If your poll was still open I'd click the first option.
Perhaps that's because I'm understanding it in the way you intended it to be understood, I think. Plus of course there's the fascination of other worlds far away from this one. Other possibilities.
It's clear from this first part of the second life that she's one of those souls described previously who flits around without necessarily belonging anywhere in particular. It's easy to relate to that when you're in a place you know you don't belong...
Thank you for mentioning the poll because I completely forgot about it and at the time the option to have it going forever wasn't available yet, but now it is and I've updated it lol.
Yes I think you see an underpinning to this story that many won't - which is okay because art is open to interpretation and I'm fine with people reading it how they wish, and with not resonating with it if that is the case. Nonetheless I appreciate your deep comprehension for my writing. The best beta reader a person could ask for (although I think that this environment has spoiled me because it's hard to believe that the readers outside of Substack will receive it this well).
I wanted this to be the case for the MC but am not entirely sure how to give more background information to this trait that she has. I have a few ideas and a basic understanding of why she is the way she is but I have to spend some time hashing out the full scope of her character when I get to the 9 life path.
I appreciate your kind sentiments and overall feedback.
I think with regards to the trait of flitting between lifetimes, I’m not entirely sure this would need too much explanation, because some things ‘just are’. Also, if there is a kind of spiritual and conscious evolutionary growth involved with each subsequent lifetime then there’s your explanation in plain sight. And I am a very big believer in the reality of that reincarnational spiritual growth.
Interestingly, or ironically, the aforementioned Murry Hope also talks a bit about this in some of her other (non-fiction) books. I think her take is slightly different though, in which she assigns ‘evolutionary streams’ to fairly distinct groups of species, like, say feline - so a soul who is an ‘essence fragment’ (of the greater group soul) kind of splits off from the archetype (although never really completely cut off) and then undergoes a series of lifetimes learning and growing each time until finally rejoining the whole and thereby enhancing the evolution of the group soul itself. But as with the 9 lives of Tyo these lifetimes are usually within the same species-group.
I like this idea and it instinctively feels right to me. On the other paw, one can imagine that some souls would indeed ‘switch from one species to another’ - but equally in order to grow and learn about other evolutionary streams. Thus we have, say, a feline soul experiencing an incarnation in a human (let’s call that a ‘primate evolutionary stream’) - obviously there are incompatibilities and discomforts involved in that. A little dissonance. This idea is partly, I think, where the ‘starseed’ thing comes from.
I think I am 99% decided to do my new section and write a lot more about this kind of spiritual thinking. You have also reminded me to focus more on it, and do more divinatory work. So I am very grateful!
Also thank you for the recommendation! Again ironically I was meaning to add Metanoia to my list of recommendations, so you just reminded me to do that!
If your poll was still open I'd click the first option.
Perhaps that's because I'm understanding it in the way you intended it to be understood, I think. Plus of course there's the fascination of other worlds far away from this one. Other possibilities.
It's clear from this first part of the second life that she's one of those souls described previously who flits around without necessarily belonging anywhere in particular. It's easy to relate to that when you're in a place you know you don't belong...
Thank you for mentioning the poll because I completely forgot about it and at the time the option to have it going forever wasn't available yet, but now it is and I've updated it lol.
Yes I think you see an underpinning to this story that many won't - which is okay because art is open to interpretation and I'm fine with people reading it how they wish, and with not resonating with it if that is the case. Nonetheless I appreciate your deep comprehension for my writing. The best beta reader a person could ask for (although I think that this environment has spoiled me because it's hard to believe that the readers outside of Substack will receive it this well).
I wanted this to be the case for the MC but am not entirely sure how to give more background information to this trait that she has. I have a few ideas and a basic understanding of why she is the way she is but I have to spend some time hashing out the full scope of her character when I get to the 9 life path.
I appreciate your kind sentiments and overall feedback.
You are welcome of course!
I think with regards to the trait of flitting between lifetimes, I’m not entirely sure this would need too much explanation, because some things ‘just are’. Also, if there is a kind of spiritual and conscious evolutionary growth involved with each subsequent lifetime then there’s your explanation in plain sight. And I am a very big believer in the reality of that reincarnational spiritual growth.
Interestingly, or ironically, the aforementioned Murry Hope also talks a bit about this in some of her other (non-fiction) books. I think her take is slightly different though, in which she assigns ‘evolutionary streams’ to fairly distinct groups of species, like, say feline - so a soul who is an ‘essence fragment’ (of the greater group soul) kind of splits off from the archetype (although never really completely cut off) and then undergoes a series of lifetimes learning and growing each time until finally rejoining the whole and thereby enhancing the evolution of the group soul itself. But as with the 9 lives of Tyo these lifetimes are usually within the same species-group.
I like this idea and it instinctively feels right to me. On the other paw, one can imagine that some souls would indeed ‘switch from one species to another’ - but equally in order to grow and learn about other evolutionary streams. Thus we have, say, a feline soul experiencing an incarnation in a human (let’s call that a ‘primate evolutionary stream’) - obviously there are incompatibilities and discomforts involved in that. A little dissonance. This idea is partly, I think, where the ‘starseed’ thing comes from.
I think I am 99% decided to do my new section and write a lot more about this kind of spiritual thinking. You have also reminded me to focus more on it, and do more divinatory work. So I am very grateful!
Also thank you for the recommendation! Again ironically I was meaning to add Metanoia to my list of recommendations, so you just reminded me to do that!