The only quadrobics I did was run upstairs on all fours but that's about it.

I think its alright, and it makes sense why some do it, even I tried it out once, but it did'nt go very well. I kept falling down lol

Personally, I have no idea if reincarnation or past lives are real or if I fully believe in them or if it's my wishful thinking. Either way I don't mind having no answer to why I am the way I am? I have no idea if me being a Therian is wishful thinking of wanting safety in something I am not, or a grass is greener kind of scenario/body dysphoria taken to an all time high. I dunno but at the end of the day I'm here, I feel like this and I'm not sure why and that's okay with me.

That's kind of my two cents.

Hi,

My experience of therianthropy has no shifting, but just being merged with my wolf theriotype, not completely human nor completely animal. My only kind of "shift" were my dream shifts.

I used to think I got them because they were memories of a previous life, but being an atheist I eventually realised that believing in reincarnation was not required to explain the experience... I could simply have been dreaming what wolf-humans dream.

(2021-08-31 22:32)DustWolf Wrote:  Personally when I first encountered therianthropy, I was put in touch with people who believed in things like reincarnation. I am sure this is the same story for every therian out there, even today. I came to accept that I had to have been a wolf in my previous life, because I was a therian and that's just how everyone thought of this stuff.

But over the years I've found out that the reincarnation theory really does not make sense to me. I had wolf dream-shifts that I thought were memories from a previous life. But what made a lot more sense to me was that they are simply dreams of a wolf in the body of a human. I dream of running free with my wolf brother. I dream of discovering my pups in a den. I dream of a live juicy fresh kill. And I dream of how I would die as a wolf. To dream is synonymous with to wish for, and for a wolf imprisoned in the body of a human, those wishes make sense.

So... basically I don't believe I was reincarnated from a wolf, that my therianthropy has anything to do with reincarnation, and I don't really believe in reincarnation itself either.

LP,
Dusty

I feel like a failure of the past life conversation, especially when surrounding the psychological aspect of the community, is that we see it as a purely spiritual thing. This probably seems like a really weird thing to say as past lives are typically considered purely spiritual, but to someone like myself that believes in past lives, it isn't. To me, past lives and reincarnation are just as much psychological as it is spiritual. Simply because we can acknowledge that past lives affect our memories, let alone our personalities, mannerisms, fears, etc, it means that it is also psychological, putting it in a grey area between the two categories.

On one hand, this could mean that someone who has psychological theriotypes could also believe themselves to have past lives (like someone said above), but it also means that it is even more likely that someone might not even know they are Therian. Since past lives can affect someone psychologically like giving one interests of that past life, even if it is as blatant as the Wolf Kid, it could always be written off simply an interest and nothing more unless they come into contact with other Therians.

Also, since reincarnation affects everyone, that means everyone is Therian because everyone has had to have had at least one nonhuman life. However, not everyone is saying they are Therian or even considering that they are anything but human. I would say quite the opposite, actually. So to define Therianthropy in such broad terms means it applies to everyone-- which I do agree with, however-- when in actuality it should more be defined along the lines of: past lives + finding a significance of those past lives in this one. If we didn't find our nonhuman past lives significant in some way, we wouldn't be here. We would just be like "oh cool I was a wolf" and that be it.

There really is no need to look for a specific reason why. Personally, I don't believe in a deity shaping our identities, nor in past lives, sorry. These questions of why, what for and how tend to the philosophical in my eyes. One should rather look for answers in our genetic makeup. Who we are is determined before birth (f.ex. who our parents were, where they came from) and after birth (f.ex. how we were raised, environmental triggers). Of course, what matters too, for the sake of completeness, is our basic personality.
While it's okay to ask yourself these questions every once in a while, you should note that the kind of answers you'll receive in the community are often, not always, looked for in the wrong areas of life.
Take a snow leopard for instance in the Himalayan mountains. Just assume you are this creature, that someone put you there in order to survive the upper colds and freezing temperatures. Wouldn't you rather be born in the desert, or on more fertile grounds? You couldn't, even if you tried. Whose fault is that? Parents? Nature/nurture? No, I doubt that is the case. The answer, my friend, is luck. If nature was a recipient creature and we could ask it why it put us there, it would probably say that we were born that way because of a strange current of events.
In my eyes, everything living and breathing on this earth is the result of that. People, wolves, sneps, they're all bound by a natural instinct for reproduction, a drive as deep as the four primary emotions. Why aren't some of us real live sneps? Because people gave birth to them... Turn it around the way you want or read it the way you like, but I'm afraid we were born therians because of (un)lucky selection.

I had such theory too when I had spiritual connection. If you have psychological connection, it will be more complicated. Personally for me this is like how my mind adapted to cope with some problems.

I do like your explanation, and in all the dreams I remember having I was at least some form of animal (sometimes in an anthro form for more interactive dreams) but I don’t think I have any past life memories etc? So? I do consider myself a ’mix’ therian though (both psychological and spiritual)

Well, what i think is that some people have a strong connection with their past lives, its fine if you dont have a animal pastlife, you dont need a animal past life to be a therian,or any. Its just what ive found out about myself and friends.

yeah i dont really think about the past lives thing cause it kinda scares my not gonna lie. like, how could my past wolfdog self affect my human self i just find it confusing XD. yeah im wondering the same thing with Melonwolf, me being a psychological therian?