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Dragon and Reptilian - An Interesting Comparison

When I turned 13 years old, I became fondly obsessed with the subject of dragons. I read every book that I could find that even remotely hinted at the presence of a dragon within its covers. At the video arcades we had in the 1980's, I often felt like crying whenever I had to kill the last character in a DigDug level, which in most cases was the dragon, because I didn't want to kill it. I was torn between making points and letting the dragon live. I didn't see the dragon, but rather DigDug, as the bad guy, because he was invading the dragon's home.

I felt alive whenever I read about dragons. It always hurt when I read about the dragon being "slain," which doesn't just mean to be killed, but to be violently murdered. Nevertheless, I couldn't stop reading about dragons.

In 2009 I "Awakened" as a Dragonkin, which is essentially a person who identifies as a dragon in some way. Different Dragonkin identify with dragons in different ways. In my case, I felt that I was a dragon soul in a human body. Over the following years I learned more and more about myself, until in late 2010 I discovered through various observations that I am physically non-human. I first noticed that I am quite carnivorous... and by that I mean that I require meat to survive. If I go without meat for an extended length of time, my body begins to panic and my emotions become unstable. This is true regardless of whether I have food or not. It is not the absense of all food that causes this problem, but only the absense of animal flesh in my digestive system. I also learned that my body temperature is affected by my surroundings. I am not, based on my observations, entirely ectothermic (cold-blooded), but I do have several traits in common with ectothermic reptiles.

Now, you might be asking me what this has to do with a comparison between the terms "Reptilian" and "Dragon." Well, over the years since my Awakening, I have become aware of the so-called "Reptilian ET's" in UFO communities, and in my desire to learn more about my own personal truth I have discovered that I am a member of one particular Reptilian ET race, one of several races often mistakenly referred to as "The Draco," which resemble European dragons that have four legs and two wings, but walk on two legs the way humans do. In the case of my race, we share several physical traits with both reptiles and mammals (Our thermal strategy, for instance, is more Reptile than Mammal, but our people have mammary glands and breastfeed our young which is a more mammalian trait).

But in identifying myself as a Reptilian, I started feeling less alive than I had beforehand, when I identified myself as a Dragon... and I think I may have figured out why this is. The words themselves, I believe hold the key.

The word "Reptilian" refers to a person's biology. It refers to the nature of their genes, their blood, their racial traits, their digestive system. The word "Reptilian" deals with the physical aspects of the individual.

The word "Dragon," on the other hand, tends to refer to a person's spirituality. Many dragons in ancient and medieval mythology looked nothing like the standardized lizard with wings that Westerners often envision today, breathing fire out of their mouths and terrorizing villages filled with innocent people. They were varied, vastly different one from another. Quetzalcoatl, for instance, was a snake with feathered wings, while the Babylonian dragoness Tiamat was described as having the parts of many animals, the reptilian aspects making up a minority of them. But it was their intelligence, emotion, and spiritual qualities that made them both Dragons.

I believe that the reason I feel 'dead' inside when I identify as a Reptilian and alive when I identify as a Dragon, is as simple as the differentiation between Body and Spirit. If I am just "Reptilian," then I am a cold-blooded carnivore, but if I am "Dragon," then I am a passionate lover of life, who sees the repression of one's physical desires as a stifling of what makes life worth living. If all I am is the sum of my biological mechanism, I am truly dead, but if I am what my soul desires to be, then I am very much alive. So for me, identifying as a Reptilian is killing my very soul; it is in identifying as a Dragon, whether it be reptile, mammal, or whatever else the body's biology may be, that I nurture and empower my soul. I cease from being merely a machine that must be properly lubricated and fed, and I become the living, feeling Being that I want to be.

So there it is. The comparison of Reptilian and Dragon. The word "Reptilian" refers to biology, and the word "Dragon" refers to spirituality. The Reptilian has no choice, no life, and I dare say no soul. The Dragon has all of these things regardless of its biology.