Let us act our dreams with open eyes, and make them possible.
Frankly, this document exists because I am generally dissatisfied with the other otherkin FAQs currently in existence. Many have not been updated in any meaningful sense for years, others strike me as woefully incomplete. Worst, most seem to have a penchant for addressing the wrong questions. And I’m not too fond of many of the answers given either. This FAQ is my attempt to address these problems.
Continue reading ‘A Revised Otherkin FAQ’
Continuing the theme of fostering connections and relationships in the community, I’m pleased to announce the recreation of another of my old lists: Candle Light. As some of you may remember, Candle Light was an aborted effort in 2001 to create a mailing list for otherkin teachers to discuss their methods, how to improve them, and how their kinness affects the way they approach the various subjects they teach. While all those topics are still fair game, I’ve decide to broaden the focus of the list and invite in anyone in the otherkin community who is interested in either learning or teaching a subject (or both) in the hopes that those seriously interested in learning may be connected with those experienced, willing, and able to teach the subjects they are interested in.
For more information, or to join the list, click here.
Several years back, in October of 2005, I completed a survey conducted by Lupa as part of research for her book A Field Guide to Otherkin. In addition to emailing that survey to her, I posted it in a friends-locked entry in my livejournal, here: http://jarandhel.livejournal.com/191494.html
I’ve decided to make that entry public, and to republish my survey answers here. They have not been updated, these are my answers as they were six years ago, though I have modified the links of any resources referred to in order to point to their present locations. At some point, when I have time, I may write a second entry representing how I would respond to this survey if I took it again today.
Continue reading ‘Field Guide to Otherkin: Survey Responses’
This entry is a catalog of words and phrases which have been remembered by those who remember being elves on a world we refer to as Alorya. Wherever possible I have credited the person who first remembered the word, and I have done my best to provide pronunciations for most of them and commentary wherever relevant. It will be updated as more is remembered, and if anyone has any additions, comments or corrections to make to the words or phrases listed here, please let me know. Especially if I’ve gotten pronunciations or attributions incorrect.
Continue reading ‘An Aloryan Glossary’
This article was originally posted on December 22, 2006 at http://jarandhel.livejournal.com/
Seven years ago, almost exactly, I had a memory. It involved me as a female dragon. But it wasn’t very long, probably less than a minute, and with very little context. One of the few things I could make out was that I was definitely not alone… and the other person who was there felt familiar. Like a friend I knew in this life, who I knew had his own memories of a past life as a dragon. Eyovah.
Continue reading ‘Awakening (Dragon)’
A working definition of the term Otherkin, and the beginnings of a framework for further work with the idea. This is not, as some have thought, an attempt to replace the word Otherkin with another term. Rather, it is an attempt to define the word Otherkin in a meaningful way by looking at the root words that form it. Originally posted on September 26, 2005 on http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org
Continue reading ‘Kin to the Other’
The poetic focus of a Calling to others like ourselves.
Originally published on February 1, 2005 on http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org
Continue reading ‘Silent Voices Calling’
This is a rewritten version of an essay that I posted to the Otherkin Resource Center in 1999. It has been updated to reflect my current understanding and interpretations of the experience of Awakening, from a more mature perspective, and with the benefit of hindsight. The original article is archived at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This version of the article was originally posted on January 13, 2005 on http://wanderingpaths.heliwood.org
Continue reading ‘Awakening’
Originally posted to operation_stormwatch@yahoogroups.com on 12/25/2003.
The world is not a safe place. That’s a given. Guns, violence, robbery, murder… these are the things we live with each day. It is part of our reality, and we must cope with it as best we can. So we develop strategies, rules of thumb that keep us safe. Many of them we don’t even think about anymore. Don’t walk down a dark alley alone late at night in a bad neighborhood. Don’t take candy from strangers. Don’t trust anyone who reminds you of your cousin Larry the used car salesman. Simplistic rules… but they keep us safe.
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