EE Meditation, Shaman + Integrated Soul Personality, Fragmentation, MPD + DID, Psychology. Pt 1 of 3
There is in every person the possibility of an integrated Soul Personality. However, normally the average person is split to a greater or lesser degree, dependent upon the amount of pain, trauma and undigested stress in their lives and dependent upon the amount of work they have done to integrate their personalities by means of therapy and meditation.
Therapy and psychology allow intellectual appreciation of the problem in ourselves and others. It takes meditation to heal the splits and integrate the separated selves.
Charles Tart and others have used the symbology of the very nature of cyberspace as acting as a sort of “universal solvent” to break up our long cherished notions, myths that everyone is a monolithic self.
The ease with which we can take on new Split Personalities and new connectivities in the virtual domain implies an average self which is multivalent, fluid and de-centered– a self which often operates in parallel, in different modalities and different capacities.
I propose that a model for the average unintegrated person, this new, postmodern, postrationalist, cyberspatial self can be found in the cluster of psychological manifestations currently known as Splitting – or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and formerly and more popularly as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD).
But I also propose that Shamen and Enlightened Saints have provided a higher model of Personality integration in the concept of the Soul Infused Personality and integration with the Higher Self.
The average person lives in a more or less completely self-constituted world, where fragments of personality are imbedded in a matrix of delusional projections. It is a world where inner-driven states