Talk more about how cosmological, metaphysical, spiritual, and otherwise non-psychological forms of plurality are treated as disposable, I am no longer asking.
Talk about how many of us are abandoned not just by broader society, but by our own communities because our experiences are considered "too weird," "too cringe," or too inconvenient for respectability politics.
Talk about how some plurals will happily throw us under the bus in hopes that sacrificing us will make them appear more believable, more legitimate, more acceptable.Talk about how being told "that's impossible" or "that's just psychosis" is often treated as an acceptable response, even by people who know what it feels like to have their own experiences denied.
Talk about how "endogenic" became a catch all category for wildly different experiences and beliefs, flattening an enormous diversity of perspectives into one caricature that people can easily dismiss.
Talk about how countless communities and frameworks that once tried to give language to the breadth of plural experiences were mocked, demonized, or abandoned because they were deemed too strange, too embarrassing, or bad optics.
Talk about the way people treat plurality as though it must have one acceptable explanation and one acceptable narrative, and how anyone who exists outside that narrative is expected to either lie, stay silent, or leave.
Talk about how many cosmological and metaphysical plurals feel forced to choose between authenticity and community, because speaking openly about our experiences means risking ridicule from singlets and exclusion from other plurals alike.
Talk about how treating trauma based plurality as the only legitimate form of plurality reinforces the same rigid ideas about personhood and consciousness that have historically been used to invalidate all plural people.
Talk about how "I don't personally believe that" too often becomes "you are dangerous, delusional, or hurting the community simply by existing."
Talk about how respectability politics have never protected marginalized people. They have only created new outsiders.
Talk about how some of us spent years hiding, not because we were ashamed of who we are, but because we learned that even among people who understood multiplicity, there were experiences they considered unacceptable.
Talk about how disagreement does not justify dehumanization.
Talk about epistemic humility. Talk about the limits of human understanding. Talk about how nobody possesses a complete theory of consciousness.
Talk about how plurality has always been more diverse than any one framework, diagnosis, belief system, or community would like to admit.
Talk about how we deserve the same dignity, autonomy, and right to describe our own experiences that everyone else asks for themselves.
This is a very fascinating and confusing topic for us overall. We've been meaning to write this post but kept coming up short because the person at front just didn't have enough information about outside of their era to be comprehensive about everything we wanted to touch on.
Hi, I'm Agares (it/its) and I technically count as a system keeper so I'm technically qualified to write about this. Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Now, for the meat of the topic:
We have what is commonly called a headspace, we have an innerworld and we have realms. The following definitions are how we (very loosely!) define them within our collective and may or may not apply to others.
Headspace — a space that exists purely within the body's mind.
Innerworld — isn't necessarily a headspace or a realm, kind of like something in between? we call it inworld because, well, we have yet to find our own word for it (and *inner*world didn't feel accurate).
Realm — external/other realms/worlds. Think the multiverse. Think of shifting, maybe.
Before we continue, I'll provide further context.
We're a gateway plural with C-DID (polyfragmentation).
This means that although we have metaphysical workings (hesitant to call it spiritual outright because we don't really transcribe to any one (this reality) religion, if we do at all, we also have the psychological, fully traumagenic and dissociative parts of our plurality. They tend to have a very hard time doing...well, much of anything outside of what they were created for and we do have some very real fragmentation.
But outside of the C-DID parts of our working that does actually cause no insignificant amounts of dysfunction in day to day life, we have a metaphysical, or rather, anaspect side to our inherent workings too.
But enough of that, let's refocus on the topic at hand:
1. Headspace
Our headspace is more so for our psychological residents, but of course, people live where they want to and go where they can. Not a hard line or whatever.
We've always had a headspace. For as far as we can remember, there was always a mansion, and people were confined or only had access to parts of it pre-syscovery. As such there was rarely any overlap and it took awhile for us to bump into each other and realize that something's up. (Somehow we never questioned not being able to access other parts of our own mind palace.)
That is to say, we didn't have to consciously build it from the ground up.
It's a pretty standard mansion now that we know majority of the layout. I can't really describe it though. Around 3 floors if I'm remembering correctly.
A labyrinth for a basement (which once was a resting place for dormant residents, and fragments), and beneath all that, there was the void and a single door in the nothingness. At the time, we didn't think much of the door. It was there, and nothing could get it to open. This was around when the vessel was 8 to 11.
Our fronting/hosting groups kept on shifting, and with it, so does the headspace. This never made sense for the longest while. But we eventually learned about epochal systems and figured we fit the bill somewhat. But the previous groups didn't go dormant or necessarily inactive, we called them sidesystems for awhile before settling on our own term: era.
By this pattern, we can assume every era has their own headspace. Which is where we (also) fit the bill for layered headspace. Majority of the folks in their respective headspaces cannot access others due to well...our dissociation and compartmentalization doing its thing.
Fast forward after syscovery and learning everything we know now about ourselves, we now know our headspace is layered. And most individuals native to their own headspace cannot access others.
2. Innerworld
We later learned that we had continents, landscapes and more via the admins in our collective. Each headspace was essentially it's own land located somewhere on what we've taken to calling an entire planet. There are people that exists outside of the headspaces who live and work and play like any other normal person, going about their daily lives.
We once went with community labels, and called these non-system members NPCs but have since discarded the notion. They are very much real people. They live their own lives. Some of them are aware of our more involved residents, and in much bigger areas like cities and stuff, some of them actually assist involved residents with whatever they may need assistance with.
And, most importantly, if there is a need, and any of them are available and willing, they can front/assert executive control of the vessel. The majority is not aware of and have no interest in this vessel's life. We let them be.
Anyway, at this stage, things aren't floating places in the void, it's an entire planet. Most system members (who function under our CDD) does not actually have access outside of their little bubble, because well...baggage they gotta work on. I personnally only have access to my own layer, though I have access to the wider knowledge and memory of when these features/functions were being created.
Now, the thing we rarely see talked about anywhere: we share an inworld with another vessel on this plane of existence.
They are also a CDD system (and we both find it difficult to access each other's headspaces) but the inworld is fair game.
3. Realms
I mentioned that the inworld is essentially just one whole planet, right?
Well, actually, it's around 3 or so planets, an entire solar system. And a whole lot of multiversal travel.
We have a lot of metagenic residents, or travelers. Or spiribonds. Or walk-ins. Or soulbonds. There are a lot of terms out there, actually. They come and go. Some of them have moved in permanently, for whatever reason, some of them are recurrent visitors, some of them visit only once and never again.
Some of them we go to instead. All of that, and more basically.
Closing
Not sure how to end this so I'll just... I would've loved to go into more details, but I don't know everything, as I'm just one Keeper and not one of those all seeing Internal Deities we have. If you have specific questions, please put them forward. If I don't have an answer, I'll track down the folks who do lol.
