That explains quite neatly what it is that calls kin to other kin.

It is the spark that ignites whenever it comes in close proximity to another spark.

I'm still not sure that I'm understanding the whole concept of the source being the light and the darkness.
How can two or even 3 things be 'the source'? Wouldn't more than one thing have to be 'the sources'? At least they would if I understood my English grammar lessons when I was at school.

It is that light and abscence of light are the source of the Shadow.

With only light there is no change, no Shadow .
And with only Darkness there is again no change so no Shadow ..

So only when there are two together do you get the third.
Like male and female and their offspring, the two combined make the single source of the third being.

Shade
Have you noticed how even when the other person does not know what they are the spark inside still flares bright as day in response to your own.

Zygo

Forgive me if my reply isn't as phylisophical (bad speller) and more scientific. However I believe it has to do with the 90% of our brain we don't use like when I change or do anything with my wolf I believe it starts in my brain. Don't get me wrong I don't think we are imagining it but I believe that my Skills are from willing chemical changes

But something must create in you the will to make those chemical changes happen.

That would be the spark of the divine.

Even humans have the 90% of brain that is never used, but without the spark of kin (that all kin are born with) it just sits there useless.

My theory exactly

Wraith I think were going to get along famously

I have a theory, just based on what has happened to me. I think Katie might be right about the non kin who change their vibration because of their daily/personal connection with an Otherkin.
I don't think anything could make me Otherkin if I'm not, but I think an understanding vibration, a co-existing vibration is possible.
I think when non kin (I find I prefer the term non kin to the word mundane.) don't know anything about Otherkin then we don't have to try and understand, but if someone in your life trust you enough to tell you their essence is kin, then, for some who really want to connect, to share their lives and their hearts with someone who is kin, then it is possible to move yourself closer to that persons vibrational frequency in order for connection to take place.
I also think that having a person who is kin share their lives, their feelings, their memories, their hopes and their dreams with you brings to you a new realisation of who they are, who you are, and who together you will become.
It doesn't make you kin, but it brings you as close to it as a non kin will ever get.

I know I was stunned when Jay told me about himself, and yet it never occured to me to think that he was either mistaken or being untruthful. I trusted him, and a lot of the things he was telling me made the person I had always known make so much more sense. It was almost as if my brain cleared like the sun through the clouds on a rainy day, and for the first time I really saw him. For the first time everything about him really made sense.
From that day everything about me changed, except the way I felt about him. That hasn't altered since the day I met him, standing in a school playground, looking just like me, tall, skinny, lost and looking for a friend. (I hated starting a new school.)
The only thing Im sorry about is that it took so long to learn this about him, I feel like if I'd known about him sooner I could have been there for him more. But he didn't really know, so how could he tell me?
He's been my best friend for so many years now that a little thing like finding out that inside he's a kind of burning bird creature, thirty five feet high, with a twenty foot plus wing span is just one of life's little details.
Love Ya Jay.

Kes.

LOL I loved this post Kes.

It's a first for me to hear kin-ness described as

I have been trying to reply to this one for ages but I don't knwo what to say.
Kes says such nice things and I always stumble over my worms when some one does that.

's Kes

Zygo

The accepted definition by the Otherkin Community at large that was later written in the book "A Field Guide to Otherkin" by Lupa is that Otherkin is an individual who believes that they are in some capacity (be it physically, spiritually, mentally or emotionally) inhuman.

There are debates that rage about specific people being real or fake Otherkin, or people who are or aren't what they believe they are, what it all boils down to however is this. Even if a person is totally and completely Human; mind, body and soul, so long as they believe they are different, they are Otherkin.

The debate as to even if we are inhuman? The debate as to whether or not souls exist or if reincarnation occurs at all or even up to if there are such things as Elves and DRagons and Angels... that's up for another topic. An Otherkin is a person who believes they are, in some capacity, inhuman.

Well I do not think of myself as inhuman, which is defined in the dictionary as:
Lacking in the human qualities of kindness, pity etc; cruel, brutal, unfeeling; not human.

I am human on the outside and I feel pity and compassion, I display kindness and consideration, and so inhuman is not a description I would ever apply to myself.
For me my human-ness shows itself in my appearance and in half of my disposition, and my Kin-ness shows itself in my essence and the other half of my disposition.

My opinion on fake Otherkin, is that anyone could be fake, and anyone could be pretending, but since I cannot prove my kin-ness, often not even to myself, then it is not my place to judge them. I greet all with an open mind, and believe that up to a point all things are a possibility.

Welcome to the forum Terro.

Darke.

No I don't think of myself as inhuman either. Perhaps that means that we are not 'the Otherkin Community at large'.

Hee Hee. Could be my friend.
I think I could live with that.