The Child Abuse Industry generally has been in the doldrums after over-selling the risk to children in the 1970s in order to gain public and fiscal support. After a string of scares child-carer activists are left in an ideological cul-de-sac and very little raison d'etre. The Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth (SRAM) is an ultimate scare which is the only thing providing a large proportion of activists in social work with an occupation at the moment and gives certain people a unique professional opportunity which has made their professional reputation.

Lesser known social workers and therapists can become stars overnight with all the professional kudos and recognition that brings in its wake. Regular social workers always have their hands full but the middle-management exist solely by virtue of the one-upmanship of such doctrinal invention.

The system itself aids and abets this situation because only those who make the loudest political fuss obtain funding. If we ignore those who are simply opportunists following every fashion which protects their self-interest we see that the people most actively involved in promoting the SRAM in Social Work and Therapy are those who are suspicious and distrusting of all male motives. Fanatical feminists.

This has become an extension of their own social theories which have played themselves out in regular social work over the years. Although there are very many intelligent and aware women satanists the stereotype of the SRAM is of an ultimate manipulative male sadism. The fanatical feminists (and I am not a femophobe) have an ultimate icon to discredit men in the Satanic Ritual Abuse Myth and a false-memory syndrome which allows them to accuse their fathers by proxy.

The parallel current of torrents of circumstancial and imagined evidence from disturbed victim imposters within and without the fundamentalist movement gives a pseudo authenticity to doctrinal claims providing a psychological feedback loop for 'carers' which allow a display of crass emotion and sympathy which convinces the gullible and wrong-foots critics thereby providing activists with the moral high ground and political leverage.

All this would be bad enough at a therapeutic level were it not for the fact that, in order to overcome the specific failures and lack of proof of the doctrine, both therapists and fundamentalists have, of necessity, to promote the idea of a Global Satanic Conspiracy as motive for these imagined acts.

The Satanic Conspiracy stems from the ingrained psychology of End-time Christians who have been imprinted with the prophecies outlined in the Book of Revelations. From obssessed religious fanatics who pore over every word and nuance in that psychopathic tale, to those from a strict Christian background where the images and interpretations have been implanted during childhood, the paranoia of Global Satanic Domination is an integral part of the psychologies of people who, because of their self-appointed duties as do-gooders, always form a large section of the infra-structure of social workers and charity workers.

The idea that Freemasonry embodies Satans campaign for a single world-government and money system is a direct projection of prophecies in the Book of Revelations which alludes, in the eyes of the fundamentalists, to a single global state and money system controlled by people on the payroll of satan. This is the 'Zionist New World Order Conspiracy' which has flooded the internet.

There is literally forests of literature in the fundamentalist circuit about this supposed conspiracy. In my view any assumed conspiracy of self-interest in Freemasonry pales into insignificance when compared to the actual conspiracies and hidden agendas played out by the Fundamentalist Christian Leaders themselves but that is by the way.

In the Viewpoint 93 programme In Satan's Nameuot;, you will see that claims of global conspiracies related to Freemasonry are evident not only in the O.T.T. fundamentalist preachers, but are de rigeur for evangelistic leaders like Bob Larson. What really shocked was the fact that Catherine Gould (the creator of the satanic abuse symptoms list which largely brought about the identification of false cases in the US and UK was also interviewed in the programme) was selling the same conspiracy.

Kingpin of the Satan Myth is the idea of released or recovered memories obtained through regression hypnosis. It has become accepted as a bona fide therapeutic method by many therapists. In fact Regression Therapy is not new. It was tried by Freud himself but then abandoned in favour of regular psychotherapy. The recent upsurge of interest in it was West-Coast inspired and evolved in several ways.

The earliest modern example method was devised by a group of Australian Christians during the late 1960s ostensibly to provide a doorway to past-lives. It was originally known as the Christos Experience because the occultists concerned were Christian Mystics and believed the technique was revelatory.

The method was first published in Windows of the Mind by M. Glaskin. (1971) Paralleling the development of the Christos experience was the growth of free-association therapy into the rebirth experience which was being tried at the same time as the technique of 'regression hypnosis'.

This last also sought to discover past lives by regressing the patient under normal hypnotic methods into a pre-birth state. Genuine occultists see all this as a load of tosh of course. The mind is so powerful, and clairvoyance so real, that one can never be sure of which memories or conceptions are ones own, which are telepathic images, which are future occurrences and which are confabulations.

Therefore occultists don't take any of them seriously and find the only people who do are those who need an excuse of some kind to escape the reality of their situation. In fact the book Reliving Past Lives By Keaton also comes with a disc containing recordings of subjects undergoing hypnotic regression and they are remarkably like the antics of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) sufferers. The point is that, as far as we are aware, thousands upon thousands of people with an interest in the supernatural have undergone regression hypnosis over the past thirty years but NONE of them have come up with tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse. On the other hand we understand that none of those suffering MPD have ever come up with tales of past lives either! The one disproves the other.

The point is that the feminist biased therapy sub-culture has refined these techniques into a doctrine of MPD which can be applied by anyone virtually anywhere. With the urging of self-help books like Courage To Heal within a self-help cultural more, we are now seeing Survivor Summer Camps where free-style regression sessions are scheduled daily as an emotional 'fix' by people who are in the vast majority of instances incapable of a sense of proportion. If this doesn't give rise to an epidemic of victim imposters and the waste of millions of pounds of taxpayers money in the next few months I'll eat my hat.

NOTE: Since this piece was written criticism of the theory of Multiple Personalities by observers both within and without the psychotherapy movement has grown to such an extent that those in favour of the idea have renamed it DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) - presumably in order to defeat the sceptics and disguise their intent. See here: