Ebook: Multiple Man

In his pioneering work Multiple Man, Adam Crabtree redefines the meaning of "mental health" through his exploration of multiple personality disorder and possession. Initially viewed as anomalies of the human psyche, Crabtree reveals that these two disorders have much more in common than previously believed and that multiple personality, in particular, may simply be an unusual, yet common, form of multiple consciousness.
This is an interesting, although older book recommended for anyone wanting to know more about spirit possession and how it may cause the appearance of multiple personalities. In the decades since this book was written, the DSM has changed the name of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) to DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder), but the information in Multiple Man is timeless. The book is divided into four parts with an introduction by occult expert Colin Wilson. The first part is an examination of of multiple consciousnesses within human beings, including some of the major discoveries in the field, from Franz Anton Mesmer and the birth of hypnosis forward. The second part covers possession and remedies used to cure unwilling victims, as well as info on mediumship and different types of entities from demons to ghosts to thought-forms and beyond. Part three deals with the author's own therapeutic work with possession, including the approach he uses in his practice when dealing with the possessed. The fourth part details attempts to explain this phenomena of possession and multiple personality. There are biographies, case studies, and transcripts throughout.

One incredible insight this book gets right is that once a person has been successfully de-possessed, they will forever feel the missing entity like a kind of spiritual "phantom limb," as if a part of their own psyche has been amputated. Even if they know better than to repeat the experience and do not miss the entity itself (as would be the case with malevolent ghosts or demons), they miss the feeling of shared "oneness" that being possessed allowed them to feel, for it is a feeling no human relationship can ever come close to satisfying.