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