A fascinating theory on multiplicity
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multiplicity_archivesSpirits in the body: The Traipahni Philosophy of Zirr’ah, Zirr’nah, and Zirr’kah
By = Tristan A. Arts
Disclaimer: No offense was meant by anything in here, if I said anything that offends you, know that it was not done intentionally and will have been something I did not think was offensive.
Several years ago, the highly unusual nature of Traipah and its culture – like the fact that the information and stories coming from it are nothing like anything I get from my other stories – finally forced me to admit, despite my inner skeptic’s adamant denials, that Traipah is or was a real place, and that I lived there in at least one past life. I mention this because ever since admitting that to myself, I have been engaging in a process of remembering as much as I can about that world, its people, its cultures, and its philosophies. Believe me or disbelieve me, I don’t care... I am not looking for converts. I am doing this all for myself only, I post it online in case someone might find it interesting, but ultimately it doesn’t matter what others think about it.
Because of the nature of the process of how I find out this information, I often find myself writing down things that I think mean one thing when I write them, and then months or years down the line they will have a whole new, deeper, and awe-inspiring meaning. I cannot count how often I’ve re-read old Traipah stories and novels I wrote, years afterward, and finding clues and references to ideas that I hadn’t been anywhere near discovering at the time. For example, the philosophy referred to in the title of this page is one where I have found TONS of evidence for while re-reading old Traipah stories, but at the time those old stories were written, if someone had told me about this philosophy, I would have laughed in their face.
Of all the philosophies I have found, of all the truths about Traipah that I have discovered, “Zirr’ah, Zirr’nah, and Zirr’kah” is the most amazing to me thus far. During the two days after discovering this idea, I was thinking nonstop about it, utterly astonished at it. This is the most amount of continual time I have ever spent thinking about anything! That is how amazing I find it to be. And so here, I write it down for posterity.
In order to explain “zirr’ah, zirr’nah, and zirr’kah,” I must give you some back-story. The story begins with my childhood, but I will be as brief as possible. Back when I was a child, I had an extremely potent imagination. It was so powerful that now I say I had my own subjective world… I could see the things I imagined things in lifelike detail without concentrating very hard. Because of this, I could literally see whatever it was I imagined, though they were translucent, so I knew they were not a part of the real world. But they were real to me, and so I was fascinated by them.
My imaginary friends, especially, were so real to me and so interesting that I literally had no interest whatsoever in my “real world” peers, until I was about 5. Because of this, the way my inner world worked, and my parents unintentionally supporting my incorrect view of the world (I thought that the world was the way it ought to be) that when I had my first experiences with other real children, it scarred me for life. It was like culture shock on a grand scale. I imagine it felt the same way that the people of Traipah would feel upon meeting humans for the first time, or more realistically... of them seeing the truth about human behavior for the first time ever.
I was so unable to cope with the reality of how humans outside my family conducted themselves that I started to deny the existence of reality… everything that happened in the outside world was filtered through my subjective world. It is obvious to me now, looking back, that I was born with the ability to divide my consciousness and have more than one mind in my body. 1 I think this happens far more than most people think... in fact, I believe all people have it to some degree, though most do not have it very strongly at all. Authors, especially the ones who say “it’s as if the people in the story are real,” are a very good example of this... though it’s becoming clearer every day that all people have had it at one point, or still do and don’t realize it because they have not disassociated themselves from these others.
I also believe that most people with my degree or higher of this ability usually tend to be abused by family or peers for being this way, and that this abuse generally causes them to deny the others inside of them. Denial, of course, solves nothing... thus, I believe that this is how dissociative identity disorder arises. However, (possibly because I was not abused at home) rather than deny the others, I denied reality, which is what kept me from dissociating myself from these other selves. These days, there is little difference between how my mind works now and how it worked then. The others that reside in my mind are not the same ones as back then, though. The ones of the past have “died,” which in the context of my own mind’s functioning means that they became part of the whole again.
Recently, a friend revealed to me a startling piece of information. She had contacted one of her spirit guides and not only confirmed Traipah’s existence, but told me something I had never known, but which I immediately recognized as being true: Traipahni people are born with the same ability as I have, of being able to have more than one mind in their body.
Immediately, though, I knew something was missing from that. There was more to that truth waiting to be discovered. So my mind started going over things it already knew about Traipah. Nothing really seemed to be filling this mysterious hole in the truth until suddenly I remembered something I’d had as a quote between sections in my second novel (unpublished as of this writing):
All of a sudden, it felt as though a puzzle I had unknowingly been working on for years was suddenly complete, and I could see the whole picture. This is where I began my two-day thinking spree. During the flood of thoughts that began after a five-minute “oh my GOD” fest, three words came to mind: zirr’ah, zirr’nah, and zirr’kah. 2
Now I will define them:
Zirr’ah: The part of your soul that lives in the “heavens,” i.e. The Other Side.
Zirr’nah: The part of your soul that lives in your body. (Or, more correctly, surrounds and permeates your body.)
Zirr’kah: The part of your soul that literally lives in other people. In one sense, there is at least a small part of your zirr’kah that lives in everyone and everything else that exists, but there was more.
The Traipahni understanding of the zirr’kah actually has more to do with their natural multiplicity of minds. That was the major missing puzzle piece, as inspired by Bahruven’s words. You see, the Traipahni people (the Ah’Koi Bahnis, at least) have such powerful abilities of observation that they have the ability to make copies of the personality and memories of other people. This is most powerful with people who are friends, family, or other loved ones. Of course, the Ah’Koi Bahnis individuals who had telepathy got more accurate copies (the proper term being zirr’kahs 3) of their loved ones than ordinary AKB did, but even the most ordinary Ah’Koi Bahnis could at least make a fairly accurate prediction of what someone they loved would say in a given situation.
Of course, the Ah’Koi Bahnis (AKB) individuals had different levels of detail to these zirr’kahs, and it also seemed to be fairly common that these zirr’kahs would often become so detailed that they’d get their own spark of consciousness. When this happened, the AKB would often believe that it literally WAS a sharing of souls with loved ones.
However, not all zirr’kahs with consciousnesses of their own were loved ones. Aside from the fact that telepaths (and even non-telepaths) could create this level of zirr’kah from anyone they came in contact with, there were also “ghost copies,” or zirro’svaens [zero’s veins]. “Zirro’svaen” [zero’s vein], which literally means “spirit shadow” but more accurately translates as “shadow spirit,” refers to zirr’kahs whose origins are unknown. On earth, these are sometimes called walk-ins, but more often than not, a zirro’svaen will have been artificially created by the mind of the individual (an imaginary friend or alternate personality). Normally, the function of the AKB mind that creates zirr’kahs focuses outward, on other people. However, if the mind turns inward for any reason, the AKB mind may try to make a zirr’kah of itself. This creates some interesting effects, of course.
Why do the AKB have this ability? I think I know that, as well. I have always known that the AKB are more social than humans are, and cannot survive if they are on their own for too long, because the depth of their sociability doesn’t allow for being alone for long… it’s hard to survive on Traipah alone anyway, so they may have evolved that way to motivate them to stay with the group.
However, sentiency and civilization means that there will be times when you have to be alone, often for extended periods of time. Since the AKB became sentient due to their struggle with the body-capturing Zaen parasite (which became a symbiont instead), the Zaens may have (either accidentally or purposefully) given the AKB this ability when the two species’ RNA merged (Traipah has not discovered DNA yet... tri-helical RNA seems to work just fine for them). This can only be good, because it extends the amount of time they can be alive without other people to three months. (The Yain’gah, a race of AKB without Zaens, would be lucky to go a month without contact with other people.) Of course, the Zaens’ mere existence in the body is ruled out as being helpful, because the two species have such a vastly different sense of time from one another that they almost never communicate. Even “puppets,” or Zaens who managed to keep the host’s body alive after the host’s brain has died, cannot really speak well without massive amounts of concentration.
This is all well and good, but how does it relate to me?
From my two-day thinking spree, I have discovered something even more amazing... humans have the same ability to create zirr’kahs and zirro’svaens as the Ah’Koi Bahnis do! It is to a much lesser degree, of course, since most AKB have several minds in their head and very few AKB are single entities; whereas the opposite is true for humans. But all humans still do have at least a rudimentary ability to make zirr’kahs. And I’m not just talking about zirro’svaens, either. Anyone who knows anyone else well enough to make a fairly accurate prediction of what that person will say in a given situation, has that ability. Even if the zirr’kahs you “make” are not very detailed, and lack a sub-consciousness of their own, it is still a piece of that person’s soul, and so you have that ability.
It would seem to me that now that we know about that ability, now we can work on improving it. Many people may not be comfortable with the idea of other minds in their heads, but of course, you don’t have to make the zirr’kah that detailed. Still, I kind of like the idea of never having to be lonely, don’t you?
Endnotes.
1 = Clarification: my consciousness can “divide” infinitely without being lessened. Any part can go back to the whole at any time, and return, or go back and lose its identity and sub-consciousness (“die”). In that way, my mind is much like the nature of the soul.
2 = Pronounced “zear-aww,” “zear-knaw,” and “zear-kaa.”
3 = Pronounced, “zear-cause.”
The jist of what she's trying to say:
1. God is a multiple.
2. So is the soul.
3. All people are multiple to some degree at least in part of their life, even if not very much. Some are hardly ever multiple at all (singlets).
4. Some people are naturally more inclined in the direction of multiplicity. These become self-identified multiples and people with DID/MPD, etc.
5. DID is caused when the largely "singlet" population teases or abuses a multiple for being "weird." The multiple, to avoid this abuse, denies the existence of the others, which really only makes things worse. (Disassociation) The pattern of denial goes on so long that the healing process may take a long time, or may in some cases never fully heal in this lifetime.
6. Two of our system mates lived past lives on a planet that was oppositely inclined. Singlets were the weird ones there, multiples common. Thus, full-blown DID was much rarer.
7. Fayanora believes all people of all sentient races are going to be at least slightly capable of multiplicity, as she believes humans are. She believes this because multiplicity is in the nature of the soul.
8. Her theory about the soul is that it lives in the heavens, and parts of it live countless other lives through time. Her belief is inclined thusly because time is an illusion that we're caught up in, since we are the parts of the soul that manifests in the relative realm.
9. The Ah'Koi Bahnis had names for these parts of the soul. They were mentioned only for the context of how she came to these ideas.
>@ Lo
PS = Poor choice of title, before. This has nothing to do with GITS:SAC. I just liked the mental picture of imagining spirits (ghosts) in the body (shell).
By = Tristan A. Arts
Disclaimer: No offense was meant by anything in here, if I said anything that offends you, know that it was not done intentionally and will have been something I did not think was offensive.
Several years ago, the highly unusual nature of Traipah and its culture – like the fact that the information and stories coming from it are nothing like anything I get from my other stories – finally forced me to admit, despite my inner skeptic’s adamant denials, that Traipah is or was a real place, and that I lived there in at least one past life. I mention this because ever since admitting that to myself, I have been engaging in a process of remembering as much as I can about that world, its people, its cultures, and its philosophies. Believe me or disbelieve me, I don’t care... I am not looking for converts. I am doing this all for myself only, I post it online in case someone might find it interesting, but ultimately it doesn’t matter what others think about it.
Because of the nature of the process of how I find out this information, I often find myself writing down things that I think mean one thing when I write them, and then months or years down the line they will have a whole new, deeper, and awe-inspiring meaning. I cannot count how often I’ve re-read old Traipah stories and novels I wrote, years afterward, and finding clues and references to ideas that I hadn’t been anywhere near discovering at the time. For example, the philosophy referred to in the title of this page is one where I have found TONS of evidence for while re-reading old Traipah stories, but at the time those old stories were written, if someone had told me about this philosophy, I would have laughed in their face.
Of all the philosophies I have found, of all the truths about Traipah that I have discovered, “Zirr’ah, Zirr’nah, and Zirr’kah” is the most amazing to me thus far. During the two days after discovering this idea, I was thinking nonstop about it, utterly astonished at it. This is the most amount of continual time I have ever spent thinking about anything! That is how amazing I find it to be. And so here, I write it down for posterity.
In order to explain “zirr’ah, zirr’nah, and zirr’kah,” I must give you some back-story. The story begins with my childhood, but I will be as brief as possible. Back when I was a child, I had an extremely potent imagination. It was so powerful that now I say I had my own subjective world… I could see the things I imagined things in lifelike detail without concentrating very hard. Because of this, I could literally see whatever it was I imagined, though they were translucent, so I knew they were not a part of the real world. But they were real to me, and so I was fascinated by them.
My imaginary friends, especially, were so real to me and so interesting that I literally had no interest whatsoever in my “real world” peers, until I was about 5. Because of this, the way my inner world worked, and my parents unintentionally supporting my incorrect view of the world (I thought that the world was the way it ought to be) that when I had my first experiences with other real children, it scarred me for life. It was like culture shock on a grand scale. I imagine it felt the same way that the people of Traipah would feel upon meeting humans for the first time, or more realistically... of them seeing the truth about human behavior for the first time ever.
I was so unable to cope with the reality of how humans outside my family conducted themselves that I started to deny the existence of reality… everything that happened in the outside world was filtered through my subjective world. It is obvious to me now, looking back, that I was born with the ability to divide my consciousness and have more than one mind in my body. 1 I think this happens far more than most people think... in fact, I believe all people have it to some degree, though most do not have it very strongly at all. Authors, especially the ones who say “it’s as if the people in the story are real,” are a very good example of this... though it’s becoming clearer every day that all people have had it at one point, or still do and don’t realize it because they have not disassociated themselves from these others.
I also believe that most people with my degree or higher of this ability usually tend to be abused by family or peers for being this way, and that this abuse generally causes them to deny the others inside of them. Denial, of course, solves nothing... thus, I believe that this is how dissociative identity disorder arises. However, (possibly because I was not abused at home) rather than deny the others, I denied reality, which is what kept me from dissociating myself from these other selves. These days, there is little difference between how my mind works now and how it worked then. The others that reside in my mind are not the same ones as back then, though. The ones of the past have “died,” which in the context of my own mind’s functioning means that they became part of the whole again.
Recently, a friend revealed to me a startling piece of information. She had contacted one of her spirit guides and not only confirmed Traipah’s existence, but told me something I had never known, but which I immediately recognized as being true: Traipahni people are born with the same ability as I have, of being able to have more than one mind in their body.
Immediately, though, I knew something was missing from that. There was more to that truth waiting to be discovered. So my mind started going over things it already knew about Traipah. Nothing really seemed to be filling this mysterious hole in the truth until suddenly I remembered something I’d had as a quote between sections in my second novel (unpublished as of this writing):
“The soul comes in three parts – one part lives in the heavens, another part lives in your body, and a third part lives in your loved ones.”
---Ambassador Bahruven Ehkvenis.
All of a sudden, it felt as though a puzzle I had unknowingly been working on for years was suddenly complete, and I could see the whole picture. This is where I began my two-day thinking spree. During the flood of thoughts that began after a five-minute “oh my GOD” fest, three words came to mind: zirr’ah, zirr’nah, and zirr’kah. 2
Now I will define them:
Zirr’ah: The part of your soul that lives in the “heavens,” i.e. The Other Side.
Zirr’nah: The part of your soul that lives in your body. (Or, more correctly, surrounds and permeates your body.)
Zirr’kah: The part of your soul that literally lives in other people. In one sense, there is at least a small part of your zirr’kah that lives in everyone and everything else that exists, but there was more.
The Traipahni understanding of the zirr’kah actually has more to do with their natural multiplicity of minds. That was the major missing puzzle piece, as inspired by Bahruven’s words. You see, the Traipahni people (the Ah’Koi Bahnis, at least) have such powerful abilities of observation that they have the ability to make copies of the personality and memories of other people. This is most powerful with people who are friends, family, or other loved ones. Of course, the Ah’Koi Bahnis individuals who had telepathy got more accurate copies (the proper term being zirr’kahs 3) of their loved ones than ordinary AKB did, but even the most ordinary Ah’Koi Bahnis could at least make a fairly accurate prediction of what someone they loved would say in a given situation.
Of course, the Ah’Koi Bahnis (AKB) individuals had different levels of detail to these zirr’kahs, and it also seemed to be fairly common that these zirr’kahs would often become so detailed that they’d get their own spark of consciousness. When this happened, the AKB would often believe that it literally WAS a sharing of souls with loved ones.
However, not all zirr’kahs with consciousnesses of their own were loved ones. Aside from the fact that telepaths (and even non-telepaths) could create this level of zirr’kah from anyone they came in contact with, there were also “ghost copies,” or zirro’svaens [zero’s veins]. “Zirro’svaen” [zero’s vein], which literally means “spirit shadow” but more accurately translates as “shadow spirit,” refers to zirr’kahs whose origins are unknown. On earth, these are sometimes called walk-ins, but more often than not, a zirro’svaen will have been artificially created by the mind of the individual (an imaginary friend or alternate personality). Normally, the function of the AKB mind that creates zirr’kahs focuses outward, on other people. However, if the mind turns inward for any reason, the AKB mind may try to make a zirr’kah of itself. This creates some interesting effects, of course.
Why do the AKB have this ability? I think I know that, as well. I have always known that the AKB are more social than humans are, and cannot survive if they are on their own for too long, because the depth of their sociability doesn’t allow for being alone for long… it’s hard to survive on Traipah alone anyway, so they may have evolved that way to motivate them to stay with the group.
However, sentiency and civilization means that there will be times when you have to be alone, often for extended periods of time. Since the AKB became sentient due to their struggle with the body-capturing Zaen parasite (which became a symbiont instead), the Zaens may have (either accidentally or purposefully) given the AKB this ability when the two species’ RNA merged (Traipah has not discovered DNA yet... tri-helical RNA seems to work just fine for them). This can only be good, because it extends the amount of time they can be alive without other people to three months. (The Yain’gah, a race of AKB without Zaens, would be lucky to go a month without contact with other people.) Of course, the Zaens’ mere existence in the body is ruled out as being helpful, because the two species have such a vastly different sense of time from one another that they almost never communicate. Even “puppets,” or Zaens who managed to keep the host’s body alive after the host’s brain has died, cannot really speak well without massive amounts of concentration.
This is all well and good, but how does it relate to me?
From my two-day thinking spree, I have discovered something even more amazing... humans have the same ability to create zirr’kahs and zirro’svaens as the Ah’Koi Bahnis do! It is to a much lesser degree, of course, since most AKB have several minds in their head and very few AKB are single entities; whereas the opposite is true for humans. But all humans still do have at least a rudimentary ability to make zirr’kahs. And I’m not just talking about zirro’svaens, either. Anyone who knows anyone else well enough to make a fairly accurate prediction of what that person will say in a given situation, has that ability. Even if the zirr’kahs you “make” are not very detailed, and lack a sub-consciousness of their own, it is still a piece of that person’s soul, and so you have that ability.
It would seem to me that now that we know about that ability, now we can work on improving it. Many people may not be comfortable with the idea of other minds in their heads, but of course, you don’t have to make the zirr’kah that detailed. Still, I kind of like the idea of never having to be lonely, don’t you?
Endnotes.
1 = Clarification: my consciousness can “divide” infinitely without being lessened. Any part can go back to the whole at any time, and return, or go back and lose its identity and sub-consciousness (“die”). In that way, my mind is much like the nature of the soul.
2 = Pronounced “zear-aww,” “zear-knaw,” and “zear-kaa.”
3 = Pronounced, “zear-cause.”
The jist of what she's trying to say:
1. God is a multiple.
2. So is the soul.
3. All people are multiple to some degree at least in part of their life, even if not very much. Some are hardly ever multiple at all (singlets).
4. Some people are naturally more inclined in the direction of multiplicity. These become self-identified multiples and people with DID/MPD, etc.
5. DID is caused when the largely "singlet" population teases or abuses a multiple for being "weird." The multiple, to avoid this abuse, denies the existence of the others, which really only makes things worse. (Disassociation) The pattern of denial goes on so long that the healing process may take a long time, or may in some cases never fully heal in this lifetime.
6. Two of our system mates lived past lives on a planet that was oppositely inclined. Singlets were the weird ones there, multiples common. Thus, full-blown DID was much rarer.
7. Fayanora believes all people of all sentient races are going to be at least slightly capable of multiplicity, as she believes humans are. She believes this because multiplicity is in the nature of the soul.
8. Her theory about the soul is that it lives in the heavens, and parts of it live countless other lives through time. Her belief is inclined thusly because time is an illusion that we're caught up in, since we are the parts of the soul that manifests in the relative realm.
9. The Ah'Koi Bahnis had names for these parts of the soul. They were mentioned only for the context of how she came to these ideas.
>@ Lo
PS = Poor choice of title, before. This has nothing to do with GITS:SAC. I just liked the mental picture of imagining spirits (ghosts) in the body (shell).
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