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The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When Bram Stoker wrote his classic horror tale Dracula, he
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  popularized and sensationalized an actual phenomenon of vital
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  interchange that operates mostly unnoticed and not as
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  sensationally as his tale implies.
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  To put it in simple terms, vampirism is the ability of
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  someone to utilize the occult vital interchange to draw off
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  energy from another individual, leaving the other person feeling
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  weak, drained, exhausted, were practically helpless and held
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  under a type of spell to carry out the bidding of the person
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  who is dominating their vital force.
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  The vitality can be drained to such a degree that it can lead
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  to various forms of illness and wasting away of the life force
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  and will to survive and thrive. Vampirism can take place at a
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  relatively low level when it is not consciously enhanced and
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  fortified through the action of any powerful forces of the vital
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  plane that feed upon human vital energy.
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  An extension or subset of this phenomenon is vampirism that
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  takes place utilizing the sexual energy.
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  The result is similar, but since it is focused on the powerful
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  force of the sex drive, it can lead to a form of sexual slavery
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  and submission to the will of the perpetrator, to virtually
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  anything demanded of the victim, including deploying the sexual
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  energy to entice and capture third parties and subject them
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  to the will of the original perpetrator.
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  There is also the potentiality of binding the victims despite
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  various forms of abuse, threats and even physical harm carried
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  out upon them. It is from actual instances of
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  this type of vital vampirism that the more sensational horror
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  genre has emerged and distorted the reality far beyond its
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  original power or scope of action.
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  Most people, being unaware of the actual subtle, vital
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  interchanges that take place and the manner in which these forces
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  work, do not realize consciously that their energy is being
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  drained through certain vital relationships, whether sexual in
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  nature or not. Other than perhaps a passing
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  reference to feeling exhausted after a meeting with someone who
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  happens to exercise this form of action.
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  As the spiritual seeker awakens to the action of the occult
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  forces that operate behind the overt external actions, he can
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  both begin to identify these actions and the people who
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  express them, consciously or unconsciously, and create a wall
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  of protection to enhance the strength of their vital envelope
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  or aura to ensure they are not victimized.
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  Or else they can choose to consciously avoid such
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  individuals so as to not subject themselves to that force.
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  The protective force can be built up through active
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  conscious efforts of will and rejection of undesired
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  vibrational impulses, through use of mantras or through
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  consecration to a protective deity or guru, as the case may
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  be. Sri Orbindo writes quote.
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  When people mix together, there is generally some interchange of
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  vital forces, which is quite involuntary.
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  Vampirizing is a special phenomenon, a person who lives
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  upon the vital of others and flourishes vitally at their
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  expense. The tired feeling which the
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  people felt after seeing this X is a sign of vampirism.
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  But very often there is no such feeling.
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  But there is an after effect on the whole.
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  The nerves get gradually wrong. What is called the nervous
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  envelope becomes weak or in one way or another the vitality
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  becomes weak or gets into an abnormal condition, excitable
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  and irritable. There are many such ways in
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  which the effect shows itself. Sex vampirism is a different
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  matter. In sex interchange the normal
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  thing is to give and take, but the sex vampire eats up the
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  others vital and gives nothing or very little.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the
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  Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter One, Life Through the Eyes of
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  the Yogin, page 19.