What is a Pshifter?
Since the dawn of humanity, there is a belief in one's body changing and morphing, fixing itself into another species. Pshifting is modern terminology for such.
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What a Pshifter is:
Pshifters, also known as shifters, shapeshifters, or physical shifters, are people who can metaphysically or physically shift their body to resemble another species.
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This could mean spiritually, somatically, astrally, aurally, and sensory shifts that create long lasting after affects for the body.
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Pshifters come in different shapes and sizes, abilities and knowledge, cultures and ethnicities. Shifters are often mixed with multiple cultures and those cultures may have history in the concepts of pshifting. Shifters can be disabled, can be black, can be queer, can be young or old.
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Age in pshifting does not matter, anyone can shift at any age.
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Pshifters are either born or raised in environments where there are shifters around. No one can be taught how to pshift, it's innate, but to be a pshifter is more than that.
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Polyshifters and Fantashifters exist. Pshifting is not just designated to one species or reality.
What a Pshifter isn't:
Pshifters do not hallucinate in regards to their nonhumanity. They do not have delusions that cause their shifting or their identity. No illness or known biological/mental state causes pshifting.
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Physically shifting is not guaranteed forever, as most a pshifter can do to be a pshifter is to have permanent change in perception of senses, body or the brain after experiencing one shift.
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Not all alterhumans who aurally or spiritually shift are pshifters, not all pshifters consider themselves alterhuman.
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Pshifter identity and pshifting abilities are separate, and so the belief that all pshifters are biologically shifters is incorrect.
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Pshifters are not cultists at birth, nor do they partake in cult activities. Pshifters are known as "fakers" in many circles because they cannot "prove" they have physical changes in their bodies. This, added onto the fact that some people have lied about their pshifter identity to prey of shifters, has increased the narrative that all of pshifter identity and practice is dangerous.
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Pshifters are not murderers or killers, not even the predatory species are inherently bloodlusting. Blood is not required to be a shifter.
Terminology
Awakening - The moment a shifter realizes they are physically shifting, a shifter, both, or just generally nonhuman.
Vakalomorphy - Innate and integral identities that are subjectively physical.
Reality - Anything experienced on multiple planes that is real to multiple eyes. Spiritual experiences witnessed and experienced in multiple ways are considered real to the person experiencing them.
Psychosomatic changes - Cravings, longings to go feral and instincts of your species.
Pshifting Information
Various links to different places about and for pshifters.