Post by Saffyre on Apr 1, 2006 19:51:40 GMT -5
*WARNING: LONG POST (aka, I don't know when to shut up)*
Let me preface this post with this comment: I have not dealt with many people who have truely awakened (but I'm working on meeting others). The following comments regarding awakenings stem from that simple fact.
During what I'll call my second awakening, I began to look back on my life and realize that several people in my past (and present) are potentially "kin". They do not know it, however.
Because of that, I have a thought. I wonder if some people KNOW they are different, but are unable to link up with a group like ShadowLore (or, likewise, unaware that such a group even exists). Because they have no resource for information, could they perhaps mislable themselves as something they are not.
For example, I have a friend. We'll call him Geek. Years ago, Geek was a very good friend of mine when I went through my initiall awakening. During that time, he also went through AN awakening. However, because I and atleast one other person who was around during this time identified as vampire, he also identified as vampire.
Years later, I met up again with Geek. He said he was no longer a vampire... and sort of implied he had purged it from himself. I was skeptical such a thing could happen, however, and I still felt SOMETHING from him. (Note: This was before I even knew there were otherkin.)
Still more years pass. I keep coming into contact with Geek, always unexpectedly. While I understand it is likely that I would meet people from my past through out my life, assuming we both stayed in the same general areas, the two of us always had a connection I didn't have with other people of my past. (Interestningly, it was a connection even his wife noticed, and she is still uncomfortable with me and him being around eachother because we have some connection.) Still, he believes he is not vamp.
Now that I am looking back on him, and thinking about how he was and is, I wonder if perhaps he is some otherkin besides vampire. He tried to identify himself with vampires because that was all he knew. But, in reality, he was never a vampire, but some sort of otherkin.
My question to you all is this: Could a kin identify themselves wrongly as one type of kin, and, after years of trying to live the life of that kin, find it is wrong?
Common sense says this could happen. I mean, how many kids identify themselves as "vampires" when they are younger, then grow out of it, when, in reality, they never were. But what if they ARE kin, and are calling themselves vampires simply because that is all they know.
Have any of you had experiences like this? Or, have any of you gone through something like this in your past?
I really want to help my friend discover the kin side I believe he has, so any advice on this would be helpful. Personally, I have an idea he *might* be angelkin, but I know so little about them that I am not sure.
Finally, how does one help another discover what kin they are? How does one begin to break down the society-imposed barriers of "logic" that tell us we are only human, nothing special? How does one kin help another kin through kin-rejection?
Thank you all for reading, and thanks in advance to any responses.
-Saffyre
Let me preface this post with this comment: I have not dealt with many people who have truely awakened (but I'm working on meeting others). The following comments regarding awakenings stem from that simple fact.
During what I'll call my second awakening, I began to look back on my life and realize that several people in my past (and present) are potentially "kin". They do not know it, however.
Because of that, I have a thought. I wonder if some people KNOW they are different, but are unable to link up with a group like ShadowLore (or, likewise, unaware that such a group even exists). Because they have no resource for information, could they perhaps mislable themselves as something they are not.
For example, I have a friend. We'll call him Geek. Years ago, Geek was a very good friend of mine when I went through my initiall awakening. During that time, he also went through AN awakening. However, because I and atleast one other person who was around during this time identified as vampire, he also identified as vampire.
Years later, I met up again with Geek. He said he was no longer a vampire... and sort of implied he had purged it from himself. I was skeptical such a thing could happen, however, and I still felt SOMETHING from him. (Note: This was before I even knew there were otherkin.)
Still more years pass. I keep coming into contact with Geek, always unexpectedly. While I understand it is likely that I would meet people from my past through out my life, assuming we both stayed in the same general areas, the two of us always had a connection I didn't have with other people of my past. (Interestningly, it was a connection even his wife noticed, and she is still uncomfortable with me and him being around eachother because we have some connection.) Still, he believes he is not vamp.
Now that I am looking back on him, and thinking about how he was and is, I wonder if perhaps he is some otherkin besides vampire. He tried to identify himself with vampires because that was all he knew. But, in reality, he was never a vampire, but some sort of otherkin.
My question to you all is this: Could a kin identify themselves wrongly as one type of kin, and, after years of trying to live the life of that kin, find it is wrong?
Common sense says this could happen. I mean, how many kids identify themselves as "vampires" when they are younger, then grow out of it, when, in reality, they never were. But what if they ARE kin, and are calling themselves vampires simply because that is all they know.
Have any of you had experiences like this? Or, have any of you gone through something like this in your past?
I really want to help my friend discover the kin side I believe he has, so any advice on this would be helpful. Personally, I have an idea he *might* be angelkin, but I know so little about them that I am not sure.
Finally, how does one help another discover what kin they are? How does one begin to break down the society-imposed barriers of "logic" that tell us we are only human, nothing special? How does one kin help another kin through kin-rejection?
Thank you all for reading, and thanks in advance to any responses.
-Saffyre