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on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 11:04 AM :: Posted by: Admin :: 1881 Reads
 I was a reluctant convert to the idea of Otherkin. When I first got involved in the magickal community, I had encountered the idea that some people felt they were "other." At that time in the early 90s, the term "otherkin" didn't exist, but I had friends who described themselves in terms of dragons or faeries or elves.
The problem is, this group actually turned me off of the concept of otherkin for quite some time. I remember distinctly the conversation that did it for me. Here are these other college students happily telling me that one is a dragon, and one is a pixie, and the other is an elf. So of course, since everyone was sharing, all heads turned toward me and the question was asked, "So what are you, Michelle?"
Reluctantly, because at the time I still wasn't very comfortable with the idea, I responded, "I think I'm a psychic vampire."
The response from those around me was classic -- and in retrospect, uproariously funny. All three scowled, exchanged glances, and said words to the effect of, "Don't be silly. There's no such thing!"
After that, I was done with people who thought they were other things wearing human skin for quite some time.
The next time I encountered such people, they had actually grown into a nascent community and they were defining themselves with the word "Otherkin." Of course, the vampire/'kin relations hadn't improved any in the intervening years, only now it wasn't that they didn't believe in us. Instead, the 'kin seemed to look upon vampires as the greatest evil to walk the earth (and admittedly, some still do).
Attending an Otherkin gathering as I did, it became clear just walking in the door that they distrusted vampires and expected all of us to be rank, unethical predators. But in the years since that first contact was made between the communities, I have watched the lines between Otherkin and vampires shift and blur. It has even been suggested that some vampires are technically Otherkin, for they were originally not human beings at all, and their condition of vampirism is actually symptomatic of a failure to completely integrate into a human form.
At the time that I heard this, I was a little skeptical of stories of "walk-ins" and incarnated entities. I had been of the opinion that if you're wearing a human body and you were born like everyone else, no matter what you might remember being before, you're technically human now. That might mean you're human with a number of added benefits, but you'll still get sick, grow old, die, and discorporate like everyone else.
However, that didn't mean that I refused to consider the possibility. A lot of my views on Otherkin, the nature of vampires, and even the origins of my own vampirism were changed when I made the acquaintance of a certain Hindu mystic by the name of Vinay.
Vinay came into my life at the tail end of the 1990s, claiming to have spent several lifetimes as a Raksasha. As a Raksasha, he had preyed upon humans mercilessly, and when it came time for him to pay the karmic piper, he was given a very interesting task: he was to teach other-than-human entities how to integrate their spiritual physiologies into human bodies and then learn how to get along with humans while they wore their human forms.
As outlandish as that might sound, there were a number of things he said and did that convinced me that there was certainly something extraordinary about him. So maybe such things do happen.
Vinay suggested that there are a vast number of different entities out there, and many of them are curious enough to give humanity a try. He described the rules of our little planet as very strict - "if you want to come down here, you have to wear the same uniform as everyone else" - in other words, no matter what you are originally, to interact in the physical world of humanity, you have to take up a human body. Gods, angels, demons, whatever - the only way in is through a womb. So even an avatar has to endure diapers and elementary school.
Vinay further explained that most of these "visitors" have spiritual physiologies that differ pretty greatly from that of humanity, and it takes some talent and not a little work to get their spirits integrated into a human body. Failed attempts at this result in severe birth defects or incomplete integrations, where the spirit burns out the human body very, very fast. Often this can be compensated for by increasing the natural intake of energy in an effort to keep the spirit and body sustained - in other words, a conscious state of vampirism.
I admit that the idea of other-worldly visitors incarnating into human bodies may be a bit unconventional to most readers, and I was certainly skeptical at first. But from my own experiences with the subtle reality, the metaphysics of integration that my friend described are theoretically sound. This is what finally convinced me.
If you were to come from some other form and if you were to attempt to be born into a human body and if the integration of body and spirit were less than perfect, then you would indeed burn up more spiritual energy than the human body was accustomed to producing. You would probably also lack the connectedness to earth chi that is so natural to most humans so that you would have to find a conscious and more effective way of gathering enough energy to sustain you. In short, vampirism would be a natural solution to the problem of imperfect incarnation.
What Vinay was telling me at the time, and which I was profoundly relcutant to accept, was that by technical definition, I was Otherkin, too.
If only my first group of 'kin friends from college knew.
--Michelle
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Re: A Journey of Discovery with the Otherkin
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by Mystic_Dragon on Jan 09, 2005 - 01:15 PM
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*lol* That's just funny that Mr Raksasha got smacked with a karmic debt, even though he was just being true to his nature. *shrug* I don't know the rules for that sort of thing.
I found this interesting because I am "other", but I also steal energy well. You make a good point that "Others" and "Vamps" don't really get along well, but the only real vamp I knew accused me of burning her at the stake in a previous life(I don't know anything about that), so a real dialogue was mostly impossible.
I choose not to accept the weakness of having to feed that way, so maybe the theory of not quite synchronizing with this "uniform" may have some substance to it.
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Re: A Journey of Discovery with the Otherkin
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by Icarus on Oct 21, 2005 - 04:26 PM
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Admin: I don't know your coolege "friends", and I'm too tired right now to use the energy on a reading of them,(aside from the fact that I don't have your permission), but to me, I think that they could very easily have just been bullshitting you. (no offense)
and in terms of friends, I have a friend which is supposedly, (which he found out through a reading), that he was one of the greater healers in this world, and he has been a consant help to me. whether it be through a karmic debt like he thinks, (he thinks he is the reincarnation of stalin, which the reader had said she heard "mother russia" coming from him), or he's just a good person now.
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