This song was based on original lyrics, written by me in April 2011: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed/
This version was performed acapella by me, to the melody that I originally imagined when writing it. Yes, that's my actual voice, and sorry for the background noise of the air conditioner and the mechanical keyboard.
I don't love this version, I prefer the previously posted version set to music and performed by an AI, Suno. However, I will admit that part of my reaction there is feeling something along the lines of dysphoria when I hear my own voice recorded. I have a fairly decent singing voice, but I much prefer to share it in live in-person contexts. Bardic circle around a campfire, for example. Maybe sometime I'll see you there.
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This song was based on original lyrics, written by me in April 2011: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed/
However, it was set to music and performed by an AI, Suno. This allowed me to share it in a format that I simply wouldn't have been able to otherwise, and personally I think this is the best version of the song, and came out remarkably consistent with my original vision for it. However, I will also be posting an acapella version in my own voice, with the melody as I had originally imagined it when writing the song. You can find that here: https://www.otherkin.net/posts/whats-changed-acapella-version-de497393/
Originally posted to the WanderingPaths mailing list on April 8, 2011. This was written as a poetic focus used as part of a Calling to the spirit the otherkin community once had.
By oak and ash and rowan tree The ancient magic calls to thee Who are kith and kin to we By blood and spirit called to me.
Hey everybody,
Read Carefully This is Not a Joke.
Otherworld, otherrealm.
Join with Mother Earth.
Let mundane energies
Be cast aside
So we may have
No need to hide.
Otherpower, at this hour,
Join our bodies
With our true selves.
May we gain complete remembrance of our very being.
Our magickal souls!
Manannan mac Lir,
remove the Veils,
So we may be as our true selves.
Door be poen!
Veil be gone!
Otherworld magick -
Make us one!
To all those who think magic, majik, majick, however it's spelled this
week, is dead here on Earth...
Popular fantasy-fiction and childhood fairy tales have taught us a certain
view of what constitutes magic. Popular psychology discusses the concept
of "magical thinking", or unconnected cause-and-effect thinking (such as
"if I do A then B will result" with no concrete connection between cause
and effect) as a barrier to true psychological growth. Many of us have
memories of magic that responds immediately and concretely to our
workings. What do all three of these have in common? All three of these
descriptions do not accurately describe what magic is and how it works on
Planet Earth.