Not long ago I wrote about Vicky Polin, the Jewish girl, who claimed in the Oprah Winfrey show having taken part into satanic rituals as a child. Just yesterday I finished the book “The memory Illusion” by Julia Shaw. In one chapter Julia is telling of Michelle Smith, made famous by the 1980 book Michelle remembers.
That’s a strange coincidence. These kinds of coincidences happen. You think you should call someone and then this person calls you, while you had no contact for a long time. My wife suggested today that maybe it is because we all the time receive enormous amount of information, most of which we filter, and we notice information only if we are interested in it, and this mechanism causes these coincidences. Maybe, I do not think so. I think there may be more to this world than we know.
Be as it is, but this coincidence kind of like suggested that I should write another post of these satanic cults. If even spirits or gods signal by these strange coincidences that they want me to write another post, it must be very important to the survival of the universe. Besides, it is always good to have some backing from spirits when writing about Satanism. This is more serious than writing of ZOG or Holohoax.
A lousy start, I know. Better I go to the topic.
This book Michelle remembers started the satanic panic of the 1980ies and 1990ies in the USA and elsewhere. The authors of the book are Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder, MD, and his patient and future wife Michelle Smith. A bit of googling brings up an article from The Mail of Sunday, London, 1990, with the title ”Michelle Remembers: The Debunking of a Myth” and the always reliable Wikipedia furnishes the rest, and we can conclude that this book was a hoax since Michelle Smith did not experience the things she tells she did. Her father denies it, so does her childhood friend, it is convincing, those things did not happen to her.
The Mail of Sunday article tells that when they asked Dr Pazder (died in 2004), he responded: “Does it matter if it was true, or is the fact that Michelle believed it happened to her the most important thing?” and also “Yes, that’s right. It is a real experience. If you talk to Michelle today, she will say, ’That’s what I remember.’ We still leave the question open. For her it was very real. Every case I hear I have skepticism. You have to complete a long course of therapy before you can come to conclusions. We are all eager to prove or disprove what happened, but in the end it doesn’t matter.” It is messy but I think Pazder is saying that the experience is real.
The Mail of Sunday article has also the following text: “When the book was published in 1977, the Bishop wrote in a preface: ‘I do not question that for Michelle the experience was real. In time we will know how much of it can be validated. It will require prolonged and careful study. In such mysterious matters hasty conclusions could prove unwise.’” The book was published in 1980, but apparently some version was available in 1977 and the Catholic Bishop says the experience is real.
Both extracts show that the authors of the book considered the experience real. Dr Pazder was an expert in many trials. Certainly it matters to the accused if the memories are false or real. I cannot understand this in any other way than that the experience was real but it did not happen to Michelle Smith when she was five years old.
In my opinion such experiences could only happen to the future high priestess of a witchcraft cult. There was no such cult in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in 1954-55 when Michelle was five, but today there is a high profile witch in the University of Victoria.
She is Heather Botting, professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria. She is officially recognized Wiccan chaplain as the first in America. She was the original high priestess of Gardnerian tradition Wicca in Canada. She was born 1948 as Heather Harden to a family belonging to Jehovah witnesses. At 14 she had a car accident. At 15 she met Gary Botting. They got secretly married in 1966 and openly in 1967. Gary Botting was a grandson of Lysbeth Turner, a high priestess of Gardnerian Wicca in England. In 1966 Lysbeth Turner visited Canada and initiated Heather Botting to Wicca. In 1969-70 Gary and Heather Botting started Coven Celeste in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. In 1975 they opened Coven Celeste to all who wanted. Gary Botting (born 1943) had been introduced to Gardner 1953 by his grandmother Lysbeth Turner. In 1953 Gary Botting moved to Canada. Coven Celeste was the official Wiccan coven in Canada. High priestesses of Canadian Wicca follow matrilinear line from Heather Botting. Bottings moved to Victoria in 1990.
That is an interesting set of facts. So, they do have Wicca in Canada and even in Victoria, but it was not in Victoria in 1955. The first Wiccan in Victoria, British Columbia, was a Wiccan witch, Robert Skelton. He moved to Victoria in 1963. As he was born 1925, he was 38 at that time. He published his first poem in 1955. His books from witchcraft seem to be since 1978.
That is an interesting time. What if the book Michelle remembers is not based on the memories of Michelle Smith from 1955 but on memories of a five year old child around 1975 and not in Victoria. Who could be the child and what could be the cult?
I cannot guess if there was any such cult, but we can look at an analogy from Wicca. Wicca is good since everybody (or does everybody know everything of Wicca? I don’t) agree that Wicca is harmless and Heather Botting herself belongs to the First Nations heritage, Assiniboine-Sioux. These are good quarantines that nothing suspicious can be hidden here. So, we have the high priestess family in Canada. Heather and Gary Botting have four children. The oldest is a girl with the name Tanya, born in 1970 born probably in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. As the always reliable Wikipedia tells, “Since Heather Botting’s initiation by Turner in 1966, the coven has remained matrilineal, with the Bottings’ granddaughters Phaydra and Ariadne Gagnon inheriting the athame as high priestesses.”
Why is Tanya not mentioned?
Wicca is harmless, but some African witch cults are criminal – they for instance kill children and do other crimes. If there had been some criminal witch cult in Canada and the high priestess of the cult had a daughter, this daughter would most probably have been the one to become the next high priestess, not her children, unless there was some problem with her. She might have created the problem by going to see a psychiatrist like Dr Pazder. If she was something like 5 years old and she told what preparation for being the high priestess of a criminal cult involves, just maybe the girl friend of Dr Padzer would agree to say that she was the patient who told everything.
I do not know and that is about all I can say about this. Everything is guesswork and I am not convinced of anything. It is really sad that in other fields there are no such tests of truth as in mathematics. There we can check if an argument is a proof or not, mostly.
But Wicca itself is highly interesting. The founder of Wicca was Gerald Gardner. He joined the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, but was not so impressed with it. He could have been since one member of this brotherhood was Mabel Besant-Scott, the daughter of Annie Besant, in case it says something to you. That is Theosophy and Co-Masonry, the branch of occult which did all action after revolutionary Freemasonry was dissolved. So, Wicca is a blend of Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Freemasonry, Co-Masonry. The Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship created the first Rosicrucian theatre, the magic theatre.
I know what this sounds, but possibly you have not read all documents and it does not sound like anything to you. So be it. The always reliable Wikipedia says that Gardner combined ideas from Freemasonry, Aleister Crowley, ceremonial magic to form the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca. That does sound bad.
Gerald Gardner though he met an ancient witch society, the New Forest coven. It has been proposed that the New Forest coven was started by one Rosamund Sabine, who had belonged to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This coven initiated Gardner. A number of members were from Masonic circles, some were gipsy, blacksmiths and manual laborers. Another theory is that in 1930 some members of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship were performing rituals based on Co-Masonry and it is this, what Gerald Gardner called the New Forest coven. It is said that many students of Alice Bailey’s Arcane School had joined the Crotona Fellowship.
In case these things do not worry you much, you have not read enough of the Freemason conspiracy, which is not any conspiracy theory but quite true. Nothing more needs to be said. This again, as always, proves the simple fact: all occult in Europe always goes back to Freemasonry, just dig long enough. Wicca could have been something different, but it is not. Study the history and there are Freemasons, Co-Masons, The Golden Dawn, O.T.O. it is sickening that every time occult always goes to the same roots. These roots are not only occult, they are strongly tainted with revolutions, oppression, totalitarianism, all evil and you know what.
So, finally, while I can agree that Michelle Smith did not experience the things she claims to have experienced in Michelle remembers, I cannot say if it is this way or that way.
This touches what I think is called wisdom. I will try to explain while not being so sure myself that I understand it. Esoteric secret societies look for wisdom. Esoteric is often connected with occult and occult is essentially witchcraft. European witchcraft is based on grimoires and rituals of practical kabbalah. This is why the second god that features there is the Satan, not some pagan deity. It may look like the occult content would only be gentlemen’s entertainment, and in co-groups it naturally develops into sex magic. But this is not so, it is essential since the goal is wisdom, understanding the deep secrets. Changing the world by revolutions or by installing a Platonic republic here and there is tikkun, restoring the world. Part of it was the Palestine plan. Maybe this is enough at the moment of wisdom as I do not possess the secrets. This is the impression I have formed by reading of what these societies and the persons there did.
As an example, read the following Wiki-text from Gerald Gardner: “As time went by, Gardner became critical of many of the Rosicrucian Order’s practices; Sullivan’s followers claimed that he was immortal, having formerly been the famous historical figures Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa and Francis Bacon. Gardner facetiously asked if he was also the Wandering Jew, much to the annoyance of Sullivan himself. ” I understand this so that Gardner, the founder of Wicca, asked the head of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship what is the connection of the order to Jewish tikkun and restoration of Jews, but you probably read it as a piece of nonsense. I do not know which one is more correct.