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

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

We found that all rather peculiar. While very respectful, the author still started from and reinforced the idea of 'this cannot be right/healthy/normal!' You notice the only choices we between (essentially) possession and past lives, no mention of the possibility of simply being multiple. That's what I really want - some mention, somewhere, by a singlet, that multiples can be multiple just because they are, and with no other explanation needed.
-Seb.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

People always want to know why, though. We humans spend so much time figuring out the why behind everything, including the behavior of singles.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I don't object to people asking why - I do so myself. My objection is to the idea that multiple emergent consciousnesses should require more explanation than the mere fact of consciousness at all. We are always examined as deviations from not merely the norm, which we are, but from the 'correct' way to be. People don't ask 'Why are there several people in this body?'. They ask 'How did this person come to have several personalities/spirits/muses/the delusion of same?'. That, I find insulting.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

Apologies, that was me. -Seb.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Ah. Right. So you're not objecting to the search for understanding, but rather to the attitude taken by many of the searchers.

Myself I find figuring out the roots of people's splitting, or discovering other selves, or however it works for them to be fascinating. I am very self-aware, and know exactly why and how each of my others came into being, and I find it rewarding to discover the why and how of others too.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

I find other systems truly (you've used the only good word) fascinating too. I find singlets fascinating. Hell, I find everything fascinating, and gave Ellen great trouble when she was deciding which subject to read.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I want to know everything about everything! I had a real time choosing a career path, because I wanted to do everything! Though I didn't have the aptitudes for everything, of course. I did eventually turn up a career path that I had both aptitudes for and interest in, and which suits my lifestyle too. Thank heavens.

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

We think we've reached a decision on a potential career, but things may change. Hmm, that reminds me, I must write that letter asking for summer placements. Now is probably an unhelpfully feverish moment to start, however.

[lightning-seeds.livejournal.com]

Oooh... I do like that turn of phrase... "multiple emergent consciousnesses."

Thanks!

-Kat of Khaiitha

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

Amen! Thank you!! Thank you thank you!!!! So true... We just haven't found it yet. -- Accept from a singlet friend on her friends' page who informed us the other day that

[rhymer-713.livejournal.com]

ERRRR! Stupid LJ. she didn't care and that she was happy she had so many friends and it didn't matter how we got here that we were here was enough.