Very touch read emotionally. Struggled to put it down expect nightmares even if similar books don't give you nightmares. A tough ending. Wendy HoffmanVery touch read emotionally. Struggled to put it down expect nightmares even if similar books don't give you nightmares. A tough ending. Wendy Hoffman explains how people are kept within abusive cults, including Satanic ritual abuse and reversed Kabbalah which were carried out both by the same group, including her parents. Slightly later they sold her for government experimentation within the MK Ultra programme, to brothels and the Illuminati as well (although very little was said about them). She had bravely described her coercion and forcing into one horror after another, including the one child who she was allowed to raise but only as a means of controlling her. She talks about the impossible choices (double binds) which make victims forced to perpetrate on others in order to tie them further to the cult, make suicide more likely than recovery off they should ever manage the skin chance of escaping.The end is not a peaceful, confusing one. Wendy believes she owes her humanity to the one year of childhood in which she had a true friend, the power of this attachment helped her survive and prevented her becoming like the remainder of her cult-involved, criminal family....more
Excellent. Its partly her person story but she's also a psychotherapist so much of the second half explains more about PTSD and the effect on others.
SExcellent. Its partly her person story but she's also a psychotherapist so much of the second half explains more about PTSD and the effect on others.
She also talks in detail about abuse of power/authority and retraumatization, and explains the horrific treatment she had from the claims department of the VA and how the DAV (who should be helping vets) are in fact pretty hopeless.
It's clear the US military needs to make a lot of changes... from any point of view being raped and abused by the military whilst on US soil is a criminal matter and needs a proper legal investigation & court case. The "Feres doctrine" prevents this.
There's so much in this book and it's one I will be thinking about for some time. I bought it after seeing the excellent reviews on amazon, they're not wrong....more
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