Part 3
A psychic vampire is a term
used to describe a living person who "drains" others emotionally
either empathically (draining the auric life force) or metaphorically (someone
who takes emotionally without giving anything back; a "user"). Every
person has unknowingly drained someone else's energy at one time or another.
Chronic psychic vampires generally are not aware that they are stealing energy
from others. Fair and balanced energy exchanges make for healthier
relationships.
Who are Psychic Vampires (Psi-Vampires)?
Psychic vampires are
living people who feel a pronounced need to enhance their natural state of
being by drawing, absorbing, "draining" or "feeding on"
some kind of "energy". Most psychic vampires claim that the kind of
energy they require is life force, or "pranic energy", that is to say,
a specific type of energy produced by living things and the biosphere as a
whole. While this is the most common "energy" craved by psychic
vampires, other types of "energy" that are identified, and
differentiated from "pranic energy", include sexual energy, psychic
energy, emotional energy, magical energy, negative energy, astral energy, and
atmospheric energy (for example, thunderstorms), and there are others
mentioned, as well.
These "energies"
are given conflicting and overlapping definitions, however, and the
explanations of what "energy" is, exactly, and how the psychic
vampire uses it tend to vary from one individual to another. Most psychic
vampires "feed" primarily from other human beings, but some of them report
of being able to "feed" from non-human living things, and from other
sources. In some cases, this is an emergency substitute, but some psychic
vampires attempt to "wean themselves" away from human sources
altogether for different reasons.
So, some psychic vampires
report an ability to absorb "energy" from material sources, including
fresh vegetables, rare meat and blood. Although many psychic vampires have an
interest in blood-drinking, they do not seem to crave or lust for it as do
blood vampires. It remains an open question whether psychic vampires who have
an interest in blood, but who do not actually drink it, may not be reacting to
the power of suggestion, and feel interested in blood because they
self-identify as vampires and on some deep level associate vampires with blood.
But this is a question that psychic vampires themselves will need to puzzle
out.
Like blood vampires,
psychic vampires feel that they must "feed" on the energy they
require on a regular basis, and many report physical feelings of discomfort if
they are denied access to a source. Symptoms of "energy deprivation"
include extreme fatigue, depression, mood swings, immune system suppression
with an increase in illnesses, uncontrollable "draining" of
non-targeted sources, negative reactions from others close to the psychic
vampire, insomnia and anxiety. Psychic vampires often discuss methods of
finding energy sources and "feeding" reliably and harmlessly, and
these methods vary to a high degree. I could not give a fair representative
sampling, but some examples include psychic vampires who "feed"
during sex, those who "feed" on large crowds, those who draw energy
from the natural world and visit parks or wilderness when "hungry",
and those who "feed" by finding people in highly energized states and
either calming or further provoking them.
How to Indentify Psychic Vampires?
Unlike blood vampirism,
psychic vampirism may be diagnosed either subjectively by the vampire or
objectively by observers. Symptoms that one is a psychic vampire oneself
include mood swings, dizziness, alternations between high energy and fatigue,
headaches, a distinct feeling that one is pulling or drawing energy or emotions
from other people, and similar feelings. But more and more people are being
"diagnosed" as psychic vampires by other self-defined psychic
vampires, on the grounds of numerous criteria. These include observed effects
of the suspected psychic vampire on others (fatigue or depression in the
presence of the psychic vampire, a sensation of phantom "tendrils" or
attachments, a sensation that something is being pulled or drawn out of the
body or aura) and direct psychic perception of the aura or energy field of the
suspected psychic vampire.
Psi-Vampires’ Sub-Culture
Psychic vampires are
developing a completely independent subculture of their own and have their own
acknowledged leaders and their own vocabulary. They are also developing a
consensual agreement on what being a psychic vampire feels like, both to the
psychic vampire and to others around him or her, especially psychically
sensitive others. Some psychic vampires identify what they call an "energy
signature" that allows them to interpret whether another person is a
psychic vampire, as well as what specific type they are and how they function.
Such signatures are often read and interpreted during direct contact over such
media as online chat or the telephone. Training methods adopted from modern
magical traditions, standard psychic development disciplines, meditative paths
such as Taoism and other sources are being introduced to help psychic vampires
learn to control their "feeding" and learn to "manipulate
energy". There are an increasing number of websites aimed specifically at
psychic vampires and their concerns.
Categories
Psychic vampires proper
fall into two main categories:
- Conscious psychic vampires
Conscious psychic vampires
are fully aware of what they are and have identified as psychic vampires at
least on some level. While they may not be able to completely control their
"draining" tendencies, they do try, and seek methods of learning how
to do so more effectively. When they have achieved at least some feeling of
mastery, they often offer to teach and support other nascent psychic vampires
by sharing what they have learned. They tend to have strong and volatile
personalities. The intentional psychic vampire is clever, devious and
manipulative. Its main objective is often to ingratiate itself into a group of
people through one member of the group. Having achieved that objective, it will
then set about controlling the individual and/or group for its own ends,
bending the group or individual to its will and using them to promote itself as
some sort of powerful authority figure or “leader”.
The intentional psychic
vampire will select a member of a group who it identifies as being both
significant to the group (well liked, popular) yet is also vulnerable in some
way (perhaps having just had a serious illness, an upsetting career change,
house move, nasty divorce or death in the family). Having done this, it will
set about making itself invaluable to that person who it defends and supports
in all situations. It will take the individuals problems, fears and
insecurities on board and offer advice, help and guidance, which often appears
to be good and sensible. But more significantly, it will gradually isolate the
individual from the group socially and emotionally by making their “mark” or
target dependent on it and it alone.
The psychic vampire will
also court the leader of a group and do everything it can to appear to be a
positive influence upon the group until the leader seems to rely on the psychic
vampire so much so that he or she cannot make any decisions without consulting
it first. At the same time, it will carefully create the impression that it is
“powerful” in some way. Within the context of an occult or pagan group, it may
well promote itself as being some sort of expert in an obscure aspect of the
main interests of the group and/or individual it is targeting thereby appearing
to make itself of value to the group. But it will also maintain an aura of
mystery about itself and its ideas and opinions, never giving too much away
about itself.
In this way, it will
gradually and carefully establish itself as an authority within the group
taking the knowledge that it gains from the group and using it for its own
ends, which are almost always to extend its field of influence and list of
contacts that can then be used to increase its influence even further.
The really clever vampire
will seldom try for all out power within a group. They will establish
themselves as the main authority figure whilst at the same time giving the
impression that they are not actually “in charge”. In fact, they will often
defer to the nominal leader of the group but only on unimportant issues such as
when and where meetings are to be held and who will bring the wine. All other
decisions affecting the actual running and working of the group will be offered
up for discussion in a manner that effectively leaves the real control firmly
in their own hands.
- Unconscious psychic vampires
Unconscious psychic
vampires do not understand what they are, and tend to wander through life in a
state of blissful ignorance or denial. They may or may not be aware of the
effect they have on others, although they can see the results. Unconscious
psychic vampires may stumble across a vampire website or other forum and
experience a shattering moment of truth when it all clicks together. They may
also be "diagnosed" by conscious psychic vampires and urged to face
what they are and learn to control their tendencies. Of all vampires,
unconscious psychic vampires tend to be most noticeable to ordinary people, who
see them as clingy, attention-seeking, demanding, inconstant individuals. In some
cases, these assessments are not supported by actual behavior, but are a
materialist's rationalizations of the psychic perception of the vampire's
energy draining, for which the average person has no context. Either way,
unconscious psychic vampires do tend to have rocky and difficult relationships,
home lives and personal interactions until they come to some kind of
understanding of what they are.
How to recognize Psychic Vampires?
Psychic vampires will
probably exhibit several of the following characteristics, the more of these behaviors,
opinions, obsessions or characteristics they display the more likely it is that
they are psychic vampires. If any of these traits feel uncomfortably close to
home you may yourself be a psychic vampire without realizing it. Having one or
two of the traits that you do recognize does not make you a psychic vampire per
se, but may indicate that you should look carefully at changing this particular
unconscious behavior if it is afflicted upon or affects another human being.
Unfortunately psychic vampires generally do not or are not able to recognize or
realize these traits within themselves. Remember, the psychic vampire does not
have to have any occult connection whatsoever; it can be a person you meet in
your everyday life.
These main traits are:
- An uncontrollable urge to dominate nature, it may speak boastfully
about controlling the weather or that it has powerful elemental spirits
under its control.
- A self-righteous compulsion to help others offering healing and
advice to the point that their victim will become hooked on the
consultations or sessions. In a lot of cases the psychic vampire offers no
real help at all, causing the victim to be entirely dependent upon the
psychic vampire’s aid. If the victim decides to seek help elsewhere the
psychic vampire will be quick to point out “all they have done” for the
victim in the past.
- Creating living and working environments that are fast-paced,
somewhat secretive and chaotic in an attempt to throw other people off
guard. Their lack of true communication allows the psychic vampire to
manipulate all situations so that others are overtly overwhelmed and
anxious when trying to live or work in these environments whilst the
psychic vampire will appear to be particularly well organized and calm
externally.
- An obsession to achieve all of their personal desires (gain of
money, powerful careers or social lives, sexual fulfillment, etc.) without
considering the cost to anyone else---and in this oftentimes creates its
own self-undoing. Often the psychic vampire forgets to consider all the
consequences of its actions even on its own life, focusing only upon the
quenching of its all-consuming desires. This inability to consider the
consequences of its actions often lands the psychic vampire in places and
situations that it had no idea would occur and when this happens, watch
out, for its anger can be violent when finding itself in negative
situations of their own making because it will take no responsibility for
its actions and blame all responsibility on others. Often psychic vampires
will take out their own misery, responsibility and blame on the weak, ill,
or someone much younger (like children or young adults), unable to
transfer these feelings of inadequacy onto anyone it deems to be as
experienced or powerful as itself in any way.
- An innate desire to control its personal and intimate relationships
down to the last detail. There can be sexual dynamics in all its
relationships (even relationships that are not sexual ones) that border on
the sado-masochistic. “Sado-masochism
provides sexual pleasure to dominate the partner completely, to play with
him [or her] like a cat with a mouse”---Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig. This
is not to say that people that enjoy sexual play like sado-masochism are
psychic vampires, but this trait may be apparent in a psychic vampire if
it is found in combination with several of the other traits.
- Severe outbursts of anger or rage or violence in the face of
insignificant or routine annoyances. When the psychic vampire needs to
feed, it will explode all small or petty problems into traumas of major
proportion. This instantly transforms the psychic vampire from the nice,
serene person you thought you knew into an angry, venomous volcano that
you’ve never met before.
- A fear of change (death) or rather an undeniably overwhelming fear
of being unable to manipulate and control all the details of any change in
their lives, either major or mundane. Because the actual fear is the
inability to control the “deaths” in its life, they may embrace a romantic
preoccupation with art, literature and popular entertainments that involve
death as the major theme and may even dress or costume itself in this
romantically dark style, sometimes termed as Gothic. Many psychic vampires
may even occasionally, subtly allude to failed suicide attempts or close
brushes with death. The preoccupation with death can be what has led it to
a resistance to life. “Life is a
dynamic, pulsating force; it is energy and consciousness manifested in
many ways; and there is no evil as such unless there is a resistance to
life. The resistance is the manifestation of what is called evil”---John
C. Pierrakos.
- A lack of a sense of humor or the inability to tell jokes. The
psychic vampire may be able to make jokes at others’ expense but will
either not acknowledge a joke at itself or will become quite angry if one
is made of it.
- Projecting its feelings of being bad, ashamed, or even actually evil
upon another person or group of individuals. They may appear to be “perfect”
or meticulous in their actions, manners, and physical appearance and above
reproach in all of their activities whilst subconsciously suspecting that
they have an evil nature. This causes the psychic vampire to project its
fear-driven subconscious wrath onto another. If this is the case you may
hear the psychic vampire say things like:
·
“I am totally
innocent and justified in my actions whilst THEY are guilty and bad and wrong
in everything that THEY do.”
·
“I simply inform others of the truth and THEY
lie and use propaganda.”
·
“I am only defending myself, THEY are making
my life continually a misery.”
How to Deal with Psychic Vampires?
Shielding
Visualize a powerful white
light surrounding you, enveloping you in a bubble of protection. Or, it may be
invisible glass bubble which is not transferrable for the energy flow, demanded
from psychological vampire you are dealing with. You should practice this
technique every day, but especially when interacting with a person you suspect
is a psychic vampire. The more you practice, the easier it is for you to reach
perfect protection. The good thing about it is that it is 100% inoffensive. You
won't hurt the psychic vampire's feelings, unless that person is of the evil
variety and realizes they won't be getting dinner!
Threefold Return
To a high degree, the
intentional vampire depends on the psychological assurance that their targets
or victims believe in the vampire’s overwhelming emotional power. Remove or
reduce that belief and its “power” can be greatly reduced if not destroyed
altogether. If you have little self-confidence in facing a psychic vampire and
think you might be especially vulnerable then you can actually help the psychic
vampire to influence or control you in some way. This type of thinking can be
very dangerous. Belief is the dangerous factor---if you believe that the
psychic vampire can manipulate you magically or infest your dream state then
you will open the door to them just as readily as Mina invited Count Dracula
into her home.
If you simply refuse to
accept that the vampire can harm you and actually believe this to be true then
little or no harm can come to you and the psychic vampire’s efforts will either
dissipate into the ether or, having nowhere else to go, will return to the sender
- the psychic vampire.
There is a Law of
Threefold Return, a basically Wiccan concept that says that whatever the sender
sends out, whether it is good or bad, will return to them, threefold. There are
various formulas for using this but one of the most simple and effective is
offered below.
If you think that you are
the target of malicious magic, whether or not you know who is sending it,
simply say three times:
“Whatever it is you sent to me
I send it back, three times three.
Don’t mess with me.
Don’t mess with me.
Don’t mess with me.”
It helps considerably if
the person reciting this spell has worked himself or herself up to feel angry
about what is being done to them before reciting it. If, at the same time as
the spell is recited, the user holds a mirror up in front of them with the
mirror side facing away from them it can aid the success of the action but this
is not essential. Alternatively, you can instead picture in your mind’s eye,
mirrors all around you, covering you, reflecting outwards from you in all
directions whilst repeating the above charm. It goes without saying that if the
victim knows who the vampire is, then he or she should visualize the face of
the psychic vampire as strongly as possible onto the reflective part of their
protective “mirrors” while reciting the spell.
Finger Interlock Technique
One of the most effective
protection procedures known is the Finger Interlock Technique. This technique
is easy to implement, and its effects are instant. To begin this technique,
simply bring together the tips of your thumb and middle finger of each hand to
form two circles. Then, bring your hands together to form interlocking circles
while envisioning your body enveloped in a bright sphere of impenetrable
energy. Finally, relax your hands and simply affirm, "I am now energized
and fully protected." This simple, inconspicuous technique requires only
seconds and can be used almost any time or place. With practice, you can use
the finger interlock gesture alone as a cue to instantly activate the effects
of the full procedure.
Aside from its effectiveness as a psychic vampire protection procedure, the Finger Interlock Technique has many other useful applications. Overcoming stage fight, improving memory, and promoting positive social interactions are all within its scope. You can use the technique to induce instant relaxation during important examinations, public presentations, and conferences, to list but a few of its many applications. A former student, now a practicing attorney, attributes his admission to law school largely to his use of the technique during the entrance exam. The technique, here ported, effectively reduced his stress level and stimulated his recall of important information. Because the technique is so inconspicuous and easily executed, it has become popular among public figures including actors, politicians, performing artists, and TV personalities. If you observe their hands, you will notice many of them using the simple finger interlock gesture.
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