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22 of 26 found the following review helpful:
 A survivor speaks out Aug 01, 2006
By Laurel Johnson
Mauri was born in the post World War 2 era on Walpurgisnacht, the eve of May, one of two satanic holidays. She was a baby bartered away to Nazi Satanists by her parents for a house, a child intended for ritual abuse. Her story is grim,frightening to imagine, and yet Mauri is a survivor who shares her experiences with hope.
The author's repressed memories resurface in adulthood when she has a job and children of her own. Bizarre dreams about places she can't consciously remember and incidents that seem implausible haunt her sleep. A surreal world of memory fragments takes possession of her life. Place by place, she proves the churches, homes, and barn featured so prominently in her dreams actually exist. Is it possible that the ritual
sacrifices and sexual perversions she remembers are reality?
The truth can be more frightening than imagination. Photos hidden from prying eyes proved that Mauri was a kiddy porn princess. The satanic cult to which her parents belonged included men of power and influence in California, men who craved watching or participating in sex with children. Yes, she names names. As a young girl, she found safety in the sky and stars, comfort wrapped in the wings of a guardian angel. Heaven was her parents. As an adult, she found it difficult to believe that her fragile, ailing earthly parents were Nazi supporters and Satanists who willingly used their daughter as a pawn. But slowly and gradually, the awful truth is revealed. Their crimes were not limited to just one generation of helpless children.
This book is a lesson in dysfunction and denial, and the courage required to seek truth, regain personal power, and find healing. In addition to the truths she discovered, Mauri shares scientific explanations for mental rhythms, the effect of discord and lies, of magick and illusion by cults. Most of us will never know the life Mauri lived. Despite her hopeful outlook she believes biblical Armageddon exists now in the evils perpetrated by a select few. After reading her story, I tend to agree.
18 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Inspirational and well written Dec 12, 2006
By Aaron A. Golub
Reflections in the Night is very difficult as the subject matter is so severe yet Mauri's intelligence and sense of humor make it more managable. It's unusual for one who has survived this to have such an intelligent perspective and awareness of their experiences. Mauri has gone to great lengths to provide detail and clarity in describing the ritual abuse she successfully endured.
While Reflections in the Night briefly touches on some of the more difficult (and horrific) aspects of trauma based mind control and ritual abuse, survivors and their allies will find validation in reading her story. It's inspirational to know that Mauri has successfully overcome the generational cycle of ritual abuse and in doing so, helped create a brighter future for us all.
0 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing but I bet you read it anyway. Dec 21, 2010
By Heather Lake
This book has perverted stream of consiousness writing to rival even the best of the Gor series with the character development of a VC Andrews novel and a Rosemary's Baby vibe.
2 of 16 found the following review helpful:
SRA - new survivor stories Feb 01, 2010
By The Hermit
"The Hermit"
WAS THE SRA MOVEMENT CREATED TO USE FEAR AND PANICK TO INCREASE SECURITY MEASURES IN BORDER CONTROL BETWEEN STATES?
I give this book two stars , because I have not yet read it , because I am not sure if I am really looking forward to read it , and because I believe that the people being exposed in this book most probably used Christian symbology or other Magian symbology to attempt to falsely associate themselves with Satanism , and that some , perhaps all were innocent , or wrongfully accused. If not , and if the events happened as described , they did happen as described. If they didn't happen as described , then they didn't.
The problem with most books on Satanic Ritual abuse is , that they focus solely on attempting to prove that the people who are being accused are what their authors and those who compose the survivor - tales term 'survivors of Satanic ritual abuse'. Truth be known , I am not aware at present of the existence of any authentic Satanic organization which has used or abused children in their rituals. All those organizations I have heard about did in fact not use anyone but people were freely invited to join if they wished. The Satanists I got to know became some of the best friends I've ever had and the very people I had feared through many years in my life turned out to be way different and some of the nicest , sweetest and dearest people I've ever come across in this lifetime.
This is also true of some Christians and a few Roman Catholics I've come to know. The truth about Satanism , is that it does not deal with mass mind control or programming , contrary to the content of most survivor tales.
Instead , authentic Satanism deals with self - enlightenment by means of serious study , practice , devotion , dedication , self - discipline , and creating or furthering out change by means of chaos in ways the authorities do not always notice , or perhaps in ways these same authorities may never notice , including those who proclaim themselves to be the authority on Satanism because they happen to believe they were ritually abused by people proclaiming themselves to be Satanists. The horrifying truth about Satanism , and Christianity and almost any other religious or spiritual or materialistic belief system or it's ethos , is , that somebody can abuse someone and justify that the reason the person was abused was because the deity somehow allowed it to happen or was involved. In authentic
Satamism just like anywhere else there is always the danger of approaxing someone who claims to be an authentic Satanist , but who really isn't. So if I have tendencies to abuse children and I have been enthusiastic about LaVeyan Satanism , for instance , or some other branch of Satanism or Buddhism or Hinduism it does not change the fact that I am responsible for having abused the child that I did abuse. So , therefore , the reality of the potentiality of such dangers can indeed be found in most spiritual and religious or otherwise constructed societies or communities. To prevent this from happening , the persons considered should be as honest with themselves and others around themselves as possible , in an effort to minimize the possibility of loosing control and attempting to perform psychopathic acts and blaming those acts on spiritual forces.
It doesn't matter if I am me , Bob Dole or Henry Kissinger , the point is , if I am A , and I choose to abuse B , then it was and has been A who abuses B , not C who requests the abuse of A to take place against B as a result of some kind of amusemen and personal gain. I have not come across any genuine Satanist who has abused anyone , not even an animal , to my present knowledge. What angers me therefore when books like this are written , is that their authors seeem to be entirely oblvious to the fact that most of the symbology that is being discussed is overwhelmingly Nazarean or Christian , and it has nothing to do whatsoever with what folks such as myself term authentic Satanism. Because in authentic Satanism you're taught to be in control of yourself at all times for all time and if you become weak , then an inflated ego might step in and destroy your work , such as happened in the case of a certain gentleman who has been harassing a few Satanists on the internet lately. For Satanism is indeed mysterious , and authentic Satanism is the most mysterious of all branches of Satanism that I am aware of at present , and is among the most dangerous. And such practicioners will not allow themselves to get fooled into performing such acts as ritual child abuse. What the heck for? According to official sources , sources which once were not official but have become so at present , the idea is to vampirize the child because the suspect is an energy - vampire of some sort and is in desperate need of absorbing psychic energy from a spiritually pure source.
The energy is then sucked into the body of the suspect by the suspect and then released into the aether in order to among other things create negative vibes which can be used to harness the power of other rituals. Now why the heck don't these authors mention crystals for instance? Crystals can be quite good at aiding Satanists today to produce the same effect without the need to get some weirdo kid involved.
I do not know any of the persons accused or researched in this book personally , and I strongly suspect although I probably will read it in the far future , that all is not what seems , especially in light of what I and a few other independent researchers into this and related fields feel , which is that authentic Satanism does not require children for participation , as children are considered too young and their minds are wondering around and they are having difficulties controlling them. Let's face it. We live in a world whose population more or less hates children. Children are put to education classes that won't give them any seriously well payed jobs , they're put on the battlefield and told to kill each other in stupid wars , they kill each other on television in front of other children , they're told they're worthless scum so that if any of them wants to be a politician they think they're worthless scum. What kind of world has this planet become , I mean? What kind of society is anything but sane which permits the mass slaughtering of thousands of animals to appease some crazy goddess in the middle of nowhere someplace in India? Perhaps one of the reasons that SRA became so popular a topic in the 1980's and in the 2000's and beyound is because lots of Christians needed an enemy to make themselves feel better and if they had to make this enemy up such as satanists abusing thousands of children then they'd have to consider themselves ready to do that. One way to do that would be to disguise themselves as Satanists in an attempt to abuse others and then come later and admit the whole thing - create a problem , request for reaction , and then offer the solution. And what became the solution? Now you can't go to Canada if you're a Satanist - strighter border control. The world doesn't have to be a place where children are hated every day , every hour , and everywhere somewhere a child is hurt.
It doesn't have to be that way , because when people come to an agreement about that they don't need that kind of absolute , total insanity anymore they can start making the world a happier place to live. It won't happen if I go attempt to clean up the author's house. She'd kick me out instantly and call me probably one of her worst reviewers ever , or worse still , shoot me if I approaxed the door , particularly in light of the fact that I am supportive of such groups and organizations that some people have come to call or have termed themselves , Satanic. This is because the few of them that I have been so lucky to know were anarchistic communities who saught to rebel against the State by every means they considered to be possible. Total mind - control in the author's case must therefore include the personal conviction that all the persons that she terms to be her suspects , were practicing what she thinks is Satanism from her perspective. If the case is true then it was most probably a mish - mash mumbo jumbo of Christianity and other varieties of Nazarene religion. After all the very name of such deities as Ball comes from certain , ancient cultures whose religious belief system or philosophy was , as certain famous underground authors have termed , Magian. And precicely because I do not know the persons or the author of the book , I have every right to be douptful , but also to be careful in what I doupt , and especially in light of that , each selected reasons for a personal doupt.
One thing I find to be so insane in all of this is that in the US of A or Great Britain or some other country you can send young people , sometimes young children to war in a place like Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan and if they won't come back they got killed , often there is a trial and sometimes the case is closed.
Somebody didn't have enough money to finish off the case or whatever and get damage money in turn.
I and the few of us who are independent in our research into the matter of Satanic Ritual Abuse feel that it has become a big money - making bussiness where new survivors are created each year or each month , and where new survivor tales take on ever more bizzare shapes. The money goes naturally to the publishers and sometimes authors of the books , especially the new books , and goodness knows what the money is used for. Was the whole SRA movement created to among other things increase border - control between the United States and Canada? Why do so many of these cases allegedly take place in countries that have borders? Why do so few of them take place here in Iceland where there are , at least officially , no borders? Thank goodness I read the Encyclopedic Sourcebook of Satanism.
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