Awakening

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
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Warning Signs

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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