“奥古斯都”的故事——赛斯解析多重人格障碍的经典案例（上）

由于“念头”与“信念”具有电磁实相，所以，强烈矛盾的信念之间持续相互作用，会造成巨大的能量障碍，阻碍内在能量向外流动。有时甚至会发生一种两极分化。比如说，未经消化的信念，未经检视的念头，全都会显得似乎自己有了生命一样，能够有效主宰你的某些活动领域。

不久前，鲁柏就亲眼见到一个具体的示范，体现了“信念”所具有的性质与力量。

一个住在另一个州的男人打电话给鲁柏，希望能和他约个时间见面。不知是什么原因，鲁柏感到一种想见这个人的冲动，于是就约了他见面。这个人在太太的监护下，坐飞机来到了这里。

他是个活生生的研究案例，显示出相互冲突的信念在不予检视时所产生的效果，那是当一个人纵容自己的显意识心智否认其应负的责任——即当一个人变得连对自己的意识都害怕时会发生的事情。这个人正是上述情形所导致的一个凶恶可怕又痛苦不堪的人格化现。

这个例子里的年轻人，他的信念自行获得了生命而活了起来，相形之下，他自己却显得十分软弱无力。他从来就不曾试着调和这些直接对立的信念，直到这个人格本身实际上已然相当地两极化了。

你当时面对的是一个可称之为“经典案例”的第二人格现象。我之所以在这里讨论这件事，是因为它如此完美地证明了信念的本质和力量，以及当一个人不肯为自己的思想负责时，会发生什么冲突。这并不是一个常例——但是当显意识心智的内容未被检视时，这样的分裂多多少少会在身体或精神上发生。

进门的时候，这个人浑身充满了好战和敌意。在请求帮助后，他又恨自己的软弱，他认为向你求助的“需要”，完全是因为自己的“软弱”而引起的。他一进来就怒视着鲁柏，眼光中充满了强烈的情绪，并投射出所有他能投射的能量，以此表明他绝不会被吓倒，并借此告诉大家，如果有什么人能控制全场的话，这个人绝对是他。他谈到另一个比“他自己”强大得多的人格，不过他说，就算这屋子里有一百五十个人，“他自己”也可以叫屋里的人全都顺从他的命令。他说在他身上的这另一个人物是从另一个星系来的，以一个朋友的姿态来帮助和保护他。

在他的命令下（他说），这个无形的朋友杀死了一个律师，因为照他所说，这位律师非但不了解状况，还在言语中伤了“那个人”的心。为了方便，我们姑且称这个人为奥古斯都吧。

话说从头，奥古斯都从小就深信“内我”是个危险的家伙，而人之所以会对事情起反应，是由于人几乎无法有意识地控制内在冲突造成的。他相信个人的人格并没有什么力量去了解自己，而自己则是很不安定地，孤独而无人相护地站着，脚下是邪恶的深渊，头上则是一个无法企及的、冷漠、公正但没有同情心的善。

他在一个处处对立的世界里感到迷惑，彼此冲突的信念被不加判断地接受了。有意识的头脑总是试图使它的信念合理化，而把它们形成一种模式与顺序。它将尽可能地以理性的方式组织思想，并摒弃那些似乎与其整体信念系统相矛盾的东西。

奥古斯都曾被教导去害怕他自己的思想，去逃避自我反省，因此，那些使他惊吓的信念或想法并没有被面对，而是被推到意识的角落里去了。然而，在一开始，它们是相当无害地待在那里的。

随着时间的推移，未经检视的、吓人的信念的数目开始累积了起来。念头和信念的确会自行滋生。在它们之内有一个朝向成长、发展与完成的天生动力。数年以来，两个相反的信念系统愈来愈强，都在争取奥古斯都的注意。他相信作为一个个体，他是极端的没有力量，而不管他做了多少努力，他仍会一无所成，不为人注意。他感觉完全不被爱，也不觉得自己值得被爱。与此同时，他让自己的显意识心智走偏了，为了补偿，他把自己看作是万能的，蔑视着他的人类同胞，而因为他们对他的误解，他反而能施以更大的报复。顺着这种信念，他的确有能力做任何事——只要他愿意，他可以治愈人类的疾病，或者向世界隐瞒这些知识以惩罚它。

现在所有这些想法对他而言都是相当有意识的，但他却把每一组想法分得很开。再说一次，有意识的头脑试图获得整体的完整与统一，把它的信念排成某种前后一致的系统。当彼此直接矛盾的相反信念被一个人抱持了一段时间，而他没有做任何努力去调和它们的话，那么有意识的头脑本身就开始了一场“战争”。

既然是有意识头脑的信念管制着身体不自觉的运作以及整个身体系统，那么，矛盾的信念显然造成了身体的不良反应和不平衡。可以说，在奥古斯都的对立信念形成各自的阵营之前，身体一直处于混乱之中；矛盾的讯息不断被发送到肌肉系统和心脏，荷尔蒙系统摇摆不定，甚至他的体温也变化得颇为剧烈。

因为相似的念头确实会彼此吸引，在电磁性与情感性两方面都是如此，有意识的头脑发现自己有两种完全矛盾的信念系统，以及两个自我形象。为了保护身体的完整性，奥古斯都有意识的头脑巧妙地把它自己分割了。分分秒秒发送给身体的讯息不再搅和不清了。

奥古斯都那个感觉强而有力，并且陌异的部分变得个人化了。当奥古斯都感觉受到威胁时，有意识的头脑就会转换过去，接受另一个信念系统作为运作程序，在其中，奥古斯都认为自己是万能的、安全的——但却是外来的。因此，他这部分的信念以及这个特定的自我形象占据了他有意识的头脑，成为我们在此称之为“奥古斯都第二” 的那个人。当奥古斯都第二担任领导时，他的身体不只是强壮有力，而且能够做出远远超过奥古斯都第一的体能特技。

你要明白，奥古斯都第二相信他的身体几乎是不可战胜的，而按照这个信念，他的身体确实表现得好的多。奥古斯都第二相信他是个外星人。在这种情况下，他的解释是——因为必须要有一个解释——他是个由其他星球，事实上，由另一个星系而来的生灵。在这种情形下，他的目的很明确也很简单：他要帮助奥古斯都第一，为了后者而使用他的力量，奖励奥古斯都第一的朋友，恐吓他的敌人。奥古斯都第一坚信自己需要这种帮助。

这是有意识头脑的一个分裂，但它不是发源于内我。当奥古斯都第二掌权时，他很清醒，他只是透过一个坚定不移的信念系统去看物质实相。传达给身体的讯息一点都不矛盾，而身体处于极佳的控制之下。

奥古斯都第一的情绪当然是由他怀有的那些想法直接引起的。身体所不能忍受的，正是这种从兴奋有力的高能状态到沮丧无力的低沉状态之间不停地摇摆，因为它引起了巨大的变化。大部分的时间是奥古斯都第一在做主，因为他的无价值感，以你们的话来说，是他较早采纳的概念；而更糟的是——那又被他与奥古斯都第二之间的对比所加强。奥古斯都第二有时候一来就待上一个礼拜。

他说的做的都是奥古斯都第一非常想说想做的，只要奥古斯都第一拥有某些保护就敢去做的事。然而，奥古斯都第一在这段时间里不是真的无意识，却是对“替代性”的活动和成就相当觉察。再说一次，它是一个捉迷藏的游戏，在其中，所谓的无意识心智可说是相当无辜的。

奥古斯都第二因此可乱喊乱叫、说谎欺骗、肯定他自己、蔑视他的同伴，而免除奥古斯都第一的任何责任。

未完待续

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? “三面夏娃”与转世人格

? 害怕自己能量的人——谈主人格与次人格

Because ideas and beliefs have this electromagnetic reality, then, constant interplay between those strongly contradictory beliefs can cause great power blocks, impeding the flow of inner energy outward. At times a polarization can occur. Unassimilated beliefs, unexamined ideas, can seem to adopt a life of their own. These can effectively dominate certain areas of activity.

Not long ago Ruburt was presented with a demonstration embodying the nature and power of beliefs.

He received a phone call from a man who lived in another state. There was a request for an interview. Without knowing why, Ruburt felt an impulse to see the man, and set up an appointment. The visitor arrived from the airport with his wife in tow.

He was a study, a living example, of the effects of conflicting unexamined beliefs, a fierce and yet agonized personification of what can happen when an individual allows his conscious mind to deny its responsibilities — i.e., when an individual becomes afraid of his own consciousness.

Here was a young man whose beliefs were alive with their own life while he was relatively powerless. No effort had been made to reconcile directly opposing beliefs, until the personality itself was quite literally polarized.

You were faced with what could be called a classic instance of secondary personality. I am discussing it here because it so beautifully illustrates the nature and power of beliefs, and the conflicts that can arise when an individual does not accept responsibility for his own thoughts. This is not a usual case — but to some extent or another, such a division occurs physically or mentally when the contents of the conscious mind are not examined.

Entering, the man bristled with belligerence and hostility. Having requested help, he then hated himself for the weakness that he believed caused such a need. He glowered at our friend Ruburt with great vehemency, projecting all of the energy at his command to show that he would not be cowed, and that if anyone took over the situation he would be the one to do so. He spoke of another personality far more powerful than he — though, he said, he could force a roomful of a hundred-and-fifty people to follow his commands. The other personality, however, originated in another galaxy, and came as a friend to help and protect him.

At his behest [he said] this invisible friend killed a lawyer. The lawyer not only did not understand the condition, according to the story, but hurt the feelings of the man under discussion. We will call the man Augustus. 

To begin with, Augustus was brought up to believe that the inner self was dangerous, that individuals reacted because of inner conflicts over which they had little conscious control. He believed that the individual personality was relatively powerless to understand itself and that it stood precariously alone and undefended, with a chasm of evil beneath and with an unattainable, cold, just, but not compassionate Good above.

He felt bewildered in a world of opposites. Conflicting beliefs were uncritically accepted. The conscious mind will always attempt to make sense out of its beliefs, to form them into patterns and sequences. It will usually organize ideas in as rational a way as possible, and dispense with those that seem to contradict the overall system of its beliefs.

Augustus had been taught to fear his own thoughts, to avoid self-examination. Beliefs or ideas that frightened him were not faced, therefore, but initially shoved into corners of the conscious mind, where they lay relatively harmlessly in the beginning.

As time went on the number of unexamined, frightening beliefs began to accumulate. Ideas and beliefs do feed upon themselves. There is within them a built-in impetus toward growth, development and fulfillment. Over the years two opposing systems of beliefs built up strongly, vying for Augustus’s attention. He believed that he was utterly powerless as an individual, that despite all his efforts he would come to nothing, go unnoticed. He felt completely unloved. He did not feel worthy of love. At the same time he let his conscious mind wander, and to compensate saw himself as all-powerful, contemptuous of his fellow human beings, and able to work greater vengeance upon them for their misunderstanding of him. In this line of beliefs he was able to do anything — cure mankind’s ills if he chose, or withhold such knowledge from the world to punish it. Period.

Now all of these ideas were quite conscious, but he held each group separately. The conscious mind, again, tries to obtain overall integrity and unity, lining up its beliefs into some kind of consistent system. When opposing beliefs that directly contradict each other are held for any length of time, and little attempt is made to reconcile them, then a “battle” begins within the conscious mind itself.

Since it is the beliefs of the conscious mind that regulate the involuntary bodily motions and the entire physical system, then contradictory beliefs obviously set up adverse physical reactions and imbalances. Before Augustus’s opposing beliefs lined themselves up into separate camps, so to speak, the body was in continual turmoil; contradictory messages were constantly sent to the muscular system and the heart. The hormonal system teetered. Even his physical temperature varied rather drastically.

Because like ideas do attract like, both electromagnetically and emotionally, the conscious mind found itself with two complete contradictory systems of belief, and two self-images. To protect the integrity of the physical structure, Augustus’s conscious mind neatly divided itself up. No longer were the minute-to-minute messages to the body scrambled.

The part of Augustus who felt powerful and alien became personified. When Augustus felt threatened then the conscious mind switched over, accepting as operating procedure the system of beliefs in which Augustus saw himself as all-powerful, secure — but as alien. This part of his beliefs, therefore, and this particular self-image, took over his conscious mind and became what we will here call Augustus Two. When Augustus Two assumed leadership then the physical body itself was not only strong and powerful, but capable of physical feats far surpassing those of Augustus One.

Augustus Two, you see, believes that his body is nearly invincible, and following this belief the body does perform much better. Augustus Two believes that he is an alien. In this case the rationale — because there must be one — is that he is a being from another planet, in fact from another galaxy. His purpose in this case is quite clear and simple: He is to help Augustus One, to use his power on the latter’s behalf, rewarding his friends and terrifying his enemies. Augustus One quite deeply believes he needs this kind of help.

Now this is a split of the conscious mind. It does not originate within the inner self. When Augustus Two takes over he is quite conscious. He simply views physical reality through an undeviating system of beliefs. The messages sent to the body are not in the least contradictory. The body is under excellent control.

Augustus One’s moods of course were a direct result of the ideas he was entertaining. It was this unceasing swing from high states of exaltation and power to low ones of powerlessness and depression that the body could not tolerate, because of the vast alterations entailed. For the greater periods of time Augustus One predominates, since his ideas of worthlessness, in your terms, were adopted earlier; and worse — are only reinforced by the contrast between him and Augustus Two. Augustus Two comes on sometimes for as long as a week at a time.

He does all the things and says all the things that Augustus One would dearly love to do and say, with only certain safeguards. Augustus One, however, is not literally unconscious during this time, but quite aware of the “vicarious” activities and fulfillments. Again, it is a game of hide-and-seek, in which the so-called unconscious mind is relatively innocent.

Augustus Two can therefore rant and rave, lie and cheat, assert himself, show his contempt for his fellows, and absolve Augustus One of any responsibility.