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Unfortunately, I don't know how useful much of the "official" medical information on MPD will actually be, on a practical level. Much more useful would be to hit the actual Multiples community on the web. A lot is Support Group type stuff, which is wonderful for those involved, but more interesting to us are those who assert that Multiple Personalities are not a "medical condition" that they "suffer" from, but an alternative way of organizing mind and personality (although for the most part involuntarily, as a response to deep trauma - a perspective widely held to be True, but increasingly questioned by some Multiples).
Myself, I've long experienced consciousness as what is sometimes called a "mid-continuum" multiple: not dissociated enough to call it a disorder (i.e., fairly controllable, doesn't disrupt day-to-day functioning, etc.), but more clearly divided than the typical person. Or, by the two-continuum model gradually gaining credibility in the multiple community, high in multiplicity (many alters) but fairly low in dissociation (no/few blackouts, shared experience, etc.). My multiplicity doesn't result from any remembered trauma; I'm just built this way.
To get more topical, though, many of my alters have their own distinctive magickal talents and styles, while a couple of us are fairly strict materialists or non-believers. My experiences with my alters are strikingly similar to much of what I'm now reading about invokation and even servitors (when an alter sets out on a magickal task while someone else "fronts," then they come back and announce that they've done it). cusm's comment about using fiction-suits to sidestep "lust of result" seems to hold true here, also.
(And Mordant, I got spam not that long ago from an email address that was actually my old, cancelled yahoo address with the same prefix as my current hotmail address. Spooky shit...)
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