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| meaning = The sunrise/sunset colors are an embodiment of the new beginnings, ends, and ones deepest sense of self. The variety of colors represents otherkin diversity, and the seven-pointed star is the classic Otherkin seven-pointed star that's been used for decades. Designed by soporine on Tumblr! | | meaning = The sunrise/sunset colors are an embodiment of the new beginnings, ends, and ones deepest sense of self. The variety of colors represents otherkin diversity, and the seven-pointed star is the classic Otherkin seven-pointed star that's been used for decades. Designed by soporine on Tumblr! | ||
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}}'''Otherkin''' are a subculture of | }}'''Otherkin''' are a subculture of people who identify as something other than human. Each individual discovers for themself how and why they are otherkin.<ref name="scribner simple">Orion Scribner. "A Simple Introduction to Otherkin and Therianthropes." ''Orion Scribner'' (blog). Created September 16, 2013. Updated February 11, 2023. Accessed December 10, 2023. https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro [https://web.archive.org/web/20230524164119/https://frameacloud.tumblr.com/post/708359714734489600/simpleintro Archived] on 24 May 2023</ref> Most otherkin believe they are nonhuman in a spiritual way, or otherwise somehow non-physical, such as from reincarnation, psychology, trans-species dysphoria, or metaphor.<ref name="fieldguide" /> All otherkin know that they are physically human, in that they look like humans, were born like humans, and live in the way that most humans do. However, some otherkin believe their own bodies are different from most human bodies, such as having genes from supernatural ancestors.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work |year=2004 |publisher=Weiser Books |isbn=1-57863-321-4 |author=Michelle Belanger |author2=Father Sebastiaan}}</ref> | ||
Joseph P. Laycock, assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University, considers the belief to be religious,<ref name="laycock">Joseph P. Laycock. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 “We Are Spirits of Another Sort”: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community]. ''Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions''. Vol. 15, No. 3 (February 2012), pp. 65–90. University of California Press [https://web.archive.org/web/20230610011308/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> but most otherkin firmly disagree with being classified as a religion. This is because otherkin are not a formal organization with leaders or members, they do not agree on any cosmological or spiritual beliefs (some otherkin do not believe in spirituality at all), and otherkin independently come to the conclusion that they are other than human, sometimes without even knowing anybody else felt that way. By definition, otherkin is not a religion, and is not similar to a religion.<ref name="scribner simple" /> | Joseph P. Laycock, assistant professor of religious studies at Texas State University, considers the belief to be religious,<ref name="laycock">Joseph P. Laycock. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 “We Are Spirits of Another Sort”: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community]. ''Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions''. Vol. 15, No. 3 (February 2012), pp. 65–90. University of California Press [https://web.archive.org/web/20230610011308/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2012.15.3.65 Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> but most otherkin firmly disagree with being classified as a religion. This is because otherkin are not a formal organization with leaders or members, they do not agree on any cosmological or spiritual beliefs (some otherkin do not believe in spirituality at all), and otherkin independently come to the conclusion that they are other than human, sometimes without even knowing anybody else felt that way. By definition, otherkin is not a religion, and is not similar to a religion.<ref name="scribner simple" /> | ||