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shandra.livejournal.comOkay, I'm probably just suffering pregnancy brain, but have some posts (& all the comments to go with them) been deleted from this community lately? I'm confused!
May. 24th, 2005
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spookshow-girl.livejournal.comOne caveat: this is only my view on things. Not all my multiple friends will agree. I am not even prepared to say the system has a consensus on this issue. However, I believe, in a now deleted entry, my stance on multiplicity, and the paranormal was misunderstood. I find it a little irritating, because my wording was careful, in an attempt to be clear.
That was my statement, italics added for emphasis. Somehow, this seemed to be taken to mean that I feel there is no connection. Since the above wasn't clear enough, I'll try again.
It is my personal belief that most aspects of mental functioning will affect each other. Drinking while depressed is not the best idea, for a reason. There is a connection between most of this, based on the fact that it involves information processing somehow. Unless you are completely inert mentally, you process information. Being psychic effects how you process information. If your body has psychic functionality, it can effect how the system processes information. This in turn, can effect how the system functions.
What I do not agree with, is the concept of an exclusive or universal causal relationship. This is my acknowledgement of psychics who are not multiple, and of multiples who do not have psychic experiences. Their experiences should be respected. It is extremely messed up to act like they don't exist because they don't fit some pet theories professed.
I have come out in defense of multiples who wish to explore how the paranormal effects their system. What I will not do, is come out in defense of marginalising those who don't fit the psychic and multiple model out of either community.
I hope I have clarified things.
--Me
Although I find interest in noting how one can affect the other, and in some cases, seem to aid or hinder the other; I feel it's foolhardy to assume that since both states can exist in the same physical body, that this means there is by necessity a causal link, and particularly an exclusive causal link, as you imply.
That was my statement, italics added for emphasis. Somehow, this seemed to be taken to mean that I feel there is no connection. Since the above wasn't clear enough, I'll try again.
It is my personal belief that most aspects of mental functioning will affect each other. Drinking while depressed is not the best idea, for a reason. There is a connection between most of this, based on the fact that it involves information processing somehow. Unless you are completely inert mentally, you process information. Being psychic effects how you process information. If your body has psychic functionality, it can effect how the system processes information. This in turn, can effect how the system functions.
What I do not agree with, is the concept of an exclusive or universal causal relationship. This is my acknowledgement of psychics who are not multiple, and of multiples who do not have psychic experiences. Their experiences should be respected. It is extremely messed up to act like they don't exist because they don't fit some pet theories professed.
I have come out in defense of multiples who wish to explore how the paranormal effects their system. What I will not do, is come out in defense of marginalising those who don't fit the psychic and multiple model out of either community.
I hope I have clarified things.
--Me
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