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What Are Vampires


What are vampires?
Above anything else they are a mystery; Myths, ledgends, fokelore, unknown knowledge, untold stories. But they do exist... walking among us. In each of us, we have to discover our own definition of what a vampire is, and hopefully I will provide enough information for you to make an educated decision. Throughout my studies, knowledge, and experiences, there have always been various types of vampires. We are most familar with what Hollywood has protrayed and betrayed as the Dark Classic vampire. We have grown to love him and hate him at the same time. But through research we find out that the dark classic vampire is nothing more than a collection of inspired attention getting creations. I will not repeat the numerous amounts of information of the various ledgends, myths, the people behind the vampire stories. There are plenty of books and information on that. What I would like to share with you is a consolidation of the various types of vampires in existance today. So they say they are, will you question it?


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First off, I would like to go through an overview of what most consider for sure a vampire trait, the act of feeding off another animal's life force in the forms of blood, life fluiuds, energy, or souls. And I will share in detail the various methods and types of animals fed upon. The next distinction is between those that live 100 years or less and those that are capable of living beyond that particular age barrier. This is where the main arguments take place between the two. Another atribute is that those that consider themselves undead vampires and there are some that consider themselves living vampires. But then again we are dealing with terms that are different among each other. What does one consider undead? what do those that are Undead vampires consider undead to mean? Well, unfortunately I do not have those answers for you at the moment. But, I am sure the vary as much as snowflakes do.


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Now, I have come across a web site that deals in the explaination of the elder vampires, being the ones that live beyond the elder lifespan of a normal human, usually from 200 to 2,000 years of age. And you can find the information they have come up with at their site. They have broken down the elder vampires into two catagories (those that partake blood and those that feed on the life force) the blood catagory is broken down into two groups then for some sub groups. Also they have added another group which the consider half-breeds. It is a very informative site based out of New York.
Vampiric Studies Homepage



Elder vampires
Blood feeders
Classicals (brought over)
Inheritors (born)
Class one (shorter life span)
Class two (longer life span)
Lifeforce/Energy feeders
Psychic Vampires
Sexual Vampires
Symbiotics
Nightbreeds (crossbreeds)


It is a very good site for information on these types of vampires and I would suggest visiting the site for more complete and detailed information on their version of vampires...


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Now for the Generation Vampires, being that they are todays generation of vampires. There are numerous facets to these types of vampires, ranging from purely blood feeding to purely energy feeding vampires, and a whole array of those that feed on both. And I shall provide links to those sites I feel provide the best information on the topic I am covering at the time.

Through discussions among the Real Vampirism Community, I have come with a understandable organization of the vampirism community (yes, this is my personal information). I categorized the vampires by their feeding actions and should not be considers terms or labels. It is based on the fact, that our term for vampires is a person that FEEDS (the need to sustain the body) from a living source, particularly people or animals. First I will provide a breakdown then go into detail of what I believe these categories to be, and hopefully through understanding might make another classification agreeable to those of us within the community.
Source - Blood
Blood Feeders (BF's)
Blood Feeders with psychic abilities (BFPA's)
Blood Drinkers (BD's)(Not a vampire but part of the community)
Blood fetists
Source - Energy
Psychic Feeders (PF's)
Psychic Manipulators (PM's)
Source - Energy/Blood
Blood and Psychic Feeders (BPF's)
Psychic Manipulators with blood feeding/drinking tendacies (PMBF's)
Blood Feeders with psychic manipulation tendacies (BFPM's)

Hopefully I will provide an even more concise outline...

Blood Feeders
- gives a more precise understanding of the type of vampire the vampire community is speaking of by the action thereof. These individuals have the need to sustain their bodies with the ingestion of blood, wheather it be human or animal. They do not possess the special abilities as thought in novels and movies. They are normal in most aspect to that of people, only baring some traits known through the vampire community. The site listed below provides wonderful information on these types of vampires, traits, information, and even a support group and message board open for discussion...


Sanguinarius' Vampire Support Page


This is a very good site overall... providing information for those that have the need to feed off blood, terminology on the vampirism, and a message board open for discussions all of types of vampirism... it is a good community...


Bloodletting Advice


Bloodsports


Blood feeders with psychic abilities
- These individuals are like regular blood feeders but they possess varants of psychic abilities. I have not come across a site specifically for these types of vampires.


Blood Drinkers
- Although not consider vampire in the vampire community, however they do face a lot of the problems in dealing with ingestations of blood and find support among the vampire community. There has been some concern as to the differences between blood drinking and blood fetishism. Blood fetists obtain sexual, intimate or other forms of pleasure from ingesting blood, wheather it be drinking or licking. Blood drinkers can received a varity of interests from drinking blood.


Psychic Feeders
- These individuals feed off the energies of others in order to sustain their own. They have no psychic ability beyond the feeding.


Psychic Manipulators
- These individuals are considered the more powerful psychic vampires. Not only can they take, feed, drain, they can manipulate that energy and weild it to their own psychic abilities.


Blood and Psychic Feeders
- Individuals that feed on both blood and energy. But do not possess any psychic abilites other thna from feeding.


Psychic Manipulators with blood feeding/drinking tendacies
- Individuals that primarly manipulate and feed off energy, but have desire or need to partake in blood feeding or drinking. It has been said on several occasions that blood might be a source of pranic energy.


Blood Feeders with Psychic manipulation tendacies
- Individuals that are primarily blood feeders but also have the ability of those that are Psychic manipulators...
Real Vampire Issues Club
Still underconstruction

If you think your real vampire site would help out those in search of real vampire knowledge, Email us and we might put you on this page.


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Witin this internet community are groups providing understanding, support, education, and information for vampires and non-vampires alike... Here are some links;
The Vampire Information and Education Website (V.I.E.W.) Support Group

The Coven An all around vampire site, including lifestylers.


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Vampire as Path to Meaning Or What Does It All Mean?

THE VAMPIRE is a myth. Now hold on a minute! Don't just stop reading! At least ask yourself what you think I mean. Okay, so what do I mean by myth? The word myth is Greek in origin, mythos, meaning: Word, speech, story and legend. Confused yet? I was. Try this:

"Parts of mythology are religious, parts of mythology are historical, parts of mythology are poetical, but mythology as a whole is neither religion, or history, nor philosophy, nor poetry. It comprehends all these together under that peculiar form of expression which is natural and intelligible at a certain stage, or at certain recurring stages in the development of thought and speech, but which, after becoming traditional, becomes frequently unnatural and unintelligible." --Max Muller*

Whew, that's a lot of ideas all at once. What does Mr. Muller mean by all this? Well, let's take it apart and look at it. He says that mythology has parts; religion, history and poetry. Mythology takes all these parts, and then weaves an idea out into a story form or legend. It's like mixing ingredients together, and ending up with a cake that we eat. What's missing from this cake picture? The baking process, the ingredients have to be baked in order to end up with the cake. How does this process work? Well, most simply, the ingredients are heated, and that heat breaks them down and joins them together. The same process goes into mythology. What we see, hear, touch, taste and smell, all that goes into our heads, where we think about them (or don't think about them), and all that then 'bakes' in our minds and eventually becomes our beliefs. If the ancient authors of myths knew how baking worked like modern scientists do, then they would probably agree. Ever heard the phrase: "That's a half-baked idea."? See, I'm not saying anything new here.

Let's look at the mysterious 'something' our minds have baked up, what is it? It's a belief. Often our beliefs are unexplainable, or difficult for others to understand. A belief is often something that's easier to show than to tell. Myth is a way of showing what we have learned. The keyword is learned, the past tense of learning. Learning is a process, and something you learned is a product. And this is exactly what Muller touches on at the end of his statement, to refresh your memory, "[mythology which] after becoming traditional, becomes frequently unnatural and unintelligible."

Let's look closely at what he means there. After a myth becomes tradition, something taken for granted, then the myth becomes misunderstood or unintelligible. The myth dies. This may be because we no longer question a myth, because we just follow along, do the ritual, and then end up hating it, because we don't understand why we don't get it, and that makes us feel inferior. Or even worse, we think we do understand it, and we know the truth of it, and that this truth must be The Truth, and then go about trying to force The Truth onto other people. Do either of these sound familiar? I bet they do, because again I'm not saying anything new here. The point is this: Myths are dead the moment they are accepted without questions. The allegorical myths or fables are absurd for the reason of getting you to question. If you accept without question you've missed the point of myth, and indeed of life. And when you demand others to accept without question you commit a great crime.

If these words upset you, then I have achieved my first goal in presenting all this to you. What's my point? Please, read on, but do so only if you want to find out. Becoming upset means you are entering the stage prior to asking questions. This is a good thing, because it leads to learning. But, here comes the second problem of this situation. You ask me questions: "What do you mean? Explain yourself." If I was given the time to explain myself to everyone who wants to know what I mean -- I'd become immortal. Think about that one for a moment, read it again if you have to. Okay, the point I'm getting to is don't ask me questions about what I mean. Ask yourself questions about what I say, and find out for yourself what my words mean to you.

This is the essential truth behind why myths are told. Myths are not meant to be taken as The Truth, but each one has in it, somewhere, A Truth, and what that truth means is different for each person.

This is what I meant when I said the vampire is a myth. The vampire myth has a truth in it. But let's not mistake the absurd for reality, and reality for the absurd. Sure, vampires are part history, part religion, part philosophy, and part poetic imagery, but it's not one or the other. It's all of those put together and 'baked' in our own minds. There are as many vampires as there are people who believe in them, because they reside in our minds and are very close and personal there. Believing in vampires is a way of seeing the world, or what one has learned from the world, or what our thoughts and beliefs of what we take in from our five senses has taught about the world. In other words, there are very real reasons to see vampires everywhere. There are also very real reasons for becoming a vampire yourself.

But the point I want to get at is that it's very easy to get stuck in a myth and not question it. The closer that myth is, the more personally you believe it, the less likely you are to question it and to change. Ah, yes, and the vampire myth addresses change, doesn't it? Among other things. Let me explain how I've arrived at where I am now very briefly. Keep in mind that I don't know The Truth, only a truth that may or may not be helpful to you.

I started by with believing thoroughly in vampires, that they were real and someday they would come and make me one of them, and I would live forever like they do. I did not question this, I didn't need to -- or so I thought. Then in my search for real vampires I ran across books with people asking why people would want to become vampires. Why became a very important question to me. I started asking myself this, and then I started asking others. Why lead to other questions, like what is a vampire, what does it mean, etc. I constantly asked. Then one day I found the deep unexplored cavern of my personal view of the vampire. What's down there? I wondered. I went spelunking to find out.

I constantly wondered the meaning of what I found, I kept going. I didn't stop when I found what vampires meant to me. I kept going, asking the meaning of every myth I found, of every religion and or philosophy. I looked at it all, considered, thought over, and wrestled with every thought, word, idea and concept. When I didn't understand a word I'd look it up. I'd pull it out and look at it's roots, where it came from and how it's meaning has changed over time. And suddenly I wasn't in the cavern anymore, I was standing in bright sunshine, wide awake and alone with the thought that change is the only constant. And that the reason I first went to the vampire was because I was afraid of change. And now that I knew what change was, and what it means to me, I saw there was nothing to be scared of. I'm no longer afraid and I continue to seek truths.

So here's my final question to you: What are you afraid of? Don't tell me the answer, because you should know the answer for yourself, not me. Go. Ask yourself questions, take no lies, and you will continuely find truths. It's not a short or easy path, nor are there imediate rewards, but then what thing of value have half-baked ideas gotten you? Cake that tastes and feels wrong.



Suggested Vampire Books:
Dresser, Norine. American Vampires; Fans, Victims and Practitioners. Vintage, 1989.
Guiley, Rosemary E. Vampires Among Us. Pocket, 1991.
Guin, Jeff and Andy Griser. Something in the Blood. Summit Publishing Group, 1996.
Riccardo, Martin V. Liquid Dreams of Vampires. Llewellyn Publications, 1997.
Anything that makes you think and ask questions...




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