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Thanks, you state this all very well. I guess we're coming from the same place.

The problem is that these dualisms are inherent in the Western model of thought or consciousness. Daniel Quinn's cartoon "The Fence" is a humorous but profound illustration of this:

https://aftermathblog.wordpress.com/2006/01/18/the-fence/

"The Fence" is not just literal or physical, but ontological. These divisions between inside and outside are "baked in" to the way everything shows up for us. The werewolf, the dragon, the vampire can all guide us in our quest to reveal this way.

But also, the way werewolves, dragons and vampires are still evolving in popular culture, or in the stories we ourselves write, is actually something quite important. It can be very telling what aspects of this evolution say about "The Fence" and other fundamental issues.

Sure, it's commonly assumed that our world is disenchanted and that the scientific (or more accurately, scientistic) paradigm has completely taken over. This is the famous "disenchantment" thesis of sociologist Max Weber.

And yet (and even already in Weber's time), enchantment is everywhere you look in popular culture: fantasy novels, video and role playing games, fandoms and so on.

It's just a different mode of enchantment, the mode of the secondary world or "as if". This is a peculiarly modern mode that only emerged in the late 19th century. Enchantment didn't disappear, it merely transformed its basic mode of appearance.

A book by Michael Saler, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality: https://www.amazon.com/As-If-Enchantment-Literary-PreHistory/dp/0195343174 explores precisely this thesis. I'd highly recommend it.

Also recently published in affordable paperback, is Egil Asprem's book The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900-1939 https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Disenchantment-Scientific-Naturalism-Traditions-dp-1438469926/dp/1438469926/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid= I have not yet read this book but it's on my list for this year.

Basically the discourses surrounding werewolves, dragons, vampires etc. are being revived and transformed right before our very eyes. These discourses, far from being diversions or escapes, or pure "entertainments" without value, carry profound meaning in how they help us negotiate fundamental issues, for instance the global environmental and political crises, the role of AI in the total platformization of the human, the collapse of linear history or any positive conception of the future, and so on. We shouldn't dismiss any of this as insignificant simply because these issues are being negotiated in popular culture, or in the mode of "as if".

My path through all this is a weird one. I have a technology background and yet most everything that interests me these days are in the areas of philosophy and history of religion, the history of Western esotericism, and the intersection of these areas with popular culture. Ultimately, I'm interested how popular culture becomes a space in which so-called "esoteric" discourses are revived, transformed and function as ways to think about fundamental social, cultural and historical issues. I am secondarily interested in this space as ontological "set and setting" for practical methods of consciousness expansion (or what I'd simply call "consciousness recovery"; e.g. lucid dreaming, incubation, trance meditation, psychedelics, qigong, etc.) I follow the Expanding Mind and Weird Studies podcasts and am now just catching up with the SHWEP (Secret History of Western Esotericism) podcast. I follow some crazy blogs like S.C.Hickman's Southern Nights (formerly Social Ecologies).

Once you get just a little bit of interest in this it becomes a huge rabbit hole, especially for those of us outside academia but who are primarily interested in an academic approach and yet who recognize that most of the issues are actually being negotiated in the realm of popular culture or other areas that academia for the most part ignores. We live in the curse of "interesting times", that's for sure...

Bought, thanks for the recommendation!

My very favorite is Ivy Cole and the Moon.

Wolf Running is pretty good too.

I just read a book (Breeds by Keith Blackmore) where something like this happens. A bunch of dogs are fed a werewolf, and then transform into humans.

The book is really fantastic, best $5 kindle book I've ever bought. Highly recommended.

Dude I'm just a furry who likes wolf people, what more do you want? Do I have to organize my entire life around this one thing? Join a cult? Drink wolf piss? Only real fans drink wolf piss.

Tainted Moonlight is really good, and only features a couple of werewolves in total. So there isn't really an Alpha thing going on in the first place.

Not sure if it'll be your thing as it is horror, but my Primal Progeny series ticks a lot of your boxes. My werewolves are feral as a general rule, though age and experience play a part in hoow their physical transformations play out and how they can appear physically. I have strong female and male characters, and in human form there is a pack existence as opposed to them all being classic 'lone wolves.'

Here is the first in the series, just in case: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VUI2BOO?*Version*=1&*entries*=0

If you're not interested then sorry to bother you. I just rarely see werewolf fans post about looking for quadrepedal werewolves.