#itbc

With current events the way they are, it's more crucial than ever that everyone understands where the conspiracy narratives about cults practicing secret mind control techniques and conducting all of these ritual murders and tortures comes from, and how we know that all of this stuff is straight-up not real.

(To be clear, I am not saying that people's trauma symptoms aren't real, or that they weren't severely abused in some way. I am saying that alter programming is not actually required to explain anyone's trauma symptoms. People's symptoms are real, but special mind control practices are not the cause.)

The Basics

How we know false memories exist (and no, it's not because the FMSF says so!)

How Project Monarch fails the "Six Ways To Debunk Any Conspiracy Theory" sniff test

How the discovery of real cases of religious abuse, csa, government conspiracies, etc. actually weaken claims of Monarch-type programming

Recovered memory therapy from the perspective of former patients

The History

The Shared Origins of Reptilian & Ritual Abuse Conspiracy Theories

What the Project Monarch alter programming conspiracy theory is (and what it's not)

How the Project Monarch alter programming conspiracy theory developed

The Proponents

Cathy O'Brien - One of the first Project Monarch "Survivors"

Cathy O'Brien claims transgender is a mind control agenda

Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler: Two Of The Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists Most People Have Never Heard Of

Svali, a "survivor" cited by people like Alison Miller and Ellen Lacter, is a conspiracy theorist

Svali: An Underacknowledged Influence on Alter Programming Conspiracy Theories

Origins of the Five Steps of Discipline - it was made up by Svali!

Yes, Dr. Alison Miller is a conspiracy theorist

Yes, Dr. Colin Ross is a conspiracy theorist

Unwelcome Ozian copied Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler - see for yourself!

I just read Unwelcome Ozian's "Rules of Programming," and Oh Boy.

Other

Why the survey cited by Ellen Lacter is worthless and meaningless

How singlets can be misled into believing they have DID

Let's talk about The Symptoms(TM), and how they're a red flag for bullshit

Don't let people guilt trip you into accepting substandard evidence

How to explain to others that Project Monarch isn't real

Check your conspiracy theory. Does it sound anything like this?

Check your conspiracy theory part two: double, double, boil and trouble

I saw a post that disgruntled me enough to want to talk about this, so here we are. There seems to be a heavy amount of misinformation on what "counts" as OEA, often excluding adult victims and non-programmed victims. So, within this post, we'll go over what the terms "OA, MC, and RA" mean, as well as commonly construed myths.

but i feel a NEED to say this

there is a side to the internets portrayal of ITBC that IS conspiratorial and falsified.

when i say im programmed i mean i was conditioned via extreme measures to respond to specific stimuli, people and inputs a certain way.

eg: Person A asks [specific phrase] and i will respond how they have made me to every time

because of how my brain chose to respond to this, i split alters to respond accordingly

from what i know from other HC-DID systems that have spoken about this.. most of us werent intended to be separate alters, but states of being and "approved" behaviours. DID wasnt the intention, "correct" behaviour was.

i think the amount of misinfo out there especially spread by people who cannot for whatever reason fully research is the main detriment to spaces where this is talked about

also a lot of us dont have the words or understanding to describe what actually happened to us.

this post is pretty messy and i do NOT SPEAK FOR ALL HC-DID SYSTEMS ABOUT THIS

i always feel terrible when i say that, because the only way to truly understand oea/ramcoa is to go through it. i wouldn't wish that upon my greatest enemies. it just really sucks when the trauma i've faced and the effort i've given to get where i am today get dismissed and even pushed under the rug. i've spent my whole life not being believed by the people who were supposed to protect me. what makes my trauma so unbelievable?

most people don't understand and they never will. i think one of the worst aspects of oea/ramcoa that a lot of us don't mention is the loneliness of it all. even if i do talk to other survivors, oea/ramcoa is such a broad term, and its practices are vastly different from each other. there's not really a single safe person who will get everything about my story.

Tothe post discovery "ohhh that was a sign huh... and not even subtle about it"

🗝️🏷️ ITBC/programming

The way I differentiate between silence as trained verbal shutdown and the tendency of brains to shut off language during times of stress (or reliving stress) is whether it affects all language or just my English. If I could say the thing in French or ASL (even with shoddy construction), it’s usually a trained thing. Both can feel like being forced out of my body, and I’m not sure the feeling of having my jaw bound is unique to coerced responses.

Scramble is hard, too, because dissociation will just do that; make everything hard to process, either blipping in and out or sliding right off without soaking in. Sometimes it comes with a visual effect that makes the lighting look warmer than it is or the room darker, with shapes out of place.

The truth of it is that they’re probably related, and the only way I really know is if someone admits to having intentionally caused that change and having been trained to do it. Programs are taking the capacities of the mind and turning them against it. Sometimes it is specific methods of abuse and repetition, other times it’s building on natural defenses. Usually it’s both, and that’s why it’s difficult to untangle.