Glossary

The ministry of counseling survivors of SRA/DID trauma often involves language or terminology that is unfamiliar to laymen, and even experienced mental health counselors. We provide this glossary as a tool to assist you in supporting, or ministering to survivors, or those counseling survivors:

Abandonment:

Fears of being left alone, rejected, and isolated are the result of being abandoned as a small infant.  Happens in ineffective families who foster dissociative behavior in their children by their parenting styles.

Amnesia:

A loss of memory.  In the case of SRA/DID, amnesia can be the periods of time the person cannot account for, when a different part is active.

Age-Regression Trauma:

When an individual as an adult is regressed back to a younger age and then is reprogrammed and re-traumatized.  This is done to keep a person confused as to what really happened to them.  It is a tool that the cult uses to keep the dissociation in place.

Association:

A mental condition, or relation, that occurs between thought, feeling, ideas and/or sensations.  Staying associated is a choice that is made to stay in the present and deal with whatever pain comes.

Attachment:

Healthy attachment means that the person/infant says I am worthy of love, I am capable of getting the love and support I need; others are willing and able to love me.  Disorganized attachment says that I am not worthy of love, I am not capable of getting the love I need without getting angry and clingy, others are unable to meet my needs, others are not trustworthy or reliable and others are abusive and I deserve it. Disorganized attachment is the type of attachment most frequently seen in connection with dissociation. 

Belief System:

A system of beliefs that one chooses to follow, or is forced to follow.  Belief systems may contain but are not limited to the following:

• A religion that one is brought up in, and all of the laws and practices that religion contains.
• A way of life that one is either raised in or chooses as an adult.
• A belief system can be made up of lies and double binds, as well as programming of some kind or another.

Blockers:

A part or parts, which have the job of keeping the person, from knowing the truth.  They may bring up distractions so that the person’s thought process is interrupted, and they are unable to remember what they had been working on, thinking about, feeling or experiencing.  A blocker can inhibit a person’s ability to function not only in the therapeutic setting, but also in life in general.

Body Memories:

A body memory is when the body begins remembering an event or trauma, which has not necessarily worked its way into the conscious mind.  The body will remember and it must be allowed to speak, to feel and then to heal.

Broken Heart:

This seems to me to be the aim of all satanic cults, breaking not only the human heart, but human spirit as well.  Beating a person down until they feel so unloved and unlovable that they will do anything for love, even when love really isn’t love at all.

Christian:

A belief system.  One who follows the true and living Lord Jesus Christ

Co-consciousness:

The phenomenon or more than one part of the mind being conscious or present at the same time; having varying degrees of influence on the control of the body.  Usually refers to the presenter part or (core) being co-conscious when other personalities or parts of the mind take executive control of the body.

Confusion:

This can be defined as disorientation to time, place and person.  This can happen as a result of programming by the cult to not remember the abuse the individual suffered at the hands of the cult.

Constricted Affect:

(Affect) The totality of feeling/emotion with reference to the pleasantness/unpleasantness quality.

(Constrict) To compress, compact or squeeze.

This can mean that one’s emotions or the emotions of other internal parts are pushed down so far that the person can appear to have no feelings whatsoever, or in more psychological terms, the person would present to you having a flat affect.

Core:

 The core can also be described as being the “center” or essence of an individual.

Dissociation:

(Dissociate) To remove from association

(Dissociation) The act of dissociating; removal.  The separation of a group of related psychological activities into autonomously function units, as in the generation of multiple personalities.  The act of going away from pain and trauma, spacing out, zoning out.  It is a choice made to stay away from pain.  This can and often is programmed into a person at a very early age.

Double Bind:

A two-sided lie.  A question to which there is no right answer.  A set of two choices that have no positive outcome as either individual choices or as a set.  An example of a double bind might be:  A small child is presented with two options like, Kill your pet or you will die. Any child or even adult would have difficulty making a decision like this.  This is one example.  Another might be:  If you ever know the truth your heart will explode and you will die.  Lies and double binds help keep the dissociation and cult loyalty in place.

Druidic:

A belief system.  One who follows the ancient religion of Gaul and Britain, and who follows the laws of, and practices the rituals of Druidism

Extreme Mood Swings:

Going from one mood to another quickly.  For example, the individual may feel elated, on top of the world, and then suddenly swings the other way into a deep depression.  This can happen in a matter of hours or even minutes.  This does not necessarily mean that the person suffers from bi-polar disorder (manic depression); it can also be a symptom of DID/SRA when different parts come to the surface.

Flashbacks:

(American Heritage Dictionary)

A literary or dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative.  The episode or scene depicted by means of a flashback.

(My definition)

A vivid memory or picture of a memory coming to mind in such a way that it is for me like watching an instant replay or a movie of a trauma on the backs of my eyelids.  Flashbacks for me can also be very intrusive thoughts, feelings and/or body sensations.

Healthy Suffering

Healthy suffering takes place when pain is being resolved and the Lord is bringing truth and cleansing to the situation.

Human Spirit:

The spirit of the heart that first cried out to Jesus.

Gatekeepers:

Openings and portals into other systems.

Generational sin:

Generational sin is sin that is passed through the bloodlines.  Generational sin can also be thought of as a curse, like a mental illness or physical illness.  It can also be a thing like pride and arrogance before God.

Good/Bad Split:

An internal division between the good split and the bad split. 

Gnosticism:

The doctrines of certain early Christian sects that valued inquiry into spiritual truth above faith, considered salvation attainable only by the few whose faith enabled them to transcend matter, and viewed Christ as noncorporeal.

Hegelian Dialectic:

(From Internet source) This is an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis). 

(SOF website) Hegelian dialectic is used in the most sophisticated methods and procedures of trauma based mind control used by the Fourth Reich or New World Order.  The original core self or person is: “thesis;” the initial assault after the new birth (or the person’s first vital connection with the true God, usually occurring around 18 months of age) which results in the creation of the ‘evil core,’ the denial core, and the entire internal DID structure is: “antithesis;” the creation of the presenter system or host (usually occurring at around 2-years of age is: “synthesis.”  I.e. Ordo Ab Chao (order out of chaos) is the functioning dynamic and ideology employed via demonic/human instrumentation.

Idolatry:

Worshipping other gods before God.  This may include, but are not limited to the following:  money, possessions, people, and gods of other religion.

Inner Self-Helper:

One who knows all of the systems.

Integration (Integrate):

Integration:  An act or process of integrating, the state of being integrated, the organization of organic, psychological or social traits of a personality into a harmonious whole.  Desegregation.  I like to think of this as “when every internal part is in the right place at the right time.”  When the once fragmented person becomes whole.

Legal Ground:

This can be some unconfessed sin, or some lie that allows the demonic to remain in the individual.

Molech:

Canaanite god of fire to whom children were offered in sacrifice; he is also known as an Assyrian god.  He is attested as early as the 3^rd millennium B.C., although most known references to him come from the later period represented by the Hebrew Bible, according to which Solomon and later Ahaz introduced the worship of him into Judah.  He had a sanctuary at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom, South of Jerusalem.  Milcom may be identified with Molech.

Movement:

The act of moving.  Movement is a choice and when one is not allowed to move about freely even as an infant, moving then becomes a difficult, even frightening choice to make.  Movement may have been impaired by physical bondage…being caged, buried alive, or tied up to name a few.  At some point, physical bondage is no longer necessary, as the individual is afraid to move.  There may even be internal parts that think they are paralyzed and physically unable to move.

Neurological:

(Neurology) The Study of the nervous system and its disorders.

(Neurological) Something that takes place within the nervous system.

Oaths:

People that are victims of SRA may have been forced to swear oaths of allegiance to Satan, the cult, etc.  An oath is similar to a vow (see definition of vow) but has a subtle difference.

Origin Source and Beginning:

When dealing with an issue, it is important to go right to the origin, source and beginning of the issue, which means going right to the beginning  (where, when, and why the issue first came up.)

Occult Abuse:

Abuse by a satanic cult.  Can include many rituals such as: false baptisms, false marriages to other cult members and/or to Satan.  Can include blood rituals.  Is more often than not a mixture of all forms of abuse…physical, sexual, emotional and spiritual.

Original Person:

The person created at conception from which the first personalities are split.

Part:

A fragment of the original person, also called an alter (alternative personality).  Can have different ages, functions, names and identities.

Presenting System:

The group of alters who normally handle daily life for the person.

Programming:

A deliberate manipulation of circumstance to cause a predetermined response that will serve the purpose of the programmer; a form of mind control used extensively by cultists to procure and perpetrate control over the individual.

Protectors:

Internal parts who have the job of protecting other parts that are perceived as being weaker.  Protectors are usually the reason that the main person (the physical body of the person) is still alive.

Repression:

A process by which a person resists the recall of a painful event to the extent that the brain eventually blocks it from conscious recall.

Resolution:

The subsiding or termination of an abnormal condition.  To bring an issue to a successful conclusion.

Santeria:

This religion originates in West Africa, in what is now known as Nigeria and Benin.  It is the traditional religion of the Yoruba people in these countries.  The most common and popular name of this religion is “The Way of the Saints.”  This religion has seven gods.  This religion also believes that the spirits of the “ancestors” serve the followers here on earth.

Satanic Ritual Abuse:

Experience involving Satanic cults in which a victim is forced to endure or observe repeated sexual abuse, torture, threats, intimidation, forced drug usage, animal or human sacrifice, cannibalism, being buried alive, demon ritual or revelations, brain washing or participation in a marriage to Satan for the purpose of dissociation so that personalities can be indoctrinated, programmed and demonized, brining the individual under the control of the cult and the kingdom of darkness, generally without the knowledge of the host personality.  This abuse is combined with a systematized use of symbols and ceremonies.  These assaults are designed and orchestrated to attain harmful effects and is an assault against innocence.  The affect of this torture is to turn the victim against his or her own self, society and against God.

Self-Injure (Self-injurious)

To harm one’s own body; a self-inflicted punishment on one’s own body, harmful behaviors directed at oneself.  Patterns of behavior in which someone injures him or herself.  Self-injurious behaviors can include but are not limited to the following: Cutting, hitting and/or burning oneself, head banging, eating disorders, addictions, etc.  Self-injurious behaviors can be used to keep feelings at bay, are punishments directed at oneself.  Self-injurious behaviors are often programmed into an SRA survivor to keep them from talking about the cult and the their abuse.

Sexual Problems:

Sexual problems can be both physical and psychological.  If a person is repeatedly forced to perform violent and abusive sexual acts, they often develop aversions to sex on a psychological basis as well as experiencing physical side effects due to the abuse.

Soul Ties:

Soul ties are unhealthy and ungodly connections we have with other people.  Soul ties can keep us connected and loyal to the cult.

Spiritual Freedom:

Spiritual freedom means not walking in bondage to the past.  It is also an unrestricted ability to be in the sanctification process with the Lord and freed to be His bond servant.  This is the ability to be intimate with the Lord, to live in the freedom He bought for us, to be able to seek Him and obey Him as well as being free to love with His love. 

Split:

This word describes dissociations (separations) between various parts of the whole person.

Suicide:

The intentional taking of one’s own life.

System:

The entire group of personalities within an individual who has Dissociative Identity Disorder.   This term can also be used to describe a sub-group of personalities within a distinct authority structure that functions more or less independently within the whole.

System Map:

A structural arrangement, depicting the dynamic relationship of all of the personalities in the system to one another, providing a line of authority and method of presentation or participation in life.  Any kind of imagery can be used to illustrate these dynamics such as a house or a dungeon.

Talk-through:

One part talking for another part that may be unable to speak due to the age of that part.  Can also be described as talking through an issue.

Transgenerational Satanism:

Satanism that is naturally propagated through succeeding generations because of bloodlines.  May be called “old order,” or “adeptus.”

Trauma:

An experience such as physical abuse, rape or severe neglect.  These types of events may involve threats to life or to bodily integrity and evoke extreme helplessness and terror in a child.  Judith Herman (1992) believes that traumatic events are those, which overwhelm the individual’s ability to adapt to daily life.  Dissociation, in the case of traumatic experiences, is the process of the mind building a wall around the trauma to separate the memory from conscious awareness.  Trauma is a violating event and it includes suffering when you don’t need to suffer.  It frequently is a process of continual violation done in order to gain control of the victim’s mind. 

Trauma-based Mind Control:

A process of continually re-traumatizing the individual to gain control of their mind.  This type of mind control is done intentionally to dissociate the individual and leave them wide open for further programming and to keep them cult active.  In this type of mind control, patterns of thinking (this is the only phrase I can think of to describe it), is put in, so that the individual actually reprograms them self.

Trigger:

A particular stimulus that cause a given response; frequently that which is designed to activate a program, or any generalized stimulus that produces an intense and irrational emotional response.

Voices in the Mind:

Voice in the mind can be many things.  It may be hearing one’s own voice.  It can be parts talking to one another.  It can be a running commentary of either the person’s own voice or the voice of another person who has repeatedly said things (usually hurtful things) often enough, so that the individual actually thinks that they are hearing their own voice.  The person may hear commands to do something harmful to them self or to another.  The voices they hear may be there to reprogram the individual.  The voices can also be introjects from a person that they have a strong emotional tie with, and from whom they learned their ethics and moral standards.

Vows:

Vows are decisions made to do or not to do something.  Survivors of DID/SRA often make vows to not know the truth, to never tell the truth of the things that they were forced to do, to never tell of the things that were done to them.