Interesting theories (Page 4 of 7)

A few things spring to mind about this idea of psychic vampires... that if it were true then people who did it would probably eat less as they would be getting energy in this other way and also people may be making other people bad simply as an issue of control and not to "feed". Certainly, if a link between this kind of emotional bullying and food intake could be shown it might provide a possibility of proving the theory.

One thing I would like to pick out : "Even today, military strategies often include an excessive show of force--such as shock and awe--to demoralize and dispirit (vampirize) the enemy" This is clearly wrong. Breaking your enemy's spirit is not done to feed on the enemy but to make them less likely to fight you and more likely to rout, making victory more likely. Unless the author's definition of "vampirizing" is actually "scaring" of course but the rest of the article does not seem to suggest this.

I have to say I am sceptical. The author sites a relative of his as evidence of this phenonoma being real. This relative says she can live forever by feeding on other people's energies, yet she dies at 101. So she isnt exactly reliable as her claim was disproved by life itself, many other people live to over 100 and more people are doing it all the time especially as modern medicine and knowledge of biology is improving.

Anyway, I could go on but I think that is enough for now to start a discussion on this.

I had an acquaintance in college who ate very little, was skinny, and full of energy but had a vampiric personality and even admitted to feeling energized when he was around others, those same others who complained to me of feeling tired after being around him. However, I have also met overweight people who seemed so energy deficient that they not only took energy from others, but ate additional food to supplement their deficit. So I believe they could eat less, but in some cases eat more... therefore how much one eats is not a reliable indicator. Also, there are said to be different types of subtle energy that can be fed upon, only the coarsest of which can be found in food.

It doesn't shut the door, it just requires that one cast a wider net and piece together circumstantial evidence and observations to formulate a best-fit hypothesis which can then be further tested and modified. There are some things that the idea of subtle energy and psychic vampires can more elegantly explain than less esoteric theories.

Check out "In Search of the Miraculous" by P.D. Ouspensky... it discusses one model for how we receive our energies and transmute them into finer forms. The food we eat, air we breathe, and impressions we receive are potential sources of energy. But we also have within us an energy receiving center, which the Fourth Way system calls the sexual center, that pulls in coarse energy for transmutation into finer forms.

Regarding psychic vampires, my best guess is that either their transmutation process is dysfunctional, they lack certain higher centers, or they are being used as portals to siphon energy from those around them.

In the past I have dealt with overconfident skeptics who, funny enough, have this thing about whether others are worthy of their acceptance or threatened by their intellectual prowess. They come in strutting like kings and underestimate those they wish to debate, entering with a natural assumption of being superior, more logical, more reasonable, with the backing of science and objectivity. Sometimes they make good points, other times it is painful watching them bask in their hubris. And when they get plowed into the ground, they either cry fowl or play dumb. Funny in the beginning, sickening at the end. Hoping you don't fall into the same pattern, that's all.

Which is where critical thinking comes in, to distinguish between reality and illusion. There are certain undeniable observations - something black is flying through the night sky. Then there are explanations: it is a stealth fighter, or it is a spirit demon. If both individuals had the same set of data, they would come to come to common agreement. The first knows about stealth fighters, their shape, their noise, etc... while the second does not. Likewise, if a spirit demon were to fly through the night, complete with black wavy cloak and glowing red eyes, the first who knows nothing about spirit demons would squeeze it into his assumption of being a stealth fighter with red landing lights.

i dont think your a threat to us or the theories presented here. but i do think you lack faith in yourself and others around you to ask why we think this way. instead you should read what is here and ask yourself do you believe. and if you do then you have risen above the rest who say that dont. its not being part of a whole who think one way. its the differnet opinons here that blend together to form these theories from all over the world. so we are the minority we are just us. sorry you feel threaten by our ideas, but look inside yourself and embrace what you think is real. but search deep and you will find the answer. you dont need us to tell you.

theleague - I do not feel threatened by any of you or the theories on this site. Nor do I think that you are above me for believing something or below me for believing it. I do not subscribe to elitism and nor should you. That is not to say everything you believe is wrong, far from it, but this aspect [elitism] is not a healthy one.

Sowelu - Expanding consciousness sounds like a meditation process, or perhaps a drug induced one. Is this what you mean? Or are you saying that more knowledge = expanded consciousness?

Thank you montalk. I promise you that I am not here to undo what you have done. Like you, I am on my own personal voyage of discovery. We each come from different points that might as well be worlds apart yet we converge together to enrich each others lives. A good theory of why opposites attract in relationships is that instinctively we are all looking to learn something new.

More knowledge, awareness and wisdom = expanded consciousness.

It's not just a mental thing, but incorporates all the senses, including those not typically recognized by established sciences such as intuition, empathy, clairsentience or "gestalt knowing", and likely far more that I can't think of at the moment. As well as, of course, discernment tools such as logic and reason.

Knowledge is not simply facts, and consciousness is not just a mental experience. And wisdom, as I'm using it here, is the ability to properly apply the knowledge acquired through experience. Intentional use of the combination of all of these faculties to learn of the previously hidden or unknown, and unlearn/rectify the erroneous within the known, equates to expanding one's consciousness.

As I meant it, anyway.