Psychic Vampirism

​This week I would like to talk about vampires. Not the highly romanticized ones we see in books, movies, and TV shows, but the ones people don’t like to talk about. The ones that feed off people’s energy. Now, you may have read about the vampire as an archetype, and this is a different topic all together that I could go on about at length, but also not what we are going to cover in this post. While the archetype shares similarities to psychic vampires, it is a concept of self; of personality; not the real thing. However, due to the archetype description, and how vampires have been portrayed through the ages, there is a very negative stigma associated with psychic vampires as a whole. I hope to shed some light onto this (sometimes) taboo subject, and even maybe change a few minds.
I will start by saying that I am not a psychic vampire, but it is a topic I have read extensively about (I have more than one shelf in my library dedicated to the topic) and I have known a few personally as well. This is a topic I have long been interested in. There are many theories about why they exist, but we may never know for sure. Are they born that way? Were they born through trauma? Once a soul is a psychic vampire in one life will they continue on that way through other incarnations? It is said they feed on other’s energy because they are not connected to the universal well (as most are) and therefore need to feed on those that are to survive. Does this mean they were disconnected somehow? Were they ever connected? Can they be reconnected? Considering their palpable connection to energy, what could they teach others about gathering, using, and manipulating energy? Questions I would love to find answers to for sure.
There are many books on the topic, many of which are committed to teaching the reader how to identify and/or protect oneself from them. They are portrayed as evil manipulative creatures that will drain you of your energy for their personal benefit. An inaccurate and restricted point of view. Like any other person on the planet there are those that may fit into this picture, but it most certainly does not represent their nature as whole. There are actually entire groups of them out there that gather together like covens do, some practice magic, they generally have rules and an acceptable code of conduct, just like any coven. There are some out there that are unaware of what they are so they do not/cannot control what they are doing. It may seem hard to believe that they would not know, but it can happen to anyone with any gift. Knowledge is power.
There are two main kinds of psychic vampires, which I will describe in the following paragraphs.
The first kind feeds on energy out of need. They are separated into those that feed strictly on energy, whether that is directly from a willing person or the ambient energy that is the natural output of people going about their daily lives. This is an especially effective method of feeding where large crowds gather, like large public spaces, or at events like concerts, clubs, and sporting events. As well as those that feed on blood. Now, this may seem a little “out there” for some, but there are those that feel the need to do so. Blood contains our life force/energy, and that is what they need. What needs to be understood is that this is not like it is in the movies. They do not drain people of their blood, or even drink it by the glassful. All that is really needed is a few drops. Often a small lancet like diabetics use to test their blood sugar is used on a willing donor to draw the blood. One thing that I would like to emphasize here is that regardless of how they gather the needed energy, their “donors” are (generally) willing and have given permission. Unless they are feeding on ambient energy, which takes from the energy already being put out there. In this case, most would never even notice, and expelling that energy whether they are aware they are or not. If you would like to read more about these kinds of psychic vampires I highly recommend The Psychic Vampire Codex and Vampires in Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices by Michelle Belanger. Though pretty much any book by her is a good read.
The other kind of psychic vampire does not feed out of need, but rather as spiritual practice. Again, there is generally a code of conduct, and other practices similar to how a coven works. This is a spiritual practice like any other, based in a search for immortality, however you may define that. This is a topic that is best learned about by reading Father Sebastiaan’s book Sanguinomicon.  It is too lengthy a topic to cover properly in this blog post. I simply wanted to make my readers aware.
Regardless of how or why they feed, they are not the “monsters” people (and various media) have made them out to be. One of they best explanations about their purpose in our world was covered in Michelle Belanger’s book The Psychic Vampire Codex. She explained how they help keep the balance, energetically speaking. If you think of the energy flow as a triangle you have the regular people at the top that both give and take. Energy healer’s and other energy workers would be a bottom corner (say the bottom left). They produce/channel an abundance of energy and give to both regular people and psychic vampires. That leaves psychic vampires in the other corner (say bottom right) as those that can only take (as they are not connected to the universal well and therefore have none to give). Thus creating an energetic balance.
Whatever you choose to believe about psychic vampires, I hope that I have at least made you curious about them, and hopefully less afraid (if you were). There are plenty of books about there about psychic protection and shielding if you don’t want to fall victim to one of the few that may not follow any particular code of conduct, but I hope you now know they are not all like that.
So how do you feel about psychic vampires? Have you ever met one? Are you friends with one? Would you be?