There may be other posts about this under Memories: fronting (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=multiplicity&keyword=fronting&filter=all).
Our experience and that of many of the people who write to us is that it rarely matters who was the firstborn, been there the longest, who is the original or dominant mind, etc. Where it is important, it's because the group's operating system depends on having a stable "story", so to speak, something they can tell themselves and outsiders to make sense of the system and their history.
If I'm reading your post right, the history part is what sounds like it concerns you the most. It sounds like you have some politics going on in your own world. It's almost like one of those stories where a man lived his whole life with the belief that he was the first-born son and would inherit the position of family leadership on his father's death, only to find that he was adopted and the father had had to make it so that everything actually passed on to a younger brother. That can be pretty disconcerting, not just to the House, but to the people who deal with them on a daily basis. Like "Okay, we'd been led to believe this but it isn't so; what else have we been told that isn't true?"
But it doesn't mean that there is no "real mind". I don't buy that. Each of you has a real mind. See a few posts back for some thoughts on the idea of "the real one".
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Date: 2006-05-11 03:17 am (UTC)Our experience and that of many of the people who write to us is that it rarely matters who was the firstborn, been there the longest, who is the original or dominant mind, etc. Where it is important, it's because the group's operating system depends on having a stable "story", so to speak, something they can tell themselves and outsiders to make sense of the system and their history.
If I'm reading your post right, the history part is what sounds like it concerns you the most. It sounds like you have some politics going on in your own world. It's almost like one of those stories where a man lived his whole life with the belief that he was the first-born son and would inherit the position of family leadership on his father's death, only to find that he was adopted and the father had had to make it so that everything actually passed on to a younger brother. That can be pretty disconcerting, not just to the House, but to the people who deal with them on a daily basis. Like "Okay, we'd been led to believe this but it isn't so; what else have we been told that isn't true?"
But it doesn't mean that there is no "real mind". I don't buy that. Each of you has a real mind. See a few posts back for some thoughts on the idea of "the real one".