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

When I talk about alter programming conspiracy theories, people often get confused as to what I mean, so I figured I'd write a post to clear things up.

First of all, I am not saying that DID systems can't be indoctrinated or conditioned the same way literally any other human being can be, or that abusive people would never try and manipulate or exploit specific alters. That's not what I'm saying at all.

What I am talking about is a set of alleged practices first described by a number of far right conspiracy theorists, who claimed that the CIA was operating a program called Project Monarch, which was allegedly part of Project MK-Ultra.

Now, the existence of Project MK-Ultra is very well-known. The CIA did in fact conduct unethical human experiments in an effort to actually practice mind control. However, it didn't work out because drugs and the human brain don't actually work the way they thought they did. It's worth noting that these experiments were in part fueled by a fear that Russians were already masters of mind control, because as far as they were concerned, communism had to be more than just a political ideology that was at odds with America's own capitalist system; it had to be something so evil that it could only be forced on people using the most diabolical of methods. They were terrified that American POWs were being turned into Manchurian agents, and they figured that if this a thing the Russians were doing, then they should try and take advantage of this, too. Again, Project MK-Ultra was horrible, but it didn't produce the results they wanted, because Manchurian agents are nothing more than the fever dream of a terrified western capitalist.

Meanwhile, there is no evidence that Project Monarch ever existed. None. Nada. Not a shred. Despite allegedly being practiced by thousands of people in all levels of society since at least the mid-20th century, not a single piece of primary literature or documentation has ever turned up. Keep this in mind going forward.

If you've never heard of Project Monarch before, here's the gist of this conspiracy theory: Supposedly, Nazi scientist Dr. Josef Mengele wasn't actually performing eugenics experiments, and the Holocaust wasn't actually about genocide at all. It was actually a cover for mind control experiments. After the war, Dr. Joseph Mengele was brought over to the US in Operation Paperclip, where he taught the CIA everything he knew. Project Monarch was established by the CIA in order to plant programmers and programmed slaves everywhere in society for the purpose of establishing the rule of the New World Order, which had supposedly controlled Nazi Germany and had now infiltrated the US government. Supposedly, one of the New World Order's big goals was to destroy American conservative Christianity, especially Protestantism. Literally anything that a white American Protestant hyperconservative would find objectionable was supposedly the work of the NWO.

The alleged practices conducted under Project Monarch were broadly labeled "trauma-based mind control," or TBMC. While some people today use this term to refer to any form of punitive conditioning, the term originally had a very specific meaning. Let's talk about how TBMC in its original context allegedly worked. The basic concept goes like this: a very young child (sometimes even a baby) will be put under brutal torture in order to force them into dissociation. If the procedure is successful, the victim's mind will split and form a number of completely blank alters. Somehow, the programmers know which blank alters are potentially useful for programming, and which aren't. Each usable alter will be programmed with a code or trigger that will allow programmers to access the alter (force it to front) later. Supposedly, the host alter will have no memory of any of this.

During each programming session, the victim will be tortured into a dissociative trance, and the desired alter will be accessed. At this point the alter will be taught (typically as traumatically as possible) whatever they're supposed to learn, like how to assassinate someone, how to do complex mathematics at superhuman levels, or how to pose as the perfect Christian housewife.

So theoretically, someone who's basically your regular churchgoing mom could be sent a greeting card with a picture of something like a cute little Scottish terrier, have her assassin alter triggered, and go kill some local politician with some futuristic piece of technology that makes it look like he just died of natural heart attack.

Allegedly, millions of people have been programmed like this, and the average Monarch slave has an average of 1000 alters. Meanwhile, the supposed symptoms of alter programming are so broad that just about anyone with any kind of trauma or mental health issue could be diagnosed with it, and there is nothing they could do to falsify it.

Again, there is literally no evidence that Monarch programming is real. Josef Mengele was not brought to the US in Operation Paperclip; he fled to South America and died in Brazil. The Nazis (including Mengele) were very much all about those eugenics, and claiming otherwise is laughable. Not a single group, institution, or individual has ever been found in possession of programmers' manuals, nor in possession of the codebooks and books of programming records that supposedly (and would have to, if this was really happening) exist out there. Not a single person claiming to be a deprogrammed slave has ever demonstrated any of the numerous skills they were supposedly trained to be hypercompentent in.

Additionally, once you start digging into the actual sources of this conspiracy theory, you start seeing the exact same tropes that feature in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and early modern witch hunt manuals. They've been given some updates to resonate with the fears of post-WWII American WASPs, but it's ultimately the same scapegoating and fearmongering that sent millions of people to their deaths.

It's obvious that most of the people who believe that Monarch programming exists haven't actually read works like Trance-Formation of America by Mark Philips and Cathy O'Brien, and They Know Not What They Do: Illustrated Guide To Monarch Mind Control, The Illuminati Formula Used To Create A Total Undetectable Mind-Controlled Slave, and Deeper Insights Into The Illuminati Formula by Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler. If they did, they'd be pretty hard-pressed to deny that these books are some of the most hateful garbage ever written. These books are chock full of xenophobia, racism, and a general hatred of anyone who isn't a hyperconservative Protestant. Pseudoscience and pseudohistory are rampant throughout, as are now-failed predictions about the alleged future plans of the New World Order.

Some people out there have asked me, "well, what about this other person talking about it?" I promise you, the stuff they are talking about ultimately comes from these books, which were published throughout the 1990's. This includes Unwelcome Ozian, whose books Chainless Slaves and Rules of Programming contain text that's straight-up copied from some of these books. People like Dr. Alison Miller and Dr. Ellen Lacter cite Svali, and Svali's own work describes the exact same NWO conspiracy theory as the works of Springmeier and Wheeler.

I encourage anyone who isn't likely to get triggered by talk of extreme violence (including sexual) to actually read these books so you can see for yourself just how bad they are. A huge part of the reason this conspiracy theory has so much traction is because few people actually know where it comes from, and just how completely ridiculous the whole damn thing is. Just about everything QAnon was on about is packed into these books.

And finally, while dissociative amnesia does indeed exist, we also have evidence that people can confabulate memories of events that never actually happened. Rock-solid evidence, in fact. This is literally what happens every time someone goes under hypnosis to try and remember a past life, and "remembers" a past life in the medieval period filled with anachronisms and historical misconceptions. If you'd like to see some extremely obvious examples of memory confabulation for yourself (some of which don't even involve hypnosis), you can click here and here.

(By the way, the terms "RAMCOA" and "OEA" were created by the ISSTD, for the purpose of making these types of conspiracy theories sound respectable within legitimate psychiatry.)

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Update: Turns out host isn't a "lazy bum". Just really perceeptive to cognitive fatigue which seems to either be a warning or a trigger for an FND episode.

Post is still in progress but taking longer than I would like due to learning how to pace Echo without blowing a fuse.

Anyways, I'm gonna go prepare for that episode now, lol

Euigh. I've got a good ramble but keep losing my train of thought because I'm not prominently enough in front to put my thoughts into coherent sentences and host is a lazy bum that doesn't feel like putting the mental effort in (big talk for someone who needs the host [me] to type for them but pop off I guess)

I can't cook in these conditions

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Hello! If someone is trying to reach me, I'm not ignoring you! I keep getting a notification icon but, when I go to look at the notification, nothing shows up.

It's not that I'm deliberately avoiding you.

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Things you can do to help someone while they're in psychosis in a psych ward:

Bring them necessities like soap and clothing and good toothbrushes. After being forced into gowns for a while it's really nice to be able to wear something personal and comfy. It's also nice to take care of yourself when coming back to reality. When realizing you haven't washed in ages a good shower is beyond awesome

Bring things to distract them like books and magazines that suit their interests. Hospitals can be incredibly boring. They can also most certainly feel like jail. It's brutal sometimes. These places have the bare minimum and any little bit of this helps a lot

Visit to show moral support even when they can't communicate or keep their eyes open from sedation. Physical company helps a lot of the time

Accompany them for walks when permitted. Feeling the wind or seeing trees or stars after being unable to for a long time is priceless

Keep them company by calling them after visiting hours end

Gift them coffee or comfort food. They can be big sources of endorphins. Something yummy will always be yummy no matter how detached from the world you get... provided things like delusions don't get in the way

Remain calm if they lose their composure. It personally tended to help me ground myself or lessen the panic I was having. People who were reactionary to me in a negative way defeated the purpose of being around me at the time

Show good vibes. When living a mental nightmare this can help improve state of mind or even delusions and hallucinations. Like even a smile can help tons ngl

Keep patient and don't take things personally. I had my own mother and doctors yelling at me because I wasn't acting the way they liked and it made things so so much worse

Understand that someone unwell might have a long grueling road of recovery ahead of them. Best thing to do is accept them regardless of what occurs

Advocate for their personal needs such as dietary preferences

This of course is all dependent on what's allowed at the psych ward

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REMINDER

Trauma isn't only bad things that happened

Trauma is also good things that didn't happen

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System culture is

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Euigh. I've got a good ramble but keep losing my train of thought because I'm not prominently enough in front to put my thoughts into coherent sentences and host is a lazy bum that doesn't feel like putting the mental effort in (big talk for someone who needs the host [me] to type for them but pop off I guess)

I can't cook in these conditions

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How do you undo a reblog? I don't want to be associated with a particular user...

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I'm sorry but this is completely insane.

This is MY post that a blog has plagiarized for their account. That they apparently thought necessary it be made safe for endogenics.

Could someone genuinely explain why that would be necessary? Why it was needed for a personal recovery post to be copied word for word specifically for endogenics?

(this blog has taken 5 posts of mine, but this is by far the strangest)

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"my trauma wasn't bad enough i can't be a system"

whenever I hear people say this I always wonder, what metric are you using? your tolerance for how things affect you now as a teenager, or adult?

something that you experienced as a child is going to use a completely different metric! a child's brain is much less developed than an adult's and what they're able to handle is much less. for instance maybe you like horror movies? you probably can watch them without even getting scared! but if you watched the same film at 7 years old it would likely be a lot different!!

you don't need extreme trauma in order to have DID. it just needed to be extreme enough to YOU as a child, that's all. whenever I see neurogenic, traumendo and other micro labels like that it just makes me feel sad because all of those things those people are describing are enough on their own to develop DID. you got bullied at school? that's enough to develop DID! you had a disorder from an early age that made life hard? that's enough to develop DID! your parents were neglectful? that's enough to develop DID!

there's no such thing as gold star DID you don't need to have gone through the worst of the worst. there's no need for trauma olympics or micro labels, if you have DID you have DID and that's all!

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trauma so bad my coping mechanisms have names and pronouns

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daily amnesia in DID is something i don't see talked about that much, i see regular amnesia (ie not being able to remember years of your life, traumatic memories etc) talked about but never the daily things.

daily amnesia is on a day to day basis never being able to remember important things, did i take my medicine this morning? did i shower yesterday? have i eaten yet? what have i been doing for the past hour? what was i supposed to do today?

daily amnesia REALLY fucking sucks because whenever you start suffering you remember every other time you've been suffering and just scold yourself for not getting help and not getting better - but when the moment it's over? it's completely gone from your memory. it's so much suffering and you're so stuck because how can you ever get help for something you can't remember? you're always in a constant state of 'feeling fine' and when you end up getting help and going to therapy there's nothing to talk about because there's nothing you remember.

every day is groundhog day where you are forced against your will to repeat it over and over for god knows how long.

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Ramble Topic: Jellyfish are like if plants, fungi, and bacteria were animals.

Content Warnings: N/A

Intro

Cells are the smallest forms of life. They are able to:

Sense and respond to their environment: when something changes in a cell's surroundings, the cell is able to detect that change and react accordingly, such as self-preservation when a threat is detected.

Reproduce: cells are able to turn one of themselves into two by undergoing mitosis which is a process where a cell essentially grows a copy of itself that splits off of the main cell.

Grow and develop: when cells grow copies of themselves, they can either A) split off that copy, completing the process of mitosis or B) use that copy to grow itself (I think. Don't quote me on that).

Maintain homeostasis: cells need to maintain proper conditions in order to function. For example, if a cell's environment heats up or cools down, the cell will react to keep its internal temperature from changing.

Process energy: the cell is able to take in something from its environment, light for example, and receive energy from it.

Everything cells make up is alive. Plants, animals, fungus, and bacteria are made up of cells, meaning they are alive.

Plants, Fungi, Bacteria, and Jellyfish

These three are all living organisms. They are all made of cells. But none of them are animals.

Plants aren't animals because:

A) They are able to produce their own food via photosynthesis. They use the sunlight and water to create energy in their bodies to sustain themselves.

B) They cannot move on their own accord. They can grow, but the main body does not leave its spot unless something else moves it.

C) They have cell walls made of cellulose while animals don't have cell walls at all.

Fungi aren't animals because:

A) They absorb their food via decomposition. They secrete enzymes from their bodies that break down the organic matter they make contact with into nutrients that they then absorb into their bodies.

B) They cannot move on their own accord. Again, growth and movement are two different things.

C) They have cell walls made of chitin while animals don't have cell walls at all.

Bacteria aren't animals because:

A) The don't ingest their food. They can make their own food via photosynthesis or absorb their food via decomposition.

B) They are unicellular, aka single-celled, organisms. That singular cell is the bacterium itself.

Jellyfish are animals because:

A) They obtain their food via ingestion. Organic matter enters their bodies through the mouth where it is then broken down into energy.

B) They can move of their own accord.

C) They lack cell walls.

Jellyfish are just barely considered animals (in my opinion) because look at this thing! It's funky! Is has no bones or blood or brains. Listen, I love jellyfish, but in the hypothetical scenerio where I'd never heard of them before, I'd believe these goobers were some sort of exotic fungus before I believed them to be animals.

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Flag: Abrosexual

Edited Versions: With plural spiral + disability sun, with just plural spiral, with traumagenic symbol

Original

Abrosexual is when your sexuality is fluid/shifting rather than stagnant.

As a system, that shift may depend on which alter is fronting

With Plural Spiral and Disability Sun

Symbol from Extranth

With Plural Spiral

Symbol from Extranth

With Traumagenic Symbol

Symbol from Pluralpedia since the coiner's account doesn't seem to exist anymore.

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Flag: Genderfluid

Edited Versions: With plural spiral + disability sun, with just plural spiral, with traumagenic symbol

Original

Genderfluid is a label where your gender identity is fluid/shifting rather than stagnant.

As a system, that shift may depend on which alter is fronting.

Genderfluid With Plural Spiral and Disability Sun

Symbol from Extranth

Genderfluid With Plural Spiral

Symbol from Extranth

Genderfluid With Traumagenic Symbol

Symbol from Pluralpedia since the coiner's account doesn't seem to exist anymore.

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Flag: Omnisexual

Edited Versions: With plural spiral + disability sun, with just plural spiral, with traumagenic symbol

Original

Omnisexuality is when someone is attracted to every gender, but not equally so.

As a system, the levels of attraction towards each gender may shift depending on which alter is fronting.

Omisexual With Plural Spiral and Disability Sun

Symbol from Extranth

Omnisexual With Just Plural Spiral

Symbol from Extranth

Omnisexual With Traumagenic Symbol

Symbol from Pluralpedia since the coiner's account doesn't seem to exist anymore.

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Is it “lazy” or is it making something accessible for a disabled person?

Is it “lazy” or is it none of your business?