Alter Egos

[member]

To any seasoned practitioner here, what are your thoughts on alter egos? Consider a person with a deeply karmic life—one marked by sacrifice and detachment, not in the Buddhist sense, but from people or specific mindsets. Perhaps am overly empathetic, to my own detriment.
Could developing an alter persona effectively channel or manage such energies? Or is it a quick path to psychological ruin? I’m thinking along the lines of deities’ dual natures—like the chthonic and their heavenly aspects.
If I were to direct negative or destructive energies into a crafted persona, while channeling creative and positive energies into another, could I truly master both sides? Could this approach bring balance to those energies?

 

[Henu the Great]

Emphatetic people need strong boundaries and a strong sense of self more so than others due to their nature. You are now thinking something different.

 

[Ol argedco luciftias]

It sounds like you are talking about giving yourself serious psychological problems.

Any simple personality trait does not describe you in a 100% complete permanent unchanging way. Any mental or emotional habit or thought pattern does not permanently describe your entire life. Stop putting bullshit imaginary limitations on yourself, and just simply do what you have to do. Stop pretending to be something that you are not, and stop acting like your self is some fictional character that is written to only be one single way and never do anything different.

There is no need for you to be channeling destructive energy into yourself. That is a horrible idea. Instead, just remove these from yourself. Get rid of it, and keep it away from you. Work to heal yourself.

What you describe sounds kind of like working to make your right arm very strong, and also cutting off your left arm and throwing it away. You can't kill half of your body and also make the other half of your body stronger. All you need to do is not hurt yourself, not harm yourself in any way, and work to make your body and your life healthier in all areas together.

 

[member]

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There is no need for you to be channeling destructive energy into yourself. That is a horrible idea. Instead, just remove these from yourself. Get rid of it, and keep it away from you. Work to heal yourself.

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Technically didn't mean it in this sense,
But I see the implication of that,

 

[member]

Emphatetic people need strong boundaries and a strong sense of self more so than others due to their nature. You are now thinking something different.

Well, different yes..
It was more weighing on spiritual applications of alter Egos but TBH I now see it being nothing more than spiritual fiction

 

[Henu the Great]

Well, different yes..
It was more weighing on spiritual applications of alter Egos but TBH I now see it being nothing more than spiritual fiction

An alter ego is when a vulnerable and or hurt empathetic individual makes up as a coping mechanism. It is not something healthy or desirable. Then again, I can see something along those lines being in place for acting purposes, but it would be slightly another case.

 

[TJ 666]

To any seasoned practitioner here, what are your thoughts on alter egos? Consider a person with a deeply karmic life—one marked by sacrifice and detachment, not in the Buddhist sense, but from people or specific mindsets. Perhaps am overly empathetic, to my own detriment.
Could developing an alter persona effectively channel or manage such energies? Or is it a quick path to psychological ruin? I’m thinking along the lines of deities’ dual natures—like the chthonic and their heavenly aspects.
If I were to direct negative or destructive energies into a crafted persona, while channeling creative and positive energies into another, could I truly master both sides? Could this approach bring balance to those energies?

When alter egos emerge naturally, these are to be integrated into a combined ego through shadow work. Otherwise your personality will become unbalanced and expressed in extremes.

If you specifically want to create mental forms that specialize in certain tasks, consider looking into thoughtforms and servitors. They can be used not only for magic, but also for mental and emotional processing, or gathering and analyzing information concurrently to your other thoughts. (It's like having multiple streams of thought simultaneously, except you don't always have to listen in; these can continue in the "background," namely within your subconscious.)

Subconscious processing can be made conscious through inner dialogue. In other words, if I don't understand something right away, I pose questions in a conversation with myself, then meditate until the answers arise. With practice, this can be done quickly and enhance intuition, helping to cover for what would otherwise be blind spots and weaknesses.