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	Therianthropy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Therianthropy is a generic term for any transformation of a human into another animal form, either as a part of mythology or as a spiritual concept.
		Those within this subculture who identify with a spiritual understanding of this phenomenon may believe that they have the spirit or soul, in whole or in part, of a non-human animal, and their beliefs often overlap to some extent with aspects of shamanism or totemism.
		Spiritual therianthropy is not automatically the same as clinical lycanthropy, a mental illness in which an individual believes he or she belongs to or can change to another species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Therianthropy (1465 words)

	therianthropy - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Therianthropy is a generic term for any transformation of a human into an animal form, either as a part of mythology or as a spiritual concept.
		Members of this subculture typically refer to themselves as therianthropes or therians; the word "weres" was also common at one point, in reference to shapeshifting creatures of legend such as werewolves, weretigers and the like, but seems to be less common now than it was in the early days of the subculture.
		Those within this subculture who gravitate towards a spiritual understanding of this phenomenon may believe that they have the spirit or soul, in whole or in part, of an animal, and their beliefs often overlap to some extent with aspects of shamanism or totemism.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/therianthropy (1034 words)

	Talk:Therianthropy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Subculture certainly works, as the subheading has it, but fringe I think is more specific and a way of varying the terms.
		Subculture: "In sociology, a subculture is a culture or set of people with distinct behavior and beliefs within a larger culture.
		The subculture term has been around a lot longer than the term otherkin has been, so it's silly to call this one a neologism and suggest merging to the other when if anything that one would be more neologistic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Therianthropy (8471 words)

	Otherkin
		The Otherkin subculture is made up of people who believe themselves to be partially non-human.
		While some otherkin believe themselves to be biologically non-human — for example, by claiming distant, or not so distant descent from a non-human — others believe themselves to be human in biology but "other" in spirit, often attributing this to reincarnation or a "misplaced soul".
		The reincarnationists, who currently are the dominant force in the subculture, disagree amongst themselves as to whether these otherkin souls come from Earth, other planets, or different planes of consciousness.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Otherkin (1018 words)

	Therianthropy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The word lycanthropy has at times been used for what is more accurately therianthropy, a misconception which has led to a great deal of confusion and misunderstanding.
		Therianthropy is probably best described as the belief that a person has when they believe part of their personality, soul or spirit being is somehow that of a non-human creature.
		Therianthropy does not have any central dogma or tenets, nor any recognized authority.
	therianthropy.encyc.dyndns.dk (621 words)

	Therianthropy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In (The unwritten literature (stories and proverbs and riddles and songs) of a culture) folklore, mythology and (The social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings) anthropology, therianthropy can be used to describe a character that shares some traits of humans and some of animals.
		Therianthropy as a subculture does not have any central (A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof) dogma or tenets, nor any recognized ((usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others) authority.
		Therianthropy should not be confused with the (Click link for more info and facts about furry fandom) furry fandom, though some intermixing of the groups does occur.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/therianthropy.htm (869 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		'''Therianthropy''' is a generic term for any transformation of a human into an animal form, either as a part of mythology or as a spirituality spiritual concept.
		In recent times, a subculture has developed which has adopted the word '''therianthropy''' to describe a sense of intense spirituality spiritual or psychological identification with a non-human animal.
		Members of this subculture typically refer to themselves as '''therianthropes''' or '''therians'''; the word "weres" was also common at one point, in reference to shapeshifting creatures of legend such as Werewolf werewolves, weretigers and the like, but seems to be less common now than it was in the early days of the subculture.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Therianthropy.html (4644 words)

	Articles - Therianthropy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because this is a personal self-perception, the ways in which a person describes his or her self-identification as a therianthrope vary considerably.
		While some therianthropes believe they can take on the mindset of their "other side" in what is referred to as a mental shift, they believe that they retain control during these transformations and are no greater danger to themselves or others.
		For instance, some furries view therianthropy as "taking it too far," while therianthropes may assert that furries are frivolous and don't pay attention to the true nature of animals.
	www.foodiechocolate.com /articles/Therianthropy?mySession=879362602bd71c61c35a2964b0e786ad (1385 words)

	Draconity - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Draconity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		More specifically it is a term used by a subculture of people who believe themselves to be a dragon in a psychological, spiritual, or (rarely) a biological sense.
		The term "draconity," along with the subculture that originated it, seems to have arisen in the mid-90's through internet communication media such as Usenet newsgroups (particularily alt.fan.dragons) and IRC.
		There is some fear that this tends to dilute the population of "genuine" dragons and discredits the subculture as a whole.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Draconity.html (411 words)

	Terminology of Werewolves, Shapeshifters and Therians from AHWW
		However, "Spiritual Therianthropy" has become a common term in the shifter subculture, and it's meaning is like a spiritual version of therianthropy rather than the physical version that most people think of as a real werewolf.
		Spiritual Therianthropy is used to refer to the whole condition of being a shifter, to the vast array of feelings, spiritual or emotional feelings of "therianthropy", which are the common, defining features of a shifter.
		I suppose spiritual therianthropy could just as easily be called "emotional therianthropy" or "instinctive therianthropy" but it ended up getting called spiritual therianthropy very early on and the name stuck.
	yaiolani.tripod.com /what.htm (717 words)

	Anarchism and Other Impediments To Anarchy--Bob Black
		Rather, they had worked out a daily routine of anarchist militancy, one they unconsciously counted on to endure indefinitely since revolution isn't really imaginable in the here-and-now, and they reacted with fear and defensiveness when events outdistanced their rhetoric.
		In other words, given a choice between anarchism and anarchy, most anarchists would go for the anarchism ideology and subculture rather than take a dangerous leap into the unknown, into a world of stateless liberty.
		But since anarchists are almost the only avowed critics of the state as such, these freedom-fearing folk would inevitably assume prominent or at least publicized places in any insurgency which was genuinely anti-statist.
	www.primitivism.com /impediments.htm (931 words)

	Thieranthropy in Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the last several decades, some people have adapted the word therianthropy to describe a spiritual concept in which the individual believes they have the spirit or soul, in whole or in part, of a non-human animal.
		Some people use the word lycanthropy as a synonym for therianthropy, which can lead to a great deal of confusion and can be taken badly amongst the subculture as a whole, who feel it misrepresents them.
		Spiritual therianthropy is also not the same as clinical lycanthropy, a mental illness in which an individual believes they are physically of another species.
	www.compapp.dcu.ie /computety/2005/cohall-cty/thieranthropy.html (530 words)

	Understandding Furryness? - By Shumba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Because there are so many subcultures the amount of furs that don't belong to some form of subculture is very small confusing what the furry cultures is.
		When I say 'subculture' I mean a culture that mixes furry with another culture.
		By a 'subculture of furry' I mean a culture where you also 'have' to be furry or a culture that may of 'formed' from the furry culture.
	shumba.pochta.ru /tu/understanding-furry.html (1036 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fursuit
		The term costume can refer to wardrobe and dress in general, or to the distinctive style of dress of a particular people, class, or period.
		Shanda the Panda #12, an example of a furry comic Furry fandom is a subculture of the science fiction and fantasy fandoms.
		The otherkin subculture is made up of people who describe themselves as non-human in some way, usually as a mythological or legendary creature.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fursuit (777 words)

	sciforums.com - Therianthropy
		In other words, there are no gatherings where everyone's in a fucking animal costume, they aren't going to conventions to fuck each other, and there is no secret back room wherein there is a hideous orgy of anonymous fursuiters getting it on to bad techno music, this is all a fabrication.
		Every subculture, or hell culture in general, as it's share of complete lunatics and freaks, and furrydom is no different, I can't speak for the behavior of all furs, just furs in general.
		Therianthropy must not be confused with clinical Lycanthropy and the Furry Fandom.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=30657 (2894 words)

	· Darkness -> Lycanthropy
		Article: Spiritual therianthropy is not the same as lycanthropy, aka clinical lycanthropy, a mental disorder in which an individual believes they are physically of another species.
		While therianthropes believe they can take on the mindset of their other side, often with uncanny accuracy, in what is referred to as a "mental shift", the individual retains control and is no danger to him/herself or others.
		Therianthropy does not have any central dogma or tenents, nor any recognized authority.
	forum.darkness.com /index.php?showtopic=34197 (4941 words)

	Therianthropy
		Whilst few people would doubt that shifts of mental and emotional perception, and to alternative ways of thinking, may occur, some therianthropes also claim to experience a physical change to their appearance, a subject known as physical shifting, which is more controversial and many or most other therianthropes view with doubt.
		This page was last modified 23:45, 11 May 2005.
		The article about Therianthropy contains information related to Therianthropy, Scholarly use of the term, Modern subcultural use of the term, Beliefs, Subculture, Comparison with lycanthropy and furry fandom, Therianthropy vs. clinical lycanthropy, Therianthropy vs. furry fandom, Related articles, See also and External links.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Therianthropy (1104 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The community grew out of the online elven community of the early to mid-1990s, with the earliest recorded use of the term "otherkin" appearing in early 1996; however, from the context it appears clear that it was already well established.
		It was coined when it became clear that those people within the emerging subculture were identifying themselves as a number of different mythological creatures, such as fairies, unicorns and satyrs, and not just as elves.
		The otherkin subculture describes the process of beginning to identify oneself as otherkin as Awakening.
	www.4lawschool.com /index.php?title=Otherkin (1036 words)

	Werewolf.com Discussion Boards - RPG or therian ?
		Part of it is because therianthropy is something that can't be detected or measured beyond the person claiming to be one.
		Another part is because people think therianthropy is the same thing as werewolfism or being able to turn into a cat, making it great fodder for Roleplaying Games and other groups, and the emphasis on meditation and spiritual awakening adds to that.
		It should be noted that therianthropy isn't the same thing as being able to tourner à la forme de loup.
	www.werewolf.com /vb/showthread.php?t=8601 (1393 words)

	wiki/Otherkin Definition / wiki/Otherkin Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		[click for more] if their claims are considered implausible; this has been referred to as "subculture intolerance".
		It is also debatable whether the beliefs of otherkin are indeed "inconsistent with [their] subcultural norms" — Scottsdale Community College (http://www.sc.maricopa.edu/sbscience/psy266/course/definition.html) states that "To be considered signs of a mental disorder, these atypical behaviors or mental events cannot be either...
		Clinical lycanthropy is defined as the delusion that one has physically become or is becoming a non-human animal; most otherkin, however, recognize that their body is human but conceive that part of them, either in a mental or spiritual sense, is non-human.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/Otherkin (4030 words)

	Absurdism. >> writing >> spiked collars, safety-pin earrings, and dyed hair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The essence of this paper is to objectively point out why trends exist, to give examples, and to provide you with their pros and cons.
		However, critics of these subcultures say that if you define yourself as a member of a group, you are not truly individual.
		After all, no subculture or scene would be a subculture or scene without a group of people acting similar.
	absurdism.org /writing/trends.html (544 words)

	Marijuana.Com Marijuana Seeds & Drug Test Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		More specifically it is a term used by a subculture of people who believe themselves to be a dragon in a psychological,
		The ease of use of many modern online forums for communications within the community such as IRC and the more descriptive MU* interfaces (such as Alfandria) has attracted a number of dragon fans who use the sites as a medium for roleplay purposes.
		There is some fear that this tends to dilute the population of "genuine" dragons and discrs the subculture as a whole.
	www.assault-weapons.com /wiki/Draconity (381 words)

	FAQ's
		When you start to explore Therianthropy, you'll learn that it is a more spiritual thing, than you would perhaps first imagine it to be.
		This may or may not be politically incorrect in the therianthropy subculture, I don't know, but I have found some who claim Wereism, but who don't shift (so don't automatically just think that all Weres are Shifters, this isn't the case).
		I once thought of my therianthropy as a curse, but that was because I didn't understand it, so in return I feared it.
	uk.geocities.com /darkecho_of_the_soul/therianthropy.html (1525 words)

	LordOfNoctemAeternus's journal friends
		But more and more people are being "diagnosed" as psychic vampires by other self-defined psychic vampires, on the grounds of numerous criteria.
		Psychic vampires are developing a completely independent subculture of their own and have their own acknowledged leaders and their own vocabulary.
		Blood fetishists are often found in the BDSM subculture, where their specific activities may be referred to as "bloodplay" or "bloodsports".
	vampirefreaks.com /journal_friends.php?u=LordOfNoctemAeternus (10285 words)

	Horror reading, reviews, stories and interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lycanthropy is defined as the magical ability to assume the form and traits of a wolf.
		Therianthropy is the medical term for this condition, and theriomorphs are people who take on animal characteristics - real and imagined.
		The notion of humans being able to transform into animal form is embedded in many cultures and mythical lore.
	jez.cc /writersreview/horror.htm (920 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		An independent pragmatist that immersed himself in books from horror to fantasy, he laboured through his adolescent years under the belief that he was, in fact a werewolf.
		He discerned this through becoming acquainted with an online subculture known as therianthropes, and through them encountered and experimented with belief systems that were beyond orthodox or radical.
		During this time his creative literary abilities began to emerge, and with his fumbling expressions found some wider success along the way, in poetry and prose.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~arcadion/biography.html (211 words)

	The Magic of Shapeshifting
		If given the ability, I would have rated this book zero stars, as besides giving no useful information, it provides a twisted veiw of therianthropy.
		Being the one of the few published sources on animal human connections, it has given horid ideas to many people not yet introdced to the real facts of therians and their beliefs.
		Kind of, but it tends to focus on theory and folklore enough that it obscures the actual workings of the subculture being observed.
	www.literacyconnections.com /Reviews/ItemId/1578631718/ReviewPage/2 (1351 words)

	Beutiful Mind of a vampire - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The subculture itself can be both fake and real...
		You ae thus saying all vampirics are in effect suffering from a similar form of 'lycanthropy' which is the disease of teh mind where one thinks they are an animal.
		It is very different to the realistic exsistance of therianthropy.
	p200.ezboard.com /fdarkrealms43343frm8.showMessage?topicID=150.topic (2122 words)

	Soul [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One can perhaps better describe these as phenomena rather than as beliefs, since people of varying religion, ethnicity, or nationality may believe in them.
		Therianthropy involves the belief that a person or his soul has a spiritual, emotional, or mental connection with an animal.
		Such a belief may manifest itself in many forms, and many explanations for it often draw on a person's religious beliefs.
	www.wikimirror.com /Soul (14860 words)

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