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Post by DarkLight on Oct 14, 2015 18:30:38 GMT -5
With many Otherkin there is a sensation called Phantom Limbs. The most common outside the Otherkin world is when someone goes through an amputation of a limb(s) but they still interact with that missing limb, scratching it for example.
With some Otherkin there is almost a metaphysical amputation that results in this. We have most if not all of our physical limbs (of course there are exceptions) but we can tell that there is something "missing". After all, if you're Otherkin, then you probably don't identify with being ethereally human. There many theories as are there stars but the main two I've heard are:
1.) Incarnating as a human required a fitting of the etheric body to the corporeal. Some things we cut or removed in order to "fit" the etheric to the corporeal. The connection between the mind and spirit has not been severed, retaining an imprint of the parts that were once there.
2.) Punishment for disobedience. I hear a lot for people who are Fallen say that their wings are ripped from them. So even though they know this body doesn't had or can support wings, the etheric imprints of having them make the Otherkin feel them. This isn't just Fallen Angels.
Whatever the who, what, when, how, and why, Phantom Limbs are common with many kin types. Wings and tails are the most common ones I've heard, but so are horns, claws, fangs, and fins. Sometime height. I think we should remember who we were to better ourselves in this life. Phantom Limbs might be a way of rediscovering ourselves.
Does anyone posses Phantom Limbs? What are they? How did you find out their existence? Do they bother you or entice your curiosity? Does remembering what you had make you sad or proud? Or maybe you don't really pay much attention to them, if you have any. If you don't then that's fine too!
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Post by The Chaotic Mother on Oct 15, 2015 12:17:53 GMT -5
I have a number of phantom limbs. Wings, fangs, claws, even longer ears. I found out about them either when I discovered that I'm otherkin, though I may have felt them even before then, but I can'r remember for sure. Hair is another another one. Sometimes I feel a tail, but I feel it less often than the others. And I definitely feel taller than this body is. Whenever I see someone taller than this body, it reminds me that it's a little too short for my liking lol.
My phantom limbs definitely make me feel proud, but also kind of sad because I don't physically have any of them atm and it feels weird to feel this things but not actually physically have them. The feeling is sometimes really strong, but it's never a bother. On the contrary, I fully welcome the sensations.
I also feel like I still have them attached to my ethereal body, like instead of getting rid of them, I basically crammed them in there. It definitely feels like it too sometimes! For instance, it sometimes it feels like my wings are physically crammed beneath the skin of my body and like if I try hard enough, I can get them out, though that's obviously not something I can do. But it also feels like I can almost stretch them out beneath my skin, at least a little.
And to be completely honest, I pretty much always feel like this body is like a cocoon and like my ethereal body wants to physically break out of it chestburster style.
One can only hope. Heh.
~Meti'ne
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Post by Ashtart on Oct 19, 2015 21:47:46 GMT -5
Informative post! This is something a lot of the Otherkin community embraces/celebrates/struggles with and it's clearly and thoroughly explained here. Like Meti'ne I would have to say I also feel proud and sad. Proud to have those extensions of my body, sad that others can't celebrate them with me when they can't see or feel them like I can.
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Post by DarkLight on Nov 8, 2015 22:24:47 GMT -5
Whoops. I didn't talk about mine in the intro, lol. So the ones I'm aware of the most are my wings. They are dark in color but are owl like in appearance. I have three sets of them, six total. I know in most schools of Angelology that makes me Seraphim...er ex-Seraphim. I first felt them when I was hanging out with my friends. It wasn't cold enough to wear a jacket. When the wind blew strongly, I felt a tug at my back, something warm fanned out and I actually got pulled back a bit. I have an friend... er ex-friend [/running gag], who could see a person's energetic bodies. She confirmed that I had six very large wings, a fiery orange fading slowly into a dark color. I like them, though I don't feel them often. I get weirded out by how strong I can feel them. It's even to the point that I prefer to wear tops that reveal the back. T-shirts make me feel constricted most of the time.
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Post by Apzu-Nun on Mar 26, 2016 14:15:27 GMT -5
I havent quite got phantom limbs, I guess it's because I embody chaos/void energy limbs is something I'm not quite all use to in terms of my true self, but when I did take form I had no extra appendages, though I could "create" them from the energy I had I wouldn't see it as counting as actual limbs.
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Post by DarkLight on Apr 21, 2016 1:14:23 GMT -5
The way I'm asking this might sound...odd, but what is it like being made from the Void?? Without pushing my beliefs, I say that resembles a phantom of limb sensation to me. Is it like being everywhere but nowhere, maybe? I'm quite curious
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Post by Apzu-Nun on Apr 21, 2016 1:33:53 GMT -5
The way I'm asking this might sound...odd, but what is it like being made from the Void?? Without pushing my beliefs, I say that resembles a phantom of limb sensation to me. Is it like being everywhere but nowhere, maybe? I'm quite curious Well I'm not from it, rather I am it. Just not the one that is from this world/universe's void. When I projected back to it I did get the feeling of being spread out beyond my mind could comprehend at my current state. I had the feeling that I no longer was in a body, it felt familiar yet strange at the same time. I projected with a friend but they didn't feel the way I felt, but they said they couldn't pinpoint where I was once we got there but rather it felt like I was all over the place lol. But I know it's not exactly my origins rather a place I took and made mine before coming down? not sure the right way to word it.
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