109. Energy vampire - Wikipedia
For electrical devices that consume energy on standby mode, see Standby power.An energy vampire or psychic vampire is a mythical being said to have the ability to feed off the “life force” (often also called qi, prana, energy or vitality) of other living creatures. Alternative terms for these persons are pranic vampire, empathic vampire, energy predator (see below), psy/psi-vamp, energy parasite, energivore or psionic vampire.
Use in the 20th and 21st century
Dion Fortune wrote of psychic parasitism in relation to vampirism as early as 1930 (considering it a combination of psychic and psychological pathology) in “Psychic Self-Defense”. The term “psychic vampire” first gained attention in the 1960s with the publication of Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible. LaVey, who claimed to have coined the term, used it to mean a spiritually or emotionally weak person who drains vital energy from other people. Adam Parfrey likewise attributed the term to LaVey in an introduction to The Devil’s Notebook.
The term is also used by Luis Marques in his work on vampirism and spirituality, entitled the Asetian Bible, where the definition of a psychic vampire goes beyond his ability to drain energy, but is portrayed as a definitive condition of the individual’s soul and a secret mark of a connection to a shared past. This polemic view of the energy predator is based on an esoteric tradition known as Asetianism, which relies on predatory spirituality and the extensive use of Ancient Egyptian symbolism, whose teachings are strictly and thoroughly maintained by the occultist Order of Aset Ka.
The theme of the psychic vampire has been a focus within modern Vampire subculture. The way that the subculture has manipulated the image of the psychic vampire has been investigated by researchers such as Mark Benecke, and A. Asbjorn Jon.Jon has noted that, like the traditional psychic vampires, those of Vampyre subculture ‘prey upon life-force or ‘pranic’ energy’. Jon also noted that the group has been loosely linked to the Goth subculture.
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