He had the answer to his own insanity.
Phillip Garrido, the twisted rapist who kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago and made her his sex slave, believed he had overcome “aggressive sexual” desires through mind control and wanted the world to know exactly how he did it.
So on Monday — just two days before he was arrested — he marched into the office of the FBI in San Francisco and handed them a bizarre, four-page, typewritten manifesto he said could cure other sexual predators.
“This information is designed to send a message to all branches of law enforcement, educators and therapists worldwide to know there is a powerful reason people are unable to control the impulses that drive humans to commit such dysfunctional acts,” he wrote, according to a copy of the rambling document obtained by The Post.
In between frequent quotations from the Bible, the raving rapist then went on at length describing some sort of spiritual transformation in which he was able to beat back his “fantasies about sex and violence.”
“The following experience is encouraging, capable of enlightening and providing solid hope for everyone who suffers from the many forms of aggressive sexual behavior, as well as other problematic behaviors,” he wrote.
“Because of my background, I began to examine the issues of how certain behaviors cause a great deal of pain in myself and those who are victimized by those behaviors, especially our family and my wife,” he said.
While Garrido never directly references Dugard — whom he raped and impregnated at least twice — he did describe how sex with his “wife” had changed from an act of anger to an act of love. It was unclear if he meant Dugard or his actual wife, Nancy.
“One day when we were having intercourse and I ejaculated, I got up, and in great anger I realized I never needed to act or do the things I used to believe were so great,” he wrote.
“I began to weep, telling her, ‘I am so sorry for the things I did in the past.’ At that time a feeling of remorse came over me, one that I never knew or felt before or even dreamed was possible.
“When I had intercourse with her, the feelings were so powerful and exciting that every time we have intercourse now, it is as though I just met her,” Garrido wrote. “You know, the kind of excitement we all find when we first meet someone we keep thinking of them often during the day and can hardly wait to be with them.
“You have no idea how rewarding that is especially for me, as I always wanted to get away from a woman after it was concluded, no longer needing or desiring to touch,” he ended his ramble.
The fact that Garrido felt compelled to hand the disturbing diatribe to the FBI before he was arrested suggests that he had intended to give himself up.
The creepy credo brazenly instructs people how to deal with “out of control behavior,” saying it “is everywhere, in every walk of life, undermining the lives of its many victims.”
“The degree to which we vividly imagine an experience determines how it is stored in our subconscious as reality,” the psychobabble continues.
“Here is where a sexual predator (or any poor behavior) reinforces its self [sic] as the negative self-image is moving itself towards the problem.”
The answer, he declares:
“We need a quality means of understanding the internal controls of the physical mind and body and a way to supply people with a value system that is constructive . . . Then a person can see and feel the effects of healthy thinking and the rewards that come along with it.”
It’s an old problem, he states.
“It is the age old struggle between right and wrong that is holding the human race back from discovering a freedom so capable that the renewing of ones [sic] mind becomes a simpler reality than anything we have ever believed.”
Garrido states that his own story is the best illustration of how to go from sexual deviant to model human.
“Building from those personal experiences I prepared a way to deal with these issues in my own mind,” he states.
“For example, every time I would see a woman who was attractive I began to examine my thoughts directly, not allowing my eyes to turn aside in order to avoid those issues. . . Looking allowed my self-talk to provide pictures and words that dealt with reality, saying to myself that people are beautiful and attractive . . .
“As time went on I gained control over my body by taking the next step, (controlling masturbation) as it is a key in opening the mind up to more problematic developing.”
The day after he was arrested, Garrido called a local television station and in a long, nonsensical interview, pointed to the manifesto as being the key to it all.
“I’m a very powerful man,” he told KCRA-TV in Sacramento. “When you get these documents in your hands, you are going to fall over.”
EXCERPTS FROM PHILLIP GARRIDO’S MANIFESTO
The following experience is . . . capable of enlightening and providing solid hope for everyone who suffers from the many forms of aggressive sexual behavior, as well as other problematic behaviors. ‘
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I began to weep, telling her “I am so sorry for the things I did in the past.” At that time a feeling of remorse came over me, one that I never knew or felt before or even dreamed was possible.
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When I had intercourse with her, the feelings were so powerful and exciting that every time we have intercourse now, it is as though I just met her. . . . You have no idea how rewarding that is especially for me, as I always wanted to get away from a woman after it was concluded . . .