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Can another person really drain your energy? It is a favorite topic in occult circles, and Lyam Christopher begins by letting the question stay wonderfully strange. When a person works with daily banishing rituals, he says, the hidden parts of the self begin to appear mirrored in the world around them. The very flaws we hide in ourselves seem to rise up wearing other faces, and that is where the feeling of psychic attack can begin.
This is the fascinating turn in the lesson. The hungry, exhausting person we meet may be real, but the pull we feel from them is often our own unfinished feeling made visible. We see our neediness, our fear of giving energy, and our hidden resentment reflected in someone else. It is not that the vampire is only a fantasy; it is that we and the vampire share the same deep human wiring. Recognizing that shared shape is the beginning of loosening its grip.
Then the teaching becomes tender and practical. Instead of armoring up against attacks, he invites us to look at what in us is asking for protection. Shadow work, patience, and honest journaling turn the feared energy-stealer from a monster into a mirror. In that reflection we can recover our own energy, not by fighting the other person, but by owning the part of ourselves that felt so drained in the first place.
Full Video Transcript
This week we are talking about psychic vampires. Fun topic. Now that Halloween is over, we can get
back to Halloween, right? So the topic of psychic vampires comes a lot, comes up a lot in occult
circles, as does the topic of psychic attack. This has always puzzled me to some degree.
But eventually I began to notice that it’s kind of an outgrowth of doing regular banishing
work uh so such that the various complexes you have going on within you be begin to manifest
around you and the way this can come about is that you begin to see your own traits mirrored
in the environment around you okay now it doesn’t mean those traits are not out there they most
certainly are when you see them so the traits that you have that other people have you begin to
to notice your own, let’s say, flaws or hang-ups as they arise in the people around you, because
the various hang-ups we have are pretty much shared. We’re all pretty much the same species.
There is a collective unconscious, apparently. So the tendency arises then that we enter this
sort of headspace where we begin to see psychic vampires or people out to get us all around us.
is a sort of paranoia that can come come about from doing uh this sort of intensive daily
banishing work that comes along with the golden dawn curriculum in the outer order okay uh it’s
one of the side effects of doing the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram and the middle
pillar work and also the banishing ritual of the hexagram so there’s a tendency to see vampires as
out there. And we might literally believe that people are capable of leeching our energy,
sort of like a literal vampire would leech your blood. And these people tend to be sort of
black holes of need. It might be somebody in your family who has recently become an invalid,
or they have a terminal illness, and now you’re taking care of them until they die.
and they seem to be draining you of energy it’s as though as they slip into oblivion they’re kind
of sort of sucking the energy out of you and taking a bit of a piece of you along with them
something like that right uh then we have the these people there are there are also people
who are not invalids uh but they are sort of emotionally crippled the narcissists sociopaths
and psychopaths. These are people who suffer from antisocial personality disorders. These three
being the main ones, narcissist, sociopath, and psychopath. These people essentially suffer from
alexithymia, which is a lack of a full spectrum of emotion, or a lack of a full spectrum of the
awareness of emotion, which is really interesting too, because what happens, they will actually
latch on to people around them who do have a full spectrum of emotion but who have the same
or similar hang-ups to that to what they do okay so they might become dependent upon people around
them who are more sensitive than they are and it’s almost as though they are preying upon them
feeding off of their emotional energy or something like that right this is not exactly what’s
happening. The best way to look at this is that if you have two people, each person is a biological
entity, and each one is arising in this physical plane as a biological entity. And as such, they
pretty much are drawing from some kind of wellspring of upwelling life animating principle,
right they are both basically doing that and so as they both co-arise together they really don’t
have much to do with each other’s energy unless they would literally latch on to the other person
and literally suck their blood or eat their flesh or something like that okay so there’s really not
very much going on between the two people so it’s it’s not really possible for somebody to drain
your energy but it most certainly is possible for it to feel like they’re doing that okay so
somebody who has one of these disorders let’s say they’re desperate because they’re an invalid or
they are emotionally crippled like a narcissist or a psychopath these people will tend to cling
to what they think is real and they tend to be very literal in their very surface world very
what you see is what you get. Now this should be a heads up because remember that somebody who
thinks in terms of vampirism might take that literally and then think that, oh, there are
people out there who can actually drain my energy. Got to watch out for them, right? That’s literalistic
thinking. And that sort of literalistic thinking is the same kind of thinking that these alleged
psychic vampires engage in. The kind of thinking that would see a world full of enemy psychic
vampires, it’s the same kind of thinking that these alleged psychic vampires engage in, okay?
So very often when people say, I’m being psychically attacked, or I’m in a relationship
with an energy vampire, well, that complaint itself is the kind of complaint that an alleged
psychic vampire would make takes one to know one okay just as um if somebody complains about
theft all the time you might want to watch your wallet around that person because what they
expect to see out of the world is what they have going on with themselves okay i’m not saying that
holds 100 true but once again the things that people complain about are very often the things
are going on with them okay similarly if you if you’re around somebody who complains about
pedophiles all the time watch your children around them okay and if you have been complaining about
pedophiles a lot you might want to stop because people um a lot of people know what projection is
okay and so and then of course deal with whatever is whatever it is that’s causing you to complain
about those things. Okay. So if you complain about theft a lot, examine your own propensity
to steal, maybe not literally in the terms of money from somebody’s wallet, but in other ways,
time, energy, food, something, I don’t know, or going to Starbucks and taking a whole handful
of sweet and low and putting it in your purse. There are a couple of movies to look at here.
The movie Titanic is a story about how to get out from under the control of energy vampires.
The main one in the film being Rose’s mother.
So Rose, big spoiler alert, she does get away from her.
Oops, ruined the film, right?
So Rose does eventually get out from under the control of her energy vampire mother.
But of course, her mother really isn’t literally a vampire.
vampire. But if the way that her mother treats her keeps happening, it’s going to seem as
if Rose’s energy is being snuffed out or drained away. And what do these alleged energy vampires
do? They use a lot of blame, like a classic narcissist. One of the telltale signs of a
narcissist is that nothing is ever their fault. It’s always somebody else’s fault. This has
do with alexithymia in other words that lack of awareness or lack of a full range of awareness
of emotion let’s say um if you’re if you don’t have a full range of awareness of emotion
then nothing’s ever your every your fault it’s always like somebody else’s problem like because
that’s personal self-awareness is lacking and um apparently these these conditions are
largely uncurable yeah you cannot cure a narcissist supposedly you can give them
training and therapy to help them adjust better but they’re probably going to suffer from this
sort of alexithymia condition for the rest of their lives most likely i hate to say never though
you know and these kinds of people these uh narcissists or psychopaths or people who who
lack a full awareness of all of their emotions they will tend to gaslight you uh it’s not it’s
not they who are insane it’s you who are insane and so if you are uh protesting because of the
way they’re treating you there’s something wrong with you are you feeling okay you you know you
you didn’t used to complain so much before are you are you worried about something is there
something from your childhood like bothering you like um you know a lot of these things you’re
talking about they’re not even happening right so they’ll make it feel they’ll make you feel like
there’s something wrong with you and gaslighting is a very effective um uh technique that they
tend to use if you’re vulnerable to it uh they use guilt of course especially if they’re mothers
right? They play upon insecurities, okay? Or they have rigid rules. They have very specific
expectations about how you should behave, okay? The main thing that’s going on with them is a
supreme lack of faith or lack of trust in who you are as a person. You have to be a certain way
around them. And if you’re not that way, they will use manipulation, guilt. They’ll blame you for
things they’ll accuse you of having something wrong with you okay make you feel bad for trying
to be you it’s another one here this is from the dead poet society also a movie about how to get
out from under the control of a psychic vampire and this is a overly controlling father who
basically has very definite plans for how the son is going to grow up okay now how is this
vampirism this doesn’t seem like they’re draining energy at all okay but when to live with one of
these people you have to live up to their expectations apparently because they can play
upon your insecurities and then sort of make you behave a certain way um as you do that as you put
on a good face for them that takes a lot of energy so you have to repress who you really are okay
which stifles your energy flow and you have to exert energy becoming something that you
might not be that you’re not okay so that’s you’re exerting energy to become something that you’re
not and you’re stifling who you really are you’re throttling your own energy so that gives the
impression that your energy energy is being drained away because you start to get sick and
your vitality goes down and it’s like this person is preying upon you when in fact what they’re
doing is they’re triggering you to shut down your energy and to exert what little energy you have
left towards becoming something that you don’t even want to be yeah so that’s the energy vampirism
so it’s not literally vampirism it just feels that way now these people that do these things
it might be better to back up for a second okay and not take this all so literally even in terms
of who they are as like the psychopath or the narcissist or the invalid. Okay. The true energy
vampires are within your own psyche. Okay. And within theirs. Okay. They have complexes going
on within them and you have complexes going on within you. And those complexes, we’ll talk about
what those are in a second, but those complexes are using up your energy in order to keep things
a certain way these are the true energy vampires because they’re draining your energy away creating
a fake world around you okay and these are the psychological complexes okay that’s a word i
assume invented by carl jung or freud i’m not sure which ones uh but a to have a complex is pretty
much to have a sort of program that’s embedded in you that’s now up and running and maintaining
itself and using up energy to do that sort of like it’s generating bitcoin and it can’t stop
and it’s draining all these resources to generate more and more bitcoin because it must have more
bitcoin because bitcoin is really important right because we have to get wealthy without doing any
work and well okay that’s a computer example um so let’s go into some of these psychological
complexes what are they and particularly which psychological complexes are the easiest to
trigger okay let’s say if you’re a narcissist and you want to pretty much lord over somebody and
sort of derive satisfaction from controlling them which complexes can you prey upon in order to do
that okay for instance there are many complexes like there’s the Oedipus complex that’s not one
that’s going to make you particularly vulnerable to a psychic vampire okay but there are many
complexes that will and most of the complexes will make you vulnerable to a psychic vampire
and before we get into that psychological complexes the way they’re usually defined
is something that happened to you as a kid and it’s now scarred you for life and it’s created
this permanent uh program within you that’s now trying to compensate and make sure everything’s
okay because of what happened to you and it’s continuously trying to make everything okay
so it’s you know draining your energy trying to do that um mainly because you were hurt a while ago
okay um yes that happens of course it’s trauma right um but these um psychological complexes
has run much deeper than that okay the entire human race is traumatized and has psychological
complexes embedded within it that are um from before we were born these various phobias that
we have inherited the fears that we have inherited are all the result of pretty much psychological
complexes as well if we’re looking at it very deeply okay and in the in the uh the eastern
traditions these are called samskaras okay and the perpetuation of the programming that these
samskaras have produced the programming that’s up and running now and draining energy as we
for instance if we have a fear of heights and we exert a lot of energy to avoid ever having to
end up in a situation where we’re in a where we’re looking down at a very low landscape
um exerting all that energy so uh the samskara is the thing that originally happened to us the
original imprint um i don’t know witnessing somebody falling to their death something like
that right and then the vasana is the perpetuation of that um sort of running away from that fear
endlessly running away from that fear and that which perpetuates that fear okay anyway um and
that’s how psychological complexes are made uh it’s just that the samskaras and the vasanas are
are very deep and they exist um all the way back to when we were single-celled organisms and there
might even be a cosmic dimension to them all the way back to the big bang or whatever that was the
big almost bang and in the western magical tradition we make it simple we call these
things demons now these things are very much alive they’re up and running there’s subroutines that
are up and running they have and they even will arise and take on various forms and things like
that okay um and these demons are shared between us okay now that’s the interesting thing because
when we get into code in codependent relationships people with similar demons then gravitate
together and their demons should pretty much are constantly feeding off of each other not feeding
off each other literally but triggering each other back and forth back and forth uh this person is
trying to feel better and then does their in order to do that they do something to this person which
which makes them feel inferior.
So this person tries to feel better
by doing something to this person,
which makes them feel superior.
But then of course the person they just victimized
feels inferior and they do back and forth,
back and forth, right?
Interesting perpetuation going on there.
And there are people who manipulate you almost consciously.
I wouldn’t want to say it’s entirely conscious though.
And these are the narcissists and the sociopaths
and the people with alexithymia pretty much
will sort of latch onto you
and then begin making themselves feel superior to you
by playing upon your insecurities
so they can look superior to you
and feel better about themselves.
And then you have to go through all this energy
to try to prove them wrong
and then back and forth, back and forth.
And the way you can look at this then is that
within each of us, we have various vasanas
or we have these psychological complexes
that are up and running.
And we can even say that these various psychological
complexes will actually organize themselves
into this sort of tree of life pattern.
Does it really organize itself in your aura this way?
No, no, but it’s very helpful to map it out this way,
to see where your psychological complexes might be sitting.
Not only to use this diagram,
but to use various other types of diagrams
to figure out like which parts of the body various types of shame are attached or tend to hover
around tend to manifest there okay it’s very helpful to be able to do that because you can
even work with that body part to try to get at that psychological complex to sort of uproot it
or to sort of explore it to see how what is this thing what’s it afraid of what does it want oh
what does it really need and how will it feel when it gets what it needs okay so here are some of the
various complexes that we have the various samskaras or vasanas that we have these can be
used against you more or less okay and so if a psychic vampire latches on to you in a sort of
codependent relationship these are probably most probably most of the complexes that they
are able to trigger in you it’s almost like they can nudge you into the shadow of one of these
complexes and the complex then pretty much um takes you over and makes you compulsively do
things okay so um one of those complexes the rejection complex fear of rejection okay and so
you can end up in a relationship where a person will eventually start to reject you to get you to
grovel on the floor in front of them and beg them to come back and then they can feel better about
themselves because it’s like oh i’m awesome because he’s trying to come back and right um so um and
then things will get better again and of course then they’ll use the trick on you again to try
to feel better about themselves and then you will try to feel better about yourself by getting back
together with them and not being rejected right okay same thing with abandonment abandonment’s
more general because um fear of being abandoned or fear of being ostracized by your community
okay like for some for example people who have an anxiety about speaking in public doing public
speaking that’s mostly a fear of um banishment oh if if this whole group of people doesn’t approve
of me then i’ll be banished and uh and about a you know a million years ago being banished from a
tribe was virtually a death sentence and so we have this natural fear of being rejected by a
group okay there’s other types of abandonment too though like just being left behind as a child
uh the whole tribe or the whole family runs up ahead and you’re like you’re lost you are
I can’t find them oh my god now I’m gonna die right and so these kinds of fears of abandonment
or being left behind can be played upon by a psychic vampire okay and then the energy that you
exert trying to make yourself feel better is that’s what ends up draining you pretty much
panel of judges so a lot of us walk around through life as though we’re constantly being
judged by our community yeah and that drains a heck of a lot of energy because we’re probably
even at some level imagining who these people are yeah mom and dad figures maybe there’s this sort
of i don’t know federal judge type figure probably i don’t know a shaman type figure in there and
they’re all looking down disapprovingly at the things that you’ve just done and it takes a lot
of energy to generate these figures right to um and then to perform you know in a way before them
that you think will please them. Yeah, that’s a major drain on psychic energy, on your own
psychic energy. Incidentally, when I say psychic, I mean psychological energy, your energy of your
psyche, okay? We should rescue the word psychic from the psychics, okay? The realist. People
exert a lot of energy resisting a magical universe. I don’t know if I want to go too
deeply into that in this video but the effort to cling to a real world and then to call yourself a
realist uh that takes a lot of energy it’s almost like treading water trying to stay on the surface
of everything and not letting yourself sink down to the depths okay and um yeah one of the best
ways to i’m not going to go into that so yeah um so you could be accused of not being realistic
enough and then there’s something wrong with you and somebody’s gaslighting you then especially if
you are doing magical things right you’re you’re working with crystals don’t you know that’s all
ridiculous i think you should go get some therapy because working with crystals like there’s you
know there’s crystals don’t have any magical power right magic doesn’t exist you know that
harry potter stuff’s not real right that’s somebody gaslighting you pretty much uh inferiority
complexes they go right hand in hand in hand with uh superiority complex okay so um they’re both
really the same okay it’s kind of like the um the little man syndrome like um or the napoleon
complex when somebody is really when a man is really short he might become um especially
he’ll exert a lot of energy to be really tough really strong really disciplined
really hard-assed just try to um pretty much uh as though to compensate for the fact that he’s so
short or so little or so i don’t know inferior uh so if we have an inferiority complex somebody
could try to trigger that and then we have to exert a lot of energy to try to feel better about
ourselves again and as i say these things you begin to see what a waste what a waste of energy
like somebody has made you feel inferior so now you need to prove yourself right
why bother so the interesting thing also is that as i present these things the cure for
psychic vampirism is becomes increasingly obvious brush these comments off like you cannot be hurt
by somebody being somebody’s trying trying to trigger one of your complexes the point would
be to then to become aware enough of when that’s happening and of course the victim complex this
is something that exists among a lot of liberals it exists among all of us really but especially
liberals or the woke generation now to be walk around in a perpetual state of outrage because
of what’s been done to you and your race or your gender or whoever you you identify as
and then to be offended and outraged and then exert a lot of energy to go after the people who
and make them feel bad for what they’ve done oh notice how you have become the psychic vampire
now how interesting okay um it doesn’t mean that um to be moral outright morally outraged is wrong
but to operate in this mode where you’re constantly perpetually ready to be offended
is a huge drain on energy okay um i imagine somebody’s going to blame me for blaming victims
right? All I’m pointing out is that when you become offended, it’s a choice. You don’t have
to basically adopt an offended posture. I did a video on affrontedness. I think the video is
called A Single Word That Can Help Enlighten You Faster. The whole thing about affrontedness,
to walk around affronted all the time, that takes a lot of energy, okay? And that affrontedness
itself is a demon, a vampire demon that is sucking at your energy, it would be best to
simply dissolve it and not have it flare to life so automatically. Loss aversion. A lot of
conservatives suffer from that, which is also metathesiophobia, fear of change. That’s all
that means, fear of change, right? So conservatives are known for holding on to past patterns and not
wanting to give them up okay and conservatives are kind of funny too because it used to be that
conservatives were very much into like country music and uh and older older like classical music
styles and and um the values that we used to have in the 50s but now the conservatives are into rap
music and they’re into and so in other words they’re just holding on to older patterns and
they’re not willing to let go of those older patterns yet that’s the essence of conservatism
conservatism conservatism um uh thanatophobia fear of death is very much the same thing
for anybody who does tarot cards usually the death card signifies change okay so anybody who
constantly says oh the world’s all going to hell it’s not the way it used to be everything
everything’s doomed civilization is going to be destroyed we need to we need we need to have a
total reset or something like that this is fear of change manifesting as a fear of death as though
if things if things change it means i’m dying so this this resistance to change drains a lot of
energy and what is it’s very ironic too because to resist death is to resist change and what is life
but constant change so if you want to feel alive roll with the changes accept the changes
don’t resist because you’re going to stifle your own life force doing that that’s a tough one yeah
it’s probably at the root of ego too i would think you know so the ego complex at the bottom is
essentially than out of than out of phobia fear of death and the promethean complex and the faustian
complex i love these uh those are um the faustian complex is uh pretty much uh wanting to achieve
knowledge and power at a great cost are you willing to pay the price for enlightenment
are you willing to pay the price for magical power you have to surrender your soul to the
devil right or something like that prometheus very much the same like he was willing to pay
at the ultimate price so that humans could have fire and knowledge and things like that
these are very much like the savior complexes uh so um and probably one of the easiest targets for
a psychic vampire like a person who seems to be a psychic vampire um one of the easiest complexes
they’re on the lookout for is the savior complex somebody who is ready to swoop in and save them
over and over again. Yes, my mother was becoming that for a while. She became an invalid for a
while and was becoming increasingly reliant on me to take care of her. And at one point,
I sort of snapped out of it. I was feeling more and more guilty about never doing anything right.
She had very strict guidelines for how I should mow the lawn and how I should clip the hedges
and exactly what groceries to buy. And if I bought the wrong ones, she made me feel really
guilty about it um or tried to anyway uh and at one point i said this is getting out of hand
so i called her and said i’m not coming back not going you need to take care of yourself i know you
can take care of yourself and at that point she even threatened to kill herself i said you cannot
hold yourself hostage in order to rope me in like this i’m not going to let you do that heavy duty
i know she did not kill herself she got better she started taking care of herself the ultimate
of the psychological complexes or the samskara whatever that or vasana um is the sense of
unsatisfactoriness or the buddhist the buddhist term dukkha dukkha that sense of suffering so
whatever’s happening it’s not satisfying so nope still not still not happy so there as you go
through the day something nothing ever seems right i’m not quite there yet i’m not there yet or
when i do get what i want it’s not exactly the way i want it and occasionally i get something
the way i want it but then of course it doesn’t last and then it’s not satisfying anymore and
now i don’t know what to do and now now i’m back to the unsatisfactoriness again this endless round
of unsatisfactoriness okay that is what a psychic vampire can latch on to okay it is the mother of
all psychic vampires this sense of unsatisfactoriness that drives you to try to feel better
try it makes you try to feel better all the time and so you’re trying trying trying trying to feel
better exerting all this energy to try and feel better and of course that trying itself is ruining
everything and making you not feel better so it’s an onward struggle and it’s draining your energy
draining your life force to exert all this energy to make things better that’s the real psychic
vampire so it’s it might be more frightening to think of the psychic vampire as something that
exists inside you not that person over there who you could accuse of draining your energy before
see and now i’m not letting you get away with that anymore you can’t blame them for draining
your energy. It’s they are simply triggering a complex in you that is draining the energy. So
the monster is actually inside you. And of course, it’s inside them too. That’s what attracted them
to you. You both are psychic vampires. Yes, the call is coming from inside the house. And of course,
a lot of what is happening is the urge to conform to some kind of societal expectation,
tribal expectation family expectation or somebody holding you to some kind of rigid code of ethics
okay and then the shame that they can make you feel or try to make you feel when they can point
out that you’re not living up to whatever standards they are referring to they’re gonna
if they’re clever about it in a sort of unconscious way they’re clever about it
they can they see what kind of standards of perfection you have for yourself and then they
can needle you for not living up to your own standards of perfection or those the the bogus
standards standards of perfection that have been programmed into you they can be they’ll be aware
of those and they can try to show trigger how trigger your guilt about not living up to those
things okay um yeah one of the biggest complexes we have is um i’m not enough i’m not good enough
i’m not smart enough i’m not strong enough i’m yeah on and on and on right and uh a psychic
vampire will latch on to that one and they will dangle the idea of you becoming good enough when
you’re with them as long as you make them feel great about themselves but when when they start
to get a need to feel better about themselves they’re going to needle you saying you’re not
good enough the only way you can get good enough is by groveling before me and doing as i say or
something like that so the natural tendency when we’re faced with psychic vampires or even our own
like internal demons is to create boundaries okay now in psychology that’s pretty cool yeah because
we can create boundaries uh so let’s say if you have an invalid um person in your family who
requires care and they’re they tend there’s everybody’s maybe trying to guilt you into
being the one who takes care of that person maybe because they can sense that you have a savior
complex which can be triggered and you can then be manipulated into becoming the caretaker okay
and then you can put your own life on hold and while you’re dealing with this and helping this
person okay um that often stems from um the belief that you don’t really amount to anything unless
you’re helping others okay and so that belief can be played upon by a psychic vampire okay and of
course one of the boundaries that you would then erect against something like that is to say no
i’m not going to help you today you’re going to have to get that yourself or you’re going to have
to find a way i have to take care of myself too this is a spirit of authenticity that takes over
to realize that oh i have needs too and if i’m not taking care of somebody i’m still worth something
i have my support i i’m still okay uh rather than oh if i’m not helping somebody or taking
care of them i don’t amount to anything right um you can just you can eventually reprogram that
belief into no i’m worth something no matter what i’m doing okay or i’m basically just
awesomely okay, no matter what’s happening. Okay. I don’t have to be a good person to be a good
person. I can be a good person just by being not by doing as somebody tells me to do big difference
there. And the interesting thing is that when we think of boundaries, we think, well, I have to do
banishing rituals and create this like a bubble of energy around myself or this magic circle of
protection against evil uh well that kind of happens yes because when you do the lesser
banishing ritual the pentagram it will eventually protect you from psychic vampires okay but what
actually happens at first is that it it pushes the these complexes these various complexes
these demons out into the periphery of the imaginary periphery right so that you can then
become more aware of them objectively they could they sort of get separated out from you so
in some sense this actually works so in some sense you can see them more clearly okay so
everything kind of gets worse before it gets better when you’re when you’re erect erecting
these boundaries okay all right so um so somebody who’s been doing vanishing work for many many
years they have strong boundaries that are very healthy okay but it doesn’t it doesn’t really come
across as a boundary anymore so if you insult them it’s not going to bounce off some kind of barrier
okay it would be better to describe it as it passes right through them or it can’t find a
landing place within them it can’t stick okay or it’s like teflon just simply splats against them
and slides off and there’s no stain or anything like that okay um that would be more a better
example um and they cannot be roped into any activity um by having one of their buttons pushed
because any of these various insults or attempts to rope people in with guilt they don’t find a
landing place okay the sense of being good enough is no longer a concern eventually if you do this
kind of banishing work and middle pillar work long enough um you don’t have to prove anything to
anyone okay because there really isn’t any you to maintain anymore so it’s not a matter of feeling
like you’re awesome and great no matter what people say no it’s not about that it’s it’s it’s
more a matter of there’s really no me here to be awesome or there’s no me here to feel ashamed
there’s no me here to feel awesome there’s just awesomeness coming through everything everywhere
what you should not do okay this and this is for the psychic vampires that exist within you
okay these various complexes or demons that are pretty much troubling you um and it also goes for
the people out there who you are tempted to refer to as psychic vampires okay for the people out
there well stop blaming them it’s really bad idea to blame people for stuff that’s happening
even if they’ve just walked up to you and punched you in the face don’t blame the person for doing
that it’s the action that’s it would be more accurate to go after the action okay how did
that happen how did that arise how do we keep that from happening again okay there’s nobody really
there to blame for anything okay the act of blaming a person or taking it personally that’s
what a psychic vampire would do okay and that is a vampiric act in itself because you’re now
generating this enemy outside of yourself that isn’t even there. And you’re exerting energy to
do that, to generate this imaginary foe, which you now need to somehow deal with. It’s much more
accurate to go after the actions or the things that are happening and just deal with those
without exerting any extra energy at all to create imaginary boundaries and imaginary armor around
yourself and imaginary good guys and bad guys. Okay. That takes too much energy. Do not try to
fix people’s problems because if you have a savior complex, that’s one of the easiest targets for a
person who seems to be a psychic vampire. They will latch on to anyone who seems to define their
self-worth in terms of helping others. Sort of like a Florence Nightingale complex, right? So
if you try to fix their problems for them, you’re going to get roped into a codependent relationship
and it’s eventually going to start draining your energy. It doesn’t mean you don’t fix people’s
problems occasionally, okay? But don’t get roped into a cycle where you’re constantly fixing their
cleaning cleaning up their messes okay even if you have kids you eventually want to you
wean them off of that obviously you when you have kids you come to the rescue when they get in
trouble right but eventually you want to wean them off of that so they can get themselves out
of trouble it’s a big lesson for kids today i think yeah because kids today don’t seem to be
very good at getting themselves out of trouble don’t propose solutions um if you want a psychic
vampire to go away start listening to them and then so it’s like oh i can see i think i see why
you feel that way in other words if you really start to listen to them the pain of their actual
affliction as a psychic vampire or as a narcissist will start to come to the surface and they will
run for their lives they will try to maintain their psychic vampire existence um if you really
are show empathy and and listen to somebody rather than try to propose solutions or fix their
problems um first of all that will end up um very likely helping them for real uh but it will also
possibly be too painful for them you know so if they’re not ready to get better or to help
themselves they will just run away and try to find somebody else who they can rope into fixing
their problems for them what should you do well see the goal is to be completely immune
to psychic vampires and that goes for the people out there who you might be tempted to accuse of
being psychic vampires as well as the psychic vampires that exist within your own psyche these
various complexes okay in order to be free of them you do shadow work which is a jungian term
and it’s simply uh well let’s go let’s go down this list a bit um the best way i know to do that
is to study animal evolution and human evolution okay so um evolutionary psychology is a really
good topic for that because any of the various fears or complexes that you notice that you have
let’s say you have a fear of rejection you have a fear of public speaking you can then look well how
how did this fear arise? Oh my gosh. Well, it used to be that if the community disapproved of you and
banished you, that would be like a death sentence. No wonder people are afraid of being rejected by
a crowd of people. And then as you get up there to speak, you can remind yourself, this is not
that situation. If they don’t like me, nothing’s going to happen. I’m not going to be banished
from the community i will survive and so the that emotional complex will um go away um it or it will
change okay it will become more sophisticated let’s say okay because there yeah there might
be a situation in which you could be banished from um a community i don’t know how that would
happen nowadays but you could be sent to a pinot colony or something like that right
or you know we don’t really banish people anymore but you could be you know abandoned on a desert
island and then of course you have to fend for yourself and then that emotional complex would
be legitimate yeah so knowing how these various complexes have evolved is very helpful because
then you become more aware of how they work and when somebody tries to trigger one of them it’s
like well that’s not that that fear i i feel it i can see it i know how it rose it does not apply
to the situation so you cannot trigger me that way sorry okay you can see how that works so
becoming fully aware of your fears or your emotional complexes your samskaras and your
vasanas okay um and in the western occult tradition it would we could simply say you are now aware of
your demons the demons that pretty much are the ones that bother you some of us have more demons
than others and some of them some of us have pet demons that’s really hard to let go of yeah and
eventually we can make friends with them or dissolve them entirely doing magical diary work
very helpful so you as these fears and complexes come up you come up with names for them and as
they appear and and trouble you you talk about them you work through them you you speculate as
to how they might have you have evolved um you help them you help these various complexes
themselves evolve and become more nuanced okay in which case they might dissolve entirely or they
might simply morph into something else who knows yeah or i don’t know diversify become several
different entities yeah cool stuff can happen uh doing literal literal doing actual demon summoning
work so in other words you you do a magical evocation where you visualize demons and you
have conversations with them and you ask them the three questions what do you want what do you really
need and how will you feel when you get what you really need yeah there’s i have an article in
forbidden realms i think it’s um meditation’s dark side i think it’s called that and in that
article i disclose a means of conjuring demons so that they you can conjure up one of these complexes
so that it can dissolve permanently perhaps even in a single ritual you could dissolve it
permanently or almost permanently so that it won’t bother you again and a psychic vampire won’t be
able to trigger it and and manipulate you you’ll be immune to manipulation this also amounts to
being immune to hypnosis and i did a video on hypnosis where pretty much it’s it’s how do we
become hypnotized basically through our demons we are invited to become this or that entity
in this particular scenario and we really buy into it don’t we we can anyway yeah and this happens
because of our samskaras and our vasanas our demons our unconsciousness and amor fati is a
goal that’s the latin for love of one’s fate and that’s simply a word that means no matter what
happens i’m okay with it okay or i even whatever’s happening i embrace it i welcome it okay so oh uh
let’s see my building where i’m living is being condemned i’m going to lose my home and i can’t
even sell it or oh no what am i going to do uh to welcome that it kind of sounds kind of cheesy but
probably the easiest way to do that is to say this is a new challenge i wonder what’s going
to happen from this okay i remember there was a um an author yanla van zant her way of saying it
was, um, I can’t wait to see the good that’s going to come out of this, something like that.
Right. Um, and that’s basically, uh, it’s a, it’s a means of having faith, not, not faith in God or
Jesus or, or even in yourself, uh, just faith in, uh, faith that things work out, they work
themselves out somehow. Okay. Uh, not the way you necessarily want. And remember the, one of the
best ways to be a psychic vampire is to insist that everything be a certain way okay so remember
what um rose’s mother in the titanic was like or what the father of the kid who died in the dead
poet society what he was like those are psychic vampires everything must be this way the way i say
yeah and so the antidote to that is a more fatty whatever’s happening i accept it and whoever i’m
with i trust them to be themselves they don’t have to behave a certain way for me i’m actually
interested actually interested to see what they’re going to do next okay i might not like it and i
might get away from it which is fine but i’m still still all very interesting yeah i trust that
whatever is going to happen is going to work itself out this is much different way of living
in the world and it’s it’s it’s uh completely the opposite of a psychic vampire all right so
if you are somebody who complains about psychic vampires or psychic attack this means that you
yourself have the characteristics of a psychic vampire or a psychic attacker all right there’s
going to be some interesting comments i can tell and so we’re back to this image again one of the
think one of the takeaways then would be that remember the original idea of the psychic vampires
that they’re out there and they’re ready to prey upon my energy and now we look at this again no no
this is this woman here if she’s not a psychic vampire herself um she’s these things that are
these vampires around her are in her psyche in her aura and they are these little programs that
up and running trying to maintain some kind of fictional reality and they are they require
energy to do that she’s got a lot of them going on doesn’t she yeah that’s just rains her energy
and when she lets learns to let go of these or become friends with them you know and and not
have a such a um not be so dependent upon them she has more and more energy to just be authentically
who she is okay and when that happens letting go of all of these energy drains um there’s certain
purity that comes over you it’s authenticity which helps manifestation happen so you live in a world
of synchronicity more and more and your wishes begin to manifest around you and you don’t even
have to do a special ritual to get a particular thing that you want it just happens okay so the
real goal of the magical work then is not to reach a point where you can then do cast powerful spells
or things like that necessarily um though that is possible sort of um it’s more that you just reach
a point where things are manifesting just fine okay and you don’t have all these other things
that are draining energy off of that manifestation process they are mostly gone that is the goal
really for for becoming the adept in the golden dawn tradition all right so i don’t think i was
I’m not too worried about making that unclear this time around. However, I know that people
tend to say that I tend to say that magic is merely psychological. That’s a shame because
what that shows is a sort of split between psychology and everything else. Psychology
is a study of the soul okay psychology ologies study of and psych is the soul and the soul is
not something that i regard as being within a person necessarily like you have a soul which
you can sell to the devil or something like that uh it’s no it’s the soul of the world it’s the
soul of everything so we are studying like the psyche of the world or of the universe which
is alive and we are manifestations of that living thing what could be more magical than that so to
approach um magic in the language of psychology is perfectly natural to do okay and of course we
can go much much further than standard psychology especially psychology the way it’s happening
lately in terms of brain science i would rather much rather restore psychology to the study of
the soul, the study of the psyche. And that’s not the individual psyche necessarily, but the soul
of the world. Okay, so I hope that rescues magic from being merely psychologized. Anyway, until next time.
Source: Lyam Christopher