some soulbonding stuff

I get asked a lot about soulbonding, so here’s a link to some interesting articles on the subject, written circa 2002. 

http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/library_sb.html

Here are some highlights from one particular article. Note that this is not by me, but I have reposted parts of it here because I think they are important and interesting.

http://www.karitas.net/pavilion/library/articles/s_sbsense_ast0802.html

It’s as simple as this: Soulbonding is what it is – the adoption into one’s mind, into personal mental space, of characters from history, video games, films, books, tv, anime, daily life, or a person you were in a past life – anything. The distinctions arein the way different people handle it.

For some people, it never gets beyond “characters in my story” – their soulbonds are presences to them, maybe even real people, but they never assume control. Robert E. Howard said that Conan the Barbarian was a real presence –  […] I believe Mark Twain did this also, especially with people in his historical novels like Joan of Arc. Edith Wharton in her autobiography gives a vivid description of people appearing in her mind, demanding that their stories be told.

For some people, it becomes a question of “sitting in the image of” one’s character. While you remain aware of your own identity, at the same time the identity of that person is present. You may feel that he’s using your body – maybe he’s doing the typing right now 😉 You’re still you, but your consciousness may be so much in communication with his that – while you remain yourself – you feel like you’re inside his mind, and he’s in yours.

This is a powerful experience – going so deep that your body seems to become his, and you almost expect to see him in the mirror instead of yourself. This may last for a few hours or may go on all your life. Some people can sit through a novel or a movie and will sit in the image of one of the characters for a few hours after that. Or a few days or years. Charlotte Bronte had this relationship with the Duke of Wellington and his two sons for years – she was Arthur, and she was also Charlie writing critically about his brother’s heroic and romantic exploits in faraway Angria.

Whichever relationship you have with them, they’re real presences. You can carry on conversations with them. Get their take on things. Everyone’s experience is different – it could be almost a religious communion, while others find they’ve acquired “a best friend and pain in the ass.”

Some people develop very intimate relationships with their soulbonds. It’s like having a lot of roommates, isn’t it? Now, sometimes roommates don’t always get on, and sometimes they’re the best of friends. It’s that way with any group of people. Welcome to medianship, and maybe multiplicity.

Oftentimes, but not always, the way people handle close soulbonding relations is like being median. It’s where one’s soulbonds are strong presences, maybe taking over the body and even co-running with each other. But one person remains generally in charge (even if he can leave the front) – and in some sense, even if indirectly, guides what’s going to happen with the earth life they all share. That’s very much like being a median – what used to be called midcontinuum.

And sometimes it’s like being plural. One’s soulbonds can have personal agendas, goals and desires, lives of their own, and things they want to get done in this earth world – as well as in their own worlds. That’s very much like being multiple.

Some people soulbond – it’s an experience common to singlets, medians, and multiples. And some people – singlets, medians and multiples – never do.