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Mori: Okay guys. I'm gonna tell you about some old dead Freudian lawyer's mouth-breathing fanfic and I'm gonna make him all y'all's problem now. (Told ya we wouldn't quit doing stupid info-dumps about many-selved slapfights of yore.)

The woman who married an angel, and the Freudian who married his theories. )
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I really want to tell you about these two books but my brain is sludge. But here! I will try! Here are two magic-y books that seem interesting for multi stuff, if you are so inclined! One is new. The other is not.

The new one is Misha Magdalene's Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice. It talks some about noncorporeal personhood, but most interesting is "Chapter 8: Between the Mundane and the Divine: On Negotiating Consent with Gods." There's sections on saying no to gods and dealing with gods who don't take no for an answer. It seems neat and maybe relevant to folks with that kind of thing? Folks with divine headmates?

The older one (from 1981) is Diane Mariechild's Mother Wit: A Feminist Guide to Psychic Development. I got it very dubiously, and got served a large slab of humble pie, which I wasn't graceful about. This one is very much an exercise book, try-what-works and dump-what-doesn't, and a lot of those exercises are stuff for relaxing, tuning into your psychological landscape, and working with headspace stuff. Some of the exercises are fun. It's very second wave goddess-y feminism, if that's a thing you like/dislike.

We will keep Mother Wit because it's the first resource we've found on headspace healing which is an ongoing problem we've had in here, and a lot of the exercises have worked better than we expected to. Outside the Charmed Circle will be liberated probably to who-is-page for a talk thing.

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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... )
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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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Cool stuff by plurals and friends! Weeded 3/12/2022 and links corrected.
  • Phineas Frogg's Disability T-shirts: queer, disability, and politics T-shirts.
  • Books, essays, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Akwaeke Emezi. Their first book Freshwater is about an Igbo metaphysical experience of plurality. Their essay The Mask As The Truest Thing is also worth a read!
  • Books and zines by Meg-John Barker. They've made a LOT of stuff, but they have a post putting all their plural stuff together here.
  • Space Robot Studio, which includes great things like multi pride jewelry.
  • Cuckoo, by Madison Clell: autobio comics about having DID.
  • got parts? An Insider's Guide to Managing Life Successfully with DID, by ATW: a DID self-help book by a DID system.  Basic nuts and bolts. ATW died in 2016 of cancer complications, and the website seems to be down, but copies are still around on Amazon.
  • When Rabbit Howls and A Creature of Habit, by the Troops for Truddi Chase. A Creature of Habit was published after they died and isn't directly about plurality; When Rabbit Howls is better, in our opinion.
  • I’m Eve and A Mind of My Own, by Chris Costner Sizemore.  Ms. Sizemore has also passed on, sadly, and while she's most known for Three Faces of Eve, the books written by her in her own words are more important. Her papers are also a special collection at Duke)
  • And of course, we, LB Lee, have a Patreon (for fiction, art, and comics), and ebooks and paper comics.

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