As someone outside the subculture of otherkin, I'm somewhat cautious of it.
While I agree with the prospect of idealization and kinship with another non-human entity, being, sphere, I've encountered many problematic otherkin.
Namely, those who make a farce of the general concept (believing they truly are that thing they idealize or claim kinship with, or claiming they can change into such a being), or those making it easier to discredit the concepts of gender identity and even sexual orientation. Someone that simply just wants to be, for example, a wolf. Or outright ridiculousness.
I'm delighted at the concept as someone who is a animist and deals with totemism from a non-indigenous perspective. We should be able to claim kin-ship with other entities. But at the same time, I'm very leery of those who might take the general concept and run with it too far.
We all have animals we like, dislike, connect to and help us out and so on so forth and also animals that can be personified and applied to how we act and how our personalities may be like.
This is all fine but the only thing I don't like about otherkin(but i doubt they are even otherkin, they're probably people who confuse animals and human-conceived concepts of genders)is when people start to literally think they are an animal and the fact that they are a human somehow is invalidated and ignored, to an extreme point. Dressup and forming wolf packs for fun aside, some otherkin have gone as far as applying an ANIMAL to their GENDER.
Which in itself makes absolutely no sense and actually hurts the rest of the transgender community; in example, completely dehumanizing people who just want to get rid of gender dysphoria and live out their lives as the gender they identify as that makes them most comfortable on how they perceive theirselves.
I once met an otherkin who thought their gender to be a bunny, so they used pronouns based off of bunny. Which are neither real words let alone real pronouns, and would make absolutely no sense in any other language because somehow with English you can botch it up to be what ever you want.
Of course these people probably aren't otherkin; despite that they may call themselves "otherkin"-- and they are probably fluffies who want to hurt existing communities and mistake animals with a human gender, while keeping in mind that humans may be the only living thing with a concept of gender ( not the biological sex )
Rant aside, otherkin is fine... my spirit guide has helped me find out my power animal through a dream which is an Aligator. My totem animal is an Owl, and my spirit animal may be a dragonfly... or I'm confusing the two again, but these have the most impact in my life.
I totally agree with you. Soul is energy and it may choose to incarnate in different shapes over time. However it is bound to keep that shape for as long as it lives and changing it,atleast in this one plane is physically impossible. And man,not all atheist don't believe in incarnation. I am an atheist myself. It means that I don't feel like belonging to a specific dogma,not that I don't have my own particular belief when it comes to the world around us,the existance of others and so on.
my personal belief is it is a choice on whether or not your soul feels connected to it.....or at least in some cases. Kind of like psychic vampyres no the arent sparkly and turn into bats the are people who choose to absorb another persons energy so i kinda think otherkin is the same way. they choose to follow a more druidic path linked to their spirit animal exclusively
Otherkin is the term used to describe beings that were originally not physically beings (angels,demons,gods ect) and taking the place of a human that would have been born tying themselves to this plane for whatever reason. Physically we are as much human as everyone and bound the same rules as everyone else but for those that don't chose to erase their memories upon entry to this realm they retain their memories of before.
Usually when growing up they will have no idea until they become an adult or an adolescent and have an idea depending on the beings age and how much memories there are to deal with usually ends up having some sort of mental disorder in order to cope with the damage.
Things such as Asperger's syndrome, adhd, dyslexia ect mostly. Unless you already have access to the memories or you die and return to the form you were before and arn't reborn there is no way to know without the memories if one is otherkin.
Most otherkin won't share much information if they retain memories of themselves so they keep to other such otherkin. The vast majority erase memories upon enetry to this plane as such without them there is no solid proof unless another otherkin with memories of what to look for looks.
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Eh. For some people who claim to be Otherkin it is a kind of choice to link themselves to a type of entity, but I wouldn't really consider them Otherkin.
I believe myself to be a Otherkin based on my memories of reincarnation and past lives.
I'm a human and don't consider myself to have any special physical powers and any special qualities only really appear during magick and psychic stuff.
I have the same beliefs as Asphodelix and TobiasBlades. I believe myself to be Otherkin. I remember Three of my Past Lives, though i may or may not have had more. If I have i dont remember them. The first Life I remember was in ancient Greece, and when I grew old enough I joined the Military and over time rose to the rank of a Captain. I died protecting my Wife and Child from a band of hired blades. I dont know what happened to my family afterwards. The second Life I remember was around the Medieval Era. I spent most of my days as A Mercenary, and an assassin. I was very Infamous and of great renown, but no one knew me and I knew no one. I just did the job and asked no questions, and disclaimed family and friends. My third life is this one. Because of the first one that I remember is why I follow the path of Hellenism. I am a Wolf otherkin. A wolf because it ties to my personality, as well as the style in which I lived the two past lives which I remember.
