its help me realize what i might truely be,
Also ive never been that comfortable in my own skin and its helped me with that :3

i think that being a therian or otherkin can be incredibly isolating for most people in their everyday life, so community spaces (especially big online ones, such as this) means that some of that isolation is alleviated. engaging with this community means connection and a space where i don't have to worry about judgement because of my inner feelings. it's so difficult to find other people with these experiences, and the community allows for a place to meet others and discuss our experiences without worrying people thinking we're weird for it all.

(2019-01-25 23:15)DustWolf Wrote:  Hello everybody,

I am wrapping up and old issue that remained open on these forums. If there are people in the audience who believe p-shifting is possible and have visited this thread because they wish to see if anyone here has figured out how to unlock the secret on how to physically transform into an animal: Welcome! This thread is here for you!

As coffee so eloquently put it in this post, but perhaps lacking the due emphasis:

IF SOMEONE HAS TOLD YOU THAT YOU CAN PHYSICALLY TRANSFORM YOU HAVE BEEN DECEIVED.

People say those sorts of things out of a desire to feel special, better than other people and in order to control and manipulate people like you.

If you opt not to take our word for it, sure. What you believe is ultimately up to you. However given the amount of drama discussing this subject always entails, discussing p-shifting is no longer allowed on this forum.

I am therefore sealing off this thread as the last on this particular topic and adding the rule. This thread remains, as said, in the hopes that it may help bring those few who have been deceived, back into the real world.

LP,
Dusty

imma give my useless opinion on this here, cause ive just found out what it is and my thoughts on it are:
i feel as if...honestly...even if you COULD....you shouldnt really mess with p shifting because, honestly, imagine the mental AND PHYSICAL toll it could take on you..
Plus,spiritual wise? everyone believes in different things spiritual wise,and are different believing cultural and religious wise...
WOULD you really WANT to find out The spiritual repreccussions of this?
but i guess it would be interest spiritual wise too.

ooh, interesting. i think im a bit late to this post but i have a daemon so im fairly well versed on that subsection of tulpamancy. id be happy to answer questions about daemons too.

In my opinion, therian names are fine as long as you understand that you are your theriotype. I do have a therian name, that name being Evergreen, and I do have a reason for said name:

Basically, I believe that in this life, my soul is part human and part lion. I also like to think that your name is a part of your soul, because it's a part of your identity and who you are. But, I have two parts to my soul. My human side of the soul has a human name, but since I also have a lion side to my soul, when I name that something different it's still MY name. For me personally, it would feel strange for both sides of my soul to have the same name.

There are also spiritual/symbolic reasons for it but that's kind of hard to put into words and it's also pretty personal.

But, I can definitely see where you are coming from, and it could certainly cause confusion for newer therians and make them think that your theriotype is a different entity.

At least in my experience, your therian name is also your name, and only when one does not go by their therian name, it generally may stray from the definition of therianthropy.

(Sorry if this is badly written, I just woke up )

In my opinion, naming your theriotype is just fine. Here’s why:

It is an animal soul in a human body. The human body has a human name, the animal soul may have an animal name- but doesn’t have to.

Just my opinion, you guys points of view make a lot of sense as well!

I think that there are 2 causes of therianthropy with cause like trauma and adaptations due to environmental factors in childhood (e.g being raised around animals) but then stuff like past lives on the other hand. I belive in a mixture of both myself and that people with or without past lives can be therians.

I've always felt non-human. In one way or another. Pretty much right around my time puberty hit me. But I think that this community is important cause it made me realize that I'm not alone. Most people don't feel the way we do. Most people can't even understand why we feel like this but it made me feel a lot better to have a community that understands my feelings. They don't mock me or criticize me. It's fine to ask questions but this community doesn't talk down on others who have different feelings. I really enjoy being in a place where people understand my feelings and don't talk down to me like I'm a child.

It's important to me because without it, I wouldn't understand that I actually am my theriotypes, and not just obsessing strangely over specific animals. I feel really welcome in it and it makes me less self conscious about expressing who I actually am.

(2022-12-19 23:18)D3cayingfr0gs Wrote:  also I'm curious about how many other therians have struggled or do struggle with an eating disorders so let me know I guess

I haven't struggled with an eating disorder persay, or I don't know if it can be considered one. But there was this thing I had about eating meat when I was younger. I had a conflicting relationship with it because I was raised vegetarian, but had cravings for meat and would also get hunting instincts from therianthopy. Meat wasn't exactly explicitly forbidden, I sort of just came up believing it was inherently unhealthy and wrong in some way. My dad is vegetarian and he just had me eating how he was eating, and as a child his own views would influence me. He's still vegetarian, but his understanding of things has evolved over time from that view.

I didn't eat meat despite my cravings for it and for a while it was fine, but when I hit puberty I was getting malnourished on that diet. And the cravings felt unbearable, the smell of cooking meat was just consuming. I started eating meat and felt much better. There was a guilt about it, but got over it through learning more about the body, nutrition, nature, etc. I can't say the therian community itself helped with anything in that regard. It was just me starting to think more for myself, accepting my wolf nature, and researching what was good for my particular body that allowed me to change my relationship to diet.

(Bit of a tangent)
Now days I'm experimenting with the "carnivore diet" leaving carbs/sugars out all together except fruit and still will eat beans for fiber(and I just like beans). And getting all my meat from organic small family farms. Which isn't easy because I do like my sweets hahah. But now fruit will just have to be enough to quench my sweet tooth. It's actually also turning out to be cheaper. I'm just buying less stuff. No calorie counting or anything, I never liked that practice. Just wanna see how my body does on it.