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.
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.
Originally published on March 18, 2004 on http://wanderingpaths.bravepages.com
“They Were Elves Once”
- Saruman, in Lord of the Rings
“I want to help.”
“I want to contribute something to the community.”
“I want to give back to the community.”
Noble goals, right? And ones that are said quite frequently in otherkin circles. Continue reading ‘Organizational Des’tai’
Originally published on March 18, 2004 on http://wanderingpaths.bravepages.com
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
-T.E. Lawrence [1888-1935]
Change is coming. How many times have we heard those words before, in the kin community? It is a common prophecy, stated by both the newly awakened and those who have been awakened for some time. Often it is interpreted to mean that magic is coming back. Sometimes it is interpreted to mean that a magical war is coming. Sometimes it’s just interpreted to mean that those of us who came from Elsewhere will be going Home. But always, those words are spoken in one form or another. Change is coming.
This time those words are right.
Originally published on September 26, 2003 on http://wanderingpaths.bravepages.com/
Abuse. It is a powerful word, which evokes an immediate reaction when it is used. It carries with it images of battered women, molested children, people who have forever been scarred by the things which were done to them. Few people would acknowledge it as a word which is unfamiliar to them. But do people really understand the full extent of what abusive situations entail? For the purposes of this article, an abusive situation is defined rather simply as any situation which is destructive to one or more of the people affected by it. This destructiveness can take place on many different levels, ranging from something as concrete as physical harm, to something as subjective as emotional harm, or even to such things as mental or financial harm.
Continue reading ‘Abusive Situations’
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