After being a member of the spiritualist circle “Klöfverbladet”, Huldine Beamishn (1836-1892) founded the Edelweiss Society in 1890 together with her daughter Huldine Fock (1859-1931) and there seances, meditations and prayers were held. The daughter married Baron Carl Fock (1854-1938) in 1880 and they had five daughters. These were Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1882-1956), Mary von Rosen (1886-1967), Carin Göring (1888-1931), Lily Ida Sigrid Terese Martin (1890-1958) and Elsa von Fock (1883-1932).

“Mrs Beamish was born Swedish but after her marriage lived in Ireland for many years. Eventually, however, she separated from her husband and returned to Stockholm in the late 1870s. Here she came into contact with the circle around Bertha Valerius (1824-1895), an artist and one of Sweden’s first female photographers, who together with some friends had formed a small spiritualist circle, in the romantic flower language of the time called the “Klöfverbladet”. Huldine Beamish became the fourth “leaf” in the “clover”.” (Sökaren 1978, no. 8, Anna Nyman)

The Edelweiss Society had connections to the Theosophical Society, which was founded in Sweden in 1889 and whose founders were Gustaf Zander (1835-1920), Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) and the three women Carin Scholander (1830-1912), Amelie Cederschiöld (1853-1934) and Ellen Bergman (1842-1921). Viktor Rydberg is said to have never been a member himself, but the founding of the society was done in his home in Djursholm.

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) joined the Theosophists at the founding and was a member of the Edelweiss Society between 1896 and 1997. Mathilda Nilsson (1844-1923) joined the Stockholm Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1904 and was a member of the Edelweiss Society from its founding and left in 1896. Carl von Bergen (1838-1897) and the medium Bertha Valerius (1824-1895) were also active in Edelweiss. Anna Cassel (1860-1937) was initiated into the Edelweiss Society in 1896 and joined the Stockholm Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1904. Sigrid Hedman (1855-1922) joined Edelweiss early on and joined the Stockholm Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1904.

“The name of the Society, like “The Cloverleaf”, is typical of the flower symbolism of the time, and the foundress has here drawn a parallel between the edelweiss flower, which grows in the high, clean air close to the sky, and the higher knowledge that the members of the Society hoped to gain through spiritualistic means.” (Sökaren 1978, no. 8, Anna Nyman)

Huldine Fock took over as chairman of the Edelweiss Society after her mother’s death and her daughter Mary von Rosen took over in 1931. In 1905, Mary married Eric von Rosen (1879-1948) who was active in Swedish Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s and was one of the founders of the National Socialist Block which was founded in 1933. Mary was one of the founders of the Christian high church society Societas Sanctæ Birgittæ (SSB) in 1920 and became its first mother superior from 1920 to 1964. She thus mixed spiritualism (with its connection to Theosophy) and Christian faith. Mary and Eric had seven children, one of whom died early. Björn von Rosen (1905-1989), Carl Gustaf von Rosen (1909-1977), Birgitta Wolf (1913–2009), Egil von Rosen (1919-1995), Mary Silfverskiöld (1906-1993) and Anna von Rosen (1926-).

Mary Silfverskiöld (1906-1993) married Nils Silfverskiöld (1888-1957) and they had a daughter, Monica Silfverskiöld Getz (1934-), who founded the Coalition for Family Justice in 1988. Silfverskiöld and Silfverschiöld are two Swedish nobles of the same origin, and the baron, courtier and military man Carl-Otto Nils Henning Silfverschiöld (1899-1955) was a member of the Order of Johanniter (Protestant Order of Saint John aka Johanniterorden) and was the head of the family line. His son Nils-August Otto Carl Niclas Silfverschiöld (1934-2017) married into the royal family through Princess Désirée Elisabeth Sibylla Silfverschiöld (1938-) and their son Carl Otto Edmund Silfverschiöld (1965-) also became a Knight of the Johanniterorden.

Eric’s brother Clarence von Rosen (1867-1955) was also active in Swedish Nazism and in the Swedish-German National Association. His other brother Eugène von Rosen (1870-1950) became a commander in the Swedish Johanniterorden between 1945-1950 and whose daughter Elsa von Rosen (1904-1991) married into the royal family through Carl Bernadotte (1911-2003) and became a princess during the years 1937-1951. In a previous marriage she had a son Jan-Carl von Rosen (1929-2016) who was also a knight of the Johanniterorden (JohO). Reinhold von Rosen (1865-1946) who was a third brother was also a knight of the Johanniterorden and also a captain in the General Staff.

Before the war, Birgitta Wolf was a member of the Sveriges fascistiska kamporganisation (SFKO) but later in her life during the 1970s she became involved with more left-wing radical groups such as the Red Army Faction (RAF) when she went on a hunger strike in 1974 in protest against the isolation of RAF prisoners in Germany. Birgitta later became a patron of the organization Nordiska Kommitten för Mänskliga Rättigheter (Nordic Committee for Human Rights) (NKMR) where we also find the lawyer Lennart Hane. Birgitta wrote the book ‘Alexander A Seized Child’ (1986) where Brita Sundberg-Weitman wrote the foreword to the book.

“After the war, Birgitta then became a so-called national celebrity in West Germany as the “prisoners’ angel” when she became involved with criminals, internees and prisoners as well as homeless and abandoned children, children from orphanages and foster children. She was also active in Sweden after the war and, among other things, she participated in founding the National Association for the Humanization of Correctional Services (KRUM).” (tobiashubinette.wordpress)

“Birgitta Wolf has also actively participated in the fight against the thousands of unnecessary forced care of children in Sweden. At the slightest deviation from state-established upbringing standards, power-hungry social workers take the children from the good and caring parents (often the children are picked up with police assistance). The children are then placed in miserable foster homes. The foster parents very often neglect the children and have mostly taken in foster children only to receive the sky-high foster child benefits that are now paid in Sweden. The children have no or very little contact with their own parents. In this way, Swedish social authorities have broken up thousands of good and well-functioning families in Sweden. Birgitta Wolf has written a documentary book about one such case, “The Alexander Case – A Seized Child” (1986).” (NKMR patron, nkmr.org)

Another daughter of Carl and Huldine Fock was Carin Göring (1888-1931) who in her second marriage in 1923 married Hermann Göring (1893-1946) who belonged to the leadership of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) and was a founder of the Gestapo. Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff also had National Socialist beliefs and wrote a biography of her sister Carin which was used in Nazi propaganda.

“All five of her daughters, Fanny Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Elsa Fock, Mary von Rosen, Carin Göring and Lily Martin, eventually became active in the same sphere of interest as their mother and some of them also had strong mediumistic abilities. For example, there are a number of “spiritual messages” by Carin Göring among the writings of the association, but to her mother’s despair, Carin was almost torn in two between her attraction to the spiritual side of life and her passionate love for Hermann Göring and her loyalty to his ideals, which were also her own until the end.” (Sökaren 1978, no. 8, Edelweissförbundet, Anna Nyman)

Another member of the Edelweiss Society was Louise Adelborg (1885-1971), whose parents were Capt. Otto Ehrenfried Adelborg (1845-1900) and Jacquette Adelborg (De Geer af Finspång) (1855-1945). Jacquette’s brother was the baron and soldier Carl Gustaf Gerard De Geer (1859-1945), who was also a member of the Johanniterorden, and whose sons also became members.

“One of the members during this time was the artist Louise Adelborg (1885-1971), who became best known for the tableware she composed for Rörstrand, but whose lesser-known religiously inspired embroideries were her life’s work. They hang in churches and in private homes all over the country and symbolically tell of red, earthly love that is purified to whiteness in heavenly fire. Of the thorns of suffering that bloom in the end. Of the newborn Jesus child, “the pearl of the universe”, in the middle of the newly opened petals of the mystical rose.” (The Seeker 1978, no. 8, Anna Nyman)

Another knight was Gerard Rolf Holmar De Geer (1914-2010) and whose wife was Karin De Geer (1927-2017) and they lived in Stocksund in the same area as the theosophical villa called the Stocksund Colony where Sigfrid Fjellander (1899-1975) joined in 1920 and later became a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church (LKK). This is described in Ingrid Nyborg-Fjellander’s (1915-1992) book ‘The Smiling Bishop, a Modern Seeker’s Spiritual Adventures’ (1975).

“In the very first week of his contact with the Theosophists, the young student was invited to something called the ‘Stocksund Colony’. There, bonfire evenings were held in the living room on Sunday evenings in an old, charming villa. It was at Sturevägen 17 in Stocksund – a house that, incidentally, seems to be connected to our circles in a strange way. Several of its later owners and tenants have, without knowing it, had similar interests! I saw the villa myself in the spring of 1974 on a visit to the current owners, LKK friends Karin and Rolf de Geer, and was very moved to see the large living room and the small attic room, which on his birthday in 1920 became the young student’s own den! Here Sigfrid found a crowd of young people in their twenties with the same burning interest as him.” (The Smiling Bishop: The Spiritual Adventures of a Modern Seeker’, 1975, p25)

“During Mary von Rosen’s time, her high-church orientation came to characterize the union to a certain extent, whose chapel was consecrated in 1935 by Bishop Gustaf Aulen.” (Sökaren 1978, no. 8, Anna Nyman)

Gustaf Aulén (1879-1977) was a bishop and professor of theology and is considered one of the Lund theologians together with Anders Nygren (1890-1978) and Ragnar Bring (1895-1988). Aulén was a board member of ‘Samfundet Nordens Frihet’ (Association Nordic Freedom) in 1945, which was an association that operated between 1939 and 1946 and worked for unity between the Nordic countries during World War II. The association was affiliated with the Finland Committee led by Carl August Ehrensvärd (1892-1974) where volunteer Swedes assisted Finland in its fight against communism. Carl was Chief of the Defence Staff between 1945-47 and after the war was a representative in the steering group for Stay Behind in Sweden. He was connected to Alvar Lindencrona (1910-1981) who was also a leader and head of Stay Behind in Sweden between 1954-78. Alvar was a Knight of the Johanniterorden, as was Carl’s son Jörgen Ehrensvärd (1932-2024). Alvar was connected to Arthur Georg Nordenswan (1883-1970) who was also a volunteer during the Finnish Winter War under the leadership of Ernst Linder (1868-1943) who was also a Knight of the Johanniterorden.

At ‘Association Nordic Freedom’ we also find Eli Heckscher (1879-1952) and Yngve Larsson (1881-1977) and whose cousin was Halvar Sundberg (1894-1973) and whose children was Jacob W.F. Sundberg (1927-2023) and Brita Sundberg-Weitman who we find at Gustaf Petrén’s Civil Rights Movement and the Nordic Committee for Human Rights (NKMR). Gustaf Aulén and Yngve Larsson who were board members of Nordic Freedom also received the Norwegian award of the Order of Saint Olav.

After Mary von Rosen’s death in 1967, Ingrid af Ekenstam (1918-2000) took over the management of Edelweiss and Mary’s daughter Anna Nyman (von Rosen) wrote in the magazine ‘The Seeker’ (Sökaren) in 1978 that no medium remained in the society and that it was supposed to have ceased in 2004.

In 1996, the Nordic Committee for Human Rights (NKMR) was founded in Denmark, which worked to protect the rights of families in the Nordic countries and where the initiative came from Siv Westerberg and with representatives from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. NKMR worked against judgments that concerned forced care and foster care placement of children and what is called the ‘Act with special provisions on the care of young people (LVU)’ and where several lawyers and networks were connected to support the organization. A lawyer who joined was Lennart Hane (1931-2010) who was previously at the Religious Forum where he represented a number of new religious cults and who had previously been in a number of anti-communist societies such as the Swedish-Chilean Society and he was also active in the Civil Rights Movement. At a meeting at the NKMR it was informed that the Civil Rights Movement might be closed down and chairman Ruby Harrold-Claesson put forward a motion that it could instead be merged into the NKMR.

Within the NKMR the concept PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome) is used which was developed by Dr Richard Gardner (1931-2003) who was a child psychiatrist and witness expert in child custody disputes. He wrote a number of books such as Sex Abuse Hysteria: Salem Witch Trials Revisited (1990), True and False Accusations of Child Sex Abuse (1992) and Psychotherapy with Sex-Abuse Victims: True, False, and Hysterical (1996).

NKMR had annual meetings and at some of these meetings we find Max Scharnberg and Lena Hellblom Sjögren who gave various lectures and talked about the “psychology of lying” as they both represented theories of false memories in connection with child abuse accusations. Max Scharnberg was a contributor to the journal ‘Issues in Child Abuse Accusations’ published by Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield and who was a co-founder of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Lena Hellblom Sjögren published the book Secrets and Memories: Investigating the reliability of sexual crime cases (1997).

The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was founded in 1992 by a group of military doctors and psychologists who were previously involved in research into hypnosis, brainwashing, biochemical experiments, and political programming. The Board of Directors includes Dr. Martin T. Orne (1927-2000), Emily C. Orne, Margaret T. Singer (1921-2003), Harold I. Lief (1917–2007), David F. Dinges, Elizabeth F. Loftus (1944-), Paul R. McHugh (1931-), Richard Ofshe (1941-), Michael A. Persinger (1945-2018), James Randi (1928-2020), Ray Hyman (1928-), Ralph Underwager (1929-2003), Hollida Wakefield, and Louis Jolyon West (1924-1999). Several of these were affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania.

“The FMSF was created by Pamela and Peter Freyd, after their adult daughter Jennifer Freyd accused her father of sexual abuse when she was a child. The FMSF described its purpose as the examination of the concept of false memory syndrome and recovered memory therapy and advocacy on behalf of individuals believed to be falsely accused of child sexual abuse.” (wiki)

Dr. Martin T. Orne studied hypnosis and hypnotic states such as “trance logic” and “subjective states of mind” and worked with Project MKUltra Subproject 84 which received funding from the CIA and founded the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania which also received funding from the Human Ecology Fund and the Scientific Engineering Institute (CIA). He also researched multiple personality disorder. Orne is also said to have worked with Donald Ewen Cameron (1901-1967) at the Allan Memorial Institute in Canada. Cameron originally came from Scotland where he worked at the Glasgow Royal Mental Hospital and where we can also find Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) who worked at the Tavistock Clinic in London and who researched psychosis and schizophrenia.

“the apparent tendency of hypnotized individuals to engage simultaneously in logically contradictory or paradoxical thoughts and perceptions and to be oblivious to their incongruity. It has been suggested that trance logic represents evidence of parallel processing in that there appears to be simultaneous registration of information at different levels of awareness” (wiki)

His wife Emily C. Orne was a co-founder of the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry and studied “hypnotic susceptibility and sleep patterns to memory reconstruction…”. (isgp-studies.com)

Margaret T. Singer (1921-2003) studied brainwashing in the 1950s on captured soldiers at the Walter Reed Institute in Washington and later studied cults and sects such as the Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians, the Unification Church and the Symbionese Liberation Army. She became director of the Cult Awareness Network and served on the board of the American Family Foundation and wrote the book Cults in Our Midst (1996).

Harold I. Lief (1917-2007) was a colleague of Martin T. Orne who consulted him on studies in hypnotic programming and behavioral modification experiments at the University of Pennsylvania.
He was also the personal psychiatrist of the Freyd family and did not believe that sexual abuse had occurred.

David F. Dinges was at the Martin T. Orne Unit for Experimental Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and is a researcher in sleep and has been at several institutes such as the World Sleep Federation, Sleep Research Society, National Sleep Foundation, etc.

Elizabeth F. Loftus (1944-) is a critic of “recovered memory therapies” and has written books such as The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (1994) and Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial (1992).

Richard Ofshe’s (1941-) interests lie in “coercive social control, social psychology, influence in police interrogation, and influence leading to pseudo-memory in psychotherapy”. Richard, an expert in coercive mind control and cult persuasion techniques, believes that “Recovered memory therapy” is quackery and he works as a consultant as an expert witness and defends those accused of child abuse.

Michael A. Persinger, a professor of psychology, conducted research in the brain and tried to locate centers that had an effect such as parapsychological phenomena and “mystical” experiences and believed that UFO experiences had their effect through geomagnetism.

James Randi was an atheist, skeptic and founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and co-founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP). Involved with James Randi was the psychologist Ray Hyman, who was a co-founder of CSICOP.

Ralph Underwager was the director and founder of the Institute for Psychological Therapies and founder of the lobby group Victims of Child Abuse Laws and a co-founder of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and a defense attorney for people accused of child abuse. Ralph argued in court that children’s allegations of abuse were the product of brainwashing by social workers who used “Communist thought reform techniques” to force children to make up stories of abuse against their parents. Hollida Wakefield was Ralph’s wife and together they published the journal ‘Issues in Child Abuse Allegations’. (source, Isgp-studies.com)

Louis Jolyon West was a psychologist and involved in the CIA’s MKUltra project in the 60s involving LSD. This was at Cornell University which was also the location of the Human Ecology Fund. Documents from Louis were “Psychophysiological Studies of Hypnosis and Suggestibility” and “Studies of Dissociative States”. He previously studied brainwashing techniques used during the Korean War and also how cults were created and maintained and sat on the American Psychiatric Association panel on cults. He was also involved in the Macy Foundation.

A secretary in NKMR is Elisabeth Scheffer who runs her own law firm in Stockholm and when NKMR held its 20th anniversary in 2016 they were able to hold it in Ridddarhuset (House of Nobility, where the Swedish nobility gathers) because she is married into the noble Scheffer family. Her husband Henrik Scheffer was the son of Carl Gustaf Ivar Scheffer (1904-1992) and Märta Knutsdotter Leijonhufvud (1907-1989) and whose uncle was Carl Gunnar Ulrik Scheffer (1909-1981) who was a chamberlain and member of the Johanniterorden. In the Leijonhufvud family we find several members of the Johanniterorden such as Brother Abraham Axel Stensson Leijonhufvud (1894-1972), Axel Gustaf Carlsson Leijonhufvud (1898-1988), Tage Knutsson Leijonhufvud (1905-1999) and Sten Knut Arthur Carlsson Leijonhufvud (1916-2009).

Connected to the NKMR and its speakers is the Foundation “Friends of the Rule of Law” (Rättsstatens vänner) which was founded by Anders Agell and where we find Rigmor Robert, Brita Sundberg-Weitman, Bertil Wettergren and Thérèse Juel among others. At a seminar with the Friends of the Rule of Law with the theme ‘Legal certainty in the balance – law and psychology’ we find Lena Hellblom-Sjögren, Stig Centerwall, Minna Gräns ​​and professor of neurophysiology Germund Hesslow.

“In connection with the debate about repressed memories, which played a major role in the verdicts against Thomas Quick, among others, Hesslow emphasized that the claims about repressed memories of sexual abuse lacked scientific basis.” (wiki)

Juel is a journalist and author who has published the book Convicted for Sex Offenses – about legal cases in Sweden (2010) and the study Accused – is the court process fair for defendants in sexual crimes? which she published after a scholarship from the Friends of the Rule of Law Foundation. Juel’s father was the military man Ulf Björkman (1924-2021) and her grandfather was a military man in the General Staff and the Defense Staff and a Knight of the Order of the Sword. Her father was previously married to Brita Nordenskiöld (1919-1971) and who was the daughter of the military man Bengt Nordenskiöld (1891-1983) who was a Commander of the Order of the German Eagle. Brita had a short marriage to Prince Ferdinand of Liechtenstein (1901-1981) and had a son Hanno von Liechtenstein (1941-2003) who was Chancellor of the Scandinavian Association of the Sovereign Order of Malta (Catholic) and whose son Prince Andreas von und zu Liechtenstein became President between 2008-2014.

Anders Agell (1930-2008) was the representative of two doctors who were accused of a murder of the prostitute Catrine da Costa (1980’s) but who were later acquitted and through a legal process tried to recover their credentials that they had lost and also get compensation for the suffering they had endured. At a seminar about the so-called murder case held by Anders Agell in 2008, former Ombudsman Bertil Wennergren and Professor Bill W. Dufwa were there as experts with Carl-Axel Petri (1929-2017) as moderator. Carl-Axel was a childhood friend and classmate of Anders and came from the baronial family of Wrede af Elimä through his mother. In this family we also find members of the Johanniterorden such as Count Fabian Casper Fredrik Fabiansson Wrede (1874-1943) and Fabian Jakob Casimir Wrede (1901-1985).

The Swedish journalist Dan Josefsson made a documentary about the Catrine da Costa case called The Swedish Massacre (2024) for Swedish Television (Public Service). In the documentary, Dan is assisted by the expert in psychology Pär Anders Granhag, who is a professor at the University of Gothenburg. Pär Anders is a researcher in cognitive psychology who deals with decision-making, judgments, memory and meta-memory, where he has researched various forensic psychology issues and assessments of credibility and reliability (the psychology of lying). He also teaches forensic psychology, memory psychology and social psychology. Pär Anders has published research together with Leif A Strömwall, who researches “reliability assessments of children’s testimonies” and “blaming rape victims”.

Pär Anders was behind the report “The confrontation interviews in the Catrine da Costa case: Some forensic psychology observations.” which was used in the documentary to show that some of the witnesses’ memories in the trial against the two accused doctors were not to be trusted. The documentary was criticized by journalist Lars Borgnäs, who is familiar with the Catrine da Costa case, where he says that this report that Pär Anders was behind was made on behalf of the Friends of the Rule of Law Foundation in Uppsala, which was founded by Anders Agell, who was also the legal representative of the accused doctors.

The psychotherapist and author Rigmor Robert also supported the two doctors in the Catrine da Costa case who she believes were wrongly accused, and she has also been interested in various sects, such as the Filadelfiaförsamling in Knutby which involved a murder and an attempted murder. Knutby was founded in 1921 by a group belonging to the Pentecostal church (Pingströrelsen) and later we also find a pastor from the Livets Ord church in Uppsala who is also associated with our current Christian party, the Christian Democrats, which came from the Christian Democratic Union (KDS). Rigmor started the ‘Sectpodden’ podcast in 2019 together with Emma Gembäck, who was a former member and pastor of Knutby Filadelfiaförsamling, where they talk about different sects and cult leaders.

Patrik Nyberg interviewed Siv Westerberg in the Contra magazine (2003, no. 3) where she talked about her law firm in Gothenburg that specialized in the law on the care of young people (LVU). Contra, founded by members of the political organization Democratic Alliance, came from a breakaway from the Committee for a Free Asia and which had a connection to the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Another article in Contra by Patrick (2014, no. 1) was titled “Psychoanalysis and the bluff with repressed memories”. Patrick wrote an article in the online magazine Newsvoice with the headline “Victims of ritual murder fantasies must be redressed” (Aug, 2009) which deals with reports of ritual abuse that occurred during the 1980s and 90s and what he believes are “wandering legends about child sacrifice in Satanist sects” and that the victims of these claims never received any redress. He writes that few people dared to question the dogma of repressed memories where adults in therapy suddenly had memories of sexual abuse committed several years earlier.

Patrick has also written in the magazine Dispatch International where Ingrid Carlqvist is editor-in-chief and who has also written about Parental Alienation Syndrome and false memories. Ingrid was vice-chair of Det Fria Sverige (Free Sweden) which was founded in 2017 and which was founded by Dan Eriksson who is also chairman of Europa Terra Nostra which is connected to the Alliance for Peace and Freedoms (APF) where Stefan Jacobsson was secretary general. Vice-chair is Nick Griffin and several European organizations are members such as Forza Nuova (Italy) and more. Det Fria Sverige also runs the podcast Motgift where we previously found Jonas De Geer. This baron from the noble family ‘De Geer af Finspång’ is said to be an introducer of the Catholic SSPX into Sweden (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii X).

The former police officer, judge and Right Wing (Moderaterna) MP Anti Avsan attended a seminar held by the association “Dad-Child”, together with Ingrid Carlqvist, Maria Oldberg, Pelle Billing, Birgitta Hållenius and Michael Alonzo, where they lobbied for the introduction of PAS (Parental Alienation Syndrome) to be used as a basis for assessment in Swedish legislation and in the courts. Avanti, together with the former police officer Hillevi Engström, has tried to introduce an “Australian” model in custody disputes through the Right Wings partys future equality program. Anti Avsan also visited Australia in 2008 with a study visit to the Attorney General’s Department in Canberra, the High Court of Australia in Canberra and the Family Court of Australia where they studied how family law problems are handled.

NKMR submitted reports to the European Parliament for investigations into the forced detention of children which they believe are made on incorrect grounds and this was done through the steering committee of NKMR and a network of lawyers, former judges, professors of psychology and doctors who had these reports signed. One signatory was Anita Ankarcrona who is a literary and linguistic scholar and who also published articles at NKMR about forced detention of children and human rights. Anita was also included in the book “Politisk korrekthet på svenska” (Political Correctness in Swedish) which was published in 1998 and had Pierre Kullbom and Per Landin as editors. The book was a collection of conservative authors who wrote against today’s political correctness where Anita’s contribution was called ‘Feminism as political farce’. Other contributors to this book were Per Beskow, Jonas De Geer, and Rigmor Robert (Sectpodden) and several other authors. Per Beskow whose title was ‘Who is a fundamentalist?’ also previously participated in Religious Forum and in Björn Sahlin’s book Religious Freedom – for whom? : new religions meet society (1979).

Anita’s husband Henric Ankarcrona wrote debate articles on Det Goda Samhället (The Good Society) which is a conservative and right-wing online publication founded in 2015 by Patrik Engellau and who previously founded the think tank Den Nya Välfärden (The New Welfare) in 1988. At this think tank we previously found Ian Wachtmeister (1932-2017) who founded the party New Democracy. In this family we find a large number of members of the Johanniterorden, such as Count and Member of Parliament Hans Wachtmeister (1913-1995) and who was also a member of Ulf Hamacher’s Order of St. Michael. His son Count Hans Wachtmeister (1940-) was a knight and also Ian’s brother Tom Wachtmeister (1931-2011) and a large number of others from this family. Henric Ankarcrona was a Commander of the Johanniterorden between 2010 and 2021, and his father Sten Theodor Stensson Ankarcrona (1904-1981) and grandfather Sten Johan Theodor Claës Ankarcrona (1861-1936) were also knights. Another member was Theodor Christofer Ankarcrona (1885-1960).

In this noble family ‘Wachtmeister af Johannishus’ we also find the count and foreign minister Carl Wachtmeister (1823-1871) who married Constance (de Bourbel) Wachtmeister (1838-1910) in 1863 and who 8 years after her husband’s death became interested in spiritualism and later joined the Theosophical Society in 1881. She became a friend and collaborator of Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891) and contributed to the work on The Secret Doctrine. She is also said to have served as a liaison between Swedish and international theosophy.

Also present at the symposium at NKMR was the civil engineer, debater and politically active Ove Svidén (1937-2020). He published the book Unity: the new era, the new man, the new politics (1994) which was published by Regnbågsförlaget and he was politically active in the Unity party. He also appeared in a section of the book The Great Awakening – An Anthology of Us and Our Earth (1998) with Mona Lodén as editor under the Gaia New World Vision Foundation.

Svidén was involved in LVU cases (Act with special provisions on the care of young people) and published the book LVU: profitable municipal human trafficking (2013) where the whole thing is described as a “beautiful facade” behind which “kidnapped children are exploited as merchandise in the municipalities’ profitable human trafficking” (wiki).

In addition to an education and work as a civil engineer in aeronautics and futurologist in traffic, he had an interest in the spiritual side through texts by Danish philosopher Martinus (1890-1981), Margaret Mead (1901-1978), Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and Wolfgang von Goethe’s (1749-1832) holistic sciences.

“Much later in my life I come across the texts from the Danish philosopher Martinus, who spoke about a future sexuality, beyond the “zone of unhappy marriages,” when intimate man-woman relations would be more of nearness, touching and caressing than of intercourse. Furthermore, when I came across the book Tau Sexology, it contained a description of the art of lovemaking without ejaculation. When reading that passage, I realized that already as a 14 year boy I had received that insight; Literary, first hand!” (peace.se, web archive)

Ove tells in his biography that he traveled a lot through his job and came into contact with a number of interesting people such as Willis Harman (1918-1997) at the Stanford Research Institute in California and Erich Jantsch (1929-1980) at the Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm whom he invited to give lectures at SAAB at the University of Linköping. Jantsch sat as an executive committee member of the Club of Rome and wrote several books on spiritual visions such as The Self-Organizing Universe (1979), Self Realization Through Self Transcendence (1976) etc.

“Willis Harman, was a person that I met first at Stanford Research Institute in California, before he left for a more free life as an author and philosopher. He informed about the ideas on a Noetic Institute to be formed. We exchanged letters and met a couple of times. He made a speech on human values ​​evolving at the women’s association Hertha in Stockholm. In 1984, I asked him to assist me as chairman at the coming World Futures Conference in Washington DC, when I first presented my ideas on an intelligent and safe road traffic. I attended one of his Business Academy seminars in Ascot, to learn more about Harman’s ethical and spiritual endeavors. He and his books helped me structure the need for a new holistic science.” (peace.se, web archive)

Ove, who was involved in futures studies, met Sten Wandel who invited him to the international ‘Futures of the Automobile’ study, initiated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wandel was, among other things, at the Swedish National Defense Research Institute working with economics and future studies and an expert on the UN’s global goals for a sustainable society.

Ove was invited to Ingemar Wärnström’s University for Global Well-Being which started in 1998. The university held a “virtual university” where the eco-philosopher Henryk Skolimowski (1930-2018) gave lectures to a number of students. Henryk was vice president of the Teilhard Society in London during the 1980s and was at the Program on Technology and Culture of UNESCO between 1976-78 and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature between 1981-86 and was the founder of the Eco-Philosophy Center based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. in 1981. Also connected to the university was Dr. Amit Goswami who gave a lecture on ‘quantum physics’ and Dr. Doris Jeanette on ‘New Psychology’. We find Goswami at places like the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Chopra Foundation.

“I would like to contribute to the association’s goals with my experiences from 20 years of trying to contribute to a better world. In 1994 I arranged Sweden’s first free energy symposium with Dr. H.E. Puthoff as the keynote speaker. In 1996 I started the worldview association CANHELP with the aim of getting us out of the trap of mechanistic science, and in 1998 I started the University for Global Well-Being in Höör in Skåne (later Holma College) to lay the foundation for a human education.” (Ingemar Wärnström)

Ingmar also had the book publisher ‘Insikt’ and published the book “Slowly we wake up and see who controls our world” in 2014. Published by the book publisher in 1993 with Ingmar as translator into Swedish we also find the book Voice of the Child: about sexual abuse of children written by Madge Bray who was behind SACCS (Sexual Abuse: Child Consultancy Service).

Ove was connected to David Lorimer’s Scientific and Medical Network where a speech was given that he called “Peace-in-mind as a healer” in 2005 at their meeting in Germany. Lorimer was a former president of George Trevelyan’s Wrekin Trust and Swedenborg Society (Vice-President). He was at Horizon Research Foundation, Integral Institute (Ken Wilber), Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and is listed as one of the founders of the International Futures Forum (think tank with funding from a large number of companies including World Economic Forum). (sourcewatch)

Ove became president of the World Peace Foundation in 2001 which was founded in 1999 by Mr Chun Dam Master and where we also find Jade Ekström.

“Then I met a film producer Billy Larrabure. He planned to make 12 feature films on Spiritual Awakening. He invited me to join World Peace Foundation, formed 1999 in New York County. Together we started to dream about a Sound of Peace film. I was assigned a title as Managing Director. However, by June 2001 the fund raising failed. Then the WPF founder Chan Dam Master assigned me to the new position of President of World Peace Foundation! I was invited to a UN conference in Colorado that should give our Foundation a prestigious status as a Non-Government Organization on the UN-list.” (peace.se, web archive)

“World Peace Foundation was founded as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, 501(c) 3, in New York County in January, 1999. Mr Chun Dam Master is the founder of WPF. Mrs. Jade Ekström member of the Advisory Group, Planetary Citizen, United Nations, New York.” (peace.se, web archive)

Jade Gerd Ekström (1920-2018) joined the Swedish-American Society in 1959 where she received a lifetime membership until her death. The club later changed its name to The American Club of Sweden. Through her membership in the club, she came into contact with American ambassadors and diplomats to Sweden, and at the club we find Marianne Bernadotte who was married to Prince Sigvard Bernadotte (1907-2002) of the Swedish royal family, and with whom Jade came to work for 18 years with his industrial design and business assignments.

Jade told about her UFO experiences that started in the late 1940s and are described in the book Aliens on our Earth – UFO contacts in Sweden (2009) written by Håkan Blomqvist and published by Parthenon förlag. These took place both in Sweden and in Mexico where she moved in 1956 with her then husband Frank Gebhart.

Jade became spiritual in the 70s and became the leader of the group “The Lilies” which was an I AM movement and Summit Lighthouse related group with its connection to the “White Brotherhood”. The group had a gathering at Kväkargården in Stockholm but we can also read that they rented the Swedenborg Church at Tegnerlunden in Stockholm for gatherings every Saturday. Jade described the group The Lilies as “an association for interdisciplinary research and interpretation of the symbolic language of the Bible”. The I AM movement was founded in the 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878-1939) and Anne Wheeler Ballard (1886-1971) as a theosophical related group and with channelings of ascended Masters. The Ballards had members who were recruited from William Dudley Pelley’s (1890-1965) fascist organization, the Silver Legion of America and he borrowed from his occult teachings.

“- The Lilies belong to no larger movement and are not a group with limitations, says Jade. But we hope that according to the wishes of the higher spheres we can tie together the threads of brotherhood between all I AM conscious, I Am and Summit Lighthouse.” (THE LILIES ‘I Am’ The Seeker 1978, No. 3)

“Something absolutely unbelievable happened to me, when I was on holiday in Spain in the seventies. I was just going to have lunch. My hotel room had a large terrace that I walked across. Suddenly a golden ray thicker then a telephone cable came in the direction of Egypt over the sky of the Mediterranean and hit me. The power of the golden ray forced me on my knees. I did not understand what had happened to me. I felt like a burning bush. Not until I came back to Sweden and started to receive channelled messages, did I understand that the power of the golden ray had opened up the communication through me between our world and the Higher Worlds. One day I was sitting with a blank sheet of paper in front of me and had a ball point pen in my hand
ready to write to my children. Very suddenly my hand began to write automatically…” (Who AM I within ME, Jade Gerd Ekström, Siljans Måsar Publisher)

Jade became the Swedish representative for the Planetary Initiative for the World We Choose and worked for 20 years at the UN office in New York. “17 – 21 June 1983, around 475 people from 20 countries gathered in The First Planetary Congress in Toronto, Canada, a congress arranged by the Planetary Initiative. Jade Ekström was invited as a Swedish delegate.” (Sökaren 1983, no. 10)

Ove Svidén belonged to the political party Unity, which was founded in 1990 by Ulf Wåhlström and which was based on a spiritual worldview. As a representative of the party, he published the book ‘Unity: new times, new man, new politics’ (Regnbågsförlaget, 1994) with a cover painted by Åsa Freij who was a reporter for the magazien The Seeker (Sökaren) for many years. The book Enhet also received international support from the book Spiritual Politics (1994) which presented shared spiritual ideas. That book was written by Corinne McLaughlin (1947–2018) and Gordon Davidson. Corinne can be found at the Center for Visionary Leadership, World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation and several other NGOs.

“Ove Sviden also says that a new spiritual idea works its way through many people. That is why we find that new thoughts appear simultaneously in several different contexts. Thoughts that Unity has are also found in the American book on spiritual politics.
– We humans can experience it as if I have got an idea, when it is rather a question of a spiritual idea from a higher common “I”, which has got hold of people willing to act as mouthpieces.” (Sökaren 1995, no. 1)

Ulf Wåhlström had an interest in quantum physics, philosophy, psychology and esotericism and before the 1991 parliamentary election received help from Gary Zukav with a lecture tour to promote the party. Gary wrote several books such as Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (1979) and he was one of the founders of the Seat of the Soul Institute and a Former Fellow at the World Business Academy.

The Unity Party had its headquarters at Rinkesta Castle in Södermanland and also functioned as a spiritual center where they held courses in personal development and in A Course in Miracles written by Helen Schucman (1909-1981) together with William Thetford (1923-1988). A Course in Miracles finds its similarity between channeled information and with Christian Science, Theosophy, Gnosticism and transpersonal psychology. At Rinkesta we also find Gunilla Wigertz, Thorbjörn Eriksson, Leif Jönsson, Curt Källman, Per Dahlström and Hans-Jörgen Gerloff.

William Thetford’s parents were Christian Science parents and he trained in psychology and pre-medicine and was a student and research assistant to Carl Rogers (1902-1987) known for his humanistic psychology and who sat on the board of the Human Ecology Fund during the 50s and 60s which did covert research on brainwashing techniques and “truth drugs” (wiki). William also worked at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago doing research on schizophrenic patients and their response to the Rorschach inkblot test. This was under Dr. Samuel Beck (1896-1980). Between 1954-55 he was at the Institute of Living in Hartford Connecticut as Directorship of the Psychology Department. He was then offered the position of Chief Psychologist at the Society for the Study of Human Ecology by Harold G. Wolff (1898-1962) and stayed there between 1955-57. At the Human Ecology Fund, they studied “techniques for getting information out of people without their co-operation”.

He later became Associate Professor of Medical Psychology and Director of the Division of Clinical Psychology at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital and it was there that he met Helen Schucman which led to the writing of A Course in Miracles some years later. Helen’s mother was interested in Theosophy, Christian Science and the Unity School of Christianity. A Course in Miracles is published by The Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP) in New York.

One of the people who interviewed Ove Svidén about his book ‘Communal Human Trafficking’ was the lawyer Henning Witte who runs his channel White TV. Witte was also at a symposium at NKMR where he gave a lecture on mind control and how it is used to break down the family through technology and where he goes through the CIA’s MkUltra program. His lecture was entitled “Mind Control and forced care of children” and mentions technology as the cause but shows ignorance of NKMR’s own connections to sects and cults and also spreads the UFO movement’s beliefs about reptiloids.

Attending the symposium at NKMR was Ditta Rietuma who is a friend of Lars Rutger Solstråhle (who was previously connected to the Swedenborg Church) and together with Leif Erlingsson they have started the Viking club ‘Gudalandet’ (Godland). They became famous in Sweden and ended up on newspaper headlines around the country when they wanted to hang some local politicians in their self-made court and had built an execution site with a gallows for this purpose. They were later sentenced to a short prison sentence for unlawful threats.

Stieg Larsson (1954-2004), who is known for his Millennium book series (Men Who Hate Women (2005), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) and The Air Castle That Was Blown Up (2007)), also published the book The Far Right (1991) (Extremhögern) together with Anna-Lena Lodenius, which describes the history of Swedish fascism and Nazism and also addresses networks within the World Anti-Communist League, the Order of St. Michael, Resistance International, the Civil Rights Movement and the magazine Contra. Blogger Erik Rodenborg, who met Stieg, says that he tried to infiltrate NKMR and that he had collected material about the organization.

“I met him in a café and he started to present this material. He had an impressive collection of facts about, among other things, NKMR (the “Nordic Committee for Human Rights”, an organization that specializes in defending parents accused of child abuse) and he completely shared my opinion – that organizations like these had a hidden agenda. We completely agreed that they were at least as keen to defend the guilty as they were to defend the “innocent” – and that is what he wanted to prove through his project.” (kiremaj70.blogspot.com)