Unrelated to me mainly.

if being an otherkin were unrelated to someone's spirituality, would that mean that their identity is not related to their spirituality? I guess in some cases that would be true, like certain branches of buddhism where identity is only a temporary display of the ego, but to me, spirituality encompasses all things, so I would say mine is very much related to my spiritual path, like any other life condition would be.

Absolutely. Reincarnation, past lives... My own spirituality is tied directly to it.

Yes, in that I feel it embodies or manifests my spirit to an extent.

Deffinately spiritual for me. It always has been,

Absolutely! It's a major part of who I am and without the spirituality I think I'd just be insane or something I don't know.

Yes, because I believe I was reincarnated from a wolf in a past life. I have past life memories, etc. I also feel as though my soul is a mix between a wolf and a human. So yes it does.

I kinda believe the soul takes on an imprint of each life, and some leave a more lasting mark and shape your soul more drastically in a way. I guess each soul starts out one way and each life after alters it maybe? It's an odd concept and I can't quite make sense of it myself but it's what feels right.

This is a concept I too have pondered. While my past life self is what I most closely identify with, I feel that there is a duality to physical life.

From my own experiences, at least, this is sort of how I understand it: For those of us who feel disconnected from human life, there seems to be a balance between "soul self" and "body self." Two distinct (or possibly similar) personalities within one body.

Suddenly this occurred to me: what if physical life breeds spiritual life? That is to say, with each new "coupling" - body and soul - a new soul is created? Have we shared in living and creating past lives? Is our "birth" life the origin of a strong self-identity? Will my human personality become its own soul to, go on creating new souls? Will we meet again as equals (creators rather than creator and created)? I must consider this and meditate upon it...

I don't think so, I kinda think the creation of a soul is a very.......eventful thing. Besides that I've had a couple people tell me I have "a very old soul."

Having a "very old soul" is entirely possible if my idea was correct. Hmm... Think of it as a branching tree or fork of lighting - a new soul splits off of the original, each continuing on their own path, both of which may fork many more times.

Maybe my feelings of duality are not so common? We all wear different masks in life, but for me it has always felt like there are two behind the masks: a younger (human) personality, and my old dragon self). Connected, yet separate.

I just think there is something more to a person's body than just a shell to inhabit. Like in Shinto, how all things have a spirit. Your "higher self" (soul) resides within, but your body has a spirit of its own.

Or maybe I'm just a confused old dragon trying to blend in half-heartedly, and so I let the human side run the show while I try not to think about it...

I get what you're saying but I just have this feeling that my soul has lived many many lives but the first "birth" was a female dragon. Maybe "birth" is the wrong term but the first life to give my soul shape.

I suppose metaphorically speaking souls are play dough and the first life is what you shape it into and each life after that adds unique details making a more and more complex piece of art. So in a way, I want to live this life the best I can because what details am I going to add to my play dough soul when I die?

That's what I'm saying, though - you've lived many lives, but in turn you are creating a new ones each time. They imprint you, while you help lay the foundation for their own identity.

I'm not saying that's what I believe, though. Just a ponderance, little more.

I'm somewhat familiar with the Akashic library concept. I do believe that we have access to past life memories. Not so directly when in a physical body, but some memories seem to bleed into conciousness. Perhaps a strong connection or self-identity, or perhaps a strong feeling of "disconnect" from a current incarnation.

I enjoy thinking about/discussing spiritual concepts. I find them interesting.

I've had an interest in such things since my early teens as well (I'm 32), but never read any specific books. Mostly just whatever I could find on the internet. Much of which came from authors like Cayce. Lurking on early dragon sites (what was it, draconity.org?) and exposure to Coast to Coast AM really sparked my interest in what all is out there. I don't have a solid foundation of books that I've read, but I probably know more than I realize.

I would be interested in hearing about your "rude-awakening," if that is something you'd be willing to share (notes or email is fine).

I recall those places, though I never actually had the nerve back then to join in back then. I've always been kind of solitary.

I've never succeeded in astral projection, but I have not tried very often. I think the closest I ever got was interrupted by a loud cracking sound (it sounded like the roof supports cracked, it was so loud) and I immediately stopped (and couldn't resume). It just seems like there is always something preventing me from focusing well enough.

Interesting... If you had to pick one book to read on the subject, which would you recommend?

What is Robert A Monroe's trilogy?

Cool. I'll check out Adventures Beyond the Body first. Thanks!

Yeah of course. Spirituality is important for everyone. Even if they don't want people to know.

In my case, definitely yes. I see it as a big part of myself, and like Pearl, I have some past life memories. I do not have many memories, but what I do know is very significant.

It's important to my spirituality, but not my every day life.
I've had a couple powerful experiences when I was younger in regards to it. In a way it's definitely shaped me as a person now, and most certainly my identity. For that reason alone I likely will never let go of it.

I would have to say yes. In the past I wouldn't have agreed, but things over the past few years have opened my eyes so to speak.

Varriies, but it often deals with my beleifes making life difficult.

"Is otherkin relevant to spirituality for you?"
Yes, it is.

They are one in the same to me, My being a dragon is something I hold in a very spiritual regard and it follows me on a near daily basis, its a way of being in essence. My beliefs of having had a past life as a dragon, being one in soul are why I call Otherkin a spiritual thing. I mean in the end the title doesn't matter so much cause any label and be stretched and skewed. So my calling Otherkin a spirituality specific way of being is really only my feelings on what Otherkin is to me.

i agree being a dragon is very spiritual to me as well/ i believe in passed lives and that in one such passed lives i was a dragon.

absolutely, my entire view on reality derives from my otherkinism

yep...it's important

I do find it to be very important to my spirituality.

Not sure what the exact answer would be for me... of course it is extremely related so yes. Essentially I am an anthro vixen... it's what I instinctively associate with and always have, so for me it's primarily a fact. The spiritual part is something I then try to analyse scientifically to the best extent possible... mostly to know if after this lifetime I have any hopes of going somewhere I actually wish to go.

My particular otherkin nature makes it intrinsic to my spirituality.

I feel it's important but I'm unsure as to how it will impact me.

It definitely is for me, and I'm a Christian, so yes, that's an odd mix, I know. :D

Plays heavily into my spirituality.

100% relevant. I'm a someone spiritual, who believe in reincarnation and soul, and I know what I am, as well as "what's inside me". So definitively yes ^^

hmm, well personally it does for me too, actually, its most of what my spiritualism is.
usually, I like to explain everything and I'm quite focused on actual science, yet, this seems to be kinda against that way of thinking, but still I feel this way.
I like to think about why, I have some explanations, some of them are very spiritual while others basically say I'm just making things up, however still I prefer to just follow this feeling of having the soul of a dragon and see where it leads me, maybe I will be able to find something one day, only time can tell. ^^

walking alone in a forest is spirituality for me. as can certain technologies be, when the engineering is about respecting environment.

otherkin is well, i suppose it can be thought of as a spiritual thing to have other physical lives. but these are other PHYSICAL lives we're talking about, even if we're viewing them through a spiritual context.

it may be a spiritual thing to HAVE other lives, but lives themselves, past and future, like people on other physical worlds, we're talking about something, at least in principal, tangible and physical. or at leas i am. even though we're talking about it by way of a not entirely physical context.

spiritual is when you experience something not limited by nor to your physical existence.
i think most people seek that in a religious context, and i think most people find really near total dissapointment there doing so.

because the non-physical, isn't defined by our defining it. well the physical isn't either.

you can turn a tree into lumber, and you can build things with that, and that's fine if you use good sense.
but without any trees, you can't make the air that you physically breathe.

there is mystery. but the magic is not in naming non-physical things.
the real magic is that you feed what you focus on.

the soul is the true self, and you can't steal yourself from yourself. so if you're a walk in, its you that did the walking in.

i can go on and on about this stuff, and the little bit different angle from most people i think i'm looking at it from.

It was spiritually relevant to me at an earlier age. I'm an agnostic atheist, however, and very skeptical now of the supernatural assumptions I used to make about reality.

I'm exactly the same.

will you ever talk to me?

Look, I don't have anything against you, but in my current condition I barely have the energy to talk.
Why do you want to talk with me? And what do you want to talk about?

it's not that, it's just one day we never talked with each other anymore and vovin blocked me like ages ago.

Ah. To be honest, I kind-of stopped talking with everyone from Draconic and its chat group at about the same time. Unfortunately, that seems to be my general pattern of social interaction; I reach out and talk to a bunch of people for a while, and then I retreat for a few years. :/

same

i find it to be very important to my spirituality

Agreed

I think it's somewhat relevant to spirituality, yes.

In terms of past lives and reincarnation, yes I do believe in both, that's how I went further into knowing more about Otherkin in the first place.

But then I also think there is some higher being in this universe, maybe even the Universe itself is the higher being, like a collective consciousness?

It is not relevant to my spirituality at all, to be honest.

My identity is psychological for me; its in my brain, not my soul. I've never been very in touch with my spiritual side, but then again, I never really tried.

it really is obviously, i even practice hardcore rituals