Multiplicity

It just feels like, recently, it's harder to sort everything out. Harder to FIGURE things out... no progress. Stagnant. It's bothersome. Worrisome...

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Isn't that the truth... when you don't think about it, it isn't a problem.

We've been on and off thinking about it awhile now... -_-;;

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A long time.

And we've spent a lot of the time in a really icky sort of... integrated place.

So every time we slip into a hazy sort of... mushed position, we flip out... some of us.

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elira-wiken.livejournal.com

Yes. The Host's head feels like it has left her body once we are settled again.

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it depends on how many people are near the front during the "super co-conscious" time

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Super co-consciousness. Smile.

It's less like being near the front, more like... there's a lack of boundaries... or maybe not being able to be near the front...

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we usually blame that on failed filters. we have filters up to prevent the bleeding over into each others' thoughts. it happens to us from time to time. we've heard others refer to it as "blurring" as well.

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Could be we're just getting everything set up all over again... don't really have too many filters or anything similar in place... working on it but... difficult.

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sharpsight.livejournal.com

N) 'filters'. How are such filters put up?

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we wrote up a new post on it.. :)

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padawanagain.livejournal.com

We call it purpling.

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Why purpeling? I do like that cause whenever someone would get stuck or locked out we would think of the song" purple haze"!!! Marty kept singing" Smoke on the water" also. Oueston ... How many in this post experience this feeling of being lost and confused at a Party or function where you all want to share time? Just wondered , Peace Shelby

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padawanagain.livejournal.com

Purpling because it's a blend of red and blue I think. Blend being the key. It's a strange state for us... we tend to co-front (and not share thougths and feelings) rather than being co-con.

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Wow ok I get the blending thing and I love the two colors making purple Thats so creative . cause red and blue make purple When you think of it all the colors equally need each other to make another color . I like that allot Especially are name of are House of the Mosaics ;same Idea. Peace Shelby

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I like that :)

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Hi Kasiya,

Could you explain filters a little more ? Cause I think your onto something helpful . I once herad a Nurologist explain chambers , pathways and fiters speking of multiplicity . Is a filter like a wall put up? Does it take more than one person to do this ? And do ll have to be in agreement ? Or is it something your "original or birth person does .? Cause we could use some deviders like filters too Thanks Peace Shelby

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we wrote up a new post on it.. :)

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sethrenn.livejournal.com

It depends on what type of co-consciousness you're talking about. I've always thought that what we call 'co-consciousness' may actually be several separate but related phenomena which most doctors don't bother to distinguish betweeen, because the only thing that matters to them is that you're communicating. There are several different ways of sharing time, space and information.

If you're not used to whatever the phenomenon you're experiencing as co-consciousness is, it may feel a little crazymaking, especially if you're not used to it. Having a lot of people vying for time or access in the body, or trying to be in the body and experience something simultaneously, can be confusing (although personally, it's more disconcerting to us to have the type of 'blurring' where people can't tell who they are).

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it's more disconcerting to us to have the type of 'blurring' where people can't tell who they are.

That's partly what it IS though. It's partly... blurring or whatever you want to call it. Only we KNOW who we are, it's just that we can't... function like that... It's this negative space or something or other and we're just STUCK as this gelatinous blob of partial ONENESS and it's horrible and CONFUSING.

And it scares the shit out of a lot of us because this was not a happy existence for us.

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karma-silenced.livejournal.com

Our system has a communication "level" thing... From zero being not knowing anyone's around or not feeling them to 5 being where you're kind of blurred.

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karma-silenced.livejournal.com

I think that there should be a balance. It gets confusing when there's too much communication and makes it uncomfortable. But if you're in a range in which you can make sure others know how you feel and think when you need them to, but you don't feel... weirdly close... that is the best.

If you feel more messed up, maybe you guys should try to change something.

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I think that might be the problem... there's just too much SHARING going on!

Ugh.

It's becoming something of a problem... not able to seperate it out for certain people, who have a less dominant stance, to do what THEY want to do...

So... figuring out how things need to change.

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Were all trying to figure this out too, like less sharing may have been easier on the body and our individual minds . We all experienced panic and feeling in a haze of uncertainty like we were going to lose time but did not. Its like between a breath and the next when your not sure your going to live .

We've been discussing this all day . What could we have done differnt to all have experienced The Party ?There are like lost second that dont add up but we were all there at differnt times .

Somewhere in all that switching we lost a main driver here and there and felt like we were hovering over the room waiting our turn to talk , It felt very weird I 'd like to blame it on the wine but 3 glasses all night and 3 jello shots is nothing for us. Its not like we did them all at once cause Tiea had to host the Party it was her Party , but we lost Tiea a few times too . We have to re - think how to do this thats for sure .

I d love to know how those "filters" work. Are they like walls you put up ?. Maybe your on to something cause I once heard a Neurologist describe multiplicty by way of Multiples using various chambers and pathways and fitering each other out . It also made us think of our 11 year old asperger syndrome girl CM: and how she blocks out certain things in her brain . I just felt blocked allot during the Partyand we all equally worked on getting ready too so would have liked to enjoy it but it seems Tiea took most of the alloted time which is so unusualPeace Shelby

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I can relate ? See my question posted . Last night at the Party , we were going to front with 5 of us , cause there were seperate people all wanted to get to dialouge with but everytime I gave up fronting Ikept getting stuck and it for sure felt messed up .

I wondered this morning should we have said Ok Tiea you have from this time to this and Rosie you have this assigned times to braek up the party cause it was difficult getting back to the party and scary to me ,I think allthe costumes and music and wine thrugh us off a little too . We tried doing the everyone has there own space thing and it felt like being in a haze witing my turn too I wondered what is inbetween fronting and deligated space and found out its feeling stuck although the t calls it the revolving door .Peace Shelby

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luwana.livejournal.com

YES.

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-laughs-

Sorry, this response made me laugh. But thank you for being incredibly direct...

Just feeling right now like... we're TOO close... whereas forever ago we WEREN'T CLOSE ENOUGH...

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luwana.livejournal.com

Yeah. You're like wanting to be close to each other and then comes the blendiness and it's like "ARGH GET OUT OF MY HEAD". For us it causes losing track of who actually is who, and makes us beg for us being back in our own nice neat boxes.

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