Plural Archives

Source Name: Trance and Possession in Bali: A Window on Western Multiple Personality, Possession Disorder, and Suicide

Creator/s: Luh Ketut Suryani and Gordon D. Jensen

Years Active: 1993

About: "This book deals with Balinese psycho-social experiences in trance-possession states during traditional healing, religious ceremonials, dance, drama and gamelan performances, as well as in several mental disorders. It concludes that trance-possession in Bali is the same, phenomenologically, as multiple personality disorder (MPD) in the West. It also presents criteria for the diagnosis of possession in any culture, a new theory of possession, and multifold comparisons of trance-possession in Bali with MPD in the West."

Notes: Available only on paper, out of print, and expensive because academia. This review I found on ResearchGate complains about an ethnocentric bias. I loathe citing Astraea for anything, since they extorted money and stole a truck, but they did transcribe some of it here.

Source Name: The Way That Lives in the Heart: Chinese Popular Religion and Spirit Mediums in Penang, Malaysia

Creator/s: Jean DeBernardi

Years Active: 2006

About: "a richly detailed ethnographic analysis of the practice of Chinese religion in the modern, multicultural Southeast Asian city of Penang, Malaysia. The book conveys both an understanding of shared religious practices and orientations and a sense of how individual men and women imagine, represent, and transform popular religious practices within the time and space of their own lives."

Archives:

Notes: Looks to only be available on paper and hardback. Of course. Friggin' academia. Hard to get. Only know of it because Zen Cho cites it in her (fiction) book, Black Water Sister.

"This is a love story—a love story disguised as a piece of scholarly research."

Source Name: Spirit Marriage

Creator/s: Megan Rose

Years Active: 2022 (adding it despite the "must have been not updated for five years" because... it's a book. It's no longer being revised.)

About: "Megan Rose, Ph.D., examines the practice and purpose of spirit marriage around the world, presenting transcultural evidence of this form of sacred union. [...] She shares her in-depth interviews with ten contemporary practitioners of spirit marriage, including a Faery Seer, a Shakta Tantric, a West African Shrine Keeper, a New Orleans Voodoo Mambo, Haitian Vodou practitioners, and a ceremonial magician," along with her own spirit marriage.

Archives: Available in paper and ebook forms. I have both.

Notes: Hub for a bunch of spirit marriage citations, which has substantial overlap with various forms of spiritual plurality. Heads up for at times dicey discussions involving racism and cultural appropriation. Peoples/faiths involved include Dagara (Burkina Faso), Shakta Tantra (Nepal/South Asia), Haitian Vodou and New Orleans Voodoo, Faery Seership, a USA witch doctor, ceremonial magician, and homebrew.

"Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Redirecting to...

http://healthymultiplicity.com/NotFound.html"

Source Name: Voyage of the Beagle

Creator/s: HMS Beagle

Years Active: 2010-2011 or 2013?

About: "The personal sites of HMS Beagle, including articles about the plural community and multiples in the media, along with other resources." Completely lost.

Archives: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://healthymultiplicity.com/hmsbeagle* Complete data loss

Notes: Judging by the earliest file-dates on my old hard drive, Zyfron founded healthymultiplicity.com around January 3, 2010 with us (LB Lee) and HMS Beagle, their partner system. Beagles took pluralanon very hard in January 2011, and they and Zyfron later broke up and divorced (Zyfron 2013, 2018). May 2011 is the last time their page's URL is written out on the home-page, and January 2013 is the last time their site is linked at all... and that link was honestly probably by mistake. The only reason I even have the name or description of Beagles page is due to one solitary Wayback Machine catch from February 8, 2011, only a month after pluralanon. The webpage may very well have already been deleted by that point.

Sources Cited:

healthymultiplicity.com. (2011 February). healthymultiplicity.com homepage. Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20110208000103/http://healthymultiplicity.com/

healthymultiplicity.com. (2011 May). healthymultiplicity.com homepage. Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20110510071429/http://healthymultiplicity.com/

healthymultiplicity.com. (2013). healthymultiplicity.com homepage. Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20130102030415/http://healthymultiplicity.com/

Zyfron. (2013). Episode 108: The Breakup. Gemini. Retrieved from https://healthymultiplicity.com/Zyfron/Gemini/?webcomic1=episode-108-the-breakup

Zyfron. (2018). Becoming Median: A Booklet Exploring Changes to The Zyfron System after the end of the Gemini Webcomic. Retrieved from http://healthymultiplicity.com/Zyfron/Becoming%20Median%20Booklet.pdf

Submitted by sobqjmv_sphinx!

"It doesn't matter what the professionals think; we don't think we're a multiple." (S4OS I:4, pg. 14)

Source Name: Speaking for Our Selves (S4OS)

Creator/s: Various (Rachel A.?)

Years Active: 1985-1987

About: Running for 9 issues from 1985-1987, Speaking for Our Selves (or S4OS) was possibly the first newsletter for people with MPD. It not only predated Many Voices by a couple years; it may have been the inspiration: "After a group called Speaking For Ourselves closed (which was the first newsletter for individuals with dissociative disorders) –– Lynn Wasnak picked up where they left off and she founded the organization 'Many Voices'" (The Awareness Center, "Remembering Lynn Wasnak," 2013). It was based out of Long Beach, California, and the subscription rate for six issues was $6 for multiples, $12 for all others (S4OS I:4, pg. 22).

Archives: Unfortunately, the only digital copy of any of the issues I have been able to find is the one sobqjmv_sphinx linked me, Vol. 1 no. 4 from June 1986. (Not screenreadable.) Data loss is major.

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"the main motivation we had for putting the page together was the midcontinuum section. As we state there, it seemed to us as if there was a great void in cyberspace concerning the experience of dissociation and plurality from the middle of the continuum. We hoped to address this, to fill this void, and to provide validation to others who were having the same experience we had had, who were wondering "is this real? Am I just making it up? I'm not multiple, am I? But this "inner child" seems to be rather more vocal than a metaphor would be..."

Source Name: The Wonderful World of the MidContinuum

Creator/s: Vicki(s)

Years Active: 1997-2001

About: A website collating experiences of people who were "not multiple enough," and coiner of the use of "plural" as an umbrella term for more-than-one experiences.

Archives: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asarian.org/~vickis/* Wayback Machine archive, 1998-2001, data loss minor

Notes: Part of the asarian.org domain, which was built by a multiple for other multiples from the Usenet group alt.sexual.abuse.recovery. Vicki(s) coined "midcontinuum," which later became "median," but all the fluidity and positivity of the idea comes from Vicki(s). Also some of the advice on the site remains good today.

"So you passed the insanity test? Good."

Source Name: No title, far as I know?

Creator/s: Kurai

Years Active: 2000-2009

About: Had a forum, personal essays, and (most famously) "the list" of soulbonders acting as an informal web ring. Nichole later took up the banner to create the Soulbonding Database.

Archives:

• http://kurai.com/sb/*: Wayback Machine Archive, data loss minor
• http://kurai.mysticsock.org/yabbse/index.php?board=12: Wayback Machine Archive of forum, data loss major
• http://gbook.nu/x/lyn/: Wayback Machine Archive of guest book, data loss major

Notes: Good hub for other soulbonding sources.

"The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only; containing my story, my views and experiences as a survivor of severe childhood trauma and domestic violence. I have also included issues that I have pondered upon that are my own ideas, views and memories."

Source Name: D.I.D., A Legitimate Diagnosis: A Spiritual Healing

Creator/s: Candace "Candy" Little

Years Active: 2004-September 2015

About: Personal website of a Christian woman with DID. Includes pages with resources, her story, poetry, photos of her family and pets, and links to her book, Tormented Souls Within, on Amazon. Has a forum which is completely lost, and the guestbook is gutted, but the main website is in very good shape; most of the images even still work!

Archives:

• didlegit.com: 2006-2015, Wayback Machine, minor data loss
• Bravenet Guestbook: 2004, Wayback Machine archive of the site's guestbook, major data loss.
• Evecynn on Bravejournal: 2006-2015, community blog, medium data loss
• didlegit.bravesites.com: 2015, Wayback Machine, major data loss

Notes: Her copyright info says 2000-2018, but the earliest activity that's archived is the guestbook from 2004, and the last update on didlegit.com and the bravesites version is from 7/26/2015. Both websites are gone by January 2018, so abruptly that I wonder if Ms. Little died.

Her page on how memories can become unraveled into constituent sensations, thoughts, feelings, and narrative memory, all of which may or may not trigger the others, remains useful today. I haven't seen many other people discuss that (Memories, 2018). Her therapy page is also decent introductory advice (Psychotherapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2018).

Sources Cited:

Little, Candy. (2018). Memories. http://didlegit.com/memories.html Wayback Machine Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20180120235227/http://didlegit.com/memories.html

Little, Candy. (2018). Psychotherapy for Dissociative Identity Disorder. http://didlegit.com/therapy.html Wayback Machine Archive. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20180120235227/http://didlegit.com/therapy.html

"Our purpose is to improve things for alternatives, by creating and providing resources for them, networking with both alternatives and mainstream society to improve relations, and to keep an eye out and get involved in activism when it is needed" (H.O.P.E., 2001, April 22b, paragraph 3).

"Below is a list of offenses which are against HOPE policy. [...]
5.) Failure to Destroy Paperwork
7.) Making Public Statements About HOPE without Authorization
14.) Unnecessary/Excessive Use of Violence
39.) Endangerment of Life" (2000, April 26)

( I just thought I was doing a little listing, and hours later I feel like I've found myself at the bottom of a well. )

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Archives must have been inactive for at least five years. (Unless they are books or other analog media that aren't liable to change drastically or disappear quickly.) This is to avoid the problem of new sites popping up like toadstools and disappearing just as quickly.