Prompt, or food for thought

[dragonwolf]

ysabetwordsmith mentioned in a previous post that she's doing a poetry fishbowl. The current one is about "DNA, genetic engineering, and evolution."

In that line of thinking, I thought I'd throw this out as sort of discussion fodder:

How do you think Otherkin came about? Don't be afraid to go into detail (I don't think DreamWidth has a word count limit to their comments, so go for it).

Comments

[all_adream]

My tradition is Tibetan Buddhist, and we tend to believe that every being appears to do what most people call reincarnation (and I'm happy to go into detail if there are questions), and my feeling is just that some incarnations feel most unfinished, or happened most recently, or that there are similar reasons that people/beings *feel* strongly like another form. I also think that sensitive beings can pick up and feel the energy of others, and so just as we can feel angry simply because the guy next to us, or on the phone with us etc. is angry, we can possibly feel that the energy of another with whom we interact is 'ours'. *shrug* I think there can be many ways of viewing all of this--