lb_lee: A clay sculpture of a heart, with a black interior containing little red, brown, white, green, and blue figures. (plural)
Reading The Altar of My Soul: the Living Traditions of Santería, by Marta Moreno Vega, found this bit on spirit mediumship. Vega first found herself exploring Santería after the spirit of her deceased mother took hold of a medium during a ceremony and spoke to her. This comes afterward:

Read more... )
lb_lee: a penguin saying "Just because you decide to sell out doesn't mean anyone's going to buy!" ($ellingout)
Had an excellent first day of sales and will be there again Sunday! Come check us out!

We also blew shameless money there, because there was so much irresistably cool stuff. The haul:

booooooks )

Man, I have missed doing anarchist events. Watered my heartflowers good!
lb_lee: A clay sculpture of a heart, with a black interior containing little red, brown, white, green, and blue figures. (plural)
  • [personal profile] erinptah did a three-part history of Marvel Comics' Aurora, AKA Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, the multi twin sister of Northstar.
    • Part One: an overview of Aurora and/or Jeanne-Marie’s appearances and development in the first Alpha Flight team book.
    • Part Two: stuff from 1997 through 2011
    • Part Three: post 2011 stuff
  • Lighthouse System created a journaling app for all sorts of plurals. We don't use such things and know nothing more about it, but maybe it'd be of interest to folks here!
  • [personal profile] kinda_lost  has added a TON of cross-cultural plural/ish citations to that post I made about it! I am massively behind on reading them but didn't want the citations to disappear into the ether.

lb_lee: A clay sculpture of a heart, with a black interior containing little red, brown, white, green, and blue figures. (plural)
Because [personal profile] kinda_lost asked for them, and I realized that putting them in comment form would've been prohibitively long. I have PDFs of most of these, so let me know if you want any of those files! This post will probably be added to and updated over time, and other people have added their own citations; use "track comments" to keep track of new additions.

Disclaimer: A lot of these sources are devoted to unrelated subjects, and only briefly mention the many-selved/pluralish stuff. Some of these sources I name may not qualify as plural by your definition, and the groups of people involved often have their own cultural framework and philosophy surrounding these phenomena, so very well may not consider themselves plural, but nevertheless, I think that people who DO see themselves as plural should read up about such experiences and learn. I'm also including works that were marketed as fiction but later the author publicly announced it was based off real events from their life. Finally, some of these sources are about very bad forms of possession (like witiko).

Africa

Baule (Cote D'Ivoire) )

Dagara (Burkina Faso) )

Ibibio )

Igbo )

Uganda )

Yoruba (Nigeria) )

Asia

Ethnic Chinese overseas in Malaysia and elsewhere )

western India (around Karnakata) (jogatis) )

Nepal (Shakta Tantra) )

Australia and Pacific Islands

Bali, Indonesia )

Tigabinamga (Indonesia) )

North America (and Caribbean)

Algonquian )

Haitian Vodou )

Iroquois )

Mexican Santa Muertistas )

Native American )

USA (New Orleans Voodoo) )

Miscellaneous )

Do you have a source I don't? Tell me about it!

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