Poll: Choose the next book
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tobookclubIt's time to choose the next book we'll read for the months of December and January. Together we'll discuss the thought-provoking good bits and try to figure out what went wrong with the bad bits, if any. I've narrowed it down to a few easy-to-find potentials:
...Earth Angels, by Doreen Virtue, which is a non-fiction New Age book which talks about other concepts similar to otherkin. I'm not happy with some of the kinds of advice and generalizations it makes. However, it is interesting to hear about people who identify as angelic but who've never heard of “otherkin.”
...The Veil's Edge, by Willow Polson, which is spiritual non-fiction with a positive and well-written chapter about otherkin and is greatly about magic that relates to Faerie. I really liked this one.
...From Elsewhere: Being ET in America is non-fiction about the decades-old subculture of people who believe they were extraterrestrials in past lives. The author's stance is that those people aren't as nutty as you'd expect; actually, they're surprisingly normal and healthy, and all of the individuals who he interviewed said that recognizing themselves as ET was an important turn-around in their lives.
...Totem Magic: The Dance of the Shapeshifter, by Yasmine Galenorn, which is spiritual non-fiction about animal totemism. It's a bit different from other books on animal totemism, since it describes identifying with the animal totems so closely that it has a lot in common with therianthropy. Although animal totemism and therianthropy are two different things, it's interesting to see what overlap exists.
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...Earth Angels, by Doreen Virtue, which is a non-fiction New Age book which talks about other concepts similar to otherkin. I'm not happy with some of the kinds of advice and generalizations it makes. However, it is interesting to hear about people who identify as angelic but who've never heard of “otherkin.”
...The Veil's Edge, by Willow Polson, which is spiritual non-fiction with a positive and well-written chapter about otherkin and is greatly about magic that relates to Faerie. I really liked this one.
...From Elsewhere: Being ET in America is non-fiction about the decades-old subculture of people who believe they were extraterrestrials in past lives. The author's stance is that those people aren't as nutty as you'd expect; actually, they're surprisingly normal and healthy, and all of the individuals who he interviewed said that recognizing themselves as ET was an important turn-around in their lives.
...Totem Magic: The Dance of the Shapeshifter, by Yasmine Galenorn, which is spiritual non-fiction about animal totemism. It's a bit different from other books on animal totemism, since it describes identifying with the animal totems so closely that it has a lot in common with therianthropy. Although animal totemism and therianthropy are two different things, it's interesting to see what overlap exists.
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