ABSTRACT

Over the years of dealing with survivors and with colleagues, the author saw many little clues that someone might possibly be a perpetrator group member or, at least, a victim, but she did not put them together until later. If a person demonstrates knowledge about mind control, ritual abuse, dissociation, or abuser networks that he or she would not normally be expected to have, one need to be alert and cautious. Sometimes people "pad" their resumes to appear to know things they do not really know. In other cases, people know far more than they want to let on that they know. Cult insiders may want to appear ignorant of such matters. Many factors, including illness and fatigue, can contribute to forgetting. Higher-up perpetrator-identified parts in victims have been trained to have no emotions, the emotions being held by hidden child parts. Perpetrators who are in cahoots often pretend to dislike one another.