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TRANCE-formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave

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The true life story of a CIA mind control slave by Cathy O'Brien with Mark Phillips. This is the documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation. Chiseled deep into the white stone of the CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters is a partial verse lifted from the Holy Bible and writings of Saint John... "and the truth shall set you free". This statement, like the agency, is total reality. The building that it is engraved upon houses the world's most successful manufacturer of lies to facilitate psychological warfare. The "Company" uses truth and technology as their raw materials to produce "pure" lies for control of you and America's allies.

This book is amongst the most shocking ever to reach this desk. Trance-formation of America is the chronicle of Cathy O'Brien, a recovered survivor of the CIA's infamous MK-ULTRA Project Monarch mind-control operation, and of Mark Phillips, the courageous man who rescued her (and her daughter) in 1988 from certain death and helped her recover her memories and regain some control over her life. Cathy O'Brien's troubles began at birth (in 1957) when she was subjected to constant abuse by her family. As she grew up, her father ensnared her in a corrupt pedophile ring and eventually sold her out to the CIA where, under the auspices of Project Monarch, Cathy became a mind-controlled White House sex slave deprived of any love, free will, or self-respect and forced to endure drug and electro-induced torture.

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1995

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Cathy O'Brien

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Cathy O’Brien, born in 1957 in Muskegon, Michigan, is a nationally and internationally recognized US Government Whistleblower on the subject of MK Ultra mind control and healing from it.

Knowledge is our defense against mind control, and Cathy’s experience empowers her insight into far reaching effects of mind control on society today and what you can do to reclaim, protect, and expand free thought.

In 1995 when the US National Security Act was invoked on her testimony for US Congressional Permanent Select Committees on Intelligence Oversight, that testimony was released through her book TRANCE Formation of America, written with Mark Phillips.

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28 reviews17 followers
September 6, 2012
This was the most disturbing book I've ever read. Can I vouch for the validity of what was stated? Absolutely not. I hope it's all false. What I can say is that if the outrageous claims made in this book are indeed false, why haven't there been libel suits pouring in against the author? You'd think the very high profile people named in this book would easily win a libel suit if there's indeed no proof.

This book made me physically ill at times and I could only read it in chunks. It's emotionally draining and not something I'd want to reread. If this story is indeed true, we live in a much more sinister, terrifying world than any "normal" person could have imagined.
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10 reviews7 followers
April 9, 2015
Bar none this is one of the most incredible true stories I have ever read. I won't even try and explain, just read the first couple of pages of her testimony and you will not be able to put it down. This woman is a true hero, risking all to save her daughter who fell victim to the same CIA torture project. It is as much about her own struggle to survive as it is a story of the lengths a mother will go to to save their child from atrocity. It is also a true love story about Cathy meeting someone that convinces her, a woman who has seen nothing but evil in people, that there are good souls on Earth. Nothing in fiction could be as compelling and horrific as the truth, a most inconvenient truth, that expands greatly on what has already been declassified. I alos recommend the second book where she goes into detail about how she was able to be deprogrammed and evade death. Keep in mind TranceFormation of America is REAL witness testimony before an Intelligence Advisory Oversight Committee to the President. I think putting this out in the form of a book saved Cathy, Mark and Kelly's life.
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1,003 reviews90 followers
May 17, 2021
I am going to reread this soon since it has been over a decade, but it is very good and eye opening.
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12 reviews6 followers
June 1, 2009
One of the most difficult to read and digest books I ever read. It's about pedophile rings in america, MK Ultra program, mind control etc. It's horrific. And very good for bursting the new age fluffy love is all there is bubble.
The good news is that after the initial shock you are ready to dig deeper for love. it is there, but not in forms of bubbles. And thank you Cathy and Mark. Brave people.
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89 reviews8 followers
June 22, 2013
A very fascinating book to read, but I'm not convinced this book is all true. I know and am quite aware this world does not operate the way people think it operates. I've heard stories about mind control, but this book leaves me with many questions.

Yes, I do believe mind control, or influence exists. But, I have a hard time believing that Cathy and Mark were able to run away from the government, or agents and write about their experiences. Not only do they write about their escape, but they don't get sued for libel...perhaps their story is true? I don't know.

I did find this book very disturbing. If this book is true, then how do Mark and Cathy continue to live in their freedom? Why would agents stop now at pursuing Mark and Cathy? Nothing is stopping the government or agents from pursuing them. Also, if Cathy is a former slave, how can she even function normal again in society?

I feel that Mark is Cathy's handler! I wonder if Mark is part of some agency. Perhaps, they wrote this book to see how many and what type of audience they could attract. What is more odd is that Cathy and Mark have spoken at seminars...with many people saying that Mark would use his video camera and film the audience! Who in their right mind would film the audience?

However, this was the scariest book I've read. I still found the book very interesting, very sad. I find it very difficult nowadays to trust people and have discernment.
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August 8, 2011
This is a shocking, true tale of Cathy O'Brien and her daughter Kelly, who were two of the thousands of mind-controlled slaves subjected to incredible physical, mental and sexual torture. This is a tale of paedophilia, bestiality, DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), which results from "severe and repeated trauma", top-level drug smuggling and revelations about the implementation of the New World Order, involving numerous, named American Presidents and other well-known political figures, including George Bush Sr., Ronald Reagan, Dick Cheney, Pierre Trudeau, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, King Fahd of Saudi-Arabia, etc. etc.

All the reported criminal activities are documented but although they now have come to light and not many can be in doubt as to their veracity, the powerful top-level perpetrators of these perversities cannot be brought to justice owing to reasons of "national security".

I must warn you that this, the most shocking of all the books I have ever come across, will seriously lower your vibration level, should you attempt to read it.

Cathy O'Brien's mind was split into innumerable personalities, each used for separate functions, including delivering verbal messages from one state leader to another. She was kept mind-controlled, continually drugged. sexually tortured and prostituted to heads of state and whoever, being treated not like a human being but like a worthless object or toy.

Cathy and her daughter were "lucky" to be rescued by Mark Phillips, but their ordeal was not over, since Kelly was severely tramumatized and abused. She was removed from Cathy and Mark and was not provided with help or treatment. Phillips himself helped to deprogramme Cathy, who regained memory of all the atrocities perpetuated on her and her daughter.

Also it has been a nightmare for Cathy, Mark and Kelly that they have not been able to bring these criminals to justice owing to their powerful, political status.

This book confirms the atrocities revealed in the works of David Icke.

I believe however that in the difficult times ahead culminating in December 2012 things will change and these evil people and the corrupt governments involved will be overturned.

Read this book at your own risk if you wish to learn the "truth" about the use of mind-controlled slaves and the circumstances under which they live, but do not dwell on all this negativity as it will do you harm.



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5 reviews5 followers
March 5, 2013
قامت كاثي أوبراين في هذا الكتاب بكشف حقائق مُروّعة قامت بها الحكومة الأمريكيّة مع الإستخبارات المركزيّة الأمريكيّة و وكالة الفضاء الأمريكيّة, تقوم أساسا على برمجة العقل البشري بما يتوافق و أهواء "السّادة" في أمريكا و في غيرها (كالمكسيك, كندا و السّعودية حتّى), إستغلال سادِيّ و تعذيب بمختلف ما وصلت إليه التّكنولوجيا - و الشّرّ- البشريّ في ذلك الوقت, كلّ هذا لأجل أن تُصبح "عبدا" لمملكة "النّظام العالميّ الجديد".

قرأت هذه النّسخة العربيّة و تأسّفت لاقتطاع أجزاء من الكتاب, نعم أتفهّم حذف بعض المُفردات مع أنّ كاثي كانت قد أَوردتها قصرا لا طوعًا, لكنّي لم أفهم سبب حذف إسم "بندر بن سلطان" سفير المملكة العربية السعودية في أمريكا و استبداله بـ "سفير دولة في الشرق الأوسط", و استبدال "المملكة العربية السعودية" بـ "دولة شرق أوسطية" ... و يقول النّاشر مُبرّرا "كان الحذف حفاظا على أمن العلاقات الدّولية" .. رُبّ عُذر أقبح من ذنب ‼ الكاتبة عانَت الويلات و كَشَفت اسماء رؤساء أمريكيّين و أناسا مرموقين جدّا في هرم الدّولة الأمريكيّ, كَشَفَت خُبثَهُم و حقيقتهم للعالم و نحن نُغطّي و نحمي السّفَلة.

الحمد لله أنّها نشرت الكتاب في أمريكا و لم تنشره عند دار نشر عربيّة.

كما أُشير إلى الدّور الكبير الّذي قام به "مارك فيليبس" و أُحترم رُجولتَه و شهامَته و شجاعته في الدّفاع عن الحقيقة

أصدَرَت كاثي و مارك كتابا آخر يُكمل هذا الكتاب, تحكي فيه عن طرق علاجها و عن أشياء كثيرة لم تقلها في هذا الكتاب, فهذا الّذي بين أيدينا اعتبرته هي جزءا من الحقيقة الّتي تُواجه بها الحكومة الأمريكية, أمّا الثاني فهو "سيرة ذاتية" إن صحّ التّعبير, و لا أعلم إن كان قد تُرجم للعربية أم لا.

بإمكانكم التّواصل مع الكاتبة عبر موقع الكتاب الرسمي
http://www.trance-formation.com/

بعد قراءتي للكتاب خرجت بعدّة نقاط منها :

* الحقيقة موجودة, لكنّ علينا نحن بالبحث عنها لأنّها مَخفِيّة
* الشّعوب شيء .. و الحكومات شيء آخر
* معلومات هامّة عن النّادي البوهيميّ, النّظام العالميّ الجديد, دور الحكومة و الإستخبارات و النّاسا في إشاعة الإباحية حول العالم و المُخدّرات ...
* الفطرة السّليمة تنأى بالنّفس عن "الفحشاء" سبحان الله, فكاثي أوبراين تعرّضت للاستغلال الجنسي من قبل والدها و عمرها شهور قليلة فقط, و استمرّ الحال ثلاثين عاما تقريبا من أناس شتّى و بأقسى أنظمة العذاب الّتي أنتجها الأشرار حول العالم, لكنّها كانت ترى في ذلك "جحيما" يتعارض مع الطّبيعة البشريّة الّتي فطَرنا عليها الله سبحانه و تعالى.
* حاجَتُنا نحن العرب و المسلمين اليوم هي في كشف حجم المؤامرة الّتي تُحاك ضدّ الشعوب الغربية من قبل حكوماتها, و ليس في إظهار "براءة" الإسلام من الإرهاب, لأنّ براءة الإسلام لا غُبار عليها, لكنّ خُبث حكوماتهم يجهله الكثيرون منهم (و منّا كذلك), و الله المُستعان.
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April 16, 2015
Conspiracy theory stuff is fun to read because A) it's fun (like when William Cooper swears that Eisenhower traded human abductions for alien technology & that's why we have microwaves now) and B) it provides easy critical-thinking exercise for your brain. Like, how likely is it that giant overarching conspiracies necessarily involving tons of equipment and employees could be kept a secret for any substantial time?

This book was mostly no fun, though. I had a friend who had a psychotic breakdown a few years ago and developed this very detailed theory about how aliens had infiltrated the banking system. That sounds very off-the-wall and colorful the first time you hear it, but by the 500th time, you just want it to stop. Trance Formation reminded me of that, as the author kept cycling back to the same sexual abuse scenarios over and over. Perhaps owing to mental illness—I'm no psychiatrist, but a lot of her diction and word-linkage felt schizophrenic to me ("A flying fish by any other name is a C. Byrd. A sea bird. Robert C. Byrd."). So it's pretty daunting to read a book for kicks when the author is not just some crank, but a person probably in real pain. As funny as stuff like the index's "Byrd, Robert C. - long winded recitations" might be in a vacuum, they're hard to enjoy when embedded in the whole of the frightened, anguished text. Although apparently some people are completely convinced by this thing and its descriptions of the mind-controlled Los Angeles Dodgers and Dick Cheney's sex-torture dungeon. Go figure.
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December 28, 2010
This is not what you call a "good book". It's very hard to read and highly disturbing which would be bad enough as fiction, but this is billed as true.

SUMMARY: (from http://www.trance-formation.com/)

On August 3rd, 1977 the 95th U.S. Congress opened hearings into the reported abuses concerning the CIA's TOP SECRET mind control research program code named MK-Ultra. On February 8th, 1988, a top-level MK-Ultra victim, Cathy O'Brien, was covertly rescued from her mind control enslavement by Intelligence insider Mark Phillips. Their seven year pursuit of Justice was stopped FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. TRANCE Formation of America exposes the truth behind this covert government program and its ultimate goal: psychological control of a nation.

TRANCE Formation of America is the first documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch operation. Tracing her path from child pornography and recruitment into the program to serving as a top-level intelligence agent and White House sex slave, TRANCE Formation of America is a definitive eye-witness account of government corruption that implicates some of the most prominent figures in U.S. politics.
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August 7, 2015
This is essential reading for anyone wanting a view "behind the curtain". The book is shocking on many levels. Though O'Brien's story may seem incredible, her account is well-documented, and highly corroborated. Brice Taylor, another Monarch mind-control sex slave survivor, wrote a book called "Thanks for the Memories", and her account is extremely consistent with O'Brien's. Kay Griggs, a military wife whistleblower, also corroborates many details in O'Brien's account. The "Franklin Coverup" further corroborates O'Brien's and Taylor's accounts.

For anyone with the courage to look squarely at the dark underbelly of power, this book must be read.
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95 reviews83 followers
April 26, 2018
الكتاب يحكي سيرة ذاتية موثقة لإحدى ضحايا التحكم الحكومي الرسمي للولايات المتحدة الامريكية في عقول عملاء المخابرات و الشعب الأمريكي بالتعاون مع الإستخبارات المركزيّة و وكالة الفضاء تحت ما يسمى ببرنامج "مونارك" السري
تقوم أساسا على البرمجة والتحكم بالعقل البشري بما يتوافق و أهواء "السّادة" في أمريكا و في غيرها (كالمكسيك, كندا و السّعودية ...),من إستغلال سادِيّ و تعذيب و استعباد جنسي , الى استعمالهم كدمى وواجهة لنشر الإباحية و المخدرات او حتى الاغتيالات.
ما يعاب في النسخة العربية هو اقتطاع أجزاء من الكتاب و حذف إسم "بندر بن سلطان" سفير المملكة العربية السعودية في أمريكا و استبداله بـ "سفير دولة في الشرق الأوسط", واستبدال "الملك فهد" بحاكم دولة شرق أوسطية. الحمد لله ان الكتاب الأصلي نشر في أمريكا و النسخة الانجليزية متوفرة في الانترنت و هذا احد الأجزاء المحذوفة :

I was escorted to L'Enfante Hotel where I was to be prostituted to King
Fahd
. I had been exposed to him sexually before, but this was my first time
with him and his five young girls. Physical likeness characteristics strongly
suggested that these Saudi Arabian girls were his own children.

الجدير بالذكر ان الكتاب ممنوع في اغلب الدول العربية و حتى نسخ البي دي اف غير متوفرة على الانترنت، كما ان ممثلو دار النشر في الجزائر(الدار
العربية للعلوم ناشرون) اعلموني ان السلطات منعتهم من عرضه في المعرض الدولي للكتاب (بالإضافة الى شيفرة دافتشي ؟؟)

المهم تحصلت عليه بعد بحث طويل بصيغة كيندل وقمت بتحويله ل بي دي اف على الروابط التالية:
كيندل:
https://bit.ly/2FhKOHl
: بي دي اف
https://bit.ly/2vRdwz6
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2,443 reviews925 followers
June 30, 2016
So this book is, in a word, and no pun intended, mind-blowing. That being said, I have to admit I believe her. Are there some strange things that have been brought about about her and Mark, yes. BUT I also know it could be someone's attempt to cast doubt and discredit her. Overall, I think she is genuine. I definitely also plan to read other similar memoirs to compare the information/experiences.

If you're not already scared of your government, this will scare you shitless. A must read for everyone, whether you are a skeptic or not, at least read it and then form your own opinion. Even if you choose not to believe her story (which is your right!), logic would state that at least some parts are very true, and even that is enough for me.

I truly hope her story is true and that she IS truly free now, and also that one day Kelly will be free as well. I honestly don't anticipate any actual justice due to the elite people involved, but it's a nice fantasy.
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March 22, 2017
I don't know how to rate this book. My take on this is that Cathy is probably a victim of physical, sexual, and mental/emotional abuse, although there might be some embellishment of her story. I've seen Mark Phillips talk on YouTube videos and I get a feeling that he is a controlling, manipulative man - not sure, but he gives me the creeps for some reason.

Also casting a shadow on both the authors are complaints, such as those of the Miller family, which suggests that O'Brien and Phillips are the bad guys
(Shaela's story)

I am aware that the CIA mind control program MKULTRA did exist, and there are many books out there written by those that claim to have been victims. After reading some of these, I'll sum them all up in my blog.
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Found this lady on YouTube -- she is BATSHIT CRAZY.
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January 12, 2018
Cathy O’Brien has the unfortunate (though not the most unfortunate thing to ever happen to her) of not being believed by even the conspiracy theory community. I’m more sympathetic to her story than most, but I will push back on some facts.

Here is the “tl;dr” version. She was sexually abused by her father from the earliest age and then prostituted out to various high-ranking officials. During that time the CIA used their MK-Ultra tactics on her. The mind-control programmed her brain to deliver messages, etc in the guise of sexual favors to diplomats, presidents, and the like.

While the above is evil and satanic, there is nothing of disbelief. Of course the CIA does stuff like that. I think what gets most people is when she starts naming names. Here are the villains, and after each name I will say how believable it is:

1. Ronald Reagan. I’m not sure on this one. On one hand, his wife consorted with witches, and O’Brien admits Reagan never personally harmed her and that Reagan himself was outranked by Deep State agents Cheney and George H.W. Bush.
2. Cheney and Bush Sr. Easily believable. Only the most Boomercon Neocon thinks Cheney is a good guy.
3. Country Music stars. Undecided. According to her Merle Haggard was a CIA informant. Perhaps, but I don’t think he was sober enough to be reliable. While I have doubts about the actual singers, the country music industry does provide a pipeline of CIA/cocaine activity. Nashville is a powerful hub.

A Caution

This book is only for the most mature reader, and even then one needs to guard himself with prayer and probably fasting. I knew going in how evil the CIA is, and I knew what MK-ULTRA involved, but even then I wasn’t prepared.

Now for some basic notes on the book:

Mind-control practices within the occult groups (according to survivors adjudged credible and law enforcement officials) have been accredited with bridging the gap between applied science and Shamanism” (Philips and O’Brien 4).

Some of these were close to home for me.

O’Brien: “Cox demanded I become a Mormon in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This was to “prove” that Satan was everywhere-particularly in the Monroe, Louisiana Mormon church where he led occult ritual” (104)

That’s about 8 minutes from my house. Another one was where he serial-killer/Satanist Handler lived in Chatham, LA, where a lot of witchcraft activity happens in those swamps (that’s about 25 minutes from my house; that claim is more or less accurate, though the occult activity moved about 60 miles northeast from Chatham since then).

Factual Inaccuracies

The only factual problem I had was her claim that La. Senator Bennett Johnson told her he was their on the “Philadelphia Experiment” in 1943. While I certainly believe the Philadelphia Experiment is real, I don’t think Johnson was there. Johnson was born in 1932. This would have made him 11 years old. Unlikely he would be privy to a top-secret project.

Unless he actually went back in time in the experiment, but that raises time-travel paradoxes I don’t want to get into.

Responding to the critics

Critics of the book list several counter-factual problems with O’Brien’s account. We’ll see which ones hold water:

1. Why didn’t the government sue them for libel? My guess is that the Govt probably didn’t need to. The real evidence was destroyed. Further, you don’t want this to go to court. While the govt would win (because the system is rigged), people will start asking questions.
2. Why didn’t the CIA kill them? This is a good objection. As documented the CIA certainly tried. I suppose by the mid-1990s with Libya, Serbia, and Iraq happening, the CIA had bigger fish to fry. We had to transport cocaine and jihadis to Bosnia.
3. Do you have any proof about Reagan et al? This is the kicker. The charges against Bush and Cheney are believable, if not common sense. Reagan is a bit different. I’m undecided.

Yet I wonder….

Numerous children go missing every year in Washington DC. Some of this is simply human evil. Yet why is it higher in the Washington DC area?
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May 29, 2020
I close this book with so many questions:

- Could those who used Cathy sexually truly have been that indiscriminate? I understand this is crass, but bear with me: She claims to have had liaisons with a long list of exceedingly powerful people, yet these same people, given their power, money, and access to staff that would assure their secrecy, could just as easily have hired call-girls. So why use Cathy over and over again? At the risk of sounding shallow, she was reasonably attractive, but no Marilyn Monroe.

- Also, can there truly be that much sexual deviance amid the powerful? That said, I have taken disclosures of sex abuse for 25 long years, and the Average Joe and Josephine would be staggered by the number of sexual abuse victims AND the social positions of their predators (ie: if you think all pedophiles look like something that crawled out of a trailer in Kentucky, or off the set of Deliverance, you are woefully naïve). And yet...that many pedophiles in government? Does the law of averages support that? Do the data?

However....
Where there is smoke there is fire.

There are so many allegations lately about highly powerful people and their penchant for shockingly deranged encounters with children. And for those who laughingly decry 'fake news!' and say these allegations have been debunked, or subscribe to the belief that it is one party trying to besmirch the other, I respectfully say this: the pizzagate/pedogate controversy (Democrats) has been scoffed at, not debunked. The allegations about Bohemian Grove (Republican) have, similarly, been scoffed at but not debunked. What is on record as real, though, are the damning photographs Comet Pizza owner James Alefantis has on his social media. The appalling taste in 'art' on the walls of the Podesta brothers. Also on record as real is The Franklin Cover-Up, of which victim Paul Bonacci is also very real, and he led investigators to not only a den carved out beneath a home in Colorado where many trafficked boys were hidden, but also to Bohemian Grove.

Talk about 'deplorable'. (sidebar: what's seen cannot be unseen; I do NOT recommend anyone search out that video. Had I known the true content, I'd never have watched it).

Also ...does Hollywood routinely exploit children? Goodness, YES. Everyone has seen that gut-churning picture of Drew Barrymore, drunk and half passed-out on a table at a Hollywood party when she was 10 yrs old. If anyone really believes that someone was not also touching her at that age, (or possibly younger), I kindly redirect you to my 'woefully naive' statement above. Also, why do most of these child stars end up being exceedingly damaged adults? Only sexual abuse accounts for the catastrophic devastation we see in their psychological architecture, and again - that's the counselor of 25 yrs talking, not the (so-called) conspiracy theorist.

And are Hollywood and US politics incestuously entwined? Certainly.

Lastly, and perhaps most perplexing...this book has been available since 1995, yet not once has Cathy O'Brien been hauled before any sort of magistrate and sued for defamation, slander, libel....nothing. She has been maligned, yes. Her sanity is questioned again and again, there have been countless character assassinations directed her way, and skeptics of her story are quick to point out that no one has ever been able to corroborate her allegations.

Okay. But no one has ever gone on record to deny them, either. She has pointed the finger at some heavy-hitters as being perpetrators of vile, despicable things and not a single one of them has fired back with a lawsuit or a criminal charge.

That, maybe most of all, keeps me torn.
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March 5, 2019
Initially bought this because the myth of Dick Cheney having a massive dong, apparently originated from this story. At first, it's an "interesting" reading, insofar as it's shocking, disturbing, and, speaking for myself, I wanted to understand what was happening, and why! What is the "endgame" for having an army of mind-controlled sex slaves? Money, I guess?

Unfortunately, this book quickly descends into torture itself. There is absolutely no way I believe that anyone said anything quoted in this book. It all sounded like the same person speaking, whether the speaker supposedly is Dick Cheney, George Bush, or Reagan...All of these "characters" seemed to actually just be Cathy. There is no way I'm going to believe that these powerful people all spoke in the same exact manner. It's just not possible. I'd think if it were truly based on reality, there would be more nuance to each person's individual communication style, and there was no evidence of this, in my opinion.

Further, there are so many inconsistencies with this very tall tale. From questionable "photographic memory" that's only used when it suits the authors narrative, to the really irritating finale where somehow, Cathy is suddenly able to ask for help. LOL. Just, really ridiculous. And the constant replaying of the sex stuff, like omg. WE GET IT.

What would make more sense if it maybe some of this shit is true, but Mark Phillips is simply her new handler, and has implanted false memories to write about, thereby giving conspiracy theorists a bunch of fake leads.

In summation, interesting insofar as it's considered one of the founding texts for the current pedophilia ring conspiracy theory, but probably not really worth reading at all. The entire time I was reading this book sucked, it felt like a heavy burden weighing me down but actually reading it was just as burdensome. A terrible book. Two stars because I love Dick Cheney and wish I could have freaky BDSM sex with him..
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Author 24 books33 followers
March 11, 2017
Utterly devastating, unbelievable and yet totally convincing. When I read this in 2002, I was researching the MKULTRA program and had already absorbed hundreds (if not thousands) of pages of testimony corroborating Cathy O'Brien's painstakingly detailed recollections of being sold by her father into a program that turned her into a mind controlled sex slave and "Presidential Model" to a series of world leaders including Gerald Ford, Dick Cheney, GHW Bush, Pierre Trudeau and Hillary Clinton. Not for sissies or the politically naive
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1 review
January 29, 2017
Mind-blowing

A real eye opener. The most disturbing part of this description of horrific abuse, is the fact that you simply "know" every word written is true.
Terrifying that world leaders and their political arenas are filled with filthy corrupt, narcissists whose only agender they intend to serve, is their own.
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26 reviews8 followers
April 30, 2016
Trance-formation showed me that we are all subjects of mind control to some extent... Religious, information (media control), patriarchal, racial...

It sheds light on the shadow government and deals with the intricacies of Cathy O'Brien's case. We first hear about the background of her rescuer Mark Phillips. It plots the rocky journey of how together through gentle encouragement and careful therapy she was able to regain control back over her mind after being traumatised through physical and psychological programming first by family and then, the shadow government. The shameless perpetrators are fearlessly named and shamed for their sadistic acts. I especially like how she was able to recall with meticulous detail the physical features of each perpetrator with complete abandon.

This woman is gutsy.
What a true survivor.
She even recalls political engagements and her liaising with diplomats to relay messages such as complex numerical codes and lengthy cryptic political messages (usually to do with heralding in the New World Order). She was used in drug muling operations, prostituted and used in pornographic films where she was subject to perform grotesque acts.
My heart goes out to her daughter Kelly, who was subject to more aggressive and technologically advanced methods of mind control from infancy and throughout her childhood.
The main undertone of the book is a plea for ways to remedy Kelly's damaged mind.
I applaud the tireless efforts of Cathy and Mark in getting their story out. I hope Kelly is ok. I'm definitely going to read the other book!

Nb: I'm going to add my highlighted quotes from the book because it was seriously THAT good and jam packed with details.

"Behavioral psychology teaches us that control of human suggestibility is recognized as the fundamental building block for external control of the mind."

"Now most of the CIA, FBI, and the MOB (Mafia) are the same, and they're making their moves on the military."

"Tell her you're God. Give her a Biblical passage. They're all Christian based programmed around here."

"wear a wrist watch twenty four hours a day, to alert me of any "lost time" she felt she was experiencing. Losing time, without trauma, is a strong indication that personality switching is occurring. Whereas being able to account for time is an indicator that recovery is occurring."

"The doctor's complaint addressed his being prohibited from applying state-of-the-art treatment for his patient by virtue of his DOD oath of secrecy."

"I lost control over my own free will thoughts—I could not think to question, reason, or consciously comprehend—I could only do exactly what I was driven to do."

"While they manipulated me by my religion, my maternal instincts, and my genuine concern for humanity—they never “possessed” my innate being. The could not make me one of them. They never took into consideration the strength of the human spirit. They did not even know it existed. Ask why."

"a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fund raising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of 'national interest', free from all checks and balances and free from the law itself."

"inside Pandora's Box includes a keen perception of how mind control is being used to apparently implement the New World Order, and a personal knowledge of WHO some of the so-called "masterminds" are behind this world and mind dominance effort"...

That's it for now. There's a lot more to discover in the book. I would have given it 5 stars but the verbose lead-in at the start by Mark (3 chapters I think) nearly lost me.
-Just the way he described himself came off a bit patronising and superfluous to me.
Cathy's recounting is fascinating and insightful. If you're not into politics or are sceptical of the conspiracy stuff, the personal accounts and information is presented in an engaging enough way to appeal to a good majority of audiences.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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276 reviews38 followers
August 24, 2019
This is the most horrifying book I’ve ever read. It’s so unbelievable I feel like at times I was reading it as I would a sci-fi or fantasy novel. To think that this is being presented as truth is mind shattering, especially “if” it is true. I dislike having to highlight if like that however something of this magnitude has to be seen with skepticism, even from the most die hard conspiracy searchers. I am just a normal guy so to read something like this and be asked to accept it as pure truth is very difficult, however I have embraced it. Much of what O’Brien and Phillips have written about have continued since the books printing and only become more and more in your face thanks to the internet. Look no further than the Clintons (Bill in particular) flying 26/27x on Epstein’s Lolita Express and then Epstein goes to jail and commits “suicide.” The examples go on and on, and I have little time to type them all out. Ultimately I would say if you need your daily red pill, try swallowing this one. 🤯🤯🤯


“From my perspective, those who were actively laying the groundwork for implementing the New World Order through mind conditioning of the masses made no distinction between Democratic and Republican parties. Their aspirations were international in proportion, not American.”

“He (Robert C. Byrd) adhered to the belief that “95%” of the [world’s] people WANT to be led by the 5%”, and claimed this can be proven because “the 95% DO NOT WANT TO KNOW what really goes on in the government.”

“Mental health physicians from the private sector of society had little acquaintance with secret United States government mind control research. The only mind control information these doctors had access to, for the most part, was from the hysterical comments supplied to them by their troubled patients. Hysteria, in this case, as a symptom of misinformation is highly contagious, and therefore spread throughout the mental health profession.“
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14 reviews1 follower
March 28, 2021
If even half of this book is true, we're in big trouble. The world as we know it will cease to exist.
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125 reviews4 followers
September 10, 2018
Cathy O'Brien's horrific autobiography is another puzzle piece of information regarding the deep corruption of our government and of the world's leaders. The evil forces behind those who pull the strings has brought the Scriptures to life, specifically the Psalms and Ephesians 6:12 which says, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Satan is prince of this world for a time, and what goes on behind the scenes is proof of that fact. O'Brien's life was taken from her and used by corrupt rulers who in many cases are deeply involved in the occult.
There are those who see Mark Phillips as not a true rescuer, but as Cathy's new handler and I agree. His involvement in the CIA gave him the ability to practice many mind control techniques. In the portions of the book written by Mark, I found his motives questionable. Also, Brice Taylor (or Sue Ford) , another MK Ultra victim whose story has been verfied by many sources, has publicaly said that he is a fraud. So I believe that Cathy tells the truth and believes that she was rescured by Mark but that Mark is not honest. You can learn about another young woman, Shaela Miller, who was taken in by Mark (and Cathy) and her family has testified since then that she is under his control. Her sisters (Miller sisters) made a very persuasive youtube video about the situation and how they lost their sister after she moved in with Mark and Cathy.
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September 14, 2012
I'm so tired of going on in circles, it really pisses me off that more people haven't read this and that its all enclosed in a little shell in my consciousness; especially living in Hawaii, this God forsaken place sometimes the only thing I want to do is pick up an ak and shoot up all the stores for selling souls; then killing my Dad, telling my mom to do her own laundry, and finding somewhere off Island to tell everyone how Hawaii is full of nut jobs before I sit next to the president, drop a nuke on Oahu an live the rest of my life on a throne being served wine and cheese while the real workers investigate the false secondary Nasa program, de- chip the idiot conspiracists and get the correct dimension operating for my own comfort while the rest of the world watches and pulls their hair out at having missed the obvious opportunity at having been able to be something more than a slave.
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April 3, 2014
Well...uh...um...well...I, uh....there is a youtube video or a googleplus video of her mutilated vagina, and it does indeed look like a face has been carved into it.
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Author 4 books133 followers
February 28, 2016



Well- no, there is no any kind of "well" situation here, but, a story of struggle, to restore .. the free will- this is an important dangerous book. It is not the first book to talk about that, but, it's a reveling for a personal experience, a case no one ever wish to experience, or even anyone's enemy. A lot of names, American presidents, who are still alive, I wonder: how could this book be print and their writers still alive till now?. Mind control. The chief of Egyptian Intelligence wrote and published a historical book in the 1970th in 2 parts: "The Psychological War", talking about techniques. My question that time when the first look in it: How could he tell all these, and why, but, the most important; this what he permitted himself to reveal, what about WHAT WASN'T AND REMAINED SECRET INT THE DARKNESS? O my God!

American politicians, Arabs, details, documented details ..etc. Using the basic instincts – please, let Sharon Stone away from this now (at least, temporarily dear!)- the religious thoughts, to control, and direct (And you can ask why the Church and Islamic Religious Men struggling, to .. re-back the control)- (The modernized Search for The Lost Time?) No, the referred time wasn't lost, all wants make use of the old, to win worldly goals, a claimed trusteeship, masked by "The Word of God". But, those never knew-or will- God. God is Love, and Love is God. And then, one can realize now, What is Isis –and others- and .. "why".

Literarily, we can include this book to Stream Conscious. Will be back to review again ..

BUT,
after she was rescued, the question is:

How could she survive, and .. skip these pains, restore her mental abilities, free will .. ya, I can hear someone reading and says –as I thought before:

"Love is always there"

Yes, this is one but .. number 2 and most important; as she repeated 3 times while telling the story:

“While they manipulated me by my religion, my maternal instincts, my concern with humanity, they never "possessed" my innate being. They couldn't make me one of them. The never took in consideration the strength of the human soul. They did not even know it existed. Ask why.”

And, as a reader from a far place, I think .. I know the answer.


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856 reviews61 followers
August 31, 2021
I don't know. Just don't know if this is or even could be true. Even with me keeping my mind totally open for business and taking into account extreme traumatization of the victims, those techniques and supposed results they produce are on the verge of believability.

Also, the recollection is derived from hypnosis, if I got it correctly, which is little better than a witchcraft when it comes to reliability of those so called "suppressed" memories. It's pretty much established already, those "memories" are royally unreliable and too many times, little more or less than a walking dream.

That said, the sheer horror of these depictions also means shit, or at least should. I mean, I hate when people, like those pussies that neglect occurrence of Holocaust, refuse to accept the truth just because it's too hard to accept we live in a world such atrocities are even possible, let alone permissible or even encouraged like in this book.

Now, the biggest problem.
Why are those politicians still walking around? Maybe just because they're guilty as pigs in marmalade. Putting them out of the sun would be admittance of what the state really stands for. Newsflash: it's not what you think for, especially what you vote for or even why you bother to vote in the first place instead of treating it as an organized redneck fun for plebeians so they can remain docile, soft and pliable for the next 4 years or so.

Democracy is an illusion, but you knew that, right?
Author 1 book10 followers
October 21, 2014
I believe that Cathy O'Brien is the mind controlled slave of Mark Phillips. Mark Phillips received his instruction on how to "deprogram" Cathy from CIA resources, and books by doctors specializing in hypnosis with questionable ethics (See Access Denied). Mark acknowledges being a hypnotist himself. His methods for "deprogramming" Cathy are precisely the methods used for programming; hypnosis, isolation, avoidance of emotion.... I believe that Cathy O'Brien and Sue Ford are victims, but not of the world leaders they claim to be the victims of. Their stories are the stories of victims used to cover up the crimes of a seditious organization that has made it's way into America and other countries via our Intelligence organizations. (See project Paperclip). MK-Ultra is very real, and may hold information regarding the assassination of our world leaders (President and Senator Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King...) But perpetrators are not likely the world leaders this sort of unbelievable rambling would suggest. This type of Illuminati New World Order conspiracy theory is indeed linked to ritual abuse, and it is more likely that these conspiracy theorists are themselves the perpetrators. Their agenda is political, and they must first dismantle our government and world leaders. Don't be gullible, but do be aware of this sort of propaganda.
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397 reviews54 followers
September 3, 2018
As much as I've already studied pedophilia and corruption in government, this book was still mind-blowing to me simply for the number of names and specific details included. It was practically a "who's who" of D.C. politics.

It's important to note this isn't just a book about the ritual sexual abuse suffered by Cathy O'Brien and her daughter Kelly, it's also a book about MK Ultra Project Monarch mind control; drug-running; the country music industry; the formation of NAFTA; the true purpose of NASA; and the great lengths the CIA will go to in order to cover up corruption.

O'Brien and Mark Phillips' story has the mark of authenticity. I have already read The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant and Confessions of a D.C. Madam by Henry Vinson, and the information O'Brien shares both references and corroborates some of the information in those books.

This is one of those books that everybody should read. But it will appeal especially to conspiracy researchers, Q patriots, and (believe it or not) even flat earth researchers due to the specific references to top secret NASA programs.

O'Brien has a follow-up book called Access Denied: For Reasons of National Security, which I plan to read in the near future.
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