Freakchylde's

Ok, I’m reading this book on shapeshifting for the modern world. I can’t recall the name of it, so if you want that, you’ll have to email me to get it….anyway, one of the concepts in there is that it’s not a matter of becoming, so much as it’s a matter of being. One example was that of a girl who’s dream it was, was to be a dancer. She’d try-out, and try-out, but never make a dance troupe. She lamented her problem to the local shaman/priest-healer (in Africa), and he asked her to dance for him. She did, and he asked if she danced every night, she said she did, and he said he saw a beautiful dancer before him, and if she already danced every night, then she was a dancer. Why would she need someone else to confirm what she already was, and by rejecting her, was rejecting what she already was. In regards to shapeshifting, the point is that, in order to take on the appearance of whatever shape you wish to shift to, you must be that shape, not become that shape. The same could be applied to every day life, don’t become the person you wish to be, be that person. It’s definitely a perspective shift, more than it’s a shape shift. It’s something I’m going to be working with more, given that I used to walk through a conservative university campus in all my gothy glory, and not have anyone bug me, or look at me because I didn’t want them to. I wasn’t trying to be invisible, as much as I was seeing them as invisible. I think that’s a bit contrary to what I’ve been trying to say, but hey, it happens. 🙂