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The Amador Vampyre

Published by The Amador Vampyre on the 31st of January 2016

The witches' guide to psychic vampires

Let’s take a few steps back. I was trained in the Anderson Feri Tradition of Witchcraft. Before I was formally trained, I would say that I mainly had an intuitive pull towards energy work. As a child, I had some clairvoyant, clairaudient and precognitive experiences. If I had to declare what drove me to study the crafts of magick and the Goddess, I would have to say that it was my instinctive knowledge that the unseen was real….magick is alive and the Goddess is afoot.

In the basic sense, Witchcraft is a healing path. Along with my studies of the elements and ritual ceremony, I began to explore the various healing modalities. Crystal layouts, Reiki, Hands-On Healing, Affirmations, Meditation, Elemental Balancing, Pranic Healing…..I wanted to become proficient in as many techniques and methods as I possibly could. I’ve worked in coven settings, open energy clinics, distant healing, one-on-one private sessions. As any student of metaphysics knows through experience, Magick, Energy Work and Healing are not always exact sciences. It’s not as if you spend 20 hours total of directing rose-gold light through the crown chakra, out the palm chakras….that after the proper progression of steps, total and complete healing is guaranteed to occur.

Healing is more like a combination of Art and Lottery. it’s more that you do what you can, to the best of your abilities–you tilt the scale to odds that are more in your favor. You address as many factors as you possibly can….but just as it is addressed in the teachings of many branches of Witchcraft….we always make room for The Mysteries of Life, that which is hidden and unknown. Keeping that in mind, I always did my best as a healer. With whichever methods I used, I would complement my techniques by using bits and parts of other systems to help my clients along in their pathway of healing.

As a healer, I had just as good a track record as my local colleagues. So, I knew that I at least had enough proper understanding and correct technique. I was comfortable channeling universal energies and facilitating personal healing in others. What I couldn’t figure out is why I wasn’t healing myself. I applied the same exact methods in relieving blockages of energetic or psychological nature to myself, as I had successfully done with all of my clients.

When I asked for healing work from others, that seemed to give me greater amounts of relief, than when I just worked on myself. My health would improve, if only temporarily. My mental and emotional states seemed so much better. The only problem was that I seemed to want more energy sessions than other people did, sometimes more often than were commonly recommended within the various healing modalities. I went along, my physical health, my emotional health fluctuating with the amount of my personal work and healing sessions. I never quite understood why I wasn’t healing like all the rest of my clients were, when I was putting in much more effort and time into my personal sessions. I had been a part of the Pagan Community for quite some time, offline and online. It was not until I became part of particular metaphysical groups in which Witches shared common space with Psychic Vampires, Sanguines and Hybrid Vampires that I began to become familiar with the Greater Vampire Community.

I had put so much time into energetically healing myself. I had put so much time into having others work on me, energetically. My personal energy levels were so low, for most of my life. It wasn’t until I was receiving energy from others that I felt really full. Others and myself had put plenty of hours of healing time into my system….could it be possible that maybe my energy bodies weren’t made to follow the same rules, as everyone else?

I had already been exposed to so many varying ideas, concepts and theories in the metaphysical world. While, in theory, each one of us has access to ALL of the possibilities within human and spiritual nature….some of us expressed some factors of Life much differently than others, sometimes much more dramatically. There are those of us who express Clairvoyance much more strongly than others. Some of us are uncannily accurate Precognitives. Some of us are naturally powerful Energy Channelers. And then there are the more unusual expressions of Psychic Energy–what about those people who are natural Energy Generators? These are those folk who put out so much vital, psychic or magickal energy that it just seems to shoot out in all directions. This is a very real occurrence in the magickal world. As Magicians, Sensitives and Energy Workers, we have most likely come across these Energy Generators in our practices and within daily life.

Energy Generators, when left to their own devices, simply seem like high-energy, nervous creatures. For the most part, the extra energy seems like more of a detriment than anything helpful or useful. With proper direction, Energy Generators can be taught to channel this excess vitality into constructive physical activity, channeling the energy directly into magickal endeavors or to pass this energy along into healing and revitalizing others. Left without any direction or instruction, Energy Generators can become nervous or agitated with so much excess lifeforce. Just like every other creation in the Goddess’ manifest universe, Energy Generators can be a useful, contributing member of the world with the correct form of Teaching and Guidance.

Just as there might be a plan and a place for those of us beings that generate too much energy for our systems, there might be a divine purpose for those of us who seem to lack enough energy for our systems….and generally run at a deficit. There are those of us who seem to be the natural counterpart to the Energy Generator. I have heard of us being referred to as Energy Feeders, the opposite of generators. What could be the Goddess’ Plan in creating us? Because of my background in magick, metaphysics and manifestation….my need to observe and experiment, that I’ve learned in my years as a Witch, I have quite a few guesses about the Spiritual Purpose of the Energy Feeder (also known as the Psychic Vampire). Sometimes, I think of us as the walking, breathing, living equivalent to Burning Sage. With conscious intention, we can clean and filter energy within any space. With our natural inclination to take energy in, to see what is usable….we filter energy in, consume what is consumable, and create a vacuum to allow Nature to fill the space with fresh energy, again. Much like sage, lavender or golden sandalwood.

With proper training, Energy Feeders move fresh energy in through their intention. In the Vampire Community, we also discuss how we are natural healers–when confronted with negative energy, congested energy, blockages within someone’s chakras, energy bodies or personal system, in any way….we set up our energy filters and allow our natural drawing tendencies to pull the offending energies out of our healing-client. Most of us naturally draw on energies when we are young, because that is our nature. By the time that we are intellectually attracted to consciously study Witchcraft and Metaphysics, we probably have an easy grasp of moving energy because we have been doing it instinctively for so long. More than likely, we find ourselves in the energy worker and magickal fields, because we are so used to moving energy. It seems like the natural place to be. Psychic Vampires are only missing that bit of training to become fully-blossomed contributing members of the Metaphysical Community.