Essays on Animality & Spirituality
Here you'll find the good stuff - solid, stand-alone essays on a variety of topics. While far from academic treatises, I've tried to be as focused and descriptive as I can manage in each piece, without losing my writing voice to a fact-spewing drone. If you want to get into the core of who and what I am, you'll find the pieces here.
- What Is Shapeshifter? - A half-explanation, half-fingerpainting of what Shapeshifter is. It has nothing to do with animality and everything to do with changing. Written October 1st, 2009.
- The Animal I Am - A short history on the development and discovery of my own animal identity, and why I consider myself a Barbary lion. Written September 25th, 2009.
- Gender - An unorthodox essay on gender as I express it and the difference between human-female and lioness-female. Written March 5th, 2009.
- An Introduction to Animality - As the title indicates, an explanation of animality (also called therianthropy) for the unfamiliar. Written January 1st, 2009.
- My Truths - Reaffirmation and reorganizations of the core truths of my life and my paradigm. Written November 17th, 2008.
- What Matters - The things I consider important are often not what I am expected to consider important. Written October 11th, 2008.
- What Is Cat? - A brief musing on the nature of felinity. Written August 13th, 2008.
- Lionmind - The apparent contradictions and adaptability inherent within the leonine existence. Note: This is based off African lions, not Barbaries. Written June 13th, 2007.
- Seasons - What the seasons mean to me, and how they feel. Written September 6th, 2006.