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May 16, 1994 Volume 143, No. 20
CAN MEMORY BE A DEVILISH INVENTOR?
The case of a father accused of satanic sexual abuse who "remembers" and is jailed
BY JOHN SKOW
Lawrence Wright's Remembering Satan (Knopf; 205 pages; $22) seems likely to be considered the most powerful and disturbing true crime
narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. But what was the crime? Certainly it was not satanic abuse, says Wright, a New
Yorker reporter, although a man sits in jail for confessing to just that.
A few years ago in Olympia, Washington, two sisters, 18 and 20, began to talk, separately, about gross sexual abuse each said she had
experienced as a child and had only recently begun to remember. Charges were filed against the girls' father, Paul Ingram, who seemed dazed
and confused, but who denied them.
Ingram was the chief civil deputy of the county sheriff's department and chairman of the local Republican Party. He was also a religious
Fundamentalist. With great earnestness he told investigators - his fellow officers - that although he knew his children did not lie, he couldn't
remember any episodes of abuse. The associate pastor of his small religious sect urged him to let go, to remember what he was repressing. God
wouldn't let him remember falsely, the pastor said.
Eventually, Ingram developed a technique for recovering memories. He took each fresh, unfamiliar accusation and prayed over it until he went
into a trance-like haze. Two or three days later he would offer his interrogators a detailed script of the scene, complete with dialogue and a cast
list.
Lists were needed because the sisters' denunciations came to include their mother and two adult brothers; two of their father's male friends
(against whom charges were brought); a sister of one of these men; assorted other children and adults; additional members of the sheriff's
department, including the most convinced of the investigators; and a couple of police dogs used by the department. Quite late in the process the
notion of satanic rituals was introduced by an investigator and enthusiastically agreed to by the sisters, who had recently seen a Geraldo Rivera
TV show on the subject. One sister said that over several years she had been forced to witness the ritual murders of 25 people and that an
aborted fetus from her own pregnancy had been ritually dismembered.
No dead babies were ever found, nor any evidence of pregnancy or abortion. Nor did the sisters turn out to have the scars they claimed to have
received from ritual burnings and knifings. There was no physical evidence of any kind. Further, the stories told separately by the sisters did not
agree. As the membership of the supposed satanic cult began to take on the size of an amateur theatrical troupe and as the other Ingram family
members began to sound doubtful about their confessions, charges against Ingram's two male friends were dropped and the investigation
collapsed. Its premise, Wright reflects, "was that something must have happened. At no time did the detectives ever consider the possibility that
the source of the memories was the investigation itself - there was no other reality."
Paul Ingram, however, had already confessed. Appeals have failed, and he is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
The author of this well-reported and clearly argued book is no polemicist, but he does quote with approval a troubling question asked a couple
of years ago by psychologist Elizabeth Loftus: "Is it fair to compare the current growth of cases of repressed memory of child abuse to the
witch crazes of several centuries ago?"
Copyright 1994 Time Inc. All rights reserved.
LUCIFER RISING
Written by Church of Satan Priest Gavin Baddeley, a book of this kind is easily in the ranks with 'Satan Wants You' by Arthur Lyons, as the credits & influences The Church of Satan has had on society & modern culture is fully recognized, thereby giving the Devil His due.
There are compelling interviews with Dr. LaVey {whose words are spread throughout the book as relative to the subject of the chapter at hand}, HP Blanche Barton, Mgr. Gilmore, a two-parter with Mgr. Boyd Rice; Thomas Thorn of EHC; iconoclastic film-maker & long-time friend of Doctor's, Kenneth Anger; Mgr. Vincent Crowley of Acheron; Abaddon of Venom; Quarthon of Bathory; Coop; Mgr. Rex Diabolos Church {whose necro-erotic art adorns the front cover}; Timothy Patrick Butler; Michael Moynihan of Blood Axis; Count Grishnacht & Euronymous of the 'Black Metal Circle' {a couple of presumptuous & antagonistic delusionals who declared 'war' on The Infernal Empire. As a consequence of their absurd proclamations, which can be compared to the flea crawling up the leg of an elephant with the intention of rape, one killed the other, both of whom declared eachother 'allies'reveal themselves herein to be nothing more than reverse-xians, still praddling about under the xian mythology, many times veering towards Tolkien's fantasy world --- they very easily could be considered "Tolkienists", rather than Satanists {by their own admission, they would rather call themselves 'devil-worshipers' & 'slaves of Satan', dedicated to bringing about the most misery they can upon the world --- just like xoids, whom they claim to respect, as they are, verily, brothers in arms, or 'black sheep'. In the same herd; then there's Glenn Danzig, Glen Benton of Deicide, King Diamond {who is accredited with the use of 'corpse-paint' for use by contemporary Death-Metallers}, Sister Namaah of The Kirk Von Satan {a veritable 'Satanic Nun'}, amongst others.
The book is divided into three parts:
1. The History of Satanism, which covers the basic inceptions, superstitiions, & practices of the aristocracies in indulgence, & the revolution of The Black Mass.
2. Satanism in The 20th Century, which includes historical recollections & occultic ties of The Third Reich, Gerald Gardner {the comical origin of 'wicca', which is about as 'ancient' as the turn of the century, & serial killers Richard Ramirez & David Burkowitz, among others.
3. The Satanic Millenium, explains the Infernal rise of the internet, diabolical board games, Columbine, Marilyn Manson, the afore-mentioned 'Black Metal Circle', & the future influences of Satanism upon the world.
Lucifer Rising takes on where Satan Wants You leaves off, & is a must for Satanists to possess --- indeed, it is absolutely a part of Church of Satan history. This book is unprecedented, as it is a record written by a Satanist, someone who knows what we're all about, & thus takes an objective view on the subject, instead of the usual biased & bigoted misrepresentations of xoid Satanophobes. A real work of art.
Hail Gavin Baddeley! Hail Satan!
Lords of Chaos
On My previous trip to Barnes & Noble, I picked up a copy of "Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground" by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind, and it has been quite an intriguing read - the book mostly focuses on church arson, murder amongst their own, and the development of this counter-culture primarily in The Netherlands, spawned from the iconoclasm of Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Possessed, and Slayer. These were bands that I listened to in formative evilution, and still put them on the crackling turntable from time to time when the feeling is appropriate, for evocation and Vampriric invigorating preservation/time travel. Of particular note, and the main reason I purchased this tome, is for the interview with Dr. LaVey and Ms. Barton, in which they discuss the pretention of many of these devil-worshiping bands who are mainly not Satanists, and the precious few who actually are, like King Diamond and Acheron, to name only a couple.
By now, we know that Satanism is about Strength Through Joy, Living Life to The Fullest, evolving to one's highest potential, a winner's creed, not about misery and criminality, which hampers self-preservation, and is decidedly and ironically Christian in nature. The horror genre does span the multimedia spectrum, but most of those devil-worshipper types divulge their misinformation from horror movies, books, and music lyrics, which are intended as entertainment, not to be taken fundamentally. The Satanic Bible explais what Satanism is, and the non-satanic will frequently misinterpret this essential text, and crib from the J/C bible at that. And they eventually return to their god, whom they never really left. And that is as it should be, for it is a process of stratification. The blindlight religions muck-rake the inferior away from us, as well as those who dwell within the same paradigm. Black sheep are still sheep, and have no place amongst the Black Wolves, which they have pretentiously attempted to be. We are The Church of Satan, the Source of true information.
On this subject, Lucifer Rising is highly recommended, and a review can be read by clicking THIS LINK.
