DarkHunter
07-20-2006, 05:20 PM
DISCLAIMER: THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PHYSICAL SHIFTING AT ALL. This is purely about Therianthropy though I use the term Werewolf. I'd also like to note that this was written of a more Satanic bent.
The Werewolf.
A werewolf is a person who either by choice or force takes on the characteristics of an animal. This is abhorrent to most due to upbringings and the lies of spiritual religions, but for the carnally minded, it isn't so strange a thing to grasp.
Everybody has the potential to be a werewolf. Many have said it. Every writing and movie about the subject says it. Curt Siodmak heralded it and his words have been burned forever into the minds of those who study werewolves. "Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night, maybe become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
Some choose the life of the Werewolf. Through ritual and magic, through unholy and impious incantations that by even knowing them can be blasphemous, and through some physical representation of the animal (a girdle or skin), the sorcerer takes on the Beast. This however only makes them temporarily a Werewolf. Indeed it is genuine while it lasts, but when the sorcerer is done, they could turn their back on the whole thing for the rest of their lives and not have a single problem.
Involuntarily, people can go through what is often called an Awakening. The sudden emergence of the Beast into one's life. It can be a very trying time. Behavior can seem odd and offbeat. The person who rejects the Beast will have the most trouble. They will catch themselves in animal like behavior and feel vile. I know a guy who upon his Awakening pissed on a brick wall without realizing what was going on. Marking his territory. More than one guy too. A guy felt that he was losing his mind. It leaked in school what he believed and someone burned down his family's barn.
People in this situation guard themselves as much as they can. But they can't resist the Beast. How can you resist what is YOU? How can you resist what you really want? When you're compelled to drop down to all fours and growl and howl? There can be no mastery with rejection.
Involutarily, one goes through an Awakening. But it is a choice on whether or not you accept what you are. Those who accept become greater than they once were, if they take proper precautions.
For one, people who aren't Werewolves themselves (full time or otherwise) won't understand 95% of the time. It is best to leave them ignorant. Better that they don't know about who and what you are.
But its paramount to understand this. Its best to accept. Because then you can learn to channel and control. First you must deal with the first months of the Awakening. They can be strange and new. Each person has different experiences due to their own personalities. The important thing is to release. The fallacy of the Awakened who doesn't want to be what they so obviously are is that they do not release. They fear it. And for good reason. Once an Awakened releases the Beast, it is too easy later to do it. They realize how much better things are with release. It is then more tempting to accept what they are.
The joy of release is hard to describe. It is a wonder when you can forsake the "Higher" natures of thought. One no longer thinks like human. You become a Beast. Where your thoughts are murmuring mirrors of your emotions. There is no why to Life at these moments. There are no moral dilemmas that plague the human mind. Only desire and satisfaction. One acts on instinct and lives by it.
Release should take place in controlled enviroments, preferrably. For many reasons. One already cited was to keep what you are from the world. They won't fully understand. Another is so one doesn't cause trouble. Breaking objects of value. Stalking people and attacking them.
In a controlled enviroment, one can successfully become the Beast and release the pent up frustration that occurs with rejection. The Beast can be channeled and one can express complex emotions with the simple actions of the animal. And it may prove that those actions are not so simple.
Then one leaves their enviroment. One descends back to the level of human. The complexity of life resumes...but with a new twist. Destructive emotions are gone. Rationality comes easier.
A wise man once wrote that one who can embrace Hate can more fully and genuinely Love. And so one who can explore the pyschology of the Beast within can more fully rationalize and control their lives. Decisions come easier. Life is easier in general. Why? It isn't neccessarily that situations magically change. Its more that one isn't so much a ball of nervous energy. One isn't bogged down with anger, worry, frustration, and general moodiness. Why? Because these emotions are channeled. With these emotions gone there is room for quicker and more precise thought.
The Werewolf, above all else, is a symbol of liberation. The Beast obeys no moral laws or intellectual quibbles.
The Werewolf.
A werewolf is a person who either by choice or force takes on the characteristics of an animal. This is abhorrent to most due to upbringings and the lies of spiritual religions, but for the carnally minded, it isn't so strange a thing to grasp.
Everybody has the potential to be a werewolf. Many have said it. Every writing and movie about the subject says it. Curt Siodmak heralded it and his words have been burned forever into the minds of those who study werewolves. "Even a man who is pure of heart and says his prayers by night, maybe become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms and the moon is full and bright."
Some choose the life of the Werewolf. Through ritual and magic, through unholy and impious incantations that by even knowing them can be blasphemous, and through some physical representation of the animal (a girdle or skin), the sorcerer takes on the Beast. This however only makes them temporarily a Werewolf. Indeed it is genuine while it lasts, but when the sorcerer is done, they could turn their back on the whole thing for the rest of their lives and not have a single problem.
Involuntarily, people can go through what is often called an Awakening. The sudden emergence of the Beast into one's life. It can be a very trying time. Behavior can seem odd and offbeat. The person who rejects the Beast will have the most trouble. They will catch themselves in animal like behavior and feel vile. I know a guy who upon his Awakening pissed on a brick wall without realizing what was going on. Marking his territory. More than one guy too. A guy felt that he was losing his mind. It leaked in school what he believed and someone burned down his family's barn.
People in this situation guard themselves as much as they can. But they can't resist the Beast. How can you resist what is YOU? How can you resist what you really want? When you're compelled to drop down to all fours and growl and howl? There can be no mastery with rejection.
Involutarily, one goes through an Awakening. But it is a choice on whether or not you accept what you are. Those who accept become greater than they once were, if they take proper precautions.
For one, people who aren't Werewolves themselves (full time or otherwise) won't understand 95% of the time. It is best to leave them ignorant. Better that they don't know about who and what you are.
But its paramount to understand this. Its best to accept. Because then you can learn to channel and control. First you must deal with the first months of the Awakening. They can be strange and new. Each person has different experiences due to their own personalities. The important thing is to release. The fallacy of the Awakened who doesn't want to be what they so obviously are is that they do not release. They fear it. And for good reason. Once an Awakened releases the Beast, it is too easy later to do it. They realize how much better things are with release. It is then more tempting to accept what they are.
The joy of release is hard to describe. It is a wonder when you can forsake the "Higher" natures of thought. One no longer thinks like human. You become a Beast. Where your thoughts are murmuring mirrors of your emotions. There is no why to Life at these moments. There are no moral dilemmas that plague the human mind. Only desire and satisfaction. One acts on instinct and lives by it.
Release should take place in controlled enviroments, preferrably. For many reasons. One already cited was to keep what you are from the world. They won't fully understand. Another is so one doesn't cause trouble. Breaking objects of value. Stalking people and attacking them.
In a controlled enviroment, one can successfully become the Beast and release the pent up frustration that occurs with rejection. The Beast can be channeled and one can express complex emotions with the simple actions of the animal. And it may prove that those actions are not so simple.
Then one leaves their enviroment. One descends back to the level of human. The complexity of life resumes...but with a new twist. Destructive emotions are gone. Rationality comes easier.
A wise man once wrote that one who can embrace Hate can more fully and genuinely Love. And so one who can explore the pyschology of the Beast within can more fully rationalize and control their lives. Decisions come easier. Life is easier in general. Why? It isn't neccessarily that situations magically change. Its more that one isn't so much a ball of nervous energy. One isn't bogged down with anger, worry, frustration, and general moodiness. Why? Because these emotions are channeled. With these emotions gone there is room for quicker and more precise thought.
The Werewolf, above all else, is a symbol of liberation. The Beast obeys no moral laws or intellectual quibbles.