Blood Rites and Occultism The psychological motivation of the modern vampire. In establishing the criteria for this this thesis it has been necessary to first describe the phenomena of the modern vampire. Accordingly, research was carried out among persons purporting to be vampires on the Internet to established whether any common threads could be found to obtain a definition of vampirism in today’s societies. The first thing that needed to be established was the link between vampirism and the occult. In the vast majority of cases it was established that although many people who described themselves as vampires claimed to have knowledge of the occult, most had little or no knowledge of advanced occult practices instead claiming to have natural power obtained through their practices of actual sharing of blood and other bodily fluids. A few advanced souls however did have mastery of certain aspects of the occult having gained grades equivalent in the Golden Dawn System of Adeptus Minor and above. Vampiric Mages were very few in my survey amounting to a fraction of one percent which when compared with the general population is comparable but compared with occultists as a whole was not favourable. Definition of the vampire. What is a vampire? In ancient times as well as in literature certain aspects of the vampire are common. These are listed below in no particular order. 1. The vampire is an undead soul, having been previously bitten by a vampire or having performed a ceremony where the adept sells his soul to the Devil or other entity having the power to grant his request. the ceremony always results in the death of the adept with his full knowledge and consent. 2. The vampire rises from the grave to drink the blood of his victims. The vampire needs blood to survive. Starved of blood for more than 12 hours death results, unless the vampire is sleeping during the hours of daylight. 3. An aversion to sunlight and holy relics. All burn a vampire, the sun especially is fatal to vampires. 4. Vampires can be killed by a wooden stake to the heart, decapitation and burning. There is an obvious difference between the vampire of classic legend and the modern so called vampire. Firstly, the vampire in today’s society is alive, if there are indeed undead souls out there I have yet to meet one outside a dream or a ceremony designed for the purpose and these are prater human intelligences rather than dead or undead souls. The modern vampire does not need blood to survive, of the subjects interviewed, none believed they would actually die without taking blood at regular intervals, rather it was more of a need to fulfill a fetish whether psychological or sexual. So what are the psychological motivations of these so called vampires. Certain facts stand out. The first common thread running through modern vampirism is the witnessing of death or members of close family dying whilst the subject was of an early age. Of the subjects interviewed nearly 80% had a close relative die when they were below the age of 18, over 50% of those had lost a close relative below the age of puberty. Some as young as 6 years. Most subjects had a religious upbringing, most vampires in today’s society admit to being brought up in a Christian household, over 60% being brought up in the Roman Catholic faith, many said that it was the fascination with the blood of Jesus which the Catholic church regards as real during communion. More |
