Becoming Median: text-only version!

[lb_lee]

Howdy friends, Zyfron has uploaded a text-only version of their Becoming Median booklet!  Enjoy! (Or, if you missed it the first time around, here's the original!) Read about integration, un-integrating, and being in-between multiple and singlet!

Comments

[lithophiles]

Somehow I missed this the first time around, but yeah, we can DEFINITELY attest to having seen "fusion" used instead of "integration" on various old websites, forums, and published books. I think for some people it was less scary, because the term/concept of "integration" carried a lot of heavy psychological weight even back then? We don't usually analyse language to this degree, but "fusion" makes it sound a little more fluid and natural, I think-- like you don't have to stick people back together one by one. It sort of gives the sense that after a point it just happens on its own, if it is the goal you're going for. Or maybe I'm just over-likening it to nuclear fusion, I don't know.

-Amaranth

[lb_lee]

I'd have to dig around in my records for the exact citation, but IIRC, fusion was "get rid of all the system members but one," while fusion was, "combine all the system members into one." So it seemed to be completely different ideas of practice, with integration being "once you absorb all the things keeping you separate, you'll merge."

Fusion seemed to be just "return to singlet, don't care how." It's been a LONG time since that distinction seemed to be a big deal, though.

--Rogan