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tended to influence Eve to infer that the sessions were pleasing rather than upsetting. The
second result would have been that her mood state provided her with evidence that her
relationship with Satyr was beneficial.
Satyr used hypnosis to reinforce Eve‘s belief that his clerical authority and therapeutic role
granted him the right to command her and that his methods worked. His suggestions during
hypnosis reinforced a decision she had made for the apparently valid reason of facilitating
her treatment Sometime later, after she became an active participant in the cult, Satyr
taught Eve to use, on her own, the trance induction methods that he employed. That these
techniques were intended to induce trance was recognized and openly discussed between
Satyr and fully involved members. They knew that Satyr had studied hypnosis. Among
initiates, the use of these techniques was discussed as ―putting [someone] in a trance‖ or
―taking a person.‖7
Satyr and Rachel taught Eve how to induce trance so that she could participate in sexual
rituals in which hypnosis was used to enhance the fantasies that were played out. Eve
offered the following as typical of her training.
Satyr or Rachel would put one or the other in a trance to show me, have me
observe ...Satyr would put her into a trance, lying down, tying to tell her to
become something else ...like a baby or a young child. Often, he would
have her do the same thing to him being a hungry animal, or a baby animal,
or a young boy or something of this nature ...After a while he got me to do
it to him, but I found that he liked me to just put him to sleep, just to get him
to relax and just give him the whole thing about how he feels more rested
and he feels better.
Eve described how hypnosis figured in Satyr‘s sexual rituals.
He would have me lie down on the couch, undressed, and he would put me
into a real heavy trance. It would be like I was asleep but still had awareness
of what was going on. My eyes would be shut. He laid [sic] down on me but
did not penetrate me. He had his penis between my legs. I remember that
during this time he told Rachel to control his mind, to make him ...be like a
hungry animal, a wild animal ...She was sort of like between his legs,
kneeling, and he told her before he went into ...this trance, that he was
never to enter me, never to have actual intercourse with me ...she told me
later that she had to grab his penis so that he wouldn‘t actually go in.
On another occasion, Rachel hypnotized Satyr and directed him to take on the personality of
a baby
while he was underneath her on the couch. I would be right there by his
head. She would direct him to suckle from my breast or from hers. She would
move her body and give him her breast to suck on ...
Active Participation
Satyr‘s initial sexual advances toward Eve first took the form of touching her and
subsequently of exposing himself. These activities were staged in a manner designed to
create the impression that they were connected to her education in the teachings of the
―experiential Cabala.‖
Eve‘s initiation into active sexual involvement was facilitated by Satyr‘s use of Rachel as a
model and instructor. The first dramatic sexual act Eve witnessed started with no hint that
anything unusual was to occur. Without any preliminaries Satyr simply instructed Rachel to
remove her undergarment and proceeded to have intercourse with her while Eve looked on.
Throughout Eve‘s socialization into the cult, Satyr used Rachel as an instructor to train Eve
tended to influence Eve to infer that the sessions were pleasing rather than upsetting. The
second result would have been that her mood state provided her with evidence that her
relationship with Satyr was beneficial.
Satyr used hypnosis to reinforce Eve‘s belief that his clerical authority and therapeutic role
granted him the right to command her and that his methods worked. His suggestions during
hypnosis reinforced a decision she had made for the apparently valid reason of facilitating
her treatment Sometime later, after she became an active participant in the cult, Satyr
taught Eve to use, on her own, the trance induction methods that he employed. That these
techniques were intended to induce trance was recognized and openly discussed between
Satyr and fully involved members. They knew that Satyr had studied hypnosis. Among
initiates, the use of these techniques was discussed as ―putting [someone] in a trance‖ or
―taking a person.‖7
Satyr and Rachel taught Eve how to induce trance so that she could participate in sexual
rituals in which hypnosis was used to enhance the fantasies that were played out. Eve
offered the following as typical of her training.
Satyr or Rachel would put one or the other in a trance to show me, have me
observe ...Satyr would put her into a trance, lying down, tying to tell her to
become something else ...like a baby or a young child. Often, he would
have her do the same thing to him being a hungry animal, or a baby animal,
or a young boy or something of this nature ...After a while he got me to do
it to him, but I found that he liked me to just put him to sleep, just to get him
to relax and just give him the whole thing about how he feels more rested
and he feels better.
Eve described how hypnosis figured in Satyr‘s sexual rituals.
He would have me lie down on the couch, undressed, and he would put me
into a real heavy trance. It would be like I was asleep but still had awareness
of what was going on. My eyes would be shut. He laid [sic] down on me but
did not penetrate me. He had his penis between my legs. I remember that
during this time he told Rachel to control his mind, to make him ...be like a
hungry animal, a wild animal ...She was sort of like between his legs,
kneeling, and he told her before he went into ...this trance, that he was
never to enter me, never to have actual intercourse with me ...she told me
later that she had to grab his penis so that he wouldn‘t actually go in.
On another occasion, Rachel hypnotized Satyr and directed him to take on the personality of
a baby
while he was underneath her on the couch. I would be right there by his
head. She would direct him to suckle from my breast or from hers. She would
move her body and give him her breast to suck on ...
Active Participation
Satyr‘s initial sexual advances toward Eve first took the form of touching her and
subsequently of exposing himself. These activities were staged in a manner designed to
create the impression that they were connected to her education in the teachings of the
―experiential Cabala.‖
Eve‘s initiation into active sexual involvement was facilitated by Satyr‘s use of Rachel as a
model and instructor. The first dramatic sexual act Eve witnessed started with no hint that
anything unusual was to occur. Without any preliminaries Satyr simply instructed Rachel to
remove her undergarment and proceeded to have intercourse with her while Eve looked on.
Throughout Eve‘s socialization into the cult, Satyr used Rachel as an instructor to train Eve
