Lessons

[jarandhel]

The universe is sharing lessons with me again... not sure I entirely understand this one just yet, but I thought I'd share it here. At least, in general terms.

Resonance... it's a concept that is at once overused within the otherkin community and largely unexplored. I realized that tonight while reading a piece of fiction. It was interesting, and despite it not being what I had first been looking for I was quickly drawn into the plot and have spent several hours reading it. It also had a character in it that I feel a resonance with. Similarities of personality, nature, and energetics... if I didn't know better, I would think to explore the possibility that I could easily have been this person or someone very similar in a past life. But, in this case, I do know better. I know that I was not, and I also know where the bits of resonance come from. Though while feeling the resonance it can become difficult to keep those things in mind.

It makes me stop and think about other discussions in the community which all hinge on a feeling of resonance... particularly the people that feel they are certain species because they feel a resonance with certain things. Is resonance enough? Or is it only the beginning of something... more?

Comments

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Geez. If resonance with someone/something automatically leads to the conclusion that the person used to be that, then most of the people in Saga's loyal fan base must have been me in their past lives.

Sometimes resonance is simply the result of hitting truisms in a way your audience can relate to especially well. I call it mirroring when it happens to me, or when I do it to others. Although the idea that my friends were me in a past life is pretty damn nifty.

[draerendi.livejournal.com]

What a nifty idea. I do not think it is enough. Once you seperate yourself from them you find that you got swept up in a dream not your own. There are many times I will feel a resonance with a person but not a connection.

[arhuaine.livejournal.com]

I think that resonance is not enough, but that it is a small part of the jugsaw. For instance I'd say that you and I have a resonance with one another - it would be silly to say that I am you but our shared connection with Alorya is the link. But to say that resonance alone is enough is absurd, and is what leads to the "I love dragons so I must have been a dragon" mentality. Wishing something does not make it so.

...or... could it?

Could someone with enough magical skill/power will something sufficiently to change their reality and make it so? Now there's food for the devil's advocate.