There is this struggle I always had.
Most of my fictotypes are routed in spirituality, or to be more precice, in reincarnation but there are also some past lives that mean nothing to me. While I remember some really small bits and pieces of theses lifes and I just have this strong feeling of “Yes, I used to be this person/thing” I don’t identify as this being anymore, which is why I simply refer to them as “past lives”.But there are also past lifes that are really important to me, these lives are integral to my identiy in a way that I know “I wouldn’t be the way I am without them” BUT they are still not exactly kintypes or fictotypes because, despite these feelings and experiences I don’t necessarily identify AS them anymore.
So far I didn’t really knew how I should call them, I always struggled. I don’t want to call them simply past lifes, because of how important they are to me, but I also know that they don’t fit the definition of a kintype/fictotype and hearttype/sympath/kithtype also don’t really fit because it’s more then just identifying WITH them. It’s the experiences I had as them what’s important.
I had one two anon messages about that with @aestherians and he simply proposed to just make up my own word. So that’s what I decided to do.
Kardiatype or Empeiríatype
I’m not sure which one I like more, so it would be cool to hear other peoples opinions. Both words have greek origin and mean Coretype and Experiencetype basically (even though Kardia can also mean heart (I think) which makes it a bit confusing because of hearttype, but eh)
The definition would be:
A past life which experiences had such an impact on you that it formed your core identiy and personality even to this day in such a way that it differs from your past life identity/personality therefor making you NOT identifying as the being from your past life anymore.
While this seems to mostly aply to the spiritual side of otherkin/therian/fictionkin I’m sure it could/would also aply to our psychological friends.
What are your ideas on the concept of Kardiatype/Empeiríatype?
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