02-20-2013, 10:40 PM
(02-20-2013, 10:01 PM)Pickle Wrote:I don't think it's very useful either, due to the lack of understanding available. What is there to learn from just this term alone? But still, belief in such is certainly not a personality disorder. If we could live a few hundred years, then the qualities of the wanderer vs the 3D native would probably be more striking due to more opportunity to recapitulate prior experience through learning from guiding bias. It would probably be a more overtly recognized phenomenon, and so more useful.(02-20-2013, 09:29 PM)zenmaster Wrote:(02-20-2013, 07:37 PM)Pickle Wrote: Belief that you are a wanderer is a personality disorder by itself. Like believing you are a werewolf.No, not really. It falls under the category of a worldview, where the available term matches known attributes. Whereas a personality disorder is the expression of a pathological condition of mind, typically stemming from a developmental imbalance of some kind.
It was mostly a joke. Though I do not find the belief itself useful. Why believe you are something when you can ask the true self what you are?
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/otof/otof12.htm