January 4, 2021
Spiritual Daemonism...
There is a wide variety of ways people seem to practice daemonism. Some see their daemons as a personality type like a Hogwarts House, some see them as a kind of imaginary friend, some even take a spiritual approach and believe that daemons are a representation of their own soul, similar to the way they are depicted in the His Dark Materials series.
I personally view my daemon, Philomena, as both a psychological and spiritual daemon; but not exactly in the way that might be more common in the community. I believe that as a child, my brain developed an "imaginary friend" to cope with many different traumas happening to me. Animals were already a huge part of my life, so it wasn't very hard for my little brain to latch onto an animal form when creating her. This was the start of Philomena in her infancy. But as time went on, my brain decided that pretending just wasn't enough anymore. The exact how eludes me, but a piece of my soul split off and Philomena as a separate but dependent and kindred soul developed silently in the background for years. As I started to acknowledge her, I realized that she was not only a representation of me in the ways I couldn't accept, but also a representation of what I needed in my life.
There came a point where the degree to which I was making an effort to see her, talk to her, interact with her in any way, was no longer conscious or intentional. The practice of daemonism has become so second nature to me that it almost feels like I don't have a choice. She exists only because I exist, but does so alongside me as much as any other headmate in a system, and I couldn't "get rid" of her even if I wanted to. She is me but more than me. She is separate from me but is created from me. She is more than just my imaginary friend for me.









