Dear Mr. Springer,
Thank you for contacting me. Actually, I just received a somewhat 
			skeptical email today from someone who read the information at your 
			site.
				
				
I would be more than happy to answer questions about validity, etc. 
			with the following provision. I write under a pen name to protect my 
			two children and husband, whom I do not want to have receiving 
			hostile or threatening phone calls, etc. My two children are still 
			healing from the experiences of being raised in the group as well, 
			and I don't want any experiences that could traumatize them.
				
				
The topic I am addressing is somewhat volatile, to say the least. 
			People have strong emotions pro and con as to whether the Illuminati 
			are real. That said, I will give you a little background info, feel 
			free to share this with readers. Also, my column at Suite101.com (I 
			have a column on ritual abuse; do a search on 'svali') has numerous 
			articles on this topic if people want to learn more.
				
				
1. I was born in 1957 in 
				Alexandria, Virginia. I lived briefly in a 
			small town about an hour away from Washington, DC, then moved to a 
			500 acre farm in northern Virginia when my mother married my 
			stepfather. Both my mother and my stepfather were members of this 
			group. It is a very generational group. My mother sat on the 
			regional council over the Washington, DC area and was in the 
			"spiritual chair" (the Illuminati have 6 chairs on their 
				ascended 
			masters council: Sciences, Government, Leadership, Scholarship, 
			Spiritual, and Military.)
				
				
These also correlate to the areas that children are taught growing 
			up in this group. They believe in "well rounded" children. The 
			"spiritual" rituals, or occult rituals, were only one small part of 
			the teaching of this group, the other five areas are also equally 
			emphasized. I spent more time learning history, languages, and 
			sciences than I did seeing rituals, although they were important to 
			the group.
				
				
2. I went to school in 
				Charlottesville, Va. 1975 to 1981, where I 
			received a BSN in nursing, and a BA in Spanish ( I got two degrees). 
			This is also a place where a lot of intense abuse and occultic 
			crimes occurred, on an estate about 10 miles south west of 
			Charlottesville going towards Crowley, Virginia.
				
				
3. After graduation, I went to 
				San Diego in 1981 ( I was called 
			there by the leadership there, they were strong in military training 
			but weak in sciences, which was my forte). I came and sat on 
			leadership council, I was the sixth head trainer there (the lowest 
			head trainer) and had 30 trainers in the local groups reporting to 
			me. Leadership council met in Ramona, Ca. on an estate there that 
			belonged to a man named Jonathan Meiers.
				
				
When I went to the police in 1996 (after I had left the group) sure 
			enough, there was an estate there belonging to someone with that 
			name. One of his cult names was "Black Hand" because he wore black 
			gloves when he worked with people. He was the head trainer in the 
			group, and one of the most sadistic and brutal people I ever knew. 
			He burned out most of the trainers that worked with him, and I made 
			it because I had a friend on leadership council who hated him and 
			helped me undermine him (the Illuminati are a very political and 
			back stabbing group, a "dog eat dog" mentality; everyone wants to 
			move up ). Her cult name was Athena.
				
				
After years (12) of working with 
				Jonathan, I moved up to the second 
			head trainer position in the county. Jonathan was getting ready to 
			move to regional, and he wanted me to take his place. But he and I 
			also despised each other, and he set me up to take a fall. That's a 
			whole different story, and was one of the factors that made me leave 
			the group.
				
				
I left the group in 1995, sick of the lying, deceiving, and 
			politics, and fearful for my life. I fled to Texas, and went through 
			therapy with Dr. Jerry Mundgaze and his group. But unfortunately, 
			they didn't know how to help "deprogram me", or as 
				Dr. Mundgaze told 
			me, "you are higher than almost anyone we have seen, and more 
			programmed."
				
				
I remembered so much, and he had never heard of it and had no idea 
			how to help (definitely no suggesting of memories there, most of 
			mine occurred spontaneously, AT HOME. I have never been hypnotized 
			or age regressed, all of my memories have occurred in the course of 
			daily life).
				
				
I spent a year intensely deprogramming myself. I was a head 
			programmer, or trainer, so I used my knowledge to undo what was done 
			to me. I also became enraged as I realized that the abuse I had 
			endured (and done to others) was NOT normal, was used to manipulate 
			me, etc.
				
				
My book is based on my memories as an 
				ADULT in this group. I was a 
			perpetrator, and I now regret it considerably. It is my restitution 
			before God as I expose what this group does and stands for. I also 
			wrote it for therapists, to help them understand the group and its 
			methodologies, since it was so difficult to hear from a nationally 
			known ritual abuse center, "we don't know what to do...". I based it 
			on what I did to heal.
Two years ago, my children were on visitation with me and disclosed 
			their abuse to me. I went to CPS, and the case was closed, because 
			the worker said she didn't believe in ritual abuse! My ex came to 
			get the children (he could have put me in federal prison for not 
			giving the children back, since the San Diego court system blatantly 
			states that they do not believe in ritual abuse, and in EVERY case 
			of alleged RA, the children are given to the allegedly abusing 
			parent).
				
				
The children confronted him in person. He turned white as a sheet, 
			said, "you really don't want to go back to "family", they said "no". 
			He then fled to California, quit his job, and moved out here and is 
			in therapy for RA and DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder).
				
				
My children are also in therapy, and healing rapidly. My now 12 year 
			old son is almost completely integrated, and happier than he has 
			ever been before; my 16 year old daughter has some tough issues to 
			face, such as the sexual abuse she endured. But God has been 
			faithful in His healing work in all of our lives.
				
				
I wish that this was just "made up". That it weren't real. But it 
			is. There is too much documentation of this occurring (I can send 
			you an URL for documented convicted RA cases). My greatest regret is 
			that I was used by this group, after a lifetime of teaching, to be a 
			perpetrator of the worst kind. I used to torture and abuse others, 
			believing that I was "helping" them.
				
				
Now, I realize that what I did was wrong, I have asked God's 
			forgiveness. And am committed to exposing this group through my 
			writing. I am also a professional writer in the medical field, was a 
			registered nurse for 18+ years, and currently work as an ESL 
			teacher, health educator, and freelance author (on non-abuse 
			topics!).
				
				
I hope this is enough background info, it is the truth before God 
			and men. If you need any other, that won't compromise my anonymity 
			or my children's protection, please let me know.
 
PS. My younger sister remembers being tied up on a stone altar at 
			the age of 3, with a gag in her mouth, and being raped. She also 
			remembers our paternal grandmother taking her to friends, who used 
			her sexually at the ages of 3 to 5.
				
				
She became an alcoholic at age 13, after trying to commit suicide 7 
			times by age 12. My older brother has NO memories of ANYTHING AT ALL 
			before age 20, his life is a complete blank. He does believe that 
			our father was a perverse and strange man. This brother was cut down 
			from our garage when he was 8, and tried to hang himself.
				
				
My oldest brother is on the run, afraid to live anywhere for more 
			than a few months, because he believes they want to "get him." He 
			also tried to commit suicide many times as a young child. This is 
			somewhat corroborating evidence, as well as the fact that both of my 
			children dream in German at night (that is the language they speak 
			in the Illuminati) and have NEVER heard it in the daytime.