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Theory : Multiple personality disorder exists for the
sake of reincanation.
I
find great appeal in the whole concept of reincarnation; young
souls, old souls, and having another go-around when you don’t
quite get things right.
However,
one element I’ve always found troubling is the sheer
mathematics of it all. The total population on the plant right
now is far greater then the population a few generations ago.
Where are all the new souls coming from?
I
propose that the development of multiple personalities is
the generation of new souls within a single body. Consider
the relative growth of recognition of Multiple Personality
disorder. Those who suffer from it have been listed as having
several, even dozens, of personalities. These individuals
are generating starter-souls for soon-to-be-born bodies which
will need souls to inhabit them.
In
multiple personality disorder, the primary soul begins to
divide while still in a host body. The body contains the primary
soul, plus new souls that are being generated through the
processing and amalgamation of cultural icons, individual
influences, etc. When the personalities are relieved from
the host, either through death or “recovery” from
mental illness, they serve as a foundation for the first whole
life of a soul.
These
starter souls may not have the benefit of a complete life
lived, but they have they have some worldly experience to
form that first important layer of the onion-like structure
of the soul.
Don’t
get me wrong. I’m not trying to say that these very
young souls are in some way incomplete souls. Were you to
develop a checklist of characteristics for a soul, they would
possess all of the key qualifications, but in much smaller
amounts.
They are “soul-lite”.
What
does give rise for concern, however, is our society’s
tendency to medicate those who struggle with multiple personalities.
I worry that our efforts to cure those who are often quite
reluctant to be treated may in fact result in hundred more
individuals who struggle with the smaller parts of life because
their starter-souls were interrupted in development.
These
starter-souls may be medicated into oblivion, with unknowable
results. The souls could become crippled, lacking the foundation
necessary for starting a journey to enlightenment. They could
lack dimension.
They
could be destined to be reborn in California.
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