Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00496)

Brigitte, thanks for the very interesting post on the tulku. All of which is true.

<<<<<<In his recent book about Blavatsky "The Book of Dzyan" Tim Maroney Blavatsky supposed to have shown the symptoms Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), and that did played a decisive role in her 
experiences and behaviour.

I cannot say much to that, this is something a person with a certain background in psychiatry would have to look into.>>>>>>>>

How about a background in psychology? DID is associated with lack of conscious control of a central ego and is similar (but weaker) to what is called multiple personality disorder (MPD), where different ego-complexes take over conscious control periodically. MPD is usually caused by sexual abuse during childhood, but DID is a weaker version and can have other causes, and the central ego-complex usually does not lose consciousness when other ego-complexes communicate like it does in MPD. 

Now, the key phrase in DID and MPD as well as all other personality disfunctions is "lack of conscious control." Mental illness, when diagnosed as such, generally implies an inability to function properly in society. When this same function (weakening or silencing of ego) is conducted consciously, even deliberately, it becomes a psychic power rather than a psychic dissociation. Blavatsky wrote that she never lost consciousness during these episodes, and so we can rule out MPD. From everything that I have read, she also seems to have had a very strong central ego-complex, and so I think we can rule out DID (this usually occurs with weak ego's). This leaves us with the alternative of deliberately allowing one's ego to become conscious of "another" for brief periods of time. A psychiatrist or psychologist would say that this "other" is a secondary ego-complex within the psyche. An occultist would say that it is telepathic communication with another being, communication with another psyche altogether, and possibly even with a discarnated psyche. I don't know of any way to clearly "prove" one or the other.

Jerry S.
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