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Non-Fiction

Reference | Spiritual Traditions and Magic | Psi and Energy Work | Dealing With Life

Note that there is still very little non-fiction that could be considered to be about otherkin per se. Most of these items are listed because they are about topics useful to otherkin, rather than about otherkin themselves.

Reference (back to top)

• Brian Froud, Faeries; Good Faeries/Bad Faeries; The Art of Faery (includes works by other artists as well)

Spiritual Traditions and Magic (back to top)

• Hugh Mynne, The Faerie Way: A Healing Journey to Other Worlds. Interacting with the Faery realms and beings.
• R. J. Stewart, The Underworld Initiation; Earth Light; Power Within the Land; The Well of Light; The Living World of Faery. Interacting with Faery realms and beings. General Western mystical tradition grounded in balladry and folklore of Europe and the British Isles. The Underworld Initiation is rather dense theoretical material; most folks will do better to start with Earth Light as it is much more accessible. All of the books bear multiple re-readings and will yield more each time. The Living World of Faery is not strictly part of the series, but covers much of the same material, with some repeats from other books.
• Orion Foxwood, The Faery Teachings. A little similar to Stewart in some respects, and in others very different. Blends faery material with Southern folk magic. The nine Tarot-sized cards that come with the book, depicting central Faery powers/beings, are particularly powerful.
• John Matthews, The Sidhe: Wisdom from the Celtic Otherworld. A partly fictionalized account of an encounter with a certain symbol (the "Great Glyph") in a mound-grave, and the contact with one of the Sidhe that it engendered. Besides its general spiritual-path usefulness, many things in the book will probably "ping" for those of Sidhe or Faery persuasion ('kin-type-wise). (See also a review by Robert Moss.)
• Lupa, A Field Guide to Otherkin. Finally, a non-fiction book strictly about otherkin! (Even if it is written by an insider and thus not good enough for a cite by strict Wikipedia rules.) In my opinion, targeted mainly towards neutral-to-sympathetic outsiders and otherkin without a lot of ocmmunity knowledge or experience. Gives a general overview of the concept, theories of how and why people feel this way, characteristics of various types of otherkin, some community history, and a massive bibliography of both print and web resources. (See also a review by Daven.)

Psi and Energy Work (back to top)

• Michelle Belanger, The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work. Nature of one kind of psychic vampires and energy techniques related thereto. Very instructive in general as pretty much everything besides feeding is applicable to and usable by non-vampires. Author is head of House Kheperu.

Dealing With Life (back to top)

• Tracy Alderman and Karen Marshall, Amongst Ourselves: A Self-Help Guide to Living with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Useful to hosts/multiples (who of course would not likely think of it as a "disorder"). According to the person who vouched for this, it is not about integration, but rather about coping with things as they are.

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