The Psychic Vampires

Popularity of the vampire - in books, television shows and movies - few truly know what a vampire is. Many assume that if vampires were real they would be similar to the supernatural, blood-drinking creatures portrayed in popular films - indeed Brad Steiger's article, 'Are Vampires Real?' in Paranormal Magazine issue 42, implied that such an assumption would not be so far off the mark.

While I remain unconvinced that vampires of this kind exist outside the realm of fiction, there is another type of vampire in whose existence I am ready to believe - the 'psychic vampire'. So what exactly is a psychic vampire? In her book Vampires in Their Own Words, American author Michelle Belanger, apparently a psychic vampire herself, defines the term as follows: 'An individual who regularly and actively needs to take in human vital energy in order to maintain his or her physical, mental, emotion or spiritual well-being.'

A 2005 survey involving more than 1,000 self-identified vampires living in the United States, Canada, France and England revealed that 17% of vampires drink blood; 31% are exclusively psychic, while the rest are hybrids. Conducted by Suscitatio Enterprises LLC, the research arm of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance, the survey also found that vampires are an average age of 28, and that they suffer from higher rates of asthma, migraines and anaemia than non-vampires.

Belanger, who is one of the most prominent members of the vampire community, noticed as a teenager that she possessed the ability to sense and manipulate other people's energy - much like a psychic healer - and, further, that her general health improved when she consumed some of this energy herself.

Born with a major heart-defect, Belanger was constantly ill throughout her childhood and adolescence; she suffered from migraines, dizziness and was always tired. As she got older, Belanger began to feel an intense hunger - not for food, but for the vital energy of others. To deny this hunger caused problems, she says, leading her to feed unconsciously from other people, many of whom exhibited obvious signs of nausea, dizziness and tiredness.

Belanger came to the conclusion that in order to maintain her health, she had to feed on human psychic energy. This, after all, was the only thing that made her feel well. Nowadays, she says, she only takes energy from willing donors.

Fortunately for us non-vampires, most vampires, including Belanger, follow a code of ethics called the Black Veil, which stipulates that 'feeding should occur between consenting adults'.

Belanger's story is not unusual; her experiences match those of many psychic vampires. One such individual is Kris Steaveson, an author and 'ethical witch', and one of the many vampire voices in Vampires in Their Own Words. At first, she says, her mental and physical health was extremely poor. Then, one night, 'I felt myself reach out and draw energy from something. The energy cured my ills as nothing else had done in all my life.'

Steaveson found that although she could consume energy from the environment, such as from trees, plants, etc., human energy was easier to obtain and much more satisfying and fulfilling.

(Many psychic vampires report the same thing.) She says she finds blood appealing, but not as much as human energy. She prescribes to the occult view that blood is a powerful carrier of vital energy.

For her, feeding 'is not a thrill by any measure'. She likens the sensation 'to inhaling a very deep breath of fresh air'. After absorbing energy, her mind clears up and her vitality improves.

Midnight Childe (not her real name) is a psychic vampire who 'awakened' (became aware of her condition) in her teens. She enjoys 'deep feeding', whereby she uses her hands and mouth to 'breathe in' the energy from the chakra points of her donor. However, since this type of feeding can create 'potent psychic ties between people', she practises it with the utmost care, feeding exclusively from her husband, a willing donor. (Midnight Childe is one of the vampire voices in Belanger's Vampires in Their Own Words.)

Midnight Childe says that feeding produces a sensation of energy flowing into her body and is sometimes accompanied by the taste of blood in her mouth. The exchange of energy, moreover, does not go unnoticed by her husband, who can feel it being drained from his body, as though he were bleeding profusely from a deep cut. It's safest, she says, if her husband sits down while she's feeding from him, since it makes him feel dizzy and weak.

Perhaps to put us non-vampires at ease, most psychic vampires insist that even if they're unable to find a consensual host they won't target an unwilling member of the public. Instead they will resort to 'ambient feeding", which consists of absorbing the energy emanating from large crowds. Vampires state that ambient feeding is comparable to soaking up the warmth from a candle flame, in the sense that this energy no longer belongs to its source, and would go to waste anyway.

Among members of the vampire community, there are many wild and diverse theories as to the cause of the phenomenon. These range from the pseudoscientific to the spiritual. In Steaveson's view, psychic vampirism is a 'condition of the soul' that is either brought about by 'being spiritually inhuman or by severe and lasting damage to the spiritual bodies'. She refers to the condition as a 'spiritual diabetes that has no cure and can only be managed with the equivalent of spiritual insulin'.

Madame Sedona, a psychic vampire in her mid-twenties who resides in Dallas, Texas, attributes the condition to a damaged aura, caused as a result of intense physical and emotional shocks like near-death experiences.

In many modern books on psychic vampirism, most of which belong to the new age category, such as Joe H. Slate's Psychic Vampires, the phenomenon is seen as something to be avoided and overcome, almost as a kind of sickness. Slate describes psychic vampirism as a harmful spiritual, physical and emotional condition that can either take place between individuals, on a group basis, and also internally.

Slate makes the controversial claim of having conducted research on the 'human energy system' for the US Army Missile Research and Development Command. During a typical vampire attack, he states, 'the psychic vampire taps into the energy system of the host victim for the express purpose of extracting energy', resulting 'in an instant but transient surge of energy for the vampire, and a critical loss of energy for the victim'.

According to Slate, proof of psychic vampire attacks are reflected in the energy field, or aura, of the victim, the aura being an outward manifestation of the internal energy system. With the use of controversial Kirlian (or aura) photography, Slate claims to have found clear signs of damage in the auras of vampire victims.

'Psychic vampire' is a greatly abused term: everyone seems to have a different definition of it. It's common for people to remark, for example, that their boss is a psychic vampire, because he or she manipulates and exploits them. In this case, the term is being used metaphorically, and indeed it could be said that we're all guilty of vampirism; that the phenomenon is a fact of life. However, regarding literal psychic vampires - such as the kind described in this article - I do know someone who claims to have been 'attacked' by one.

The victim, named Jim, a carpenter in his early-thirties, told me of a disturbing encounter he'd had with a well-known Eastern spiritual teacher who 'drained my energy to the point where I felt physically ill and damaged inside- After the attack, I slept for ages.'

Jim says that the 'guru', whose name he refuses to disclose, stole his vital energy by 'fixing me with a powerful, malevolent stare'. He came to the conclusion that the teacher had been using his many students as a 'source of sustenance' and had 'put them under a spell'.

The British occultist and author Dion Fortune, who belonged to a mysterious magical order named the Alpha et Omega, wrote about the phenomenon of psychic vampirism long before the term existed. Anton LaVey, another famous (and far less benevolent) occultist, claimed to have coined the term. LaVey, of course, founded the Church of Satan, which happens to be affiliated with another occult organisation called The Temple of the Vampire.

In her fascinating book Psychic Self-Defence (1930), Fortune sheds light on what she calls 'parasitic vampirism', a partly psychological condition that she distinguishes from true vampirism. She explains that the phenomenon most commonly occurs between two people who are morbidly attached to each other, such as a mother and her son, one of whom - in this case the mother - is more dominant than the other.

'There is a leaking of vitality going on,' she explains, 'and the dominant partner is more or less consciously lapping it up, if not actually sucking it out.'

True vampirism, says Fortune, can be explained in terms of the astral and etheric bodies, which together form part of a person's aura. Some souls, she explains, are so attached to the physical realm that they attempt to cheat death by attaching themselves to a living person and feeding off their etheric energy. Thus a vampire is born - a parasitic earth-bound entity that consumes the energy of the living in order to maintain its existence in the etheric realm (while at the same time avoiding the disintegration of its astral body).

According to the occult perspective, then, most vampires are spirits - not physical beings. These entities, says Fortune, are capable of inflicting what look like very severe mosquito bites. In other words, they do in fact drink blood.

In Kyriacos C. Markide's The Magus of Slrovolos, which concerns the teachings of the late Christian mystic and spiritual healer Dr Stylianos Atteshlis, known simply as Daskalos, we are told that earth- bound spirits are responsible for some incidents of vampirism.

Daskalos describes how he was asked to treat a girl who'd lost a lot of blood and vitality as a result of being bitten on multiple occasions by a bat that entered her room at night. Prior to this, the girl's Fiancee had died from tuberculosis, leaving the two of them unable to consummate their relationship. Since the young man had died with his sexual craving for the girl unfulfilled, this 'kept him floating in the etheric', explains Daskalos, and he began harassing the girl.

Daskalos says that the spirit of the young man had been semi- hypnotizing the girl, so that she'd keep her window open at night. Then, having entered inside a bat, he'd fly into her room and attack her, draining blood and etheric from her body.

Examining the girl, Daskalos found bite marks on her neck that had been caused by a bat. He says that he ended up capturing and killing the bat, and that he also helped the man's spirit "disentangle himself from the etheric worlds so that he could go higher." Afterwards, the disturbances ceased. Amazingly, Daskalos's perspective on psychic vampirism is almost identical to Fortune's.

Returning to the topic of physical psychic vampires, it's interesting to note that some of them practice a form of feeding that takes place during sleep. Belanger calls this phenomenon 'dreamwalking', and she says it lies somewhere between lucid dreaming and astral projection. Before Belanger learnt how to harness this ability, she occasionally found herself involuntarily reaching out to people she knew in dreams and feeding upon their energy from a distance.

What Belanger is referring to sounds a lot like sleep paralysis (SP), a phenomenon that occurs when, either prior or subsequent to REM sleep, the mind is awake and the body is asleep and paralyzed. During SP, it appears as though one's non-physical body - the astral body - is detached from, or out of phase with, one's physical body, facilitating contact and communication with entities that inhabit the 'spirit realm', including people in an out-of-body (OBE) state.

Featured in an article on psychic vampirism, published in Bizarre Magazine, is an interview with a 19-year-old cookery student from New York State named Gabrielle, who claims to donate energy to a psychic vampire friend of hers, named Jackie. Jackie, who's 15, lives 3,000 miles away in California. The two of them met online. The donations occur several times a week and usually at night, while Gabrielle is lying down and Jackie is in an OBE state. Gabrielle says that she donates energy to Jackie out of the goodness of her heart, and that the two of them share an intimate, though not sexual, bond.

She explains how the process occurs: 'Her Qackie's] consciousness goes into her subtle body... and it travels outside the bounds of her physical L body. She can travel

to my body and draw energy from me. When she comes to me, I can often feel a sensation like a hand reaching inside me, pulling at my spine and heart - a very physical yanking. After donating, my back often gets cold.'

The evidence seems to suggest that psychic vampires fall under two main categories. One is a parasitic earth-bound spirit; the other is a person who, in some cases, possesses the ability to feed on others by means of astral projection. The former is discarnate; the latter is incarnate.

In Psychic Self-Defence, Fortunes offers a compelling explanation for the cause of psychic vampirism in people. A vanipiric earth-bound soul can attach itself permanently to a person, she says, turning them into a 'psychic vacuum'. This person, being constantly depleted of vital energy, is forced to draw energy from those around them, eventually becoming a vampire themselves. Like a virus, vampirism is contagious. Could it be, then, that psychic vampires are unconscious hosts for parasitic earth-bound entities?

Ft would appear that energy vampirism is alive and flourishing in the world today, which raises the question: Should the practice be frowned upon? In many Eastern spiritual traditions great importance is placed on conserving one's vital energy and making proper use of it. Life energy is seen as a sacred thing - not something to be abused, or, for that matter, stolen.

In my book Dark Intrusions (2009), I came to the conclusion that only entities of a very inferior advancement would want to feed on the etheric energy. contained in blood - as, for example, when an animal is slaughtered and offered as a sacrifice to some fearsome deity. From a spiritual perspective, this energy is a source of food, as are powerful emotions like fear and pain. If it's true that we are what we eat, perhaps we should watch our diet - psychic vampires in particular.

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