Hello all. Just came across this site a couple nights ago and read until I could read no more. Thank you, Makers, for the succinct information! It is all very familiar, having read countless texts in my journey so far, but this really seems to bring all the important bits into one coherent space without the trappings of new age "love and light".
I wanted to add my own queries to this thread, as I am having my own experiences with the animal realms. I have always been drawn to acting as an animal, spending many hours as a young child developing whole lives as a dog or a wolf, pretending to embody polar bears, etc. Wolves are significant dreaming companions, and my 12 year old niece has also told me tales of her dream journeys with wolves (I'm thinking it runs in the family).
It sounds like the Makers don't rely much on the relation of animals and man, but I feel incredibly drawn to the Wild, to those non-human animals and their own private understandings.
I am wondering if it is unusual, or what it might signify, to feel as though one is something other than human? When my energy is focused upon my spiritual/energetic interests, I feel very much like a canid. I will often have inner visualizations of areas of forest, and I will feel as though my body is a canine's. At times, I resonate with stories of coyote as the lone trickster, at others I resonate with the familial values of the wolf. Is there any way to channel this in a more defined way? Is there any merit to exploring it? Even going beyond that, is there any way to verify one's energetic origins? Sometimes I feel that I am some alien being taking up residence as a human.
As an added disclosure for the context in which my curiosity arises, I am a transsexual person, and very inspired by the idea of being able to "shape-shift".
Thanks!
