“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.” That observation by Viktor E. Frankl, a neurologist and Holocaust survivor is apropos to victims of long term injustice, such as directed energy weapons torture and gang-stalking. In 1942, Dr. Frankl along with his wife and his parents were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp by the Nazi regime. Though assigned to ordinary labor details until the last few weeks of the war, Frankl tried to cure fellow prisoners from despondency and prevent suicide. He worked in the psychiatric care ward, headed a neurological clinic, and maintained a camp service of psychic hygiene and mental care for those who were weary of life. Although suffering the miseries of Nazi oppression himself, his efforts to help others gave meaning and purpose to his life.

“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Can you see how Frankl’s conclusion can help victims of long-term injustice? Even when adversity continues for years, we can choose our attitude, our response to that hardship.

What attitude should we choose in response to suffering? Dr. Frankl observed that those who became obsessed with retaliation against their abusers were often overcome by bitterness and disillusionment that continued long after they were released from the concentration camps. Such attitudes were most likely to destroy good mental health. However, those who maintained dignity in their view and treatment of others and a strong spirituality were best able to adjust to horrific suffering and maintain sound mental health. One of Frankl’s favorite quotes is the Biblical expression “. . . love is as strong as death is.” —Song of Solomon 8:6. The capacity to love our fellowman can survive any hardship or suffering. When we refuse to abandon love, by not adopting the hatred and cruelty of our oppressors, we retain our humanity and protect our mental health. Such excelling love is a byproduct of a healthy spirituality.

Can we benefit from suffering? The Bible says that Jesus Christ “learned obedience from the things he suffered” —Hebrews 5:8. What Jesus suffered when on earth refined his qualities of love, empathy and compassion while facing cruelty, injustice and wrongful death. Our noblest qualities can also be refined if we view and endure suffering with the right attitude.

THERE is a saying that ‘you can measure a man by the size of the things it takes to upset him.’ Indeed, the person who refuses to become upset by minor annoyances or offenses is a person of true stature. Such a person shows, not a petty attitude, but a largeness of mind and spirit. But one easily upset over trifles is guilty of smallness. And often that smallness further betrays itself by acts of spite.

What is spite? One dictionary defines spite as: “A malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate.” As this definition reveals, the true motive behind spite is not justice, but rather “ill will” usually generated by hatred, envy, resentment or simply a mean disposition. What role does spite play in the directed energy weapons torture and gang-stalking used against me? They are being secretly tested on innocent Americans to develop a standardized program of psychological torture for covert agencies. Their intent is to harm, annoy, frustrate, and humiliate, out of malice. In essence, they are weapons of spite.

What is the best way of handling spiteful attacks? Popular thinking would suggest returning “tit for tat,” or retaliating in some fashion. However, is that the wise course? Perhaps the following illustration can help provide an answer: Suppose you’re in a supermarket one day, and happen to observe a small child begging her mother to purchase a bag of candy she holds in her little hands. However, the mother, for her own reasons, say no, and asks the child to return the candy to the shelf. Well, the child has a fit! She pouts, throws down the bag of candy, and begins to scream “I hate you!” She behaves spitefully, as children, due to their emotional immaturity are prone to do. Would you expect the mother to pout and have a tantrum in response? Of course not! You expect spiteful behavior of young children, not of mature adults. Let’s change the scenario a bit. The person attacking you spitefully is now an adult. His tools are directed energy weapons, through-the-wall surveillance, torture, and gang stalking. Should you respond out of spitefulness? No. The same principle applies: To respond spitefully will demonstrate pettiness and immaturity.

Being too big for spite is always the best response. Responding in a spiteful way brings the victim down to the level of his attacker, and can have disastrous consequences. In my case, being lured into an angry, spiteful response can result in incarceration or other personal harm.

Of course, maintaining emotional control can be a challenge when the spiteful attacks are part of a daily, 24 hour campaign. But it can, and is being done successfully. Much of my success comes from how I think. Let me illustrate it this way: Suppose you have two individuals that are quite similar, and you place a heavy weight on each of them. The first individual begins to complain unceasingly, allows the burden to overwhelm him, and is eventually weakened to the point that he is physically and mentally broken by the weight he is forced to carry. The second person sees the heavy load as a challenge, uses it to train and strengthen his muscles in much the way that a weightlifter does, and eventually becomes strong enough carry the load. Both had the same heavy weight. What made the difference between defeat and success? Mental attitude. Adversity is not all bad. When faced with the proper attitude, it can help us to strengthen weaknesses in our character and develop endurance. Those qualities add to our emotional maturity and equip us to face other challenges in life successfully, without resorting to spite.

It is the small spiteful mind that my attackers seek to lure, victimize, and destroy. The best defense? “Do not let yourself be conquered by the evil, but keep conquering the evil with the good.” - Romans 17:21. Rising above spite is the smartest defense! It will help us to avoid the regretful penalties of ill-advised spiteful retaliation . It also protects us from the harmful psychosomatic effects of harboring a spiteful attitude. It works!

The Price of Spite
Spiteful persons pay a heavy price for their actions. Bearing a grudge or hatred that breeds spite has well been termed “self-poison.” One cannot harbor hostility without reaping harmful psychosomatic effects. That is to say, what adversely affects the mind adversely affects the body and the bodily processes. The spiteful person hurts himself most. Those who torture their fellow man with directed energy weapons and gang-stalking do well to consider this. When spite is expressed as torture, its self destructive effects are intensified. “Our rich experience in Russia has shown that many (torturers) will become alcoholics or drug addicts, violent criminals or, at the very least, despotic and abusive fathers and mothers.” - Torture’s Long Shadow. This quote by Vladimir Bukovsky, a Russian author who spent nearly 12 years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and psychiatric hospitals for nonviolent human rights activities, reflects a truth that I’ve observed as well. Serial torture and harassment are self-destructive, unhealthy, and emotionally destabilizing occupations for the torturers. Many of them give evidence of serious alcohol abuse, drug dependency, and other behavioral problems no doubt aggravated by their profession. What they do ‘on-the-job’ spills over and poisons their health and personal lives. What a high price to pay for spite!

Some readers of my story have emailed and asked whether it is truthful to say that I (or anyone) has triumphed over victimization by directed energy weapons torture and gang-stalking even though the ordeal continues. What do you think?

Perhaps the following illustration will help you to see an enlightened view. Imagine you are told one day that you will be forced to play a basketball game against a team you’ve never met. In fact, you will be challenged by the same team every day. You cannot put any players on the court but yourself. However, the opposing team puts as many players in the game as it wants, cheats relentlessly, changes the rules to its advantage, and fouls you continually without penalty. They even stoop to harassing you at night in the hopes of making you too tired to play. Yet, in spite of these overwhelming and unfair odds, you find a way to win the game each day! Sometimes you win by a large margin. Some days the game is a struggle, and you win by only one point. Yet, you do win, each and every day against seemingly impossible odds.

Can you rightfully consider yourself a winner? Absolutely! You have become a champion against extraordinary odds! The fact that you will be forced to continue playing against this cruel team in no way diminishes your outstanding accomplishments!

This well illustrates the lives of solitary individuals targeted involuntarily by through-the-wall surveillance, torture and gang stalking. They are challenged on a daily basis by an unjust mob working in concert to attack, corrupt, and destroy. That mob will cheat, lie, and cruelly do whatever they can to win. They attack round-the-clock in an effort to make their prey too weak for the battle. Yet, on a daily basis, their victims confront the hurdles put before them, and overcome each one. They stay within the law despite intense provocation. They struggle to cope through tears and anguish. Yet, they continue to meet each test with admirable strength of character. Should their fine record be diminished or denied because the adversity continues? Never may that be so!

When we view the injustice we face as a daily challenge rather than one continuous battle the full scope of our accomplishments can be appreciated. On a daily basis, we prevail! Each day has its own struggles. Each day has its victories. The challenges we face continue only because our enemies have not prevailed in the daily battles against us! Even if the adversity is ongoing, without question it can truthfully be said that we have triumphed!

Gang stalking and related psychological warfare strategies are first and foremost attacks on our thinking and emotions. Therefore, coping successfully requires strengthening our emotional defenses and thinking ability. How you think largely determines how you respond. It is primarily your response to the attack that can destroy you, not the attack itself. After more than ten years as a victim of directed energy weapons and gang-stalking, I have developed a personal list of strategies that provide me with daily victories and a healthier outlook.

One of my favorite ways of coping is doing good to others. “There’s no shortage of research showing that people who give time, money, or support to others are more likely to be happy and satisfied with their lives—and less likely to be depressed.” Doing good to others provides measurable benefits to your own mental and physical health. For me, this means giving of my time and resources, looking for ways to help others. It really lifts my spirits and strengthens my emotional well being. I am forced to take the focus off my own problems by thinking about the needs of others. Also, it helps me to realize that no matter what I face, there are others who have worse circumstances in life than I do.

You may have opportunities to volunteer your time and assets to assist others. However, doing good to others does not always require dramatic or large acts of giving. Small acts of giving are just as beneficial. Plus, there are so many opportunities to do good in small ways on a daily basis. For example, making an extra effort to warmly greet and converse with people we meet during the day. Allowing someone who has less items in the checkout line while shopping to go ahead of you. Holding a door open for someone. Simply remembering to say “thank you” more often. Smiling at those we make contact with during the day. With a bit of effort, you can find numerous opportunities each day to do good to others. The beneficial effects of these small, kind acts adds up! As you derive more joy from doing good, it minimizes the impact of your own adversities.

Anyone who is a target of gang-stalking and directed energy weapons torture knows that on a daily basis, some of the people in close proximity will be part of the surveillance / harassment teams working against you. Should we do good to them as well? To the extent that you reasonably can, yes! (”But I say to you who are listening love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.” - Luke 6:27) Of course, we may not be inclined toward friendly conversation with someone who remorselessly tortures us. In this case, doing good may simply mean polite restraint from retaliation, and letting go of any anger or bitterness. It may mean keeping silent rather than responding in a hostile way.

Not all of those associated with these wicked schemes are of evil intent. Some are misled, working on false impressions; some work out of fear; some are simply doing what they must to earn a paycheck. By seeing your good example, they may well discern the lies motivating the attacks against you. It may make a powerful impression with them that returns unexpected benefits in small ways, making your situation easier to cope with. For example, there are numerous accounts of Germans in Nazi Germany who secretly extended acts of kindness toward the persecuted Jews and minorities while seemingly supporting the Regime. Additionally, by doing good you provide irrefutable evidence of the failure of their schemes to turn you into a bitter, broken person. You are also making the best mental and physical health decision for yourself when you do good to others. What better way is there to win the psychological war?

Doing good to others is also a way to cripple a key motive behind gang stalking—isolating the victim. Over time psychological attacks have the effect of shutting us down emotionally—we begin to withdraw “into a shell.” That eventually leads to our emotional isolation and self destruction. Making a conscious effort to do good to others effectively counteracts that tendency. We are much less likely to isolate ourselves emotionally if we are focused on the needs of others! This can be a powerful strategy in winning the psychological war.

In the coming weeks I will share more of the strategies that will help victims of psychological attacks to win the daily war!

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Health Benefits of Volunteering

Imagine possessing a powerful automobile with over 500 horsepower. Its handling characteristics, power, and speed make it one of the fastest vehicles you can buy. What will happen if the brakes are faulty and cannot not stop the vehicle? Or, what if the steering is highly inaccurate so that you cannot control the vehicle’s direction reliably? It will make all the speed and power of that automobile highly dangerous. After all, who will want to drive an automobile that cannot be controlled? Sooner or later it would lead to certain disaster!

So it is with the person who cannot develop self-control when faced with long-term abuse by through-the-wall directed energy weapons and psychological attacks that include gang-stalking. What good is his strength and other resources if he loses self-control under pressure and provocation? Truly, self-control is critical to avoiding a disastrous outcome! What is self-control? It is defined as “restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions or desires”; “the act, power or habit of having one’s faculties or energies, especially the inclinations and emotions under control.” It involves keeping ones motives and actions in check. Without such restraint you will be destroyed by the psychological war waged against you.

Admittedly, cultivating self-control can be a challenge for some. And this quality is severely tested  by the long-term psychological abuse inherent in directed energy weapons torture and gang-stalking. However, think of the long-term consequences if we fail to maintain self-control. When we lose control of our emotions, we give control of our lives to our persecutors. Restraint under provocation allows us to control the outcome of stressful encounters.

Controlling ones motives involves not allowing bitterness or anger to build up within you. An unrestrained temper leads to poor judgement and rash actions. In turn, if one’s feelings are kept under control we are far less likely to respond angrily, and foolishly to the daily psychological abuses and humiliations that face us. Really, self control is vital for our survival and success in prevailing against directed energy weapons harassment and gang-stalking!