Your Symphony of Selves by James Fadiman

Author:James Fadiman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Help/Psychology
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2020-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Peter Baldwin (employing the term ego-states) says something similar:

I propose that personality is invariably composed of multiple egostates, i.e., personas, each of which represents a full subpersonality. . . . Each one of our selves, each one of our personas, amounts to the personification of a configuration of behavior patterns. Each persona as a pattern of behavior is recognizable and distinguished from other personas in terms of characteristic ways of thinking and performing.11

Circling back, is our proposed definition—“Selves are self-states, and self-states are recurring patterns of mindbody chemistry, energy, perception, and behavior in a human being”—sufficient? Selves themselves are not visible or scientifically measurable from the outside. But the recurrent behavior of specific selves is observable and measurable, and a self-state’s physiological correlates—body chemistry, neurology, and brain activity as seen in brain scans, blood assays, hormonal levels, and the like)—are material and measurable. Our definition, then, provides at least two ways to assess the reality of selves—behavior and measurable physical correlates. Additional perspectives helpful in making this assessment will be provided throughout this chapter.

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