2000 The PathwaysToDarkness party at the 2000 DragonCon in Atlanta brings together Vampires and Therians from the PathwaysToDarkness website in a peaceful and productive real life meeting.
2003 The SEHowl is invaded by a vampiric spirit which allows them to experience the "supernatural" as a group.
2003 Bones Studio in Japan releases the anime series Wolf's Rain, a post-apocalyptic story of four wolves searching for the way to a legendary Paradise. The series is notable for the wolves use of illusions: the wolves blend into human society by projecting a human appearance. (Review by Lenowill)
2004 Nehi the Canchark (2004) self publishes a rather extensive personal account of his therianthropy on the Internet as Therianthropy: An Insight Into the Animal Within.
2005 In Vol. 7 No. 1 of Understanding Sikhism: The Research Journal, Profesor Devinder Singh Chahal, PhD, in his article "Life, Death, and Soul" used Therians as an example of a modern group that does not necessarily adhere to organized religion but believes in a soul. This is the first mention I can find of the Therian community in a scholarly journal.
2009 Lenowill attended the Spring SEHowl. In January of the next year, two other Therians joined him in Kentucky for personal reasons. Another joined the group the next January. Others entered the werehouse in March and May of 2012. Another couple moved nearby in 2012 with the intention of community building and the constelation is now working with the idea of Therian community building and the needs of Therians in real life.
2009 On October 18, KAPS Paranormal Radio aired a program featuring Savage and Night Firewolf who presented a fairly balanced view of therianthropy to a nonTherian audience.
2012 In February, Nove Religio, The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, published Joseph Laylock's, "We Are Spirits of Another Sort: Ontological Rebellion and Religious Dimensions of the Otherkin Community" an exploration of the Otherkin community. In it, he commented on the Therian community.
2012 In July, Dr. Gregory Reece's Creatures of the Night (Reece, 2012) was published which included an interview with Wolf VanZandt. The modern Were Community was described in a positive manner. The presentation of "monsters" in socio-religious terms is a valuable addition to the understanding of the attraction of humanity to the macabre.
2013 In February, Nove Religio, the Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, published Venetia Laura Celano Robertson's study of therianthropy, The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic Identity and Alternative Spirituality in the Online Therianthropy Movement. This seems to be the first full article devoted to the Were community in an academic journal.
2013 On March 5, Trevor Addie, an affiliate of the Therianthropy Research Group (a group of Mainstreamer researchers interested in the Were community) presented the lecture, Therianthropy: A State of Being to a class of 20 at American University in Washington, D.C. In an email to this site administrator, he mentioned Wolfstorm, Prowl, and Gray Tooth as an enormous amount of help.
2013 Early in the year, Swedish scientists showed how it is posible to invoke a phantom limb by a sensory illusion (Arvid Guterstam, Giovanni Gentile, H. Henrik Ehrsson. The Invisible Hand Illusion: Multisensory Integration Leads to the Embodiment of a Discrete Volume of Empty Space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2013; 1 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00393).
2013 Late in December, the host of the SEHowl, the longest continuously running Howl in North America retired and moved to Colorado. In his stead, several Weres in North Carolina, most notably Siverwolf and Lunar Flare, have taken over the major Howls of the Southeast (since the Southeastern Were population has generally shifted to the east in recent years). Savage provides continuous support for these efforts.
