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Regular Hosts:
Amber, Ashlee, Branden, Barbara, Dave
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Kris, Dylan, Jim, Gary, Scurvy Dog, Lamyka
01:33
What is Otherkin?
02:19
Are people claiming to be Otherkin to avoid lonliness? Perhaps to acquire a new family to substitute for inadequate family bonds.
03:12
Otakukin
03:24
Examples of Otherkin
04:45
Spirit as energy rather than form
05:11
Incarnating as humans as “trading down” with regards to incarnation.
06:03
Not all Otherkin want to embrace their soul, they try to block this stuff and ignore it to no success.
06:34
Regardless, we’re still human and we have an urge to conform.
07:11
Why would anyone want to be Otherkin?
08:02
Furries as a parallel
08:32
Some people accentuate their kin-ness as a “get out of jail free card” to avoid being normal.
08:59
Three step program for relatively accurately identifying Otherkin
10:02
Someone saying you’re such and such, and then that person identifying as that as a result.
10:18
Otherkin is like the UFO phenomenon, 95% of it is crap but the other 5% makes you think.
10:29
Otherkin from a psychological aspect.
11:30
LARPing and Otherkin identities
12:17
Splintered personality theory
14:36
Traumatic awakenings
15:01
Have we ever met any Pagan who has not experienced trauma?
16:12
Some otherkin seek their soul’s form because it is either an aspirational quality or a quality they do not want in their lives.
16:37
Wolfkin
17:30
PSA: Don’t develop secondary personalities a coping mechanism.
18:20
Otherkin the phenomenon vs. Otherkin the mental illness
18:35
Otherkin from a Native American perspective
19:33
The cardinal sin of the Otherkin community: Thou Shalt Not Dwell on the Past
19:52
Reincarnation as a growing up process.
20:25
Why is Native American culture so distant from Otherkin as a concept?
20:56
In Native American culture, being incarnated as another species helps you get to where you are now. You are not supposed to ignore where you are now.
21:30
Stories of Coyote coming down in various forms, including human.
22:22
Humans are not smart enough to understand the vastness of spirit.
22:36
Coyote vs. Grandfather Coyote
23:15
Dave rants: Otherkin should not dwell on the past, shut up and move on!
23:57
It’s easy to get to WTF when researching Otherkin.
24:22
Glamour reincarnation stories
25:13
Those who are into past life regression for the money.
27:05
Otherkin claiming to be gods in human form
28:31
Gods can do whatever they want, but does it happen?
28:45
Gods do god type things like… stuff. Not posting to Otherkin forums.
29:49
Blonde haired snow white girl saying she’s an aztec goddess… probably not the truth.
30:33
Before you claim something, google it!
31:04
Claiming to be the incarnation of many gods.
32:02
Micromanagement
32:26
What are the gods actually doing?
33:08
The awkwardness of claiming to be a god, then dieing and visiting the actual god.
33:36
Names
34:38
In our experience with Otherkin, have we ever observed anything blatantly not possible by a human being? Where do we draw the line of what humans are capable of?
35:50
You are confined to the shell within which you are working, but you can exercise that shell.
37:05
Human ability to do bullet time
37:52
Being Otherkin is not a superpower, it’s an affinity, a flavor.
38:56
Otherkin are not up and above, just abnormal (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
39:43
Parallel of transgendered individuals with Otherkin
40:47
Examples of Otherkin: Pixie Boy
42:03
Drawing energy from extraterrestrial origins
42:55
An electrical analysis of metaphysical grounding
44:06
Grounding as both receiving and sending energy
44:49
Occultism vs. Paganism
45:32
Pagans should not demand things of their gods.
46:16
Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for your country (spiritually speaking)
47:34
Reincarnation
48:00
Otherkin still have a lot of the heuristics of their past lives, but perhaps they need to move on.
48:41
People with identity crises
49:23
Feeling one is not entirely normal vs. those who want to be a wolf.
50:07
People come up with strange ways of dealing with issues.
50:59
Difference between dealing with a problem and avoiding a problem.
51:49
Introspect: why is it that these people living in their fantasy world is bothering you?
52:49
If it’s laughable and not thinkable, why discuss it?
54:24
If it’s possible for us to believe what we believe, is it also acceptable for Otherkin to believe what they do?
55:27
The more your belief deviates from the mainstream, the more you will need to justify your belief to the mainstream
56:26
What came first, the human or the soul?
56:43
What makes us feel that a human is soul?
57:31
Otherkin analogy of water bowls
58:00
What is Otherkin?
58:44
Hinduism incorporates the concept of Otherkin, just not by that name.
58:59
This discussion assumes we understand where souls come from.
59:23
We’re defining Otherkin as not human, but we’re not defining what a human soul is.
1:00:19
Mindsets of reincarnation as they relate to belief in Otherkin
1:00:44
Carrying things from life to live.
1:00:58
Old Souls
1:01:36
Think about a lesson you want to impart upon the future incarnation of your soul.
1:00:44
Carrying things from life to live.
1:00:58
Old Souls
1:01:36
Think about a lesson you want to impart upon the future incarnation of your soul.

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