The term used to describe the process in which a person is made to believe, think, or do something by a pereptator or an abusive group.
This survey was conducted in 2009 by ra-info.org.
In summary, perpetrators used more common terms like “teaching” and “training.” About a quarter of the perpetrators were reported to use “programming”, whereas three quarters of the survivors used “programming” when thinking of the abuse and half used “programming” when talking to others. The perpetrators seemed to be normalizing and minimizing what they were doing.
Very personal responses, or those that could possibly lead to idfentification of the respondent, were not reported.
1. What is your gender?
(answered question: 100)
8% male
92% female
2. What is your age?
(answered question: 100)
2% under 20
8% 20-30
15% 30-40
27% 40-50
28% 50-60
18% 60-70
1% over 70
3. In which country were you abused?
(answered question: 100 )
6% Australia/New Zealand
11% Canada
3% Germany
2% Netherlands
9% United KIngdom
79% United States
9% Other
Spain,
France, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Ireland,
Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece,
Tallinn, Estonia, South American countries, including Brazil and
Argentina, rest of W Europe, E Europe, China and Japan etc, S Americas,
Africa, Israel, Greenland?, More than one country, also taken out of
country
4. My abuse included (check all that apply)
(answered question: 100)
42%
ritual abuse in a mainstream religion (sexual abuse involving groups
of people acting in a ceremonial or ritualistic way)
80% mind control (the use of torture techniques such as electroshock to brain wash/control a child)
45%
mind control (the use of torture techniques such as electroshock to
brainwash/control a child) involving government, military, or academic
facilities or agencies
83% ritual abuse in a
secret cult (sexual abuse involving groups of people acting in a
ceremonial or ritualistic way)
45% medical abuse (torture techniques used in a hospital or other facility)
61% child prostitution (an adult(s) providing a child to another adult(s) for money)
67% child pornography (photographs or films being made of sexual abuse of children)
77% organized sadistic abuse (sexual abuse involving groups of people acting in a sadistic way)
16% Other
Government
research lab, covert military experiments among S. Am. indigenous
people, Drugs, ritual abuse in a secret cult that practised homicide,
government abuse tied in with the above, Kinsey Institute, military
medical abuse- radiation, snuff, spiritual abuse, trained to hurt others
as a child, Threat of death by gunpoint on numerous occasions,
repetitive rapes as a child
5. The people who abused me used the term
(answered question: 89 skipped question: 11)
23.6% programming
64.0% training
16.9% conditioning
74.2% teaching/learning
11.2% hypnotism
3.4% brainwashing
12.4% indoctrination
24% Other
bloodline,
“research”, Not a lot of words, actually – mostly actions, grooming,
Setting behavioral goals, control, no terms used: I “wasn’t supposed to
remember” it and “shouldn’t tell anyone”, going home, returning home,
learning to be good, work, as in being worked on, not sure, treatment,
preparation, “For your own good” “we are going to reason with you”,
Earning your keep, discipline, torture, breaking bad habits, we are
going to help you learn to do the right thing, tabula rasa to describe
why they were ok to do this,, turning you out
6. In thinking about my own experience, I use the term:
(answered question: 94 skipped question: 6)
72.3% programming
20.2% training
18.1% conditioning
9.6% teaching/learning
16.0% hypnotism
42.6% brainwashing
14.9% indoctrination
23% Other
Mostly
non-verbal images: mind control, emotional, intellectual, spiritual
abuse: I use “programming” out loud because it’s too hard for me to use
the word “training,” which is what they called it: Multi-generational
culture: induction of trances, e.g., forced to channel spiritual
entities: I always add torture in parenthesis to indicate the
severity: voodoo: Also use torture and lies: torture (5): Earning my
keep: mind control though torture: mind control (4): Badly hurt: I
use training but often correct myself to torture: abuse
7. I first heard/saw the term I use to refer to my abuse
(answered question: 94 skipped question: 6)
24.5% during my abuse
14.9% from a therapist
10.6% from another survivor
24.5% in a book or article
6.4% on the Internet
0% on television
33% not sure
11% other
from
a friend: anthropology of consciousness conference: College lectures
and literature: Could not find what has happened and IS happening to me
ANYWHERE, with the exception of CIA-published research/scholarly
articles, that helped me to understand it better: I didnt really get it
from elsewhere specifically. Its how I see it: Amnesty International:
post abuse (years later): SMART conference for survivors: Marilyn van
Derbur — also in a sexual abuse survivors talk: during my own
healing. It describes best what was done to me:
8. In speaking to other survivors or to therapists, I use the term:
(answered question: 89 skipped question: 11)
54.2% programming
13.3% training
20.5% conditioning
10.8% teaching/learning
4.8% hypnotism
41.0% brainwashing
6.0% indoctrination
25% Other
cult:
to my therapist–brainwashing: channeling: verbal abuse, abuse,
torture, ritual abuse, experimentation: Child-Rape: rape and other
torture: ritual abuse torture including mind control: MK Ultra mind
control: mind control (6)don’t speak about it: tortureSRA: again
training modified to torture. Training is too soft a term: It’s very
difficult to talk about: No term used: I haven’t because no one has
yet has heard about the extent or severity of abuse: abuse: my
darkness:
9. In speaking to people not familiar with this kind of abuse, I use the term:
(answered question: 89 skipped question: 11)
54.2% programming
13.3% training
20.5% conditioning
10.8% teaching/learning
4.8% hypnotism
41.0% brainwashing
6.0% indoctrination
23% Other
cult:
Uh… wouldn’t know where to start.: I don’t: mind control (6)ritual
abuse, experimentation: child-rape: rape and other torture:
controlling: MK Ultra programming: i do not speak about it: abuse,
torture: torture-induced mind control: Rape and being beaten up:
Nothing: language centers: i don’t speak of it with people unfamiliar
with it: ritualized abuse: sexual abuse:
10. Comments:
(answered question: 23 skipped question: 77)
1.This
survey felt very hard for me to fill out, especially with the
pre-selected words. I would have preferred to come up with my own words
(even though I know that’s harder to process).
2. It’s funny, I
don’t use any of these terms; they seem so clinical and packaged. For
me, they are too passive. From extensive study in anthropology, I prefer
to see my abuse as historicized in the context of ancient practice as
all those before me who became perpetrators. In general, I use
anthropological terms to refer to human practiced passed down over time.
3. “Programming” was used as reference to the documentation files of a person’s process by the abusers.
4. If it is people who aren’t at all familiar with ritual abuse I will usually leave it at ‘training’.
5.
I appreciate the opportunity to share my experiences to get the message
out to others, in an anonymous way so that I feel safe and validated.
6.
I use the term programming with survivors, people who are aware of the
abuse, and people not aware as its the most commonly used term for
programming. It makes things easier. I would prefer to call it
“torturous and deliberately deceptive indoctrination”.
7. I don’t speak to other people about it. They would never believe me
8.
I guess I don’t consider what what they did to me as teaching,
conditioning, brainwashing, indoctrinating me and i don’t remember them
hypnotizing me. They programmed me masterfully and I can’t get around
it to heal.
9. I just call it torturing and mind controlling
10. they rarely referred to what they did as anything other than the way it is. Worship is closest
11. good survey Thank you for studying this. Thank you for helping break the silence surrounding all this.
12. not alwasy so clear about what was said to me at the time…even “”getting evil out.”
13.
I prefer the term “mind control” over “brainwashing” because it is more
specific and precise. However, sometimes I use the term “brainwashing”
to explain what I mean by “mind control” to people unfamiliar with the
term, as “brainwashing” is more colloquial and more people seems to be
familiar with it.
14. I use the word training because the reaction to
‘torture’ is too strong and I don’t want to lose people because of how
I state it. Torture more describes what happened. Training feels
like I am letting them off the hook, as if it was some kind of normal
training program.
15. The abuse I endured was systematic, ritualistic and relentless.
16. I filled out this survery for my adopted daughter who will soon be 10.
17. I use the term language centers to describe where different jobs originate from after teachings
18. abuse is abuse
19. i recently just came to terms with the medical sexual abuse