sophiaserpentia | (no subject)

This morning I'm revisiting an idea I contemplated a little over a year ago -- that 'fragmented personalities' are far more common than any of us suspect. We are used to thinking of "selves" as something that are handed out one to a customer. That is: in popular belief, one body = one self.

I'm no longer convinced that this is how it works at all.

I'm not talking about what the medical community calls Multiple Personality Disorder, though I think that this is possibly only an exaggerated case of what goes on in all of us.

Please bear with any generalities or imprecision in the following questions. This poll is meant to be intuitive and illustrative, not scientific or precise.

To protect anonymity, I am setting this poll so that only I can see the results. I'll post the figures as people reply.

Which of the following, if any, match your experience?

[Poll #199820]

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Interesting that you brought God-names into this. One of the thoughts I intend to explore with this is the idea that pagan gods relate or reflect different aspects of the psyche, some of which manifest within us. A structured course of deity-invocation -- like pathworkings or "rising through the aethyrs" -- seems to take us through the whole spectrum, as a way of integrating all of these psychic aspects into our individuality.

No monotheistic religion has a single conception of God. Judaism, as you point out, uses different God names. Christianity has at least three (if you exclude qualities like charis and soteria which may be additional aspects of God). Islam has the 99 Names of God.

Ah, the Trinity (more commonly known than the Qabala) is a classic "MPD" version of God... three in one.

I concur on the pagan names and such. I like to lok behind the actual belief in an actual entity known as (insert name of deity) and more into the common human archetypal thinking patterns that give rise to common experiences which are them externalized...