| There is in every person the possibility of an integrated | | | | 2.Normal psychosocial dissociation-- Daydreaming |
| Soul Personality. However, normally the average | | | | during a boring lecture. |
| person is split to a greater or lesser degree, dependent | | | | 3.Abnormal psychosocial dissociation-- Amnesia for |
| upon the amount of pain, trauma and undigested | | | | incest. |
| stress in their lives and dependent upon the amount of | | | | 4.Abnormal biological dissociation-- Amnesia following |
| work they have done to integrate their personalities by | | | | a concussion.An integrated soul personality is always |
| means of therapy and meditation.Therapy and | | | | there, solid, not lost or daydreaming.These biological |
| psychology allow intellectual appreciation of the | | | | aspects of dissociation reinforce the notion that it is an |
| problem in ourselves and others. It takes meditation to | | | | entirely normal process in the average |
| heal the splits and integrate the separated | | | | person.Dissociation due to encapsulated pain is the only |
| selves.Charles Tart and others have used the | | | | resort of the psyche which does not have the ability, |
| symbology of the very nature of cyberspace as | | | | through meditation to ground and heal that |
| acting as a sort of "universal solvent" to break up our | | | | encapsulated pain or energy blockage.Grounding the |
| long cherished notions, myths that everyone is a | | | | encapsulated trauma and pain centered in an energy |
| monolithic self.The ease with which we can take on | | | | blockage will obviate the necessity for the split and |
| new Split Personalities and new connectivities in the | | | | indeed heal any split which has occurred.Shamen and |
| virtual domain implies an average self which is | | | | the Guru as trained Healers. The earliest known |
| multivalent, fluid and de-centered-- a self which often | | | | references to dissociative phenomena are to be found |
| operates in parallel, in different modalities and different | | | | in Neolithic cave paintings, in which Shamen can be |
| capacities.I propose that a model for the average | | | | seen entering into dissociated parts of their clients |
| unintegrated person, this new, postmodern, | | | | symbolised as animals and spirits. Jung used a similar |
| postrationalist, cyberspatial self can be found in the | | | | methodology.In fact, throughout the long march of what |
| cluster of psychological manifestations currently known | | | | we call pre-history, such integrated psychic power |
| as Splitting - or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and | | | | abilities had great survival value, by enabling a |
| formerly and more popularly as Multiple Personality | | | | connection with the interior worlds of spirits and |
| Disorder (MPD).But I also propose that Shamen and | | | | animals, with which split humans coexisted. Persons |
| Enlightened Saints have provided a higher model of | | | | adept at such entering the psyche of the split client for |
| Personality integration in the concept of the Soul | | | | the purposes of integration were given positions of |
| Infused Personality and integration with the Higher | | | | considerable power and respect in "primitive" |
| Self.The average person lives in a more or less | | | | societies.Shamen and the enlightened, though, always |
| completely self-constituted world, where fragments of | | | | had the ability to enter, heal and then come back. Split |
| personality are imbedded in a matrix of delusional | | | | Personalities are lost, they are still searching for the |
| projections. It is a world where inner-driven states are | | | | road home, searching for Integration and healing.The |
| substituted for any kind of consensual reality, and a | | | | shamanistic tradition has survived almost to the |
| world where it is almost meaningless to talk about | | | | present day in the circumpolar regions of Asia and |
| having "personality" at all.The task of Deleuze and | | | | North America, and study of these cultures provides |
| Guattari's happy schizophrenic is to harness this | | | | our best view of how shamanism operated over tens |
| condition of non-referentiality to the use of forging a | | | | of thousands of years so it is illustrative to examine |
| new kind of self, in an essentially linguistic | | | | this incredibly ancient and successful tradition.Most |
| transformation, free of the moral and psychological | | | | shamen, as near as can be determined, seemed to be |
| despotism of Modernism.Schizophrenia is very | | | | healthy and not suffering from mental disorders. They |
| different from normal and average Splitting only in | | | | were integral members of their societies and often |
| degree.The concept of dissociationThe concept of | | | | went through long periods of training to become adept, |
| Multiple Personalities has evolved over not just | | | | all of which argue against any sort of pathological |
| centuries, but millennia, and throughout cultures as | | | | component to their craft. The Shamen of the far north |
| varied as nomadic hunter gatherers of the sub-arctic | | | | rarely, if ever, used hallucinogenic plants, relying instead |
| to contemporary industrial societies. At its core, this | | | | exclusively on self-hypnosis and meditation. They |
| concept involves the inherent capacity of the human | | | | were, in effect, rigorously trained professional psychics, |
| psyche to dissociate or split.Colin Ross defines | | | | priests who functioned variously as weather |
| dissociation quite simply: "Dissociation is the opposite of | | | | forecasters, doctors and conveyors of the oral |
| association...For definitional purposes the psyche may | | | | tradition.An example of the training given to Shamen is |
| be reduced to a collection of elements in complex | | | | available in a 5000 years old text called, "The Yoga |
| relationships with each other. Psychic elements include | | | | Sutras of Patanjali." In there a meditational |
| thoughts, memories, feelings, motor commands, | | | | methodology for integration with the soul has been |
| impulses, sensations, and all the other constituents of | | | | extant for millennia. However, always the Guru |
| psychic life. Any two psychic elements may be more | | | | Shaman who has walked the path was considered |
| associated ... or relatively isolated and separate, which | | | | essential to the process of soul integration.The healer, |
| is to be dissociated." (Ross, 1997, p 116).Dissociation is | | | | Shaman, Enlightened through much training, always |
| an important factor in normal psychological functioning, | | | | have the ability to come back to themselves, to |
| allowing for a degree of mutability and adaptability | | | | re-integrate after helping the integration of a |
| which would be impossible without it. In the absence of | | | | client.However, the cure for split personality for |
| healing the painful event causing the split personality it | | | | everyone is integration of the splits by grounding all the |
| is true that the only option of the average person is to | | | | negative energy created by traumatic experiences |
| have amnesia of the causing event which again | | | | which sustains the splits. As we ground all the negative |
| causes all these symptoms.It is probably best to think | | | | energy through meditation, so the splits disappear and |
| of dissociation on a steadily worsening continuum of | | | | one integrated soul personality becomes in |
| split personality symptoms, from ordinary daydreaming, | | | | charge..Start your integrative Process by learning how |
| through such phenomena as forgetting where one is | | | | to meditate and then speed it up with the advanced |
| going on the freeway, to the particularly florid | | | | techniques of Energy Enhancement based upon the |
| manifestations of dissociation which are commonly | | | | thousands of years old ancient effective techniques of |
| labeled as Multiple Personality. Although the | | | | Taoism, The Kundalini Kriyas, The five elemental |
| phenomenon is usually thought of as purely | | | | circulations of the Qi of Chinese Alchemical Taoism, |
| psychological in nature, it can actually be either | | | | The Guided Meditation of the Emerald tablet of |
| biologically or psychosociologically driven, as given by | | | | Hermes Trismegistus encapsulated in VITRIOL and |
| Ross (Ross, 1997, p 116):Symptoms of the Split | | | | The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.Satchidanand, |
| Personality | | | | Director of Energy Enhancement, is one of the leading |
| 1.Normal biological dissociation-- Forgetting that you got | | | | teachers of Meditation! |
| up in the night to go to the bathroom. | | | | |