lore in and of itself does not account for all the fascination and centuries-old stories of vampires. Medieval folks thought vampires were a sort of cannibal and that they were mostly women. There is even a historical account in the pre-Roman Germanic law records called the Salic Code of a “vampire” who was charged with and found guilty of devouring a man. As Christianity evolved, clerics came to believe in vampires and demons and were on the lookout for them, especially during witch hunts, as it was believed they were in league with each other. In northern Europe, especially the Balkans, Hungary, and Bohemia, vampire legends are legion. In these regions, the locals take a more proactive approach to vampires with many techniques for capturing them, such as trapping them in bottles or killing them with the classic stake through the heart, which are still practiced in the Balkans today.
PSYCHIC VAMPIRES—CHI SUCKERS
So, you’ve been going through your day your own way and it is just fine. Then you run into someone you know, and after you’ve talked with her for a bit, you feel the positive energy draining out of your body. While you try to keep the conversation positive, she is doling out the woe in bucket loads—icky boyfriends, creepy bosses, heinous landlords, on and on. You listen, make helpful suggestions, make a date to get together, and boom—she walks away happier and smiling. What just happened?
You just encountered a psychic vampire (PV)! If you don’t guard properly against PVs, you will find yourself in this situation time and time again. Certainly it is fine to be a sympathetic friend and to be helpful and kind, but it is most unhelpful and kind to yourself to allow anyone to suck you completely dry of your life force, your chi. Most often, PVs are not aware on a conscious level of their incessant chi sucking, but they are on an unconscious level. And when you fall victim to this, you are giving away your power, which is energetically and utterly negative.
Who are PVs? Big time narcissists! It is all about them—notice how they rarely ask how you are. They have been running a victim script for a very long time, and being a victim is a chosen and much prized role. If you are kindly and generous of spirit, good for you—but watch out, because you are a favorite target for PVs. But with the right tools, you can protect yourself from PVs. The psychic shield is an effective magical way of shielding yourself from the neighborhood PV.
Psychic Shield
You would not leave your house on a cold windy day without a coat, right? Please don’t leave your house without a psychic shield—you’ll thank yourself later.
Visualize whatever feels like a secure defense against unwarranted psychic intruders. Some folks see garage doors, others utilize an enclosing egg, and I have even heard of a big wet blanket as a shield, but I prefer science-fiction style shields that I put up or take down and a hooded robe that I wear. Anytime I go out into groups where I feel unsure, the best defense is a strong, positive attitude and sense of self. The more you practice your meditation and creative visualization, the greater your skill will grow.
PENTAGRAM RITUAL OF PROTECTION
With sensitivity comes the reality of being greatly affected by energy—both bad and good. It is important to constantly perform energy-cleansing rituals for this very reason, such as saging yourself and your space, taking purifying baths, and doing some mental clearing.
You are about to learn a wonderful basic energy cleanser known as the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP), sometimes simply referred to as the Pentagram Ritual. It is a marvelous template that you can add to and personalize after you are truly familiar with it. This ritual will become an extremely important tool in your magical arsenal for keeping at bay any unwanted forces, both worldly and otherworldly. Some even believe that the LBRP casts out not just negative forces, but all forces. At the end of the LBRP, you have an utterly neutral environment in which you can perform spells and magic. As you perform this ritual and advance in your magical practice, bear in mind that positive and negative forces do not always mean automatically mean good and bad. It is a balance of energy, and to use it properly, you must stay aware.
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