Your consciousness

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.

                                                                                                  William James

Medical research on individuals with multiple personalities shows that remarkable and dramatic changes can occur when an individual switches from one identity to another. For instance, the brain wave patterns for the different personalities are usually completely different. Some people with multiple personalities carry several different pairs of eyeglasses because their vision changes with each identity. Other individuals will have allergies in one personality and not in another. One of the most interesting examples of physiological change with different identities is that of a woman, admitted to a hospital for diabetes, who “baffled her physicians by showing no symptoms of the disorder at times when one personality, who was not diabetic, was dominant.”

          The Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder  (Putnam 1984)

The appearance of an objective world distinguishable from a subjective self is but the imaginary form in which Consciousness perfectly realises itself.

                                                                                                   Joel Morwood