The text of Thirty Six Hours has been typed up from old notes that were found in early 2004, as an example of the kinds situations that can play out within the inner psychic landscapes of a twenty-one-year-old woman with a disordered system of confused and alternating selves, otherwise more commonly known as MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder).
Multiplicity is the adaptation of consciousness to a physical environment. Whether this involves trauma or not, will determine how the system develops. In our case a trauma occured when physical body was eight months of age, where it was thought that the consciousness that had become manifest in the body would not survive. As a result the first half of the primary self was taken away by ethereal selves (beings of light) and put into a place of stasis, while the second half of the primary self, became conscious in the world. We became what is known in new age terminology as a "twin soul braid" in that two souls manifested in the one physical body.
Psyches that possess a multiplicity of consciousness, may also have one or more perceived selves or entities in their physical body, who are thought to have "walked into" the body.
The origins of these selves remain open to conjecture and speculation. Some may be developmental, as in the consciousness adapting to the physical environment. Such selves will possess an obvious autobiography. Others are thought to be human or animal spirits, creatures usually considered mythological, or extraterrestrial intelligences.
These selves are said to then share the physical body and take turns using the body, usually with permission and awareness, at least within a functional co-conscious operating system.
This is very similar to the description given by old-time spiritualist mediums who believed they could allow a departed loved one or spirit guides to take up residence in their body temporarily or permanently. These mediums were the first to have the term "multiple personalities" applied to them. They claimed to share a psychic space and physical body with the perceived spirits, usually with mutual respect and caring.
Generally speaking, a multiple is able to change body control between the selves, entities or consciousness residing in their bodies at will. In such situations, they feel that the self or selves who are fronting at the time, simply "take a step back" and let another entity "come forward" to control the physical body. Alternatively, the selves can operate in state of rapid switching, as co-runners, co-presence or as soul braids or partially integrated groups. When that system of selves is unaware, dysfunctional or disordered, a diagnosis of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) is the result.
For a multiple there are also different ideas of aging. The age of the "physical earth body" is only one age. The ages of the multiple consciousness that inhabit the body may be of varying ages, sexes and species. Many of the selves in Thirty Six Hours are otherkin, or non-human. This may be the result of the societal isolation experienced by those born with Autism, archetypal influence from the collective unconscious or the natural mimicry and learning from others and surroundings, that occurs during early childhood development.
In our case we developed into a disordered system of selves, believed to be largely due to a combination of Autism (a neurological processing difference) and long term trauma. The amnesic walls of MPD that had been erected between the selves began to collapse when the body was twenty-one-years-old. But the psyche was not ready for awareness and co-consciousness.
So unbeknowns to each other, the channelling selves believed that they were constructing make-beleve characters and incidents, but there was no indication to how this might have occurred, or where these "constructed selves or incidents" might have come from. During this period of extreme psychic instability the text of Thirty Six Hours was written.
Thirty Six Hours is a very basic channelled documentation using constructed metaphor and analogy for what was occurring in the alternative realities and psychic landscapes of the system. At this time the central psyche was a tumultuous cascade of alternating awareness and lost selves, who played out their scenarios in unconsciously constructed dreamscapes or realities. The situations are believed to have occurred within inner worlds, where the selves were seperated by the amnesic walls of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder).
As each self becomes conscious, they often feel isolated and lost from the others and a source of origin. Many have only a vague concept of self-identity or concept of themselves. These selves operate within the external earth world and within an internal psychic landscape, with each attempting to establish an idenity and a sense of meaning and purpose to their lives, while somehow knowing that there is more and indeed that they are not alone. Many of the selves also have a sense or a fear of "vanishing" back into the collective as others take over. This text offers a glimpse into several of these realities.
