Non-Emanationist. Virology is an industrialist parlor trick to disguise poisoning of you and your world. Not a fan of reification but can’t kick the habit.
@Jason_Jorjani Sheldon catalogued the exceptional bodies while Breen ran the after-school program. The lengths people will go to justify their inherited aggrandizer cult resonances is impressive.
@Lons Ironic that Gabriel is a rather prominent proponent of AI slop music videos. He promoted many AI “artists” creating videos for his songs as part of his 5050 project.
@RodgmanPsych@rocknrolldr74@kurtmetzger@mtracey One FBI agent, 300 cases, no evidence. In the most secretive, coercive abuse contexts imaginable. That’s the definitive data point? The 1980s panic is not the only alternative to nothing happened.
@RodgmanPsych@rocknrolldr74@kurtmetzger@mtracey A clinical sample of 1000 patients is not the full picture. Survivors of highly coercive closed groups are among the least likely to disclose, especially within mainstream institutional frameworks. Absence of disclosure is not absence of abuse.
@RodgmanPsych@kurtmetzger@mtracey Another angle:Jeff Kripal also documents that transgression, induced altered states, and sexualized initiation are constitutive of rites of passage across world traditions. By the average evangelical’s definition, most of human religious history qualifies as satanic ritual abuse.
@RodgmanPsych@kurtmetzger@mtracey Fair. The evangelical panic framing generated false reports and real harm to innocent people. I won’t dispute that. But the wholesale dismissal that followed threw out legitimate cases alongside the hysteria. Cheit documents exactly that. Baby, bathwater.
@RodgmanPsych@kurtmetzger@mtracey Worth noting: ‘satanic’ is an imprecise and arguably obfuscatory term for most alleged ritual abuse. Coercive secret societies with initiatory trauma are documented cross-culturally and prehistorically. The Christian framing is a category error that discredits legitimate inquiry.
@RodgmanPsych@kurtmetzger@mtracey Beck is one data point. Cheit’s Witch-Hunt Narrative, Hayden’s Power of Ritual in Prehistory, and conviction records complicate ‘strongly suggests.’ Moral panic and real abuse aren’t mutually exclusive; panic can even provide cover. Worth a closer look.