What causes multiplicity? How do people become multiple?
At present, there are a lot of views as to the origins of plurality, and a lot of multiples (and even some singlets) believe it simply doesn’t matter. Some people think it has to do with differing brain structures, and others with how the mind is conditioned by societal and cultural cues in childhood. Our view is that plurality, or an inclination towards plurality, is something which is naturally present in everyone to some degree or another. The way in which it is experienced depends upon what the individual mind (or minds) choose to make of it. (thanks Amorpha!) Read Multiple Personality Is Natural by Andy Temple The standard or classic view held by mental health professionals is that being multiple is a disorder of the mind, that it is something that is wrong. Cornelia Wilbur, in defining and describing multiple personality for modern psychiatry, assumed that multiplicity was always caused when a child suffers severe trauma and “dissociates” for protection. Some multiples report kno
