A look into the collective shadow healing reveals truths we can no longer ignore. This article introduces the harrowing life story of Anneke Lucas—a woman who survived the hell of child trafficking and sexual slavery, and who now bravely bears witness to her fight for truth.

This is not a story about evil, but about the courage to look where most people dare not.

“We are now in a time in which there is dire need to connect with deeper truths, so that massive lies and hypocrisy can be exposed and collective healing can begin.”- Anneke Lucas, Quest for Love-Memoir of a child sex slave

What if the truth is closer than we think? And what do we do when we can no longer ignore it?

Why can’t we stay silent about collective trauma any longer?

Why Collective Shadow Healing Means We Can’t Stay Silent About Trauma

Maybe, my dear ones, you expected this article to be in the spirit of the previous one—exposing the realities of social media, the dangers AI poses, the illusions of the personal and business development industry, the education system, or even current politics, which I only started exploring deeply this year when I turned fifty. But alas! We’re heading straight into the deepest, darkest black hole.

Once we come out of it, we’ll get back to those topics—no worries.

14 Years of Spiritual Work: From Illusion to Raw Truth

It’s been exactly 14 years since I started speaking out about spiritual transformation and working with people. Ten of those years were without sugarcoating, two years were wrapped in some kind of marketing, and the last two years I’ve been cleansing myself of all that marketing and business nonsense.

I’m writing this at a moment when I am being reborn through my own truth. Now, stripped down and raw, deeply connected to myself, I feel a primal need to dive with you into topics we can no longer stay silent about.

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Choosing Truth Over Denial

I choose truth, because there is no other option. I will be like a bird on a branch, singing its song without adjusting it to please the passersby. The bird doesn’t care—it lives its purpose. It sings, whether someone listens closely or not, whether they enjoy its song, ignore it, or even find it annoying.

I choose truth, because for me, there is no other option.

As long as we keep turning our heads away, we’re participating in the chain of silence.

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Child Trafficking and Collective Shadow Healing: A Topic We Don’t Talk About Enough

We’ve all heard something about the issue of child trafficking. Someone might mention it in passing, but it somehow remains distant and abstract, quickly fading from our minds.
But this is a topic that deserves to consume us, to keep us awake at night until every last child is free and the web of evil—no matter how well hidden—is unraveled by the power of awareness and courage.
As long as we pretend it’s someone else’s problem, we’re actually agreeing to live in collective denial.

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The First Step: Becoming Aware

Until then, the first step is crucial: to BECOME AWARE OF WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING BEHIND THE GLOBAL STAGE AND ITS DIRECTORS FROM THE DEEPEST DARKNESS!

If you feel resistance while reading this, that’s your shadow knocking. Just keep going.

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System Distractions and Our Responsibility in Collective Shadow Healing

While we’re being served all kinds of political and social performances meant to keep our minds busy and distract us—so we waste our attention and energy on things that don’t matter—we’re not dealing with or solving the truly important issues.
Someone might think, “Who am I to tackle such big problems when I can’t even handle my own?”

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There’s No One Else: The Power of Facing the Shadow Individually

I’ll just say this for now—there’s no one else. The elite diabolical network, or if you prefer a softer term—the network of the unconscious—has its accomplices at every level, right down to us ordinary people. They’re mothers and fathers, cleaners and nannies, police officers and all the everyday faces we meet and assume are as harmless as we are.
There’s no one else—it’s our responsibility.

But how? “Our hands are tied.”

I disagree. There is one way for the world to heal—and that is by starting with ourselves and our own shadow.

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Anneke Lucas: The Face of Truth and the Power of Healing

The journey of Anneke Lucas is a powerful example of collective shadow healing in action. When I stumbled upon her interviews on YouTube by chance, I was left breathless and felt a deep sense of awe. No popular guru has ever left such a profound impression of integration and wholeness on me—she truly speaks from a place of love, unlike anyone else.
I knew I would write about her healing and her book, which I bought immediately, but I waited to read it right before writing this, so my experience would be as fresh and real as possible.

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When Abuse Is No Longer Abstract: The Power of Bearing Witness

With Anneke, the topic of child trafficking and exploitation stops being abstract. In her book, Quest for Love – Memoir of a Child Sex Slave, everything is described in detail along with her inner experiences, so it all gets etched into your consciousness. No matter how shocking and painful her story is, the book and the experiences she describes are like a light piercing through the thickest darkness of collective denial.

“Truth doesn’t ask you to believe in it. It only asks you to look at it,” writes Anneke.

This light also has a transformative power—it not only reveals the darkness, but dissolves it. In her words, we find not just awareness of the horror that exists, but also the courage to face it, firmly believing that truth, no matter how painful, is the only thing that can set us free.

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Personal Process: Tears, Pain, and Our Collective Childhood

I read the book over three days in a row. Day after day, the tightness in my chest kept intensifying, and on the last day, I let it all out through tears, more than once.

I’ll write in detail about what struck me the most—and it wasn’t the scenes with the abusers. Those are horrifying and shocking—no sane person’s imagination can even go there.

That’s something I believe every one of us feels at some point in life, to a greater or lesser extent: that moment when our inner child feels unloved and uncared for, when we feel completely abandoned and powerless. It’s a feeling we all share, and yet it puts us in a position of separation from everything and everyone.

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The Power of Liberation: Stepping Out of the Victim Role

But Anneke doesn’t write, nor does she speak in interviews, from the position of a victim. She speaks from the position of a powerful being who has freed herself by facing herself and her horrific experiences. That’s true alchemy—turning pain into consciousness.

Collective Trauma: Why There Can Be No Healing Without Personal Work?

There is no collective healing without individual healing.

We are a civilization that was built—and continues to build itself—on trauma.
We’re programmed to chase money, status, and sex so we can see ourselves as worthy of love, while our inner world and emotions are locked away in the dungeon of the subconscious, because that’s considered a sign of weakness.
And yet, it’s precisely there, in that dungeon, that our greatest power awaits.
As you’ll see in the upcoming articles, it’s the weakest—those most disconnected from themselves and their own being—who crave material power and control the most.
We’ve become a civilization that produces zombies, without empathy. And no one but us, ordinary human beings, can stop it.

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Biographical Timeline: Anneke Lucas’s Journey Through the Collective Shadow

Here are some biographical facts from Anneke’s life, as she shared in her book and interviews, to help you better understand the themes I’ll be writing about.

Early Life and Entry Into the Collective Shadow (1963–1969)

• Born in Belgium in 1963, in what appeared to be a typical middle-class family.
• From birth, Anneke’s mother abused her psychologically and physically.
• When she was 4, her mother married her stepfather, so Anneke lived with them and her brother, who was four years younger.
• She attended church on Sundays and school during the week, and spoke Flemish.
• At age 5, the woman who cleaned their house (and her husband) began “preparing” Anneke, taking her on weekends with other children.

Time in the Human Trafficking Network and the Depths of Collective Shadow (1969–1974)

• At age 6 (around 1969), she was taken to an “orgy” for the first time and brought into a pedophile network.
• The network included high-ranking Belgian politicians, aristocrats, and businessmen.
• The network was led by Paul Vanden Boeynants (whom Anneke called “Polo”), then Belgium’s Minister of National Defense (1972–1979).
• Michelle Nihoul was the “middleman” who organized the events.
• Between ages 6 and 9, Anneke was used in two ways: for extreme sadistic abuse by aristocrats and for “initiating” new members into the network.
• At age 9 (1972), she was taken for a month of “mind control training” based on extreme torture.
• At age 11 (1973), she met 21-year-old Patrick Haemers, who was part of the network but offered her some protection.
• They developed a complicated relationship in which Patrick was both her protector and abuser.
• She endured extreme torture and witnessed the murder of other children.
• By her estimate, she was raped for about 1,716 hours before she turned 12.
• In the fall of 1974, she survived horrific torture by Michel Nihoul and other children.
• After the torture, she had a near-death experience, which she described as a key moment of spiritual awakening.
• Patrick Haemers helped her escape the network and brought her home with specific instructions for survival.

Years After Escape: Healing and Collective Shadow (1974–1986)

• Her mother tried to return her to the network, but after the traumatic events, Anneke was considered “worthless” to them.
• She finished elementary school but had to repeat eighth grade twice.
• At age 15, she left school and started living with people she met in bars.
• At 16 (1979), she ended up in Antwerp’s red-light district.
• She was in a relationship with a man twice her age who forced her into sex.
• In February 1982, she met her biological father, who sexually exploited her.
• Three months later, she left Belgium and moved to London, then Paris, and finally New York.

The Healing Journey and Advocacy for Collective Shadow Healing (1987–2000 and beyond)

• She began her healing process through therapy, experiencing frequent traumatic flashbacks and undergoing therapy for memories of incest, sexual abuse, and ritual abuse.
• She discovered yoga and meditation, which became essential to her recovery.
• The Dutroux case in Belgium gave her insight that her memories might be real.
• She found a therapist who helped her.

Advocacy and Public Work (from 2000)

• Founded a program for women survivors of human trafficking in collaboration with the Ministry of Health.
• Shared her story publicly for the first time.
• Gave a TEDx talk about her experience in an elite pedophile network.
• Published her memoir’ “Quest For Love: Memoir of a Slave.”
• Continued to work as an advocate for children and survivors of human trafficking.
• Founded a yoga therapy program for survivors of traumatic experiences.

What’s Next: The Dynamics of Abusers and the Healing Power of Collective Shadow Healing

In the upcoming articles, we’ll dive into the main themes of the book—the dynamics of abusers, the search for love, and the power of healing.
We’ll start with the relationship where everything begins—the relationship with the mother.
You’ll see yourself in these stories, even if your own experiences weren’t nearly as extreme.

Final Reflection: Are You Ready for Your Own Collective Shadow Healing?

What does this topic stir up in you?
Share your thoughts and feelings. Are you ready to go deep?

The world heals by looking into its own darkness.

Quantum hug 💫
Maja