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Blasphemous Rumors: Is Satanic Ritual Abuse Fact or Fantasy? an Investigation

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Best book on satanic ritual abuse and Masonic cults... I have no idea why it's unavailable... It was published by Fount the UK subsidiary of HarperCollins... I found it in a discount bin for one dollar... I read the book twice and it's very creepy... I go to a lot of used book stores and when I was in Boise Idaho I traded it in for beer money and it was still on the shelf a year later so I bought it back... I guess it's just too unbelievably dark for some people to handle... The author does not proselytize... Well documented and it lists sources... Most satanic books try to shove the Christian agenda down your throat... This book just states the facts and it becomes completely believable... Do not read this book alone at night... There's some great eye witness accounts of human sacrifice, mind control, death threats, blackmail... drugs used to produce submission and buy loyalty from the addicted victims... This is an excerpt from the back cover... "Opinion is divided on the truth of the matter, and the divisions are acrimonious. Skeptics argue vehemently that ritual abuse is an imported myth, believed by the gullible and propagated by the hysterical... For his investigation, Andrew Boyd has stepped beyond the current cases to interview professional psychiatrists across Britain. Between them they claim to be counseling some 900 victims of ritual abuse. Their detailed accounts, coupled with in-depth statements by alleged survivors, are shocking in the extreme. Just as shocking is the remarkable coherence between them. Is it fact or fantasy that lies behind these blasphemous rumors?" Excellent book if you can find it... I bought it about five years ago and I've never seen another copy... Maybe the publishers got a late night phone call from one of Satan's minions...

My only disappointment -- and it wasn't the fault of the book or the author -- was that it was not about the U.S., although there certainly are connections. If you have doubts about satanic ritual/cult abuse, this book is a baseline for any kind of awareness. And there ARE connections between satanic ritual abuse and government mind control experimentation, sad as that may be. I read this book a while ago, but was not going to review it because it is out of print and I got it somewhere else...until I saw it reviewed here by somebody else. Let me add my voice to those who are also in the trenches digging this stuff up. Don't allow the voices to be silenced! Don't allow the secrets to be buried! As long as we do that, our children, future children, will remain at risk.

If you are unsure if ritual abuse is fact or fantasy, this is the book to read. Andrew Boyd is very objective in covering his research findings. Most of the alleged abuse in this book took place in the U.K..However, there is information on alleged abuse that took place in other countries (such as the U.S). At the time that I write this review, Blasphemous Rumors is out of print. Nevertheless, I suggest getting your hands on this book if you have any questions on this topic.

Having worked with children involved in ritual abuse cases I found this book of particular interest. In 1994/95 I worked directly with several children who had been ritually abused. At the time I was more concerned with giving them sound, day-to-day care than examining the particulars of their abuse histories. I was very shocked when, years later, ritual abuse came up in conversation and there seemed to be doubt as to whether or not such abuse even existed. Having worked with the direct result of that abuse I found this skepticism on par with disbelief in a round earth.

I searched amazon for relative literature and found "Blasphemous Rumors". It is not good reading, it is horrifying reading. I would recommend this book to anyone who doubts the veracity of ritual abuse or DID (dissociative identity disorder) claims. "Rumors" outlines several cases and survivor stories from the UK. Some of the material is incredible and very difficult to comprehend as it is so far outside of what most of the public believes. The material here is evidence of some of the worst human depravity immaginable.

Read this book and ask yourself why there appears to be such a coordinated effort to discredit ritual abuse survivors.

This is a "must read" for any one in the social work field or anyone interested in DID or other trauma induced disorders.

This book is only " informative" about the subject of " satanic ritual abuse" if you are totally unaware of better books about the subject such as "Satanic Panic" by Jeffrey Victor. As it is, even considering it's focusing mainly in the UK and that the publishing date is just before this whole hysteria was exposed fully, Boyd makes a few good points but obscures it with piling on claims of people who assert this stuff exists on an underground global scale. I found it painful intellectually to read as Boyd refers to highly biased sources, some since been discredited and when he does mention sources such as FBI profiler Ken Lanning, he neglects to mention anything by these sources that would discount the claims made by SRA proponents.

One of the many claims is that people of high influence such as police, doctors, lawyers and so forth are behind the "satanic abuse" and that even with the claims of breeders and human sacrifice these " satanists" are so clever that they hide all the evidence every time. I find that highly unlikely. Supposed there is " generational satanism" yet none of this was made public until after " Michele Remembers" and " Satan's Underground". Amd of course the legal "proof" he uses includes the Richard Ramirez and the other alleged satanic murders, usually carried out by indivduals. If this exists in the scale they claim, where are the child porn, where are the altars and the books, where are the pelvic exams of the alleged "brood mares" to prove they gave birth? None are provided. It's all stories and claims, nothing to confirm the details. No physical evidence at all, in fact.

Now that we know how this hysteria came about and was perpetuated, how urban legends were thought of as fact, how children have been coerced to believe something is true when in fact it wasn't, and how Lauren Stratford lied and in all these alleged accounts, NONE of them have shown physical evidence of " Satanic" cults, a book like this is more akin to fueling the hysteria and sell books rather than actually examining the subject openly.

Boyd makes a few errors in his references, maybe not realizing that some of what he used were from sources of dubious credibility. " File 18" and " Jeremiah Films" are two examples of bad sources who are highly biased.

If you want to find ONE book that deals with this subject extensively, "Satanic Panic" does a good job of it. For thsoe who have a copy of this book, may I suggest you note the various names cited as " experts" and cross check them online, or better yet, get a copy of the book " Witch Hunts" by Kerr Cuhulain.

Yes pedophiles use " cult ritual" to scare their victims. And yes there are cases of people whio claim to be satanists ( usually from rock music or something) committing murder. We have proof of child porn, of pedophiles abd so forth. But we have no proof oif this underground organized satanic ritual abuse claim. And yet we are to believe the victims at their word. Not unlike the "afflicted girls' at the Salem Witch trials witch their " spectral" evidence. This is the same criteria of " proof" that we see about the worldwide cabal of " Zionists" and the "New World Order" and so forth.

I am open for objective empirical proof. If you claim your car was changed from a Buick to an elephant, I need to see you owned a Buick and how the elephant appeared in your possession. I also need to examine your account. I need proof other than your story and claims of people with THEIR stories.

For the record I am not a Satanist. I am a Wiccan and I highly do NOT like pedophiles nor blood sacrifice. Also may I point out that there have been a number of crimes committed by supposedly devout Christians, even ministers, and credible people do NOT associate the crime with the religion. By the " proof" in this book, for example, with all the acocunts of Catholic priests being pedophiles, the assumption ( using the same arguments used in this book) is that the Catholic Church is behind child porn and whatever else claims one wishes to make.

I would not consider this an autoritative source. There are too many things wrong with it and of Boyd's dancing around the obvious problems for me to recomend this to anyone other than a knowledgable expert, and that only to point out how bad research and relying upon the wrong sources can lead to more harm than good.

** Because it features an English psychiatrist, former Duke Univ. academic, who, to determine the veracity of paedophile abuse, utilizes a "Forbidden Drug" - a drug as TABOO as Heroin - Cocaine or Cannabis; SODIUM PENTOTHAL The "so called" Truth Drug Drug Induced Hypnotic Regression So that particular "shrink" is certainly someone the likes of T. McVeigh - Sirhan Sirhan - L. Peltier will never be allowed to consult.

And does satanic child sex abuse exist? I would not dare comment.......