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on Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 08:19 AM :: Posted by: Admin :: 1823 Reads
 Otherkin in general are people who acknowledge that they are human, but who believe that their souls have a history as something else. Otherkin is a general term, inclusive of any number of spiritual origins. The New Agers who believe themselves to be incarnated spirits from other worlds and galaxies qualify as Otherkin, as to individuals who believe that they existed in another realm and lived past lives as evles, or faeries, or even dragons. Actually, anyone who defines themself as "other" can fall under the Otherkin banner -- including of course those of us in the vampiure community who feel that a spiritual difference separates us from ordinary humanity.
The problem with defining one's otherness in an Otherkin kind of way is that one often finds that there are many past identities which define the soul. A great many individuals who are self-defined as Otherkin do not identify themselves as only one type of soul-being, but often claim affiliation with a number of different identities -- so that you'll see descriptions like vamp-fae-catkin or dragon-fae or similar amalgams that are undoubtedly confusing to those not "in the know" within the Otherkin community.
Why the complexity? Are these people just jumping on the bandwagon each time a new spiritual fad hits the scene, and instead of discarding an old identity, they just keep adding to the list of things they claim to be? I think for some of them, that's exactly what's going on. But I don't think this is the case across the board.
Here's my stance on things: I define myself as a spiritual immortal. This means that I have a conscious and intended recollection of a long string of past lives. Many of these lives were human, but the memories stretch back far longer than humanity has been around. And while I accept that I am right now human, the more I ask myself the question, "What am I really?" the more complicated the answer becomes.
Given that spirits are immortal, and that this world has not been around for all of that time, then it follows that there have been many places and many ways of being. If we accept the concept of the multiverse, and accept that souls from one reality can and do cross over to explore other realities, then we must accept that some of us will have past life recollections of places far removed from earth and humanity.
Is it really that much of a stretch, if we believe already in past lives, that some of those lives have been spent as something other than human? And if this is true, then all of those identities, all of those lives, affect what the soul is at the core.
Some things leave a deeper impression than others, and in many cases, the most recent lives by very definition are the easiest to recall. All of this contributes to what comes to mind when we strive to identify ourselves. Further, there are bound to be existences which the soul remembers fondly, and these will leave a lasting impression regardless of how far away they are removed in place and time from now. Other ways of being may be something we strive to forget, and again, this has an impact on what comes to mind when we try to remember who and what we really are.
I suppose the bottom line of all this thinking is this: we are not simply human. We are spirits experiencing what it is like to be human. We have undoubtedly explored other ways of being before, and whether or not we remember these really depends on us. What we choose to define ourselves as, also, comes down to us -- what we remember, what we prefer, and whether or not we want to hold onto those selves of the past in order to gain a richer experience of our present.
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Re: Vampires and the Concept of Otherkin
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by Jeremiah on Jul 18, 2005 - 01:04 AM
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Thank you (again) for opening my eyes! I found this to be very helpful.
You've given me a new way of looking at the phenomenon of Otherkin, namely in spiritual terms. This article would be especially good for anyone who is skeptical about Otherkin, or who would want an introduction to the concept of such beings.
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by Icarus on Nov 25, 2005 - 02:50 AM
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so is it really possible to be a psi-vamp, and still have an uncanny conection to and have had people describe sensing things you are/have, like me being told that my friends scensed scales, multiple heads, and the first thing that pops into my head is chimera, and my friends agree.
so yes is it possible to be psi-vamp-chimera?
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