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Recently learned about a dark family secret from my husband's side, who are all Mormons.

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Repost for visibility: Recently learned about a dark family secret from my husband's side, who are all Mormons. My husband and his brothers repeatedly raped their sisters and their parents covered up the crimes and threatened the sisters to keep silent.

 

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I think I'm going insane here. Someone, please help me understand this. I recently found out that my husband of 13 years of marriage is a rapist. My husband's family is Mormon with 9 children. They are all adults now, with most of them having spouses and children. A few days ago, there was an argument between my parents-in-law and their adult daughters. The argument was bad enough that the daughters decided to spill the family's dark secret to the rest of the family (including the spouses and children). The dark secret was that there had been several sexual assault within the family that had been covered up for years. The older brothers (including my husband) had repeatedly molested and raped the sisters and younger brothers. The older brothers also snuck into the sisters' room at night to touch them while they were asleep. The sisters asked the parents for a lock on the bedroom door, but the parents refused. The sisters had to steal a door knob with a lock somewhere to replace theirs, which got them in trouble with the parents. The sisters then used a chair to bar the door to prevent their brothers from sneaking in. They heard the brothers trying to get in and were terrified. Once again, they got in trouble by the parents for blocking their doors. The brothers had also raped the sisters during the day. They pinned them down and forced themselves on the sisters. And this had happened repeatedly. It didn't stop until the sisters were in high school and were old enough to make a serious threat to stop the brothers. The worst thing is, the parents knew about it. They tried to cover up for the brothers. The parents forced the sisters to keep silent on it to protect the brothers until just a few days ago during their daughters-parents' argument. The mother (my mother-in-law) accused the sisters of asking to be raped and calling them evil.

I am so confused by this whole thing. I've been married to this man for 13 years. I have two daughters with him (12 and 9). I never knew about this until now. I am even more confused by his whole family's response to this secret. My parents-in-law and their sons are shunning those sisters and are planning on relocating as a group to protect themselves from if/when the sisters go public with the information. I haven't talked to the wives of those sons, but it seems like they're gonna go along with their husband's and parents-in-law's plans, and take their children (including daughters) along, as if the biggest threats aren't the rapists, but the victims of the rapists. They're all Mormons. Including the spouses of the brothers. And they're all stay-at-home moms. I'm not Mormon. I'm atheist and a feminist. Also, until just a few weeks ago, I was the breadwinner of my family for years and had always had a job. I'm so confused by all of this. I can't talk to anyone. I have one sister who I know would be gone the moment she learns about it because she was an assault victim herself. I dont want to retraumatize her because she is still in therapy for it. So all I have are the people who know about it, whose responses and reactions are so bizarre, it makes no sense to me. I'm still processing what to do given my situation, and how to best move forward with my daughers' safety in mind. Yet these family members have been messaging me, trying to tell me not to leave my husband. As if ending a marriage is the bigger sin. I'm so confused by how these people are reacting to this information, as if an incestuous rapist isn't a big deal. I am so confused as to why they're protecting the rapists and being more concerned about them over the victims. I checked the limitation of statutes in my state, and it's way past that now, and I don't think the sisters would report the rapes to authorities. And I wouldn't want to do anything that the victims don't want to do. But I am still bothered nonetheless. I can't get the image of my husband raping his sisters out of my mind. I can't get the image of him sneaking into their rooms at night and feeling up on them while they were asleep. I can't stop thinking that if he did this to his sisters, how can I believe that he wouldn't do this to his daughters? He only stopped when the sister was in high school. Which means that he was probably an adult when he was still raping her. But I am confused because I am surrounded by people whose reactions and responses to this whole thing don't match up to what I'd expect and think people shpuld respond and react to incestuous rapes. It doesn't make sense! It's as if I'm the crazy one for being this freaked out about it.

Edit: Instead of responding to everyone, I'll just update it here:

1. I talked to my husband, and he admitted to everything. He said he was relieved that it's finally out because he knew it would come out one day.

2. I do not trust the sisters who were victims. I reached out to them, and their responses confused me even further. They expressed regret for outing their brothers and suggested that I not leave their brother. I am shocked that they aren't thinking about my kids but are worried for their rapist brothers.

3. I talked to my daughers. Both said nothing inappropriate happened to them. I've always kept a watchful eye over them, including when they're around their dad, just because I've heard enough about sexual abuse within families.

4. To those who said I should have known since they're mormons: despite being married to a family of Mormons, I had always had limited interactions with them. I didn't agree with their religions and lifestyles, especially with how differntly they treated women compared to men. I have daughers and i didnt want them to grow up thinking they're lesser just because of their gender. Also, every family event that I attended always felt awkwardly fake. In the past, I couldn't tell my husband that he can't interact with his own family, but I did explicitly told him that am not comfortable being around them.

5. I am shocked because I was married to this guy for years. He had always been committed to me and the relationship. Never cheated. Never looked at any woman. Also, he left his church to be with me. He claimed to be a feminist and supported me in raising our daughers in a household that focused on women's rights. So it was shocking that all that was a lie and I never really knew him.

6. I didn't say I'm not going to leave him. But I am shocked. Also, i am currently unemployed (recently quit from a stressful job and was in the process of looking for a new job to be able to be there for the kids more). Also, i don't have family with whom I can turn to. My dad passed away years ago. My mom is not well mentally. My sister is still in therapy, and she lives far away. So, whatever I plan to do, it will be a slow process. Even worse is that my husband is more knowledgeable about the legal system. He attended school to be come a lawyer, but dropped out a few years ago.

Creation is already finished. The Key to everything

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Since this topic has come up a few times today in this sub, I wanted to expand on it a little because it's a tough one to grasp, but also a very important one to understand as it can allow people to have major shifts in their ability to manifest once they do.

Creation is already finished.

This means that we live in a multiverse and every possible version of everyone we know exists. It also means that every possible outcome exists and that everything you could ever possibly be, do or have already exists. It’s done. All of it. There are infinite possibilities and options available to you. You already have everything you could ever want. You already are every version of yourself you could ever want to be. You already are with any and every SP you could ever want. And you can choose ANY version of them you wish to be with. Your job is to become a match to that thing that you want (because you get what you are as the 3D is a mirror of you, your internal beliefs/feelings IE: state of consciousness).

Contemplate this for a moment. Truly let that concept take root in your understanding. Infinite versions exist. Infinite. Think of how many that is… trillions times trillions times trillions on through infinity! There is no end. No limit. So you have everything already. You already are everything. And everyone you know exists in every single variation you could ever possibly imagine and countless more.

Your only job is to be a match to what it is you want because we get what we are. This is why quantum shifts can happen. Because if you can get to the state of truly feeling you have it or are it, whatever it is, and let that wash over you completely while letting go of the old stories of what you don’t want or don’t have leaving that lack and limitation or the desire of it (which comes from lack and is a state of not having) behind, AND if you can then hold in your awareness that you already are it, have it, whatever it is, you could shift into instantly having it or being it as your experience. Think about that for a minute. It’s the key to everything IMHO.

The two main problems most people have with manifesting are:

1. They struggle to get and stay in the state of consciousness of having or being what they want.

2. They struggle to believe they can have or be what they want.

Both of these things are required in order to manifest in my experience because we get what we are and we must know we can have it.

So first, let’s talk about the state of consciousness, that feeling of having or being whatever you want:

The 3D is a mirror of you. You want to be rich? Then you must feel rich and see yourself as rich. Want to be loved? Then you must feel loved and believe you are or can be loved. Want to be thin? Then you must feel and see yourself as thin. If you are not the thing you want to be - rich, loved, thin from these examples, you will not manifest it. If by fluke you do, it will not stay. And there are countless stories of these things happening where someone gained wealth to lose it, got their SP only to lose them, or lost weight only to gain it back. Why? Because they were not a match to what they wanted. IE: They did not become that thing that they wanted and so eventually that reflection of who they truly were caught up with them.

So how does one become what they want IE: shift their state of consciousness?

By living in the end and imagining themselves as having it or being it. By revisiting this state over and over as often as possible. This is how you shift states of consciousness. Don’t worry if you are not there all the time. Just keep revisiting it. The more you go back to that feeling state of having or being it (by using your imagination via whatever technique you use), the more natural it will become. This is why the naturalness of the state is so important. And this happens to be something that seems to need a little bit of clarification for many people.

The state of naturalness that Neville mentions is often viewed as how it would feel if you had something for a while. And most people say it would feel normal to you. But while this has truth to it, I think it lacks clarity and precision. So let me clarify it for you. The ‘natural’ feeling you are going for is the NEW state of consciousness you have come to embody where you now are the thing you want to be or have. IE: Feeling thin, feeling loved by your SP, feeling rich. You MUST feel you are the thing you want. It MUST feel natural to you. This is why embodying the state until it becomes natural to you is so important. And this is the ‘naturalness’ you are going for. It is when it feels natural to you that you are rich, that you are loved, that you are thin. That then is what goes out into the 3D and what you get in the 3D because you get what you are. The 3D is nothing more than a mirror of you.

Now with regards to this, it is essential that you recognise how imperative it is to not dwell in states of lack, states of desiring, or states of any old stories you do not want because those are not a match to what you want. They are a match to lacking what you want, desiring (not having) what you want, or having specifically what you don’t want in the case of many old stories. To dwell in those places is to keep sending out into the 3D what you don’t want. And so what you will get reflected back at you is what you don’t want. You get what you are. You must change what you are to what you want to be in order to get what you want. No one to change but self. This is always true.

After you have achieved this shift in your state of consciousness where you now embody the state of having or being what you want, the only thing left to do is know that because every option already exists in this brilliantly designed system, you already have everything you could ever want, or you already are whatever you would like to be. All you need to do is remember that you already have it, that you already are it. It is done. This awareness can create a monumental shift allowing you to instantly arrive in the sabbath if you are able to accept this as truth.

Manifesting is nothing more than choosing what you want, becoming it internally (because you get what you are) and then knowing it is done. People get in their own way by not getting into the state of having or being what they want internally and by doubting it is done. Doubt is basically a state of lack. If you doubt it is done that you are rich, loved or thin, then you are essentially no longer rich, loved or thin in your mind during those doubtful moments because you are shifting toward looking to the 3D to tell you who you are. It’s like saying “I believe I am rich, loved, thin, but I’m not sure if I’ll really become rich, loved or thin.” Well, there you go. You just threw the whole thing into question, didn’t you? And suddenly you were no longer it.

One must hold true to their new state and have faith that the 3D will match them. They must persist. Don’t look to the 3D to tell you that you are it or you have it. Look within and know you already are it, that you do already have it in this perfectly designed system where creation is already finished. Then sit in faith knowing that it is done. Because it is. And as you remember that you already have everything and are everything because creation is finished, so shall it be.

My Story: Why I hate Infidelity and Other mutterings

 

 

I never thought I would post on Reddit. I have been reading and commiserating with people and tonight for some reason there was a post that made me want to tell my story. I ask that nobody uses my story no TikTok, Facebook reels, You Tube or any other platform. I am writer and it is my life story in small part, and this is copyrighted material my name is on my account.

I found Reddit, while finishing my master’s degree. It would be late at night I was fried mentally and emotionally and was just looking for something to look at. And the stories well you guys know you read them they are tragic most of them are incredibly sad. And it started to really bother me, and I could not really figure out why. It did not take me long though.

I grew up not knowing who my father was, I thought he was one person but when I talked to him, he said he was not my father. It turned out my mother lied about it. So, I have gone through my whole life never knowing his name, I never knew anything about him. I was raised by a single mother who was very damaged by the men she let in her life. Her first husband divorced her for another woman and signed away all four of her little children to the state to be adopted out because she could not take care of them, she did not have any money or means of supporting them. And he just wanted to move on with his life. So that was my first legacy. I thought he was my father that was pretty bad. So, a couple of years ago I was hitting some sort of bottom around where to go next in my life. I took a DNA test; I thought maybe I would be able to figure out who my father was. I did not really have much hope though. I went on ancestry and sent in the kit. On January 18^th, 2021 I got the news. This name kept coming up over and over and over again. A name I had never heard of before. A lot of people were attached to it. Some of them had as much DNA as my half-sister. But when you look at ancestry it just says close relative or cousin. I contacted one of the people and I said you are my cousin and she said no I am your sister. My head was spinning, just 15 minutes before that, I never heard of any of this.

That began my rabbit hole so here is the story of my father. My mother was going through her divorce and this man was still married but he was searching for his wife she had left him and so he slept with my mother and a bunch of other people and then just left them in the dust. My mother got pregnant with me so at a time when it was not very accepted, having just lost her four babies, she was having an illegitimate child. She ran away to another state and worked through her pregnancy. Now she had a lot of ‘ticks’ she passed on to me about what men were like and what they should and should not do and watching her go through a few things I am going to tell you it destroyed my ability to really bond with men. I only did one man in my life really and he died young and that was my husband. Other than that, it confused my sexuality young, I had a challenging time forming relationships. I did serial monogamy. I could escape fast. My own mother was really damaged, and I was raised really on my own. A lot of neglect on basic food, clothing, and childcare. It was not until I got sober, I started to put the pieces of my life together. Turns out I am straight. Really straight, and like men. I went to therapy, AA, Ala non, OA, (came in with a food disorder, because you cannot be heavy). For the first 5 years I worked tirelessly. I met my husband in recovery and we married, and I had a son. He died when my son was 6. I stayed clean and sober.

I am abbreviating some of this because if I did my whole story, it is so long none of you would want to read it. This man, my father slept with my mother and then left and slept with a whole bunch of other people and made babies I am reluctant to even tell you how many because I do not know if it did not happen to me, I would not believe it, but it is over 20. And nobody really knows for sure, we feel like there's still people out there that did not get their DNA evaluated on ancestry.com and find all their relatives. This man tore through the lives of several women leaving a trail behind of unclaimed and unwanted babies. He has been gone for a long time; he is not alive. And I did talk to some of my family members and three of them were genuinely nice, but I am not very trusting, and they are vastly different than I am. I am very West Coast progressive, and they are all from the South and very born again Christian. One of them thought I might be evil. And when she told me that on Facebook, I just blocked her.

When it came to Reddit and I started reading these stories I started having emotional responses that I did not understand, a lot of sorrow a lot of frustration and anger like I was taking on people's stories and what I was really doing was processing. I have been in recovery for a long time. I never want to tell people how old I am, that is why I am so vague about it, but it is over 20 years. It saved my life. But this was new, it was the latest information and a new process. And I ended up feeling so much hatred and anger for somebody I had never met because of all the harm he caused me. I had an exceedingly difficult childhood. It could have been worse. But it was bad enough. When I read people's stories and how people would be hurt by infidelity, I cannot tell you, I guess I can tell you. Because a lot of you have gone through it. It is devastating to the point of not being able to bear the pain. I am not sure he is aware I existed; he did tell a judge in traffic court he had 22 children he knew of…. That is hearsay from one of his sons.

So, the reason I am telling you tonight is because I actually thought I was mostly through the processing it I had found a bunch of Subs that I really like about manifesting and history and finished my master’s degree. I mostly was not as affected anymore. And then this one post I read tonight of somebody was deliberately going to cheat on their spouse to get it out of their system and it just came bubbling up from the depths the hatred the anger the pain. They had children. They could cheat, but not leave, they have responsibilities. So, I am writing about it. Also, I have been lurking around here for over six months, and I have been really grateful for the people who have been kind and I have been healing around this and I have to say though it is bubbling up tonight most of the time it does not anymore.

Most of the time I do not think about him. I married a decent person who was nothing like that. He just died young. When I had relationships earlier (I married at 38) I stayed in control with everybody I dated, except one person and that was at the bottom of my drinking. But I never put myself in a position where I could not get out fast. If I were uncomfortable, I left them or sabotaged it so they would leave me. There is a lot of damage there, I did not let people near me, I did not trust them. Joining Reddit has helped me a lot, it has also taught me a lot of empathy and compassion for other people. I just wanted to get that off of my chest I used to think I did not belong on Reddit somebody told me it had a bad reputation. And now I am fully convinced like in recovery in the room of drunks that I sat down in that first day in I belong here too. And there is recovery there was recovery around my mother's stuff and around the alcohol so there's recovery around this too and I am really glad to be here. And thank you for listening,

American Eugenics and Ethnic Cleansing Predated Nazi Germany

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u/walterherbst

 

Unknown to most Americans, long before the Nazis became involved in ethnic cleansing, the United States was doing the same thing. It was called eugenics, a pseudoscience that gained prominence after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the end of World War I. It was based on the fear that a devastated Europe and the rise in Communism would eventually inundate the United States with Communists as well. It was decided that Eastern and Southern Europe were the areas most likely to spread communism to the US, so a decision was made to restrict immigration to what were called “Nordic” or Anglo-Saxon countries. There was no basis in truth for any of this, but there was an anti-Communist, fascist movement in the U.S. among elites who believed the American way of life was being threatened.

In 1918, World War I Army venereal disease specialist Paul Popenoe co-authored a widely used textbook, Applied Eugenics, which argued, "From a historical point of view, the first method which presents itself is execution… Its value in keeping up the standard of the race should not be underestimated." A 1918 Carnegie Institute report suggested that an effective means of getting rid of “defective germ-plasms in the human population” was euthanasia. The most common method of carrying this out was establishing local gas chambers, a harbinger of things to come.

There was even a close personal relationship between Carnegie Institute scientists and Germany's Fascist eugenicists during the 1920s. "There is today one state," Hitler wrote, "in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of immigration] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the United States." In 1934, as Germany's sterilizations exceeded 5,000 per month, the California eugenics leader C. M. Goethe returned from Germany and told a colleague "that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program."

So, it was not surprising that the Immigration Act of 1924 lowered the quota of allowable immigrants to two percent of the total foreign-born in America. It was based on the total number of foreigners that lived in the United States in 1890 when third-world immigration was at a much lower level. It ensured immigration from Britain and Northern Europe increased, while it decreased from areas like Southern and Eastern Europe. By 1928, 376 separate university courses in some of the best American schools, with some school enrollments exceeding 20,000 students, included eugenics in their curriculum.

The insanity gained traction among wealthy elites and spread as a desire to cleanse the nation of potential Communists grew. The Carnegie Institute established a laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, enabling researchers to plot private details of a vast number of people. By 1928, courses on eugenics were taught in some of the best American schools. Eventually, sterilization laws were passed in Indiana and Virginia, compulsory for patients in mental institutions. California led the way, conducting 1,278 forced sterilizations in 1933 alone, 700 of which were done on women. Scientists could label anyone as "genetically inferior" who did not fit neatly into a preconceived category. Forced sterilization became justified based on this. Even the Supreme Court considered eugenics in a 1927 decision, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes writing that it was essentially humane to “prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.”

The hysteria came to an end after World War II as the United States overwhelmingly rejected eugenics, and immigration laws were changed. But it did not undo the damage that was previously done to countless victims.

To learn more, please check out It Did Not Start With JFK, Volume 1, published by Sunbury Press.

Don't Get Side Tracked

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u/AitheriosMist

Let me ask you people here a question: when you read a post here on this subreddit that gets your attention and 'makes it click' for you, what do you do after? Let's say two days after reading it, do you remember what it said? Do you have these lessons present (really present) everyday?

I'm telling you this because it seems people usually forget things and get caught up on other everyday stuff so they get sidetracked. Or maybe they go down a rabbit hole of techniques, videos, posts, etc.

You better understand that we've all been programmed in different ways that are not compatible with how the law works, so your default state is probably not the most optimal for conscious manifesting. The only way to reprogram your mind and change your life is consistency. So especially in the beginning is very important to have the key ideas present in your everyday life, at least until it's integrated in your mind and your way of life. Not trying to push an assumption here but I do believe you can't do this overnight, or after reading a post or watching a video, it needs consistent mind work. It needs trial and error too, it's a process, it's an art that can be mastered. It probably needs motivation too, the most amazing changes in people's lifes come after they get fed up with their lifes, or after some events that lit a fire in their hearts, if you really grasp the idea that you can get everything you've ever wanted with the law and you're still not motivated, then I don't know what to tell you. Wait a minute, I do know: discipline. Discipline conquers what motivation doesn't, but you still need to put in the consistent work. Once it's mastered and really integrated, you'll not be sidetracked anymore since it becomes your default state.

So my tip here is to get these key ideas, these posts that made it click for you, and save them. Make a list, a diagram, a drawing, recording, whatever you want, make it simple and keep it short, and read it, watch it, hear it everyday. As many times as necessary, so it gets into your skull, because you'll probably forget it otherwise. Hell I even have a small tattoo that says I AM on my wrist, and I see it everyday. Do it until you no longer need reminders because it's part of you.

So to end this post I'll list some of those key ideas that I have saved in my own journey, feel free to add some of your own if you like:

• It's all about you and your mind, 3D is just an output of your mental state.
• Every thing or person that is relevant to you (especially if you put them on a pedestal) shows you something about yourself, use them to be conscious and realize what you need to work on.
• Circumstances don't matter since they are not set in stone, they change as you change.
• Don't focus on getting things, focus on giving yourself the wish fulfilled.
• Creation is finished, you don't have to force anything, you can't lose anything, just connect to the reality where you already have it.
• You can have bad days or low moments, don't repress them, but observe them from a distance and let them pass, they always pass if you let them.
• You don't need permission to live your best life and your wish fulfilled, forgive and forget to be free. A God is boundless.
• People will act the way you expect them to (EIYPO), not the way you like to, unless it becomes an expectation, you can't fool yourself with this one.

Archaeologist: Mountain Meadows Massacre graves found in Utah

Nichole Osinski

The (St. George, Utah) Spectrum

September 20, 2015

 

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ST. GEORGE, Utah -- An archaeologist from California believes he may have found the two mass grave sites that hold the bodies of men, women and children murdered in the Mountain Meadows Massacre in southwest Utah in 1857. However, the graves aren't on land the Mormon church purchased in order to memorialize the victims in one of the darkest chapters in Utah's pioneer history.

Everett Bassett said it took him about 20 minutes to discover the two mass graves sites in August 2014. After speaking with descendants of the victims, he presented his findings on Sept. 12 at the Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation’s meeting in Harrison, Ark.

Bassett said that after reading U.S. Army documents from 1859 about the burials and visiting the site previously thought to hold the graves, he determined the current burial locations were incorrect.

The massacre was the center of controversy almost from the beginning, a violent culmination of the friction between members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other pioneers at the time.

Historians have pieced together the details of the attack, which took part during a territorial conflict later called the Utah War.

It occurred on Sept. 11, 1857, about 30 miles north of St. George.

The Baker-Fancher party, made up mostly of Arkansas emigrants, was camped in the meadows on their way westward when nearby militia leaders made plans to attack the wagon train and blame the attack on Native Americans, the local Paiute Indians. Some of the militiamen tried to disguise themselves by wearing Native American dress.

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After a five-day siege near Cedar City, Utah, militia leaders deceived the emigrants into coming out. Maj. John D. Lee offered safe passage if they would surrender and follow them north.

Escorted by the armed militiamen, the party walked about a mile before the Mormon militia turned and attacked, killing approximately 120 men, women and children and sparing only 17 children younger than seven.

The Mormon church, which expressed "profound regret" for the massacre in 2007, owns the 800-plus acres of land where the incident occurred and erected a monument in 1990 to the victims. The property owned by the church was also believed to house the two grave sites.

Phil Bolinger, Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation president, said the church had told the foundation that there would not be much left of the erected graves on the property due to damage and erosion over the years.

“We never actually believed that,” Bolinger said. “We knew that the military built a sepulcher or cairn and that they were still out there.”

Using the Army records, Bassett was able to locate the California/Old Spanish Trail, which led him to a piece of private property that is not owned by the church. Bassett said the massacre site is correct but after comparing the historic records to the Mormon church-owned property, he realized the burial locations were marked in the wrong places.

“I was looking around and realized I was actually standing on top of this massive pile of rocks down in this ravine,” Bassett said. “The measurements taken by the Army were so accurate that when I followed the map using surveying equipment I was like 2 feet from it.”

The first grave site Bassett located was for the murdered men and boys. He found the grave for the women and children about 357 yards to the north of the first site. Both graves are made of granite stones piled about 30 feet across and about 6 feet tall to form rectangular sepulchers, Bassett said.

 

Though the graves will have to be exhumed to confirm their authenticity, Bassett is positive the locations are correct. 

The Mountain Meadows Massacre Foundation is trying to come to an agreement with the land owner for conservation of the sites and wants to give them national monument status.The Mormon church-owned site was designated as a national historic landmark in 2011.

“It’s the highest order of federal protection out there and that has been our goal from the beginning,” Bolinger said. “We want to honor and respect those that were lost at Mountain Meadows in one of the worst tragedies in the westward expansion."

Contributing: David DeMille reprint in USA Today, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/20/mountain-meadows-massacre-site/72525842/

How to Revise any situation

 

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u/Manifestation-Lady

 

Howdy again y’all!! In this post I am going to be talking about one of my favorite things ever which is revision. I personally absolutely LOVE revision I feel like it’s very underrated and not talked about enough. Which is such a shame because it is one of the most powerful manifestation “tools” that I have ever used. I have used revision for many many things and situations that have occurred in my life and I can’t wait to share how you can use it too!! 🇺🇸🥳

What is revision? It is essentially where you would go back into a certain situation or memory and change the outcome of what happened if you were not happy with the outcome you can completely revise it and change the way it ended so you can better your situation right now or In the future.

Example situations -Breakups -Getting fired from a job -receiving unwanted news -losing a friend -losing items -somebody being an asshole to you -Not getting accepted into a college you wanted to go to -not getting the job you wanted

The list could go on and on but to sum all of that up you can change those outcome situations and replace it with ANY outcome you want for example if you got fired from a job the opposite of that would be you getting a raise or your boss telling you how great of an employee you are so you just revise it to that.

How to do it First you want to get comfortable and into a relaxed state make sure your in an area where no one will bug you and you will not be distracted I recommend laying down or sitting comfortably in a chair if laying down will make you actually fall asleep Lmfao (happens to the best of us 😂😂) anyways once your in your comfortable position take some deep breaths to clear your mind then revisit the memory or whatever you want to change that already happened in your 3D. So let’s say you want to revise a breakup (I’m using this one as an example) you would go into the scene where it happened and make sure you’re visualizing through your own eyes and instead of them breaking up with you or the breakup happening in general you would visualize the exact opposite which would be them kissing you,hugging you or them telling you that they want to spend the rest of their life with you or how happy they are with you. That would be revising what actually happened. and what that will do in the present moment 3D is essentially “smooth things over” meaning they would be reaching out to you and wanting things to go back to the way that they were. and it will be like nothing ever happened and remember this isn’t just for breakups this can be anything you want to change the outcome for.

Example from my own personal experience Here is one of my many examples about how I got it to work for me. So this was a long time ago me and my best friend had gotten into a HUGE fight nothing physically or anything like that but there was lots of yelling,name calling and bickering. She had told me that she was done with our friendship and wanted nothing to do with me. We ended up not talking for a good 6 months. I ended up finding out about Revision in Nevilles book the pruning shears of revision. It had fascinated me so I wanted to learn more. I tested it out a few times on little things and it ended up happening fairly fast. I figured since I had revised those little things I was going to test this out to revise my friendship with her. I did everything that I said up there. I got comfortable,took some breaths,cleared my head and visualized her standing right in front of Me telling me that our friendship will always be forever and nothing would ever break it. I made sure it was the EXACT scene that happened that day including the setting of the scene and the clothes she had on the only thing different was the outcome. and about 2 weeks later she showed up at my place and started apologizing immediately and asked me to take her back as a friend and I did. I remember inviting her inside and she hugged me and said “our friendship will always be forever” I was honestly shocked lmao she said the EXACT same thing I revised her to say so I know this absolutely 100% works. Neville knows his stuff y’all.

TEST IT OUT remember what I said in a previous post. The only way you’ll know that this works is if you put this into action. You don’t even need to start with something big you can revise little events if you’d like. Anything to build your faith. Nothing will ever be able to build your faith more than your own personal experiences. Just test it out for yourself you are the only person who can prove this to yourself.

what to do after your scene is done Drop it. It already happened. You’re new outcome already happened therefor there is no reason to keep repeating the old story because there is no old story. Once you’re done visualizing it is done. You have changed the outcome. Dont wait around for things to show up in your 3D just go live your life. Things will show up on their own just don’t be obsessing about it.

How do you visualize? See your scene in first person POV (Through your own eyes) and feel it real like it’s happening right now use your senses smell,hearing,touch etc whatever sense you want

Read neville If you’re new to the law I highly highly highly recommend reading Neville for yourself. all of his stuff is free online and his lectures are on YouTube I’m pretty sure you can even listen to his books on Spotify or some other app that provides you an audio version of it so you can listen to it instead of reading it if that’s what you prefer. After all neville is the one who introduced us to this. But like I said you actually need to test this out for yourself. I also suggest staying away from the youtube coaches just because they aren’t the actual source and most of them just parrot each other’s videos sometimes it can get a little confusing and exhausting if they are going off into left field and contradicting themselves 24/7. however if you are looking for a genuine person to breakdown neville to you on YouTube since his books can be tricky to understand I would recommend Candace Thoth she has a strictly neville channel so if that’s what you’re looking for then I would suggest her. I don’t watch really watch YouTube coaches I just stick to neville mainly but I have seen a few of Candace Thoth’s videos and she definitely puts out correct information about nevilles teaching’s instead of just parroting other people’s videos. illuminating joy (Amy) is great for beginners as well although she is not a strictly neville channel from the videos I have seen from her but she does put out useful info for beginners.

I hope this post inspires you that NOTHING is set in stone and ANY situation outcome can be changed the way you want it to. Please feel free to test this out and build up that beautiful faith Lol. Remember that you are in charge of your life. Anyways Happy manifesting from this country girl!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🥳🤠 and please don’t hesitate to ask a question in the comments I will be sure to respond to your question if I see it

The American Uknown Child: Joseph Augustus Zarelli

      ON a cold day in February 1957 a box was found by the side of Susquehanna Road, in the Fox Chase area, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…Inside were the remains of a small boy. He remained unidentified for 65 years…In a world where true crime draws audiences by the millions, the tragic story of an unidentified boy still brings sorrow and empathy to our hearts. Warning graphic photos

photo 1

      The boy was found in a sparsely wooded area, home to rabbits and muskrats. The road was empty of civilization save one building. It was a religious compound called The Good Shepherd School for Wayward Girls. The school was set back from the road and on the other side of the road, it was used by residents as a dumping ground. A bassinet box with a small body inside might go unnoticed. Except two people in a day found the box. One was a trapper of the small animals that lived in the area. He did not report it for fear of his traps being confiscated. The second, on February 24, 1957 was a college student Frederick Benonis. He noticed the box had writing on it that said, “Furniture, Fragile, do not open with a knife” The man saw there was a small body in the box, he did not initially report it.

      Benonis did not report it because he often went up that road, and stalked the girls at the school, but that night there was a story about a missing 4-year-old girl named Mary Barker. So Benonis told his priest who advised him to call the police. That is how America’s unknown child was found. It was February 25, 1957 when the small child was brought to the attention of the police. Mary Barker was found trapped and deceased in a hall closet, so now who was the boy in the box?

       He had brownish hair with a shabby buzz cut. There were clumps of his hair in the box with him. It appeared his hair was cut after he died. His toes and fingernails were recently clipped. His body was clean, his toes and fingers were wrinkled, suggesting he had been in the water.  There was a blue men’s cap in the box with the blanket wrapped around his body. Farther away from the scene was a tan scarf and yellow shirt in a size that would have fit him. Though it was not determined they were his.

photo 2

       The cause of his death was blunt force trauma to his head and neck. He had been beaten to death, there were bruises on his face, arms, and legs. The coroner determined the wounds were all inflicted at the same time. He was 3’4” tall and about 30 lbs. It was determined his hair was cut after his death to possibly conceal his identity. He was malnourished and appeared to suffer from neglect and abuse. After the autopsy it was discovered that he had surgical procedures besides his injuries:

1. A cut down scar, used by doctors to insert a cannula. A cannula is a thin tube used to insert medicine, or to do an infusion. It is an emergency procedure. There were scars on his chest and his groin area, they were evidence of a medical procedure. He had other scars, but they were more injurious. All were healed. That is except the blows to his body that took his life.
2. One of his eyes glowed a blue color, like a dye had been put into it. It was used to determine injury to the retina. They hoped he may have seen an ophthalmologist and if they could identify the doctor, they could identify him.

It was determined he was 4-6 years old. He was malnourished and was not vaccinated for smallpox. It would have been common at that time. He had not eaten for hours before he died, but a brownish liquid was in his throat, like he was vomiting it up. He had no broken bones.

       The police put up posters with pictures of his face at death, looking for clues and even dressed him up deceased for photographs to help identify him. He was never identified. In 1998 he was exhumed to retrieve DNA in hopes of identifying him. He was given a more proper burial, and the police that worked on his case provided him with a headstone and buried him in Ivy Hill Cemetery. He was not just famous in Philadelphia but in the whole nation and they called him “America’s unknown child”. He is still buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery.

courtesy of find a grave

      There was an eyewitness who drove down Susquehanna Rd. on February 24. A motorist saw a woman and a boy standing at the back of a car digging in the trunk. He thought they might have car trouble and slowed down; he asked if they needed help. The two stopped what they were doing, turned around by the trunk and covered the license plate with their bodies and said nothing…They just stood there. The man eventually just left them there. When he told the police where it happened, it was 200 feet from where the body was found.

There were a few theories as to how he came to Susquehanna Road, but one of the most eerie and seemingly accurate was revealed by a young woman known only as M for Martha or Mary. A psychiatrist from Cincinnati, Ohio contacted the Philadelphia police and said one of his clients knew of the boy. She had suffered much trauma as a child and did not want to come forward…

Eventually she did and told this story:

 Her mother was an abusive woman and had bought the boy from a man in 1954. He was known as Johnathon to M. He was at that time very young. He was mentally handicapped and could not speak or take care of himself. The mother abused him both physically and sexually. The boy became sicker. He lived in the basement of their house for two years and did not see anyone else but the family. His hair grew long from lack of care, and he was malnourished.

She said her mother killed him out of anger as she fed him baked beans and he vomited them up. She hit his head against a wall as punishment. She tried to bathe him, and he died in the bathtub from the abuse. She cut his hair, and nails and took him out to an area known as Fox Chase to get rid of the body. As they were on the road a passing car asked them if they had car trouble as they were getting him out of the trunk. M was with her mother while disposing of the body. They found a cardboard box and put his body into the box.

It is believed this story is the correct origin of the boy in the box. It matched so many details of the boy as determined by the autopsy…M stopped talking to police after that. America’s unknown child remained that until 2022. Through DNA genetic family testing, both now deceased parents were identified.

     Betsy was a pretty teen-age Catholic girl who loved dancing to Frank Sinatra records in her Tioga neighborhood in the 1950s. She graduated in 1950 and shortly after gave birth to a baby girl. Because she was unmarried the baby was put up for adoption. It is thought a Catholic organization arranged it. I found it interesting that the school across the road was a Catholic organization…Betsy would eventually go on to marry the manager John J. Plunkett of the famous Goldman Theater in Philadelphia, but before that she would meet Gus. 

     In the spring of 1952 Betsy met Gus. Gus was the child of Italian immigrants, a stone mason in West Philly. When Elizabeth Mary (Betsy)Abel and Augustus (Gus) Zarelli got together, they had a baby named Joseph Augustus Zarelli on January 23, 1953. He would gone to become famous because of his death. Since it was the second baby for Betsy it was thought maybe she put Joseph up for adoption too. From the journey his life took, I would say something else happened to Joseph. By February 25, 1957 Joseph Zarelli’s small lifeless body was found by the side of the road in the Fox Chase area of Philadelphia.

     In her obituary in 1991 it shows she had three living children…Barbara Ferrigno, Robert, and Kathleen Plunkett. Gus was five years older than Betsy and did not marry until 1960 to Cynthia Pashko and went on to have 4 additional living children and he passed away in 2014. It was family DNA in 2022 that identified that the remains of Joseph Augustus Zarelli was in fact, America’s unknown child.

Photo 4- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joseph_Augustus_Zarelli

Photos 1 and 2 from Natasha Mullins, medium.com

1. Mullins, Natasha, (2021), Decades after he was found there is still hope for American’s unknown child, com, https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/decades-after-he-was-found-there-is-still-hope-for-americas-unknown-child-678ce17ff7ec#
2. Nark, Jason, Ruderman, Wendy, Marin, Max, The biological parents of the boy in the box Josephy Augustus Zarelli, com, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-biological-parents-of-the-boy-in-the-box-joseph-augustus-zarelli-have-finally-been-identified/ar-AA16HuXa
3. Obituaries courtesy of Ancestry.com, and Newspapers.com

The American Uknown Child: Joseph Augustus Zarelli

      ON a cold day in February 1957 a box was found by the side of Susquehanna Road, in the Fox Chase area, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…Inside were the remains of a small boy. He remained unidentified for 65 years…In a world where true crime draws audiences by the millions, the tragic story of an unidentified boy still brings sorrow and empathy to our hearts. Warning graphic photos

photo 1

      The boy was found in a sparsely wooded area, home to rabbits and muskrats. The road was empty of civilization save one building. It was a religious compound called The Good Shepherd School for Wayward Girls. The school was set back from the road and on the other side of the road, it was used by residents as a dumping ground. A bassinet box with a small body inside might go unnoticed. Except two people in a day found the box. One was a trapper of the small animals that lived in the area. He did not report it for fear of his traps being confiscated. The second, on February 24, 1957 was a college student Frederick Benonis. He noticed the box had writing on it that said, “Furniture, Fragile, do not open with a knife” The man saw there was a small body in the box, he did not initially report it.

      Benonis did not report it because he often went up that road, and stalked the girls at the school, but that night there was a story about a missing 4-year-old girl named Mary Barker. So Benonis told his priest who advised him to call the police. That is how America’s unknown child was found. It was February 25, 1957 when the small child was brought to the attention of the police. Mary Barker was found trapped and deceased in a hall closet, so now who was the boy in the box?

       He had brownish hair with a shabby buzz cut. There were clumps of his hair in the box with him. It appeared his hair was cut after he died. His toes and fingernails were recently clipped. His body was clean, his toes and fingers were wrinkled, suggesting he had been in the water.  There was a blue men’s cap in the box with the blanket wrapped around his body. Farther away from the scene was a tan scarf and yellow shirt in a size that would have fit him. Though it was not determined they were his.

photo 2

       The cause of his death was blunt force trauma to his head and neck. He had been beaten to death, there were bruises on his face, arms, and legs. The coroner determined the wounds were all inflicted at the same time. He was 3’4” tall and about 30 lbs. It was determined his hair was cut after his death to possibly conceal his identity. He was malnourished and appeared to suffer from neglect and abuse. After the autopsy it was discovered that he had surgical procedures besides his injuries:

1. A cut down scar, used by doctors to insert a cannula. A cannula is a thin tube used to insert medicine, or to do an infusion. It is an emergency procedure. There were scars on his chest and his groin area, they were evidence of a medical procedure. He had other scars, but they were more injurious. All were healed. That is except the blows to his body that took his life.
2. One of his eyes glowed a blue color, like a dye had been put into it. It was used to determine injury to the retina. They hoped he may have seen an ophthalmologist and if they could identify the doctor, they could identify him.

It was determined he was 4-6 years old. He was malnourished and was not vaccinated for smallpox. It would have been common at that time. He had not eaten for hours before he died, but a brownish liquid was in his throat, like he was vomiting it up. He had no broken bones.

       The police put up posters with pictures of his face at death, looking for clues and even dressed him up deceased for photographs to help identify him. He was never identified. In 1998 he was exhumed to retrieve DNA in hopes of identifying him. He was given a more proper burial, and the police that worked on his case provided him with a headstone and buried him in Ivy Hill Cemetery. He was not just famous in Philadelphia but in the whole nation and they called him “America’s unknown child”. He is still buried at Ivy Hill Cemetery.

courtesy of find a grave

      There was an eyewitness who drove down Susquehanna Rd. on February 24. A motorist saw a woman and a boy standing at the back of a car digging in the trunk. He thought they might have car trouble and slowed down; he asked if they needed help. The two stopped what they were doing, turned around by the trunk and covered the license plate with their bodies and said nothing…They just stood there. The man eventually just left them there. When he told the police where it happened, it was 200 feet from where the body was found.

There were a few theories as to how he came to Susquehanna Road, but one of the most eerie and seemingly accurate was revealed by a young woman known only as M for Martha or Mary. A psychiatrist from Cincinnati, Ohio contacted the Philadelphia police and said one of his clients knew of the boy. She had suffered much trauma as a child and did not want to come forward…

Eventually she did and told this story:

 Her mother was an abusive woman and had bought the boy from a man in 1954. He was known as Johnathon to M. He was at that time very young. He was mentally handicapped and could not speak or take care of himself. The mother abused him both physically and sexually. The boy became sicker. He lived in the basement of their house for two years and did not see anyone else but the family. His hair grew long from lack of care, and he was malnourished.

She said her mother killed him out of anger as she fed him baked beans and he vomited them up. She hit his head against a wall as punishment. She tried to bathe him, and he died in the bathtub from the abuse. She cut his hair, and nails and took him out to an area known as Fox Chase to get rid of the body. As they were on the road a passing car asked them if they had car trouble as they were getting him out of the trunk. M was with her mother while disposing of the body. They found a cardboard box and put his body into the box.

It is believed this story is the correct origin of the boy in the box. It matched so many details of the boy as determined by the autopsy…M stopped talking to police after that. America’s unknown child remained that until 2022. Through DNA genetic family testing, both now deceased parents were identified.

     Betsy was a pretty teen-age Catholic girl who loved dancing to Frank Sinatra records in her Tioga neighborhood in the 1950s. She graduated in 1950 and shortly after gave birth to a baby girl. Because she was unmarried the baby was put up for adoption. It is thought a Catholic organization arranged it. I found it interesting that the school across the road was a Catholic organization…Betsy would eventually go on to marry the manager John J. Plunkett of the famous Goldman Theater in Philadelphia, but before that she would meet Gus. 

     In the spring of 1952 Betsy met Gus. Gus was the child of Italian immigrants, a stone mason in West Philly. When Elizabeth Mary (Betsy)Abel and Augustus (Gus) Zarelli got together, they had a baby named Joseph Augustus Zarelli on January 23, 1953. He would gone to become famous because of his death. Since it was the second baby for Betsy it was thought maybe she put Joseph up for adoption too. From the journey his life took, I would say something else happened to Joseph. By February 25, 1957 Joseph Zarelli’s small lifeless body was found by the side of the road in the Fox Chase area of Philadelphia.

     In her obituary in 1991 it shows she had three living children…Barbara Ferrigno, Robert, and Kathleen Plunkett. Gus was five years older than Betsy and did not marry until 1960 to Cynthia Pashko and went on to have 4 additional living children and he passed away in 2014. It was family DNA in 2022 that identified that the remains of Joseph Augustus Zarelli was in fact, America’s unknown child.

Photo 4- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Joseph_Augustus_Zarelli

1. Mullins, Natasha, (2021), Decades after he was found there is still hope for American’s unknown child, com, https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/decades-after-he-was-found-there-is-still-hope-for-americas-unknown-child-678ce17ff7ec#
2. Nark, Jason, Ruderman, Wendy, Marin, Max, The biological parents of the boy in the box Josephy Augustus Zarelli, com, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-biological-parents-of-the-boy-in-the-box-joseph-augustus-zarelli-have-finally-been-identified/ar-AA16HuXa
3. Obituaries courtesy of Ancestry.com, and Newspapers.com

Neville Goddard: Awareness and Attention

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Many individuals in this community discuss various manifestation techniques, such as SATS (State Akin to Sleep), and different approaches to attract what they desire. However, I've come to a realization that the core principle behind all of these methods is simply directing one's attention towards the desired object or outcome.

When we examine the world, we discover that it is essentially a construct of the mind. The seemingly solid objects around us are, in fact, composed of mindstuff. This becomes evident when we consider that the atoms comprising everything are essentially energy and empty space. How, then, do these objects that we perceive as a concrete reality emerge from such emptiness?

The entire universe, including all its forms, arises from the mind and is contingent upon your attention. What exactly is the mind? It is the activity of awareness itself, which is essentially who you are. The mind can be understood as another term for awareness in action. From birth, you have been preprogrammed to accept certain beliefs as facts. These beliefs shape your thoughts along specific pathways, solidifying and reinforcing established notions. Consequently, your attention becomes restricted due to these preexisting conditions.

The way you think and act is determined by your established beliefs, and your attention serves to reinforce those beliefs. In turn, your attention aligns you with the objective reality that corresponds to those beliefs. Therefore, the key to achieving your goals is to direct your attention towards the reality you wish to experience. It is as simple as that. It does not depend solely on practicing SATS, scripting, or any specific technique. The true aim is to shift your attention towards your desired outcome, allowing awareness to transform and align you with this new reality.

Given that attention is influenced by conditioned beliefs, this can be challenging. Hence, people utilize techniques to stay focused on their desired goals. However, it is essential to remember that the technique itself does not bring about the manifestation; rather, it is the placement of your attention that determines the outcome. So, even if you are not adept at vividly visualizing or entering a state of SATS, or if you don't experience intense emotions regarding your goal, it is not a problem. The crucial factor is learning to exercise strong control over the direction of your attention.

Sats work-Its amazing!

I have been doing SATS for around 2 weeks. I wanted a rental-free housing/apartment because more than half of my monthly salary goes to my apartment rent. So every night when I feel really drowsy, I visualize myself keeping my entire 18k salary. Just earlier tonight, my stepmom texted me asking how I am doing. She said she dreamed of me sitting on a doorway at an old dirty kitchen using my phone and looked up at her saying, "mom please get me from my apartment I really miss the sun, please 🥺"

Additional info: when I visited her and my dad for a week, I told her how much the sunlight really makes me happy shining through the guest room windows and I don't have that in my apartment because facing my window is a big wall.

She then said, they're planning to move to a new and bigger house with an extra room for me and that I don't have to pay rent anymore.

I wasn't even surprised anymore. I knew it was coming and I feel so happy.

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