my take of pshifting

My beliefs on how shifting works have changed a lot over the months. Now, I am a bit firmer on it being ritual shifting but still being born as a shifter - just not genetically a shifter. to me, you are born and raised in an environment that allows for you to be a shifter, and pshifting is something you can do through ritual (methods, spells, flares, etc). basically you would be hardwired by environment to be a shifter and that environment consists of the invitation of the supernatural into the home/shifter's life. 

There are people who are born into the world in an environment where the supernatural and mythical was always a factor in their lives. that environment leaves lasting energy and creates a different understanding of the world - thus changing how they act and behave. When this behavior is accumulated into animality, there is the shifter's awakening and then the bloom phase.

For me, the supernatural and mythos was what I was raised on. "Don't invite spirits by leaving a door open", "you don't want to talk to ghosts", "seeing ghosts means you are haunted" - I even made old videos trying to "capture" the ghost in my room. I was raised on this and my family on both sides have experience with the supernatural first hand.

I awakened general nonhumanity in 2019, but I had been in supernatural/magic spaces for a while longer. I was around 8 when i found spells of magic and 12 when I found wicca snd witchcraft. I believe that there is no blood or gene in me that makes me nonhuman - just some supernatural involvement that attached to my sense of self, my identity, my behavior, how i saw things, etc. This attachment had swung in the shapeshifter side of things because of my affinity for nonhumanity.