Updates in the otherkin library
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tobookclubI've become very fond of the ease and flexibility in the book cataloging system on LibraryThing.com. I have expanded the otherkin and therianthrope book list's LibraryThing edition up to 774 books. There are so many because I chose to include every book on the astral plane, reincarnation, or animal totemism that I could find. I've spent a long time improving the tags, so looking at the tag cloud alone will give you a decent overview of what to expect in the library.
I've discovered a few new books that are especially relevant. My goodness, so many books on otherkin have come out recently!
By fantasy romance novelist Anya Bast, Ordinary Charm and Blood of an Angel, both published in 2005. These are both fantasy romance novels about wicca, magic, and OtherKin (author's spelling) but it's not like how any of them are in real life! These two books are from a trilogy, but I haven't read any summaries that indicated there were OtherKin in the first book as well.
Real Energy: systems, spirits, and substances to heal, change, and grow, by Phaedra and Isaac Bonewits, published in 2007. Describes otherkin on pages 196-197, the first of which is visible on Google BookSearch.
Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self, by Michelle Belanger, published in 2006. Mentions otherkin on page 11, visible on Google BookSearch. Doesn't pause to define what is meant by otherkin.
The Re-enchantment Of The West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture, by Christopher H. Partridge, published in 2005. A list of online spiritual communities includes "otherkin" on page 149, but the word is not defined or otherwise used.
Doreen Virtue published a sequel to her Earth Angels this year: Realms of the Earth Angels: More Information for Incarnated Angels, Elementals, Wizards, and Other Lightworkers. I haven't even taken a look at it yet, but it's certain to be interesting.
The Vampyre Almanac 2006, by Sebastiaan van Houten, talks about otherkin on pages 35-39 and 147. See some of these pages on Google BookSearch.
The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within,
by Chantal Bourgault du Coudray, published 2006. Page 143 has a paragraph on spiritual therianthropy in the alt.horror.werewolves newsgroup. See it in
Google BookSearch.
When I See The Wild God: Encountering Urban Celtic Witchcraft, by Ly de Angeles, published in 2004. The chapter on shapeshifting mentions therianthropy on page 161, but the majority of it is not available in the Google BookSearch preview, so I don't know how relevant it is.
Are you familiar with any of these books? Tell me more. For that matter, do you have any to reccommend that have so far escaped this librarydragon?
I've discovered a few new books that are especially relevant. My goodness, so many books on otherkin have come out recently!
By fantasy romance novelist Anya Bast, Ordinary Charm and Blood of an Angel, both published in 2005. These are both fantasy romance novels about wicca, magic, and OtherKin (author's spelling) but it's not like how any of them are in real life! These two books are from a trilogy, but I haven't read any summaries that indicated there were OtherKin in the first book as well.
Real Energy: systems, spirits, and substances to heal, change, and grow, by Phaedra and Isaac Bonewits, published in 2007. Describes otherkin on pages 196-197, the first of which is visible on Google BookSearch.
Psychic Dreamwalking: Explorations at the Edge of Self, by Michelle Belanger, published in 2006. Mentions otherkin on page 11, visible on Google BookSearch. Doesn't pause to define what is meant by otherkin.
The Re-enchantment Of The West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture, and Occulture, by Christopher H. Partridge, published in 2005. A list of online spiritual communities includes "otherkin" on page 149, but the word is not defined or otherwise used.
Doreen Virtue published a sequel to her Earth Angels this year: Realms of the Earth Angels: More Information for Incarnated Angels, Elementals, Wizards, and Other Lightworkers. I haven't even taken a look at it yet, but it's certain to be interesting.
The Vampyre Almanac 2006, by Sebastiaan van Houten, talks about otherkin on pages 35-39 and 147. See some of these pages on Google BookSearch.
The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within,
by Chantal Bourgault du Coudray, published 2006. Page 143 has a paragraph on spiritual therianthropy in the alt.horror.werewolves newsgroup. See it in
Google BookSearch.
When I See The Wild God: Encountering Urban Celtic Witchcraft, by Ly de Angeles, published in 2004. The chapter on shapeshifting mentions therianthropy on page 161, but the majority of it is not available in the Google BookSearch preview, so I don't know how relevant it is.
Are you familiar with any of these books? Tell me more. For that matter, do you have any to reccommend that have so far escaped this librarydragon?
