need to clarify what Ah mean by a shamanic reality. This is kinda important, `specially if you happen to be a multiple yo'self, tho' even if'n you ain't, some o' this might be interestin' an' even useful.
Firs' thing is, ever'body has an internal landscape. Foah mos' folks, it's pretty simple, couple-three places; remembered rooms from childhood, `cetera. Foah someone trained as a shaman, gets moah complex; an internal landscape might have hundreds of places in it, more oah less well-connected.
Now, a multiple, if'n they aren't really well connected inside, might could have hundreds an' hundreds of separate places, none of which you can get to from any place else. One that's better-connected inside, well, it all comes together in a coherent whole.
In oah shared internal reality, mos' of us live in a big ol' limestone villa on the edge of a tall mesa.
Mah own internal landscape starts when Ah go into mah own room in that - an' out the back doah.
Now, all of this, you tell it different, fit right into a standard psych text. Ain't nothin' new; the mind is organized an' associated usin' tools such as `magination an' visualization. But step out that back doah an' we cross the line of believe it oah don't.
We have had some shamanic trainin', `nuff to recognize that, first, ouah internal landscape is a shamanic reality an second, that means that we can go from a shamanic reality thas' just oah own to one that's generated by someone else oah into one thas' the result of the unconcious efforts of an entire civilization.
Oah, to put it moah bluntly, Ah kin step out mah back doah an' jump a saytr's bones in an enchanted elven forest oha go cruisin the shamanic projections of the local real-life gritty city districts.
Believe it oah don't. [chuckle]
Now, what's the point to all this cerebrial and/oah shamanic self-indulgence? Well, it's pretty simple - this way Ah kin be me without forcin' everbody else to be me too. An' thas' the real, important secret here.
When you are th' soat o' person Ah am; someone livin' in a biohouse that has views, ideas, sexual tastes an' maybe even gender tha's completly differen't from yoah own, you can go plain stir crazy ifn' you stay locked up inside the haid an' you can get the body locked up in stir labeled as crazy ifn' you insist on goin' out an' sowin' yo' wild oats in the teeth of the general consensus and public good ordah.
So thas' why ah'm sharin' this; it ain' jus' to make mah coporeal twin brother blush magenta an' green. Tha's jus' a fringe benifit.
