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Are There Really Vampires? — the Reality and Nature of Vampirism · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The popular imagination about the existence and
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  characteristics of vampires has developed from the famous novel
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  by Braun Stoker, Dracula. From that book we get the
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  picture of beings that survive many hundreds of years, who are
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  shape shifters and who drank the blood of their victims,
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  preferably the blood of young innocent women, in order to gain
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  sustenance and extend their lives.
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  The blood sucking concept appears to have come from the
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  actions of a form of bat, the vampire bat.
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  Countless motion pictures and extensions of these core
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  concepts have fixed the idea of vampires in our mind as some
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  kind of object of horror, and an entire genre of literature and
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  film has risen up and grabbed the attention of popular
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  culture, particularly among the young.
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  Yet this conception of vampires and the nature of vampirism is
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  actually a caricature of the actual underlying phenomenon of
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  vampirism. The essence of vampirism is the
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  drawing out and depleting of the vital energy of an individual,
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  mostly done by beings through vital interactions unseen in
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  most cases unnoticed and only recognized by the state of the
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  victim after the interaction. A state characterized by
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  fatigue, exhaustion, depression or dark moods and feelings,
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  vital weakness, physical feeling of being drained.
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  Most people have had some experience of meeting with
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  someone and afterwards stating I get so drained in the company of
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  that person. Vampirism can take place on a
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  relatively low level, or in the instance of a vital being
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  actively feeding off of human energetic vibrations, it can
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  take on a very powerful form. A disciple inquires.
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  There are some human beings who are like vampires.
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  What are they and why are they like that?
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  The Mother notes quote. They are not human.
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  There is only a human form or appearance.
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  They are incarnations of beings from the world that is just next
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  to the physical beings who live on the plain, which we call the
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  vital world. It is a world of all the desires
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  and impulses and passions and of movements of violence and greed
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  and cunning and every kind of ignorance.
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  But all the dynamisms too are there, all the life energies and
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  all the powers. The beings of this world have by
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  their nature a strange grip over the material world and can
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  exercise upon it a sinister influence.
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  Some of them are formed out of the remains of the human being
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  that persist after death in the vital atmosphere near to the
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  earth plane. His desires and hunger still
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  float there and remain in form even after the dissolution of
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  the body. Often they are moved to go on
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  manifesting and satisfying themselves, and the birth of
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  these creatures of the vital world is the consequence.
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  But these are minor beings, and if they can be very troublesome,
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  it is yet not impossible to deal with them.
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  There are others far more dangerous, who have never been
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  in human form. Never were they born into a
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  human body upon earth. For most often they refuse to
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  accept this way of birth, because it is slavery to matter,
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  and they prefer to remain in their own world, powerful and
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  mischievous, and to control earthly beings from there.
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  For if they do not want to be born on earth, they do want to
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  be in contact with the physical nature, but without being bound
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  by it. Their method is to try first to
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  cast their influence upon a man. Then they enter slowly into his
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  atmosphere and in the end may get complete possession of him,
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  driving out entirely the real human soul and personality.
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  These creatures, when in possession of an earthly body,
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  may have the human appearance, but they have not a human
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  nature. Their habit is to draw upon the
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  life force of human beings. They attack and capture vital
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  power wherever they can and feed upon it.
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  If they come into your atmosphere, you suddenly feel
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  depressed and exhausted. If you are near them for some
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  time, you fall sick. If you live with one of them, it
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  may kill you. End Quote.
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  Reference Shriorobindo and the Mother.
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  The Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter 5.
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  Occult Forces, pages 1:20 to 1:21.