Why is it so hard for us, as humans, to be authentic? To just be ourselves with no outside interference? It’s because we’re broken into hundreds or even thousands of pieces, literally. You not only have a dark side. You have many dark facets to your character. But the question is whether or not those dark facets are really bad like we’re taught to believe.

We’ve seen them in movies like The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil, people with such severe multiple personality disorder, or more correctly, dissociative identity disorder, that they have become completely dysfunctional in society. Their psychiatrists can summon any one of many of their personalities by asking to talk to him or her. And we watch as one person displays many different and opposing sides to him/herself.

And we think to ourselves, “Wow! I’m sure glad I’m not like that. I’m sure glad I’m normal.”

But are you normal really?

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