Hi! I’m Mako!

I’ve been a non-fronting member of a plural system for nearly two decades. As an informal and independent researcher, my work is informed foremost by a desire to seek answers to questions that affect me personally: I want to learn more about myself and about what it means to be a person in a world which I can see, but which can’t easily (and very often doesn’t want to) see me.

This desire for better self-understanding led me to begin researching plurality in Autumn 2025; I subsequently released my first (and to date only) article, ‘Plural Bodies, Plural Souls: Multiple Ensoulment as the Locus of Identity in Plural Systems,’ in early 2026.

While I’m not looking to collaborate at this time, any questions or comments will reach me at . Alternatively, you may find my less-academically-inclined articles on my blog.

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Plural Bodies, Plural Souls: Multiple Ensoulment as the Locus of Identity in Plural Systems … 2026-01-27
Mako Burgess‑Yoïtz

Burgess‑Yoïtz, Mako. ‘Plural Bodies, Plural Souls: Multiple Ensoulment as the Locus of Identity in Plural Systems.’ Knowledge Commons, 2026. doi: 10.17613/m0t22-7bk97.

Emerging understandings of plurality pose challenges to the longstanding cross-cultural and interfaith assumption that an exclusive relationship exists between a given body and the soul understood to inhabit it. The acceptance that a multiplicity of individuated persons may inhabit a single body as a system requires a re-examination of the nature of the soul in relation to the body, and a consideration that—if the soul is held to exist—multiple personhood necessarily entails an analogous phenomenon of multiple ensoulment, allowing several souls to coöperatively partake in and express themselves through a given embodiment in a non-exclusive, many-to-one correspondence.