Can We Figure Out if this Family is Brotherhood?

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I was approached by a lady named Cara, who is trying to figure out if her family is Brotherhood by looking at the clues she can find from her past. She and I both thought it might be an interesting case study to look at publicly here on the blog.

How do you figure out if your family is in a generational cult?

What strategies might be useful?

And, the possibly unanswerable question, How many clues add up to a positive result, or reasonable certainty that they are in the cult, or not?

Universal Survivorship Question

If you've been following survivors of occult generational abuse for any length of time, you start to realize that most people who do follow them fall into a few categories. Other survivors follow survivors, because other people's stories can be triggering, and shared experiences can sometimes "ping" on repressed or dissociated memories and bring them up. Brought up and processed memories makes most survivors feel better, or at least not so alone. They weren't unique in their abuse.

The second category of people who follow survivor stories are those who wonder about their own families, but don't have any firm or concrete evidence that they were indeed in a cult. This could be because it's all dissociated, or it could be because they've experienced trauma, just not trauma of the Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) type. (A) Or, it could be because their family is in the occult, but they are not. Sometimes this happens in generational occult families. They will induct some children in the family into the cult, but not all of them. If the family is discovered, this gives them plausible deniability. They can point to one problem child and say--they're just crazy. A sister or brother can talk about their sibling without knowing they're being trained as a supersoldier, or abused in child pornography. The abused sibling won't talk or let on that this is going on in their life, usually becasue of threat of death. The "code of silence" is strong.

One thing that is for certain about the Brotherhood is that they do just about everything they can to be sure that their anonymity is preserved. In families, what that means is that some family members are inducted into the cult, and often others are not. It's common to leave some family members as "normal" members of society, while others are trained and used in cult jobs and activities. I'd say this is more common at the mid-range levels, and less common at the very highest levels. At the very highest levels, almost all of the family members are involved.