A Discussion Question

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

We just found this article and were mildly shocked. What do you all think? We're posting this here for discussion's sake.
hthttp://www.spiritlink.com/scrmpd.html
Enjoy,
Jess and Alissa

Comments

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

The insistance on integration irritates me but the
portraial, though overly dramatic has some semblamce
to the experiences we have had and other 'tribes' we
know offline.

The insistance that one person in their system should
rule also irritates us. We are, as a tribe, radically
democratic. If there is a core in our system that person most likely would be offended by the idea that
one person should rule the system.

One therapist we know makes a distinction between
spirit guides and 'alters'. We do not. We try to
respect all sentient beings within our consciousness.

--- Constance and Marina of Mtribe

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

Your disagreements with this article matched along with ours oddly enough. Those were the only two things that bothered us. No one has to "ask permission" here to come up front either. But it did indeed sound like some of our experiences too.

[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

Isn't the insistence on having One Ring Person To Rule Them All kind of cultural-centric, too? I mean, not all societies function with One Big Head Guy In Charge, or even if they do, who it is is constantly shifting, so you can have a system of checks and balances that way. There's no guarantee that someone placed in charge, even under a democratic government *whistles and refrains from political commentary* won't make bad decisions or abuse their power at some point.

We just... I don't know. We're very loose in our in-system 'government,' which isn't to say that everyone in here has always made perfectly good decisions, because they certainly haven't, but even for the people in here who I see as having a lot of "wisdom"... well, you know, no one's omniscient.

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

We're quite loose with our government in here too. And wow! The assumption that one individual will always be in charge is extremely extremely culturesentric.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

I think that's one difficulty people have when trying to deal with multiples, is that every system is so very different! I operate as a dictatorship, really. Which is why I speak in the singular even when sometimes I mean all of us. I'm the core, and I'm the one in charge. My others are mine, and belong to me, and are part of me, and I run things. *grins* It's good to be Queen.

But of course that's not how most systems work. Which is fine! Everybody has to find what suits them, really. Which comes back to my original point, because not only is each person in a multiple system different, but on top of that each system works differently, so it becomes really complicated to try and figure out how to treat them.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

*grin* We operate as a bit of a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of two. We're William and Mary of Orange. It's easy to understand why, but equally it's easy to see why others won't have the same system. Internal government must respond to the demands of external circumstances as well as internal ones.

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

::Nods:: Boggles the minds.