I agree with this entirely. I've always disliked terms like "fragments" and "soulpuppets" which imply that constructed identities are lesser or inferior. My thoughtforms are not inanimate objects, they are living extensions of my/ourself. Neither are they merely "pieces". They may not be "whole people" as the term is generally defined, but they are whole thoughtforms.
I, too, have noticed how people often post things like, "I'm not sure if it's real or only part of me," implying that real is equivalent to separate. By that logic, a person's arms and legs wouldn't be real, either.
And a lot of soulbonders seem to think that because only multiple-type presences are "real people," that their soulbonds have to be so, too, to be valid, just as they think that in order for their connection with fiction to be valid fiction has to be "real somewhere."
In my understanding of this, thoughtform places have their own kind of reality, just as do thoughtform people. This can exist on a collective level. A thoughtform world that has influenced the minds of many people, like Tolkien's Arda (of which Middle-Earth is a continent) develops into a collective gestalt. In occult terms, such collectively-created places exist on the "astral plane", and can be accessed through dreams, astral journeys, or remote viewing.
Now, I think that a person who creates an outsourced Soulbond can forge a link between the construct they are creating and the source-reality, so that the Soulbond is created with the "imprint" or "template" of the original character. It's like going to a public stem cell bank and making a clone. The character is both part of the individual creator and of the collective thought system. "Inside" and "outside" are just terms of convenience, in my opinion; I don't believe that there is a real division between them.
Individually-created thoughtform worlds also exist. One of my friends in college had a highly-detailed inner world with millions of inhabitants, and, although she described it as "fictional", she experienced it as a literal place. I (Marlana) have an imaginary country -- I prefer the term ideal country insofar as it is an abstract representation.
Re: Part One
I, too, have noticed how people often post things like, "I'm not sure if it's real or only part of me," implying that real is equivalent to separate. By that logic, a person's arms and legs wouldn't be real, either.
And a lot of soulbonders seem to think that because only multiple-type presences are "real people," that their soulbonds have to be so, too, to be valid, just as they think that in order for their connection with fiction to be valid fiction has to be "real somewhere."
In my understanding of this, thoughtform places have their own kind of reality, just as do thoughtform people. This can exist on a collective level. A thoughtform world that has influenced the minds of many people, like Tolkien's Arda (of which Middle-Earth is a continent) develops into a collective gestalt. In occult terms, such collectively-created places exist on the "astral plane", and can be accessed through dreams, astral journeys, or remote viewing.
Now, I think that a person who creates an outsourced Soulbond can forge a link between the construct they are creating and the source-reality, so that the Soulbond is created with the "imprint" or "template" of the original character. It's like going to a public stem cell bank and making a clone. The character is both part of the individual creator and of the collective thought system. "Inside" and "outside" are just terms of convenience, in my opinion; I don't believe that there is a real division between them.
Individually-created thoughtform worlds also exist. One of my friends in college had a highly-detailed inner world with millions of inhabitants, and, although she described it as "fictional", she experienced it as a literal place. I (Marlana) have an imaginary country -- I prefer the term ideal country insofar as it is an abstract representation.