Alright since misanthropes feed wants to give mysanthrope anti spiritual plurality propaganda time to call it out.
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Anti-spiritual plurality rhetoric is deeply entangled with racism and religious bigotry because it dismisses spiritual frameworks that have existed across hundreds of cultures for centuries, long before modern psychiatry ever created diagnostic labels like DID or OSDD. The idea that every experience of plurality must fit into a Western clinical framework ignores the fact that many cultures have long understood identity, consciousness, spirits, and shared consciousness in ways that do not align with modern Western individualism. Declaring all spiritual plurality “fake,” “delusional,” or “impossible” does not just target individual plural people, it also indirectly labels entire cultural and religious traditions as illegitimate.
A major issue is that anti-spiritual plurality arguments often assume Western psychiatry is the sole authority on human consciousness.
Modern dissociative diagnoses are relatively recent in medical history, but spiritual understandings of multiplicity, possession, ancestor connection, and shared consciousness are ancient. Across Asia, there are traditions involving spirit mediums, possession states, channeling, ancestral coexistence, and multiple identities existing within one body or soul-space. In many Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas, spiritual experiences involving ancestors, animal spirits, guiding entities, or multiple presences within a person have historically been treated with reverence rather than immediate pathologization. These traditions were not invented on social media, nor were they created after psychiatric manuals existed.
When people mock or attack spiritual plurality as inherently “crazy,” “roleplay,” or “anti-science,” they often repeat the same colonial attitudes historically used to suppress non-European religions. Colonial governments and missionaries routinely dismissed Indigenous and Asian spiritual practices as primitive, insane, demonic, or fraudulent specifically because those practices did not fit European Christian or medical worldviews. Many Native spiritual traditions were violently suppressed, ceremonies were outlawed, and spiritual practitioners were punished or institutionalized. The framing of “your spiritual experiences are not real because Western medicine does not validate them” mirrors those same oppressive patterns.
This does not mean every claim made under the label of spiritual plurality is automatically true, nor does it mean mental health science has no value. The problem arises when people insist there is only one acceptable framework for understanding consciousness.
Human cultures have always interpreted extraordinary internal experiences through different lenses: psychological, spiritual, religious, philosophical, and communal. Respecting that diversity is important.
You do not have to personally believe in spiritual plurality to recognize that many people’s beliefs are tied to longstanding cultural and religious traditions deserving of respect.
As misanthrope is indigenous we should mention It is especially important to avoid flattening Indigenous cultures into stereotypes while discussing this topic.
Native American nations are not a monolith, and beliefs differ dramatically between tribes and communities. However, many Indigenous traditions do include complex understandings of spirits, identity, dreams, ancestors, and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Dismissing all spiritually framed plurality without nuance can unintentionally erase or demean those traditions. The same applies to numerous Asian spiritual systems, where concepts of possession, coexistence with spirits, reincarnation-linked identities, or divine embodiment have existed for generations.
At its core, anti-spiritual plurality rhetoric becomes harmful when it stops being about skepticism and starts becoming blanket hostility toward cultural and religious experiences outside a narrow Western framework. Respecting cultural plurality means acknowledging that humanity has never had one universal understanding of the mind, soul, or self and pretending otherwise often reinforces colonial and racist ideas.
Alright thats it, misanthrope had to pull out the proper grammar for this