In the blog ‘Don't trust her!’ we already wrote about subtle ways in which the cult undermines the survivor's cautiously growing trust in those who help him/her, e.g. by sending audio recordings (manipulated or not).

Sometimes cult tries other lowly ways to seriously disrupt the relationship between survivor and helper(s), namely by inducing the survivor to harm the helper. I have only experienced this a few times, and it seems to be deployed especially when the helper takes big steps to become free. I tell more about it in this article. Besides the counsellor, by the way, the partner can also be targeted by a malicious cult order, so in this article, for ‘counsellor’, it can also read ‘partner’. 

One of the ways in which cult incites a survivor to commit a crime against the counsellor is by ordering a person part to put something poisonous in his coffee or tea. If the trick succeeds and a person part of the survivor commits the crime, the cult kills two birds with one stone: the counsellor suffers a blow and may be scared off (or, in the worst case, may not survive). The survivor has an extra ‘secret’ to add (if his or her involvement is not discovered) or may be picked up by police and convicted (if reported). In either case, getting out of cult is delayed or even stopped. Because who will believe this survivor when he/she tells an incoherent story - to the ears of someone who knows nothing about DIS and cult - about torture and an order from masked people to have to do so?

The question is: So whose crime is this really? Yes, a survivor's hands put the poison in the coffee or committed some other crime. Or rather, a split-off personality part of a survivor, trained through torture, among other things, to obey criminals, committed this crime through his/her hands. But the evil motivation and mastermind behind the crime lie elsewhere entirely. As in the Psalms[1] state:

‘They[2] thinking to themselves ‘Who's doing what to me?

We have been doing well for years, from father to son, haven't we?  

At the slightest, they curse,

Always they deceive and mislead and devise injustice.

They are often in secret abodes,

In remote places, they kill innocent people

And they prey on defenceless people.

They wait for them stealthily like a lion pouncing on its prey.
They lay ambushes to catch poor people

And tighten the net around them.

The unfortunate is overwhelmed by their power

And succumbs to their beatings.

‘God doesn't see it anyway,’ they think to themselves.’

So whose crime is the poison in the coffee or arson on command? How many judges and prosecutors are aware of this reality?

Back to cult's cunning, lowly practices. Another weapon that can be used by cult is to encourage a survivor to start legal proceedings against her or his counsellor, complaining about treatment, for example. This is time-consuming and discouraging for the counsellor who is often already committed above average, and can lead to the counsellor no longer wanting any involvement with survivors of satanic ritual abuse.  

When cult pits a survivor against a counsellor, the modus operandi is roughly as follows.
Cult waits for a moment when the relationship between the survivor and the practitioner is momentarily weaker, e.g. at a time when the person parts attached to the practitioner are disappointed or angry with her or him. Because of the weaker relationship with the practitioner, person parts in the person system that are still cult-loyal have more room to come forward. Cult can, through a trigger from a past trauma (e.g. a perpetrator or just someone who came to ‘save’ this person part at that moment), call such a cult part to the fore. And then give this cult-loyal person part -after rape or torture - an order to, for example, set fire to the practitioner or put something in his coffee or tea. Moreover, if the order is an aggressive act that needs to be committed immediately, drugs are administered that stimulate aggression and help cult-loyal person parts come forward more easily. The inner motivation within that is growing to disobey cult is compromised. A huge inner conflict arises. 

If the cult-loyal person parts win this conflict for that moment, and a crime is committed, afterwards there is a good chance that the person part doing the daily living will (almost) remember nothing, or be so ashamed, that it is difficult to want to look back at the incident. At the same time, this looking back at exactly what happened inside is very important. Usually, these assignments involve parts of the person that the practitioner does not yet know. So this is an opportunity to get to know these parts too and involve them in the exit process.

Besides investing in a good treatment relationship, it is also important to make good agreements. The clearer the survivor's whole person system knows the limits of what the counsellor can still handle, the more likely it is that in the case of a cult-driven attack assignment, the attached parts and the parts already in the process of exiting cult will still win the battle. 

When a survivor finds that the practitioner wants to be there for him or her at the critical moments, that help allows the survivor to make great strides in disobeying the cult network. However, this disobedience to cult has a high price for the survivor. For instance, there will always be extreme torture and retaliation after disobeying. This requires the survivor to make great choices in quick(er) succession for freedom and connection with sincere helpers, and against cult, otherwise reprisals will ‘overtake’ recovery. And this in turn requires more commitment from social worker and other people around the survivor. Very crucial moments, then, that a survivor can never handle alone and can only handle with people who really want to be and stay there!

Even as a counselor or partner of a survivor, it is very important to carry this process together with others, and together with God. We are therefore still looking for passionate, reliable, mature followers of Jesus who want to contribute their stone(s) in this!

If you want to explore whether this is something on your life path, sign up via the contact page for an information evening or mini-course. To win this battle in lives of precious people, a dedicated and prayerful ‘army of gideons’ is indispensable! Our God is a God of justice and He seeks lost people - will you help?

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[1] Psalm 10 verse 3 to 6, Bible

[2] Meaning: evil people who reject God