Spiritual Therianthropy is used to refer to the whole condition of being a shifter, to the vast array of feelings, spiritual or emotional feelings of "therianthropy", which are the common, defining features of a shifter. Some people object to the use of the term "spiritual" because it makes people think of a religion. I suppose spiritual therianthropy could just as easily be called "emotional therianthropy" or "instinctive therianthropy" but it ended up getting called spiritual therianthropy very early on and the name stuck. However, there is now a growing movement to call it "personal lycanthropy" or "personal therianthropy".
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