Growing up in a Mormon family, the concept of past lives is one I have difficulty accepting. I would not mind being wrong, however, and the theology of the church teaches that there always was something that was you. Intelligences, Pre-existence, our Mortal incarnation, and the afterlife.
My original ideas about gender identity dovetail nicely with the beliefs though, and Otherkin would probably feel comfortable with them. Because, ostensibly, everyone is the product of a Heavenly Father and Mother in that belief and the process is -- supposedly -- the same as creating children in *this* life, it followed to me that spirits have gender. I thought that sometimes a female spirit gets placed into a male body or a male spirit into a female body for reasons that are not clearly understood.
I've rejected most of those beliefs, although the idea of constantly struggling to improve still appeals to me, although I've seen it be greatly abused in corporate culture.
Now, if I were to believe in past lives, I'd probably think I spent some time in Ancient Rome and in Germanic cultures. (Including the one belonging to the Pennsylvania Dutch in this incarnation. Too bad I missed the cool stuff like the practicing Pow-Wows.) It might explain why Wicca never appealed to me in anyway, but Asatru does.
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Date: 2015-02-03 04:37 pm (UTC)My original ideas about gender identity dovetail nicely with the beliefs though, and Otherkin would probably feel comfortable with them. Because, ostensibly, everyone is the product of a Heavenly Father and Mother in that belief and the process is -- supposedly -- the same as creating children in *this* life, it followed to me that spirits have gender. I thought that sometimes a female spirit gets placed into a male body or a male spirit into a female body for reasons that are not clearly understood.
I've rejected most of those beliefs, although the idea of constantly struggling to improve still appeals to me, although I've seen it be greatly abused in corporate culture.
Now, if I were to believe in past lives, I'd probably think I spent some time in Ancient Rome and in Germanic cultures. (Including the one belonging to the Pennsylvania Dutch in this incarnation. Too bad I missed the cool stuff like the practicing Pow-Wows.) It might explain why Wicca never appealed to me in anyway, but Asatru does.