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In the course of occult spiritual development, eventually, you will encounter true energy vampires. From Wikipedia:
A psychic vampire (or energy vampire) is a creature in folklore said to feed off the “life force” of other living creatures. The term can also be used to describe a person who gets increased energy around other people but leaves those other people exhausted or “drained” of energy.[1] Psychic vampires are represented in the occult beliefs of various cultures and in fiction.
Now, this idea has entered popular culture and is particularly associated with Narcissists. This is typically diagnosed as someone you don’t like who leaves you drained. Here’s a monk’s explanation and suggestion for dealing with this mundane type of vampire:
Good advice but, the temptation to overdiagnose this problem and assume a victim stance toward everyone who doesn’t blow a ray of sunshine up your derriere is common, like any other pop-psychology idea poorly understood and then applied by the public. Unlike a true vampire, the narcissist needs to witness their effect on you. They might be draining to deal with, but they are feeding their ego on how they can manipulate your feelings, not piercing your energy field to metaphysically drain you. A narcissist may also be a real vampire, in which case their effects are much much worse.
Your typical vampire is, like the monster of folklore, a victim of another vampire, and their habit of draining the life force is relatively unconscious. Unfortunately, the ranks of these are multiplying quickly among the aging Boomers, who with their obsession with eternal youth, are turning to practices like physically injecting the blood of the young. If this isn’t vampirism nothing is but it isn’t the only danger multiplying in the world. Some try-hard edgelords of the occult world are actually training themselves in vampirism, and happily trade their insights with dark-energy workers, many of whom are already con artists:
Now, both of these kinds of vampires are slipping from mundane Debbie downers to becoming a real metaphysical parasite, but there are worse. Real energy vampires in human form walk the Earth and descend from clans of historical vampires. They don’t necessarily drink blood, though they may bite once to symbolically act out the piercing of the victim, but once attached continue to drain lifeforce no matter the distance from the victim. I know this because I am one. I overcame my natural tendency to vampirize through pranayama and meditation. I recall my first victims started in daycare, and I didn’t stop seeking out others’ vitality until I started Yoga and started analyzing my life force. I was preyed upon by my mother, who was drained by her father, who was victimized by his mother, and at that point, records are lost, but you can bet this behavior goes back to our origins in Europe. One funny aspect of this that pops up in DNA analysis, is that the non-LDS vampire side of my family has been following the migrations of the Mormons without becoming of Mormon stock until a few crossed over after forgetting their origins. Evidently healthy Mormons with their documented glow of vitality and lack of traditional knowledge make perfect food for the vampire, one of their own even glorifying the vampire clan in the Twilight series.
Now, these vampires are mortal, though they may age more quickly or more slowly than average depending on how willing they are to create true victims and the amount of Prana they harvest. You can locate them in families that seem to have non-genetic histories of blood and immune disorders. Their actions cause medically observable effects like leukemia and severe anemia or merely an inexplicably sickly child. You can see their victims in children once strong, healthy, and beautiful that grow stunted, twisted, and ugly compared to the promise they showed in youth. Many of their victims become thin and wasted and obviously drained, but some try to remedy their state with high-calorie food only to become fat and lethargic.
The current mores of our society forbid us killing this type of vampire, though, in certain parts of the world, they would be dealt with summarily. The vampires themselves contribute to a mythology that sees them as a remnant of old folklore and not a real problem. If cornered they will try to point out how “good” they are, and how they couldn’t possibly be draining you to death. Don’t be fooled. If a vampire won’t voluntarily seek out a positive solution to their effect on others they need to be shut out of their victim’s energetic field. Protective spells and energy work are necessary to sever the link and repair the holes in the aura. If ignored, or like the monk above recommends just avoided, their unexplained sicknesses and untreatable illnesses will continue until the victim dies, and it won’t be nearly as funny as this:
As we’ve given a technique to trigger Kundalini in our discussion of the Tarot card The Hanged Man, this would be an excellent time to discuss what’s known as Kundalini Activation Syndrome as the easy trigger of withholding ejaculation means that many Westerners can invoke an experience for which they are totally unprepared. Many, who have had this energy aroused by trauma, danger, drugs, or spiritual techniques practiced without guidance and preparation ultimately find themselves institutionalized in mental facilities or jails. Others seek to dampen the energy through alcohol and sedative drugs, destroying the psyche and persona until a better way is found to express the energy. If these apply to you, or you’d like to pre-prepare, let’s explore what’s happening internally and what you can do to channel and harness the energy.
The Kundalini awakening is a mysterious and powerful phenomenon that has captured the imagination of spiritual seekers for centuries. It is said to be the unlocking of the divine energy that resides at the base of the spine, and its ascent through the chakras can lead to a profound transformation of the mind, body, and soul.
Those who have experienced Kundalini awakening describe it as a state of heightened awareness, where the senses become more acute and the mind is flooded with a sense of awe and wonder at the universe around us. It is as if a veil has been lifted, revealing the true nature of reality and our place within it.
But the Kundalini awakening is not without its dangers. The sudden influx of energy can be overwhelming, causing physical and emotional discomfort, and leading to a sense of disorientation and confusion. The unprepared seeker may find themselves lost in a world of delusion, unable to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Yet for those who are ready, the Kundalini awakening can be a life-changing experience, leading to a greater understanding of the self and a deeper connection to the divine. It is a journey of self-discovery, where the seeker must confront their deepest fears and desires in order to transcend them.
In the end, the Kundalini awakening is not just a spiritual phenomenon, but a profound testament to the power of the human spirit. It is a reminder that we are all capable of greatness, and that the universe is full of mysteries waiting to be unravelled. So embrace the journey, and let the Kundalini awaken within you.
“Kundalini,” meaning “coiled-up” in Sanskrit, is a type of Hindu Yoga practice.3 It is also related to the practice of all kinds of Hindu tantra, Tibetan Buddhism, Chinese Qigong (Chi Kung), and some Eastern martial arts.3
According to the yoga tradition, kundalini is like an energy, a serpent, or a goddess that lies dormant at the base of the spine of all human beings.3 Sivananda says that the awakening of kundalini manifests itself through various physical and psychological signs and symptoms such as feeling the currents of prana (vital energy) rising to the Sahasrara chakra (thousand-petalled: the individual’s center of spirit, enlightenment, wisdom, universal consciousness, and connection to higher guidance), feeling vibrations of prana in different parts inside the body, feeling electric-like currents flow up and down the nerves, experiencing bliss, having divine visions, and getting inspiration and insight. When kundalini is at one chakra, intense heat is felt there, and when it leaves that center for the next chakra, the former chakra becomes very cold and appears lifeless.3
Many Mind/Body sciences have been developed to awaken this energy, which is seen by these traditions as a Universal good. However, in the unprepared, the accidental triggering of this process is often identified as psychosis or bipolar disorder. Given some of the symptoms, we will see why. According to the Sai Ayurvedic Institute symptoms of the awakening are:
Muscle twitches, cramps, or spasms
Energy rushes or immense electricity circulating the body
Itching, vibrating, prickling, tingling, stinging, or crawling sensations
Intense heat or cold
Involuntary bodily movements: jerking, tremors, shaking; feeling an inner force pushing one into postures or moving one’s body in unusual ways. (May be misdiagnosed as epilepsy, restless legs syndrome, or PLMD)
Alterations in eating and sleeping patterns
Episodes of extreme hyperactivity or, conversely, overwhelming fatigue
Intensified or diminished sexual desires
Headaches, pressures within the skull
Racing heartbeat, pains in the chest
Digestive system problems
Numbness or pain in the limbs (particularly the left foot and leg)
Pains and blockages anywhere; often in the back and neck
Emotional outbursts; rapid mood shifts; seemingly unprovoked or excessive episodes of grief, fear, rage, depression
Spontaneous vocalizations (including laughing and weeping) — are as unintentional and uncontrollable as hiccoughs
Hearing an inner sound or sounds, classically described as a flute, drum, waterfall, birds singing, bees buzzing but which may also sound like roaring, whooshing, or thunderous noises or like ringing in the ears
Mental confusion; difficulty concentrating
Altered states of consciousness: heightened awareness; spontaneous trance states; mystical experiences (if the individual’s prior belief system is too threatened by these, they can lead to bouts of psychosis or self-grandiosity)
Heat, strange activity, and/or blissful sensations in the head, particularly in the crown area
Ecstasy, bliss, and intervals of tremendous joy, love, peace, and compassion
Psychic experiences: extrasensory perception; out-of-body experiences; past life memories; astral travel; direct awareness of auras and chakras; contact with spirit guides through inner voices, dreams, or visions; healing powers
Increased creativity: new interests in self-expression and spiritual communication through music, art, poetry, etc.
Intensified understanding and sensitivity
Insight into one’s own essence
Enhanced awareness of one’s energetic environment (including “impressions” from others)
Enlightenment experiences
Sense of a more expansive reality, transcendent awareness
The Wreckage of Awakening
All of these psychophysical changes brought on rapidly and a source of clear distress can send the practitioner right to Doctors, counselors, priests, cult leaders, or whatever source of guidance they can locate to try and make sense of the experience. The real problem is, the unwary practitioner has not done the preparation of energy work or of the psyche and the energy, encountering a diseased body and mind recoils and attempts release at every energetic point. This is not a hopeless situation.
The Sai Institute has some recommendations that might be helpful, such as ceasing energy work or eating vegetarian, but for me, these did not work, and eating a strict vegetarian diet especially sent me to the heights of mania and psychosis. First, the practitioner needs to ground. Don’t eat a more spiritual diet, eat the heaviest Tamasic diet possible. Meat, burgers, stew, chili. Weigh that energy body down with meat and fat. Put butter in everything. Eat potatoes. Heavy, think heavy, but lay off the alcohol and sedatives. Even though they provide relief from the strain, it is only a temporary reprieve, and you will still have to learn to contain the energy. Start building muscle, the increased testosterone this brings will help with courage. Keep meditating. You have no choice but to live as a cosmic cat and mystical adventurer now so establish that regular meditation practice and connect with the energy at a deep level, drawing it back down to its root. The entire reason these problems are happening is the overall energy of the body was not balanced and strong, so the Kundalini could not rise straight up the spinal channel. You will have to deal with all your blockages and issues until you can rise through the chakras.
Physical blockages and knots in the energy body are known as granthis, and your average westerner never puts in the work of dealing with them. These are psychosomatic traumas and entry points for negative psychic energy. A physical routine of Hatha yoga, combined with the practice of Kundalini yoga will help energize and then release these blockages. Regular massage and physical therapy practices can help. If you want to take a sledgehammer to the problem the breathwork routine of Dr. Stan Grof known as Holotropic Breathwork combined with deep tissue massage can heal years of damage very quickly. Ultimately though there is no easy cure and it’s going to take time to prepare or reprepare the vessel for the successful channeling of this energy.
The key practice is learning to feel, see, and utilize the cosmic energy known as Chi, Prana, or Life-Force. According to Yogic physiology the right and left channels Ida and Pingala have to be in balance for the Sushumna channel to open.
By Alex-engraver – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12786255
Balanced expression of the mind, body, and spirit are essential, so be calm and guide Shakti to her rightful place through all 7 chakras to the crown. This is the key to enlightenment and it is why the figure of the Serpent is so central to the world’s religions. If you are living this experience, so matter how stressful and disorienting it is now, it is a great gift to put one’s foot upon the path. Hopefully, you can survive and be successful in your journey. Best of luck to you Cosmic Adventurer.
One of the problems I encounter living as a mystic in the western world, is there is no respect for individuals living in altered states of consciousness. Whether drug induced, pursued through meditation or ecstatic practice, or the product of full-blown psychosis. The individual in an altered state is uniformly shunned, feared, beaten, incarcerated, or killed. It has been repeatedly shown even by western science, first in the 50s and 60s, then again starting with new research in the early 2000s that psychosis is functionally the same as dreaming while awake. (Tyrelll and Griffin BMJ 2007;335:91) In the developing world, and throughout history indigenous cultures have treated this as a gift and a source of great wisdom, while western culture has decided that it would rather harm or outright kill the waking dreamer.
As a mystic who entered my path as a result of repeated psychotic episodes, I have experienced first hand the carceral abuse and chemical destruction of the mental health industry, even going so far as to join that industry as a worker for a brief time to try and mitigate some of the abuse for the few people I could reach, and to validate the experiences of the psychotic. My research, both academic and subjective has led me to the conclusion that this society has shut out any hope of contacting greater reality in favor of the comfortable somnambulance of the world of death and destruction.
Plato’s Cave
Academia and science have had a choice, the whole academy was based on Plato who explicitly stated that this world was an illusion and that pointing out the path to reality would likely get you killed. Furthermore, continuing hard scientific evidence that consciousness is fundamental to the nature of reality gets ignored or explained away when quantum experiments should absolutely prove that we should be studying the power of consciousness. Instead we rely on the medical model and the theory of disease to “treat” those we should be training to reveal visions, heal the sick, and predict the future as well a showing the gate to a realer reality than the one we are interacting in.
On the Tree of Life the path upwards from our material world to the higher dimensions goes through the unconscious at Yesod. The only living people that can guide us on this path are those gifted individuals who are able to tread the unconscious while awake. They are the evidence that there is in fact another world. We can thank them for even knowing there is a possibility of an afterlife. The somnambulist, well adjusted to a sick and dying world, cannot be our guide out of the four-dimensional prison that we are in. While science edges ever closer to the admission that higher realms exist and magic is real, the increasing stress of just existing in the modern world pushes more and more towards psychosis. The disease is forcing us towards the cure whether the doctors like it or not. More mystics and shamans are slipping through the cracks. More weirdos are finding their comfort in alternative spiritualities and finding their voice on the Internet. Listen to them. Not everything the active psychotic says can be applied to the current reality, and you might have a hard time picking gems from psycho-babble but those of us that can travel back and forth between worlds do have something to offer. We need you normies of the West to please stop killing us and give us a space to share our gifts.
Your humble editor recently got sober and decided it was well past time to get back to a regular yoga practice. In order to re-establish the habit, I decided to do my teacher training over again from start to finish. I am currently in week four and feeling major benefits. Given the success of my practice, I thought I’d share some videos from my teacher, which lay out a good routine to be practiced daily in the early morning, plus one workout video I like to add after meditation is done. The morning routine consists of 5 minutes of pranayama, a short asana routine of stretches, and then seated meditation. It makes up an ideal morning to start a positive day. Without further ado, here is Anmol Mehta to demonstrate.
Just ordered some joints from a company that’s selling CBD hemp flower as the way to get somewhat (maybe?) high. The company pines for the day of sneaking a pinch of old compressed mexi brown from your Dad’s stash. Billed as a much mellower smoke than the crazy engineered hydroponics and melt your brain strains available at the dispensary, it’s also the polar opposite of the dabs that all the kids are into these days. It’s also 100% legal to ship to all 50 states. While it seems crazy to me what I just paid to smoke rope, what the hell, I’d like a tiny head change without getting actually high. If this seems up your alley you can order from this link and get 10% off
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Just ordered some superfood shakes from Ka’Chava. Seems like a pretty unique take on meal replacement and about the same pricing structure as most of the high-end shakes. I definitely need to lose some weight, and supposedly this starts in the kitchen. Meh, I’ll give it a try. If you order via my link, I may get a reward as well. Here’s to your health.
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The verified health benefits of Lion’s Mane mushrooms is one of the reasons the west needs to step up their research in medicinal mushrooms. Of the millions of varieties of wild mushrooms only a handful have been adequately studied, and most of the promising research is coming from Asia, which already has a long history of medicinal mushroom use. Lion’s mane is a neurological tonic. Helping everything from dementia to anxiety and depression, it is also edible, and so low risk that everyone should be taking it. It also is the only thing besides cardiovascular exercise that has been proven to regrow damaged neurons. I personally buy Swanson brand supplements, because they’re cheaper and just as effective, but if you live in the Northeast, you could be harvesting your own. In the west there is a similar conifer coral hedgehog that has the same benefits, and is delicious. In this era of nootropics and smart drugs do yourself a favor and pick up a 10 dollar bottle of mushroom capsules and heal your brain.
By McKay Savage from London, UK [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsGreen Tea may be the most beneficial addition to any and all holistic health regimens. It is certainly one of the easiest to add into a daily routine, and has been clinically proven to improve health in normal drinking concentrations. This superfood (or beverage) packs a wallop of anti-oxidants, as well as producing a number of health benefits outside the standard anti-cancer properties of fruits and vegetables.
It is a brain booster. The well known stimulant in tea, caffeine, has brain tonic effects, and can aid in focus, concentration, and energy. The lower doses of caffeine and combination with L-theanine an amino acid, can produce a mellow and relaxed buzz when compared to the jittery effects of coffee. L-theanine also stimulates the neurotransmitter GABA and can increase dopamine levels as well.
Green tea fights cancer. Whether through anti-oxidants or through interactions of the complex chemistry of brewed tea leaves, studies have repeatedly shown that regular drinkers of green tea get less cancer. This is probably one of the main reasons that tea drinking spread through Asia and tea’s reputation there as a longevity elixir.
Fat burning. While not all metabolism studies agree at this point, some have found clear increase in energy production, with increased metabolism. What sets green tea apart in these studies is evidence that fat metabolism specifically accounts for most of the increase in energy.
It kills bacteria and freshens breath. Tea has natural antibiotic properties which begin at the mouth and can pass through the digestive system and urinary tract. Green tea preparations have been used for centuries in Chinese medicine for their antiseptic properties.
Heart Attack and Stroke. There is evidence that catechins in green teas, lowers cholesterol, especially LDL, so-called “bad” cholesterol. High cholesterol levels are definitely related to cardiovascular disease, and a cup of green tea is an easy addition to help lower risk factors.
Blood Sugar and Diabetes. Tea consumption has been associated with a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes, alas, only for heavy tea drinkers. For normal consumers though tea can help lower blood sugar and increase sensitivity to naturally produced insulin, making the disease more manageable.
For more information on the amazing benefits of green tea, check out this great article at Authority Nutrition, which includes lots of links to original studies, and details on some of the healthy compunds in tea.
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