BETRAYAL OVERTANGLE copyright Judith A. Swack, Ph.D. 2007
Abbreviated description and protocol for ACEP conference 2016
An Overtangle is a toxic belief system caused by cultural brainwashing that forms a
network of negative energy so extensive that it contaminates large organizations and
societies for millennia (Swack 2008). These toxic belief systems are so evil that they are
sometimes described as networks of supernatural entities from the dark, i.e. demonic
networks, (Baldwin, 1995). In fact, Overtangles cause depression and the feeling that
“life is hopeless, so give up, don’t bother.” Ultimately, they cause needless human
suffering, waste our talent and potential, and dishonor the purpose of our very creation
and existence.
How do Overtangles sabotage people?
Overtangles use seven typical strategies to stop people.
Strategy 1. Harmful Message. It sends a harmful and illogical message or set of
messages that one believes and doesn’t even think about because the message saturates
the culture and environment. (For example, in the Gender Overtangle the message is
“Women are inferior to men.”)
Strategy 2. Hiding Strategies. It induces hiding strategies to prevent one from really
getting out there in the world and to prevent one from finding and clearing the
Overtangle. Overtangles rely strongly on hiding strategies to avoid detection because they
are easy to clear (by using a prayer intervention) once they are found.
Strategy 3. Harm Yourself and Other People Strategies. Overtangles cause people to
generate strategies for harming themselves and others. Examples include: Ignoring
one’s own needs, repressing pain, being hypercritical, setting unattainable goals, letting
someone else make important life decisions for you, etc.
Strategy 4. Story with Characters. The Overtangle creates an evil but convincing
story/script whose theme is that it is hopeless to even try to pursue one's soul mission, so
give up, don’t bother. Each Overtangle has its own specific set of standard characters,
possibly including aberrant definitions of God, a Greek chorus, a narrator, and audience
participation. Clients play out the stories and the roles of all the characters with other
people in their lives (who they also perceive to be these characters). What makes these
stories feel so real is that the Overtangle binds to a grain of truth about people's lives,
then twists, distorts and magnifies the problems to mythic proportions. In addition,
Satan’s work force is oriented to disconnecting people from God so that they can seduce
people more easily into converting to the dark side. One clever way to do that is to tell
people that there is something wrong/frightening about God.
Strategy 5. The Pouch. Overtangles seal people in a pouch like a ziploc bag that is
closer to their body than their normal three-foot personal boundaries. This way it claims
to be one’s identity and reality. The pouch may be shrink-wrapped to the skin (one client
called it vacuum-packed) or located several inches from the body. The Overtangle may
also coat all the mucous membranes that line the body’s interface to the world including
the eyes, eustachian tubes of the ears, sinuses, trachea and lungs, the whole gut lining
from mouth to anus, vagina and uterus, urethra and bladder.
Strategy 6. Mockery Messages. Overtangles send people insulting, degrading messages
meant to make them feel worthless and insignificant. These mockery messages are
triggered just when they are on the verge of taking important positive action towards their
soul mission. An important diagnostic symptom of a mockery message is that one
moment they feel energized and motivated to take action. Then they hear the voice of the
mockery message, and all the energy drains out of their body from their throat out their
anus. This feeling causes them to sink back in their chair and feel unmotivated to move
ahead with their plans. Example: “You are too old, fat, and ugly to ever be loved,” or
“Your soul work is meaningless and ridiculous.”
Strategy 7. The Seduction Contract. The Overtangle catches a person at the moment of
trauma in which he concludes that there is something terribly and hopelessly wrong with
himself or with life. The Overtangle agrees and tells him that the situation is even worse
than he thinks. The Overtangle tells the person that it is the only one in the whole
universe that can fix the problem. The Overtangle will gladly do so in exchange for
payment of the person’s best qualities, and loyal service by continuing to generate the
Overtangle story and by harming him/herself and others. As part of the contract, some
Overtangles additionally threaten to directly punish the person if he disobeys the contract.
THE BETRAYAL OVERTANGLE
The Betrayal Overtangle does its job by preventing people from:
 following their true soul path,
 making their true soul contribution,
 and making a good living doing their soul work.
It causes people to fight who they really are.
This is a story of prostitution of the soul (and in some cases the body) in which
money is used to control others. The main characters are the rich provider, dependant
spouse, spoiled brat, helpless child, and sometimes other child characters. This story is
gender neutral, i.e. I’ve seen both men and women play the rich provider and both men
and women play the dependant spouse. Since it is more common in world cultures for
the man to be the rich provider and the woman to be the dependant spouse, I describe the
basic story that way.
A woman marries a man whom she expects will make the money and support the
family so she won’t have to work. Sometimes she had a profession that she gave up
when she got married, or continues to work in a job or professional career, but makes less
money than the man. She may be raising children and feel entitled to be supported
financially, but in this story her husband doesn’t consider that work because it doesn’t
bring in any money. She may have no children, but just expects her husband to support
her. In some cases, the Overtangle story doesn’t show itself until the woman, who was
working, quits her job (often at the suggestion of her husband.) After just a few months
he starts having an affair or becomes abusive and calls her a parasite.
In any case husband and wife do not have a happy, healthy relationship of equals.
I’ve seen examples of this pattern that are very dark, i.e. the husband is cheating on the
wife and molesting all his children, and still she stays with him. I’ve seen examples of
this pattern that are mild i.e. the husband is merely emotionally distant. In the white
collar version of this Overtangle, the husband is often a wealthy businessman, financier,
or other professional, and the wife is expecting a life of luxury. In the blue collar version,
the husband doesn’t make much money, the wife may even need to work, but they stay
together for survival and security. Regardless of how this pattern played out in the
client’s life, everyone in this Overtangle feels betrayed.
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The Rich Provider feels resentful that he has to give up his freedom or his life
ambitions to provide financially for his family. He perceives his non-working
(i.e. non money-earning) wife and children as parasites. He also feels that he is
not getting the service he’s paying for from his family. He is often overtly and
verbally angry. He feels entitled to be abusive and knows that he can get away
with any kind of bad behavior (including incest, alcoholism, gambling,
unfaithfulness, domestic violence, etc.) because he’s the one making the money
and everyone else is dependant or bought. He also is secretly anxious that he will
not be able to continue to provide and wishes someone else would provide for
him. There is a power struggle between the Rich Provider and all the Dependants
(spouse and children).
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The Dependant Spouse feels betrayed because she gave up her soul and her life
in order to be provided for and resentful that now she has to serve everyone in the
family. She also feels offended because she is expected to tolerate mistreatment
and serve the rich provider in distasteful ways. She demonstrates her anger by
being passive aggressive and withholding the service she’s being asked to
provide. In some cases she even feels guilty that she is spending the Rich
Provider’s money because she “isn’t loving her husband the way he needs to be
loved and he’d be better off finding another wife who could love him properly.”
The Dependant Spouse may also feel betrayed by the Spoiled Brat who doesn’t
care if mother is miserable in the marriage. The Spoiled Brat is getting private
school, a nice house, designer clothes, and a car for her 16th birthday. The
Spoiled Brat doesn’t want her mother to divorce her father. In several cases where
there was a divorce, the Spoiled Brat chose to live with the father (even if he is an
alcoholic or a gambler) because he makes the money.
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The Spoiled Brat feels betrayed because he/she is getting money instead of
genuine love, affection or attention from the Rich Provider who often uses the
excuse he’s too busy earning a living to spend any time with his family. The
spoiled brat feels entitled to be taken care of by everyone and won’t make a real
effort to take care of him/herself while he/she can live off of someone else’s
money or get financially bailed out after being irresponsible with money.
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The Helpless Child feels betrayed because he/she’s not getting loving attention
from the Rich Provider. He/she feels betrayed by the dependant spouse who does
nothing about neglect or abuse including sexual, physical, verbal, or emotional
abuse because the dependant spouse has been bought. The attitude of the
Dependant Spouse is, “I don’t want to rock the boat.” Or “I don’t know who to
believe, my husband who denies he’s done anything wrong or my child” (who
has told her about or shown signs of abuse.)

Aberrant definition of God. When there is a God in this story, God decided to
create Man because he was all by himself, and he wanted company. Light is the
substance of which God is made. So, God took a portion of his light to make his
creation. Since God is not infinite, he now has a hole in him that needs to be filled
back in with God’s creation in order to be whole. God feels that the human
beings he created are entitled parasites who expect God to take care of them while
giving nothing in return. God is afraid to disobey the command to take care of
them for fear that they will stop worshipping him and thus God will be dethroned
and cease to exist.
The Opening Message of this Overtangle is a seduction contract in which the Overtangle
commands (note the imperative tense) the client to:
Ignore betrayal, ignore intuition, ignore reality, ignore _____ and
give up your ______ (examples: soul, life, self, self-respect/dignity, health, future) and
stay with a _______ (example: abusive, narcissistic, selfish, alcoholic, gambling,
cheating tyrant/asshole/jerk or parasite)
and serve him by _____ (examples: making him God, supporting/stroking his ego,
raising his children, having sex his way, keeping his secrets, doing his dirty work, curing
him of something, i.e. depression, and making up for his past by giving him all the love
his mother never did, and…, etc.)
because ____ (examples: that’s what my ancestors/parents/mother did, and because I’m
weak and can’t take care of myself, etc.)
And if I disobey _____ (examples: I’ll be thrown out on the street and die of starvation,
be rejected, unloved, and alone forever, get sick and die, etc.), and
the Overtangle will punish me by _____ (examples: condemning me to a life of selfhate, grief, remorse and regret, shame, guilt, loneliness, etc., condemning me to a life of
poverty by never allowing me to enjoy the abundance I do have or by never allowing me
to make good money in my career, etc., turning my children against me, killing me, my
children, or loved ones, etc.),
but if I obey, I will get ______ (examples: a life of luxury, ease (white collar version) or
security, stability (blue collar version), happiness, fulfillment, love, status, power, perfect
health, etc. and a rich provider.)
TECHNIQUES FOR CLEARING OVERTANGLES AND WHAT THEY FEED
ON
SEDUCTION INTERVENTION
Renunciation prayer:
I reject this message to (read the entire message)____ and I pray God to free
me from you Overtangle and from everyone I do this with and everyone who does
this with me, and heal all parts of myself, disowned, disowning, associated, and
disassociated, etc.
I take back my best qualities and I refuse to serve anyone or anything that is not
in my best interest or for the highest good of all and I break this contract. And I
pray God to free me from this seduction pattern because that’s all it is.
And I pray God to free me from this whole pattern and everything that made me
susceptible to it (feel free to embellish here). I pray God to free me from all the
damage I have ever done to myself and others while under the influence of this
pattern and erase it so completely it is as if it had never happened. Poof!
And I pray God to provide me with anything else I need in the benefits areas.
Thank you, Amen.
BELL JAR INTERVENTION
1. Set up a containment field by sealing the room in a sphere/force field of Holy Light.
Set up a bell jar, an approximately 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide bell shaped imaginary
glass jar. It has a one way rubber valve on top so that what goes into it can’t get back
out. It also has vacuum suction and even a vacuum hose used to help vacuum the
negative energy out of you.
2. Summon in all humanity past, present, and future. MT that all parts and all
humanity are in the containment field. Summon in all the helping spirits.
3. Say the overtangle prayer:
“Oh God, merciful and compassionate one, please shine upon this overtangle and
upon and throughout all of us the full spectrum of your holy light.”
4. Peel into bell jar the overtangle story, every way you play/played it out in this life,
past lives, and ancestry.
REFERENCES:
Baldwin, WJ; Spirit Releasement Therapy: A Technique Manual, West Virginia: Headline
Books, Inc. 1995
Swack, JA, “Healing the Collective Consciousness with Healing from the Body Level
UpTM.” International Journal of Healing and Caring Online. Volume 8:3, September 2008.
(HTTP://www.IJHC.org )