Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00018)

Deat BAG:

Many thanks for your interesting comments. Yes, psychiatrists 
consider GID to be "non-specific aetiology," which means it exists, 
but cannot be traced to any specific medical condition. Your 
comments are very thought proboking indeed. I certainly agree with 
you that religious and other groups need to stop sticking their noses 
where they do not belong and distirting what should be a scientific 
question.

You mention your "index", papers, and so on. Are they published or 
on the Internet, or how does one refer to them? I susepct your 
compl;ete paper answers a lot of other questions that have rolled iy 
my mind since I took DSM IV classes.

Jung theorized that if you are consciously a male, your unconscious 
mind is a female, and v.v. Whether he was right or not I cannot say, 
but I can see how at least in theory if unconscious contents are 
pressing into coonsciousness more easily than they do in "normal" 
people (a condition one sees in both schizophrenics and seers) one 
could have an alter ego which was of the opposite sex from one's 
persona. It would not be surprising to see something like this in 
someone who is perfectly sane but who nonetheless had easier than 
normal intercommunication between the conscious and unconscious 
minds, as someone like HPB would have had. (I am assuming she did 
have psychic experiences as she says she did, and that the boundary 
between these two autonomous psychic regions was therefore porous.)