have no grid for what is happening to them and no time to process these traumatic events that happen over and over again. The “It can’t be happening to me” gets broken up into many different parts of their personhood over time to try to find the answers to the experiences of their lives.
This premise is true whether a person has reactive or the most intensely structured DID system. It is all based on and held in place by conflict. In SRA programming, victims are usually led to Christ as soon as possible and then violently traumatized to create splitting. They are led to believe that the violence is because of Christ or done by Christ or because they are not loved by Christ. This makes the core conflict one of choosing Christ or rejecting what they perceive to be Christ and choosing to follow Satan/Lucifer instead. In all programming, there are always choiceless choices that are given, (such as, “Do you want to kill the kitten or let the dogs kill it?”) leaving the victim full of regret and shame as well as rage at the deepest levels.
DID is based on this internal conflict that gets entrenched over time in various personalities or parts within people. This is true whether reactive or structured so the basic method of healing is the same. It is internal conflict resolution, staying at the core level (and not getting caught up in the mess of protection and programming) so that people can eventually reach integration at the heart level, finally connecting to their Original Christian Heart and Identity (OCHI, credit to Doug Riggs).
For example, a person might have something like this in his core structure: The Presenter (who comes for counseling) can say that he never gets angry or would never cuss because for him is is true. All of that is held in the Raging One, allowing the Presenter to function day to day, even dealing with conflict and injustices without reacting much or feeling much. All the while, the Raging One will “pop out” when the Presenter cannot take any more in a conflict and say he hates everyone. He might punch someone who confronts him, and just want to be left alone. The Raging One can be scary to those around him. The Raging One will usually say he can’t stand that weak Presenter who doesn’t know anything and is such a pansy.
All the while, a Child Part inside, who holds one of the sodomy memories, screams and curls in a ball whenever he smells a certain cologne. When this happens, it sends the Presenter into a tail spin feeling like he is crazy. As the Child Part inside starts to scream, the Presenter hopes no one around him will notice that he is trying his best to hold back the screaming. The screaming confuses him because he doesn’t know where it is coming from. If he is a Christian, he will probably think he is possessed or demonized but can’t understand why deliverance ministry never seems to work. Sometimes the screaming is too overwhelming for the Presenter, so the Raging One will take control of the body when he is alone and start to punch walls, trying to get the screaming to stop. All the while, the Child Part remains traumatized, locked in a “time warp” where he is victimized again and again. He can’t get out of the memory. That is all he knows.
Meanwhile, the original Christian heart and identity (OCHI) is hidden under all of this. Even if The Presenter goes to counseling, unless the counselor knows to go searching for the essence (OCHI) of the person, only the Presenter part of the person will be impacted by the counseling. All parts of the person, (in this example, the Presenter, the Raging One, and the Child Part) have been split off of the OCHI, so it is only by resolving the conflicts between them and their unwillingness to join with the OCHI that the DID system will be resolved.
Integration Process
The only way to start the healing process is to start facilitating the quest for the OCHI. For me, I had spent over two years trying to get to know each part of myself, learn to be co-conscious, deal with memories as they came up, and so on. I mapped out with explanations my internal system (as I knew it then) and could tell you about 100+ parts. I also went to a trauma counselor who was not familiar with DID, but said she was willing to learn and who used EMDR in her normal practice. Not getting much resolution with any of this, I had even started to work through a book by an expert who helped people who were programmed. However, at the end of two and a half years of all this, I was in as much despair as I had been when I started, feeling like I would never find wholeness. Then I met Doug Riggs.
When my husband and I met with Doug and Lori Riggs via Zoom for an assessment, everything was different. From the start, Doug said that his job was easy because I would be doing all the work as the Lord led the process. He said he would only be asking questions so that I could get to know what was really going on inside of me and get to know myself. He also asked if it was okay to record the session, not for his benefit, but so that I could go back and watch it myself and again learn what was really going on inside of me. (It is hard to ignore video evidence - people with DID usually hate looking in mirrors, getting photographed, or video-taped. Because of the internal conflicts, perception of self is very skewed and it is easier not to see concrete evidence.). After I had explained to Doug and Lori where I was at in my process, what I had tried to do to get help, and gave a little of my history, Doug began to ask me questions.
The most revealing of these questions was when he asked where the little girl was who had been there from the beginning. He said if I went all the way back to conception to the girl that was there at the start, where was she now? At that, I screamed at the top of my lungs, “She’s dead! She’s dead! She has to stay dead!” and then I climbed up on our couch, threw back my head and screamed, raging angry (and demonized - little did I know at the time).
Nick sat there stunned while Doug and Lori sat knowingly. This was the start of my healing process. Session after session was focused on seeing what had come up in the previous week and then focused on resolving conflict to get to that little girl who was there at the beginning. The main “person” that all parts of me DID NOT WANT TO BE was my OCHI. All the conflict was built around the core of who I was, where I was originally assaulted, and where I was assaulted again and again for choosing Jesus Christ. This is the core that all parts of me split off from and to which I needed to connect in order to be fully integrated.
The Process Takes Time
For every person with DID, this is a process. It takes time to resolve conflicts that have been there internally for a lifetime, and for good reason. Every part of a person has a job, a role to fulfill on behalf of the entire system. The entire system is in place to protect the OCHI so that the person’s life is preserved. Over time, as people learn to assimilate what feels like “not me” into the faith choice to embrace and join with those parts, they gain more of their humanity back. They learn that they can make choices when all they are used to is passivity or choiceless choices. As they gain their humanity, they are able to connect more and more with the core of who they are, eventually getting down to the primal split, the first splitting that happened.
For those who are SRA, the original splitting off the OCHI is the part that grew up to be the most cult invested. For those who are not SRA, the original split off the OCHI is the one who is the most angry (angry at God, self, others). When a child feels so helpless and overwhelmed, there is anger at the injustice of the abuse, and that anger has to go somewhere. In addition, the anger feels powerful and gives direction to their volition, so it is an escape from the reality of the helpless and overwhelming situation they are in. In the end, people have to come to the end of themselves, to knowing in that most cult invested or most angry part of their core that they really are/were helpless. They cannot integrate on their own and they are not separate from the other parts of themselves, especially from who they are as the OCHI.
For me, it took “waking up” in who I was as the most cult invested during a ritual. In that core part of me, I had decided that I wasn’t going to go to rituals anymore because I had realized that the cult had lied to me. It was only when I was called forward in a ritual that I realized that I was a slave, that I did not have control over my personhood because I had DID and was amnesiac. Before that, I thought I was self-contained and that the other parts had nothing to do with me or my decisions. This shows how strong the amnesia really is in DID. At that point, I had worked with Doug and others for 3 1/2 years to resolve DID, yet in the core of who I was, I still did not realize that I was DID. When I came into the truth of being DID, I was depressed at this realization because I finally came into the reality that I was helpless. That was when Lori read Psalm 107 to me about different types of people who went astray but then came to the end of themselves and prayed for the Lord to redeem them. She asked if that was where I was at, and when I said “yes” she told me to pray with all of my heart, with all that I was, with every part of my self, repenting and crying out to the Lord for help.
This was the turning point for me. From that point on, I continued to turn to the Lord, crying “refuge!”, knowing that unless He intervened, I would still end up getting triggered into going to rituals. The Lord was faithful to continue His sanctifying work in me, teaching me who He really is, and to bringing me into integration of my DID system.
Conclusion
Healing from SRA/DID is an impossible task humanly speaking. If we think that it is our job to integrate ourselves or to integrate others, we will fail every time. Also, if our only goal in the healing process is to feel better or to help others to feel better, we will also fail because the process of integrating from SRA/DID is excruciating. It gets more chaotic and hurts more and more before it begins to get better.
The only way to heal is to commit yourself and others to the eternal purpose of God to bring many sons to glory. He knows exactly what each person needs. He suffered through all of the trauma with each survivor and also paid the price and took on Himself all the sins ever committed by each survivor. He knows how to gather up His children and make them whole.
As survivors, our job is to turn to the Lord and by faith, give Him our whole heart, soul, mind and strength, to choose to love what He loves and hate what He hates, and trust that He will be true to His word and gather us up. (Deut. 30:1-8). He is faithful and He will do it!
Doug Riggs has many articles that we have posted in the blog section of this site as well as on his website. One in which Doug talks about this process in giving some scenarios can be found here.
Sally Dove, a survivor of SRA/DID, who has been integrated for 20 years, has some great articles that we have posted on our blog which have to do with the sanctification process of healing from SRA/DID: Idolatry, Pride, and Resurrection Life.
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