steadily worsening continuum of split personality symptoms, from ordinary daydreaming, through such phenomena as forgetting where one is going on the freeway, to the particularly florid manifestations of dissociation which are commonly labeled as Multiple Personality. Although the phenomenon is usually thought of as purely psychological in nature, it can actually be either biologically or psychosociologically driven, as given by Ross (Ross, 1997, p 116):
Symptoms of the Split Personality
1.Normal biological dissociation– Forgetting that you got up in the night to go to the bathroom.
2.Normal psychosocial dissociation– Daydreaming during a boring lecture.
3.Abnormal psychosocial dissociation– Amnesia for incest.
4.Abnormal biological dissociation– Amnesia following a concussion.
An integrated soul personality is always there, solid, not lost or daydreaming.
These biological aspects of dissociation reinforce the notion that it is an entirely normal process in the average person.
Dissociation due to encapsulated pain is the only resort of the psyche which does not have the ability, through meditation to ground and heal that encapsulated pain or energy blockage.
Grounding the encapsulated trauma and pain centered in an energy blockage will obviate the necessity for the split and indeed heal any split which has occurred.
Shamen and the Guru as trained Healers. The earliest known references to dissociative phenomena are to be found in Neolithic cave paintings, in which Shamen can be seen entering into dissociated parts of their clients symbolised as animals and spirits. Jung used a similar methodology.
In fact, throughout the long march of what we call pre-history, such integrated psychic power