06-21-2017, 03:05 AM
(06-20-2017, 04:50 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote: Thank you all for your nice answers, which hopefully led me to new questions.
Is fragmentation a protective process the creator has built in, or the result of the weakness of the psyche to trauma ?
Can drugs produce fragmentation ?
Can too much meditation produce fragmentation ?
Can fragmentation occurs not be caused by a traumatic experience but by a more or less conscious choice to deny some part of the self.
For exemple someone who wants to be respected in a new social environment and try to ignore or forget the part of the self that don't fit to this new environment.
I've noticed there are two opposed views. The first view, a shamanic one like Gemini presented is of soul splintering (i think shaman don't use the word soul as Soul or Higher Self, but as the full personality or psyche) with some part of the soul who are lost and living their life independantly.
The second view, a more traditional approach consider it is only the result of not wanting to experience again the repressed emotions induced by the trauma, a psychological blocage.
Both
Yes
Yes/No it depends how you do it or why you do it
Yes
Yes
The two views you describe are most likely the result of the nebulosity of the term "soul". Traditional psychanalyst freud which most psychological theories come from didn't believe in any mysticism like the concept of soul and so they either don't describe the same thing or they both use different thought patterns in order to explain the also nebulous term "fragmentation". Since the mind and soul could be seen as micro/macro reflexions, I would tend to think that both explainations are right in their own ways.