Sunday, October 26, 2008

More Vampire Theories...

Here is the continuation of my Hallowe'en research. I had some personal difficulties before but now I have the time to resume...even if no one sees this :(

Vampires and the Art of Blood-Drinking

Each of us incarnates for a lifetime with a certain way of relating to the physical world through the vehicle of our physical body. A vampire is a person born with an extraordinary capacity to absorb, channel, transform, and manipulate "pranic energy" or life force. She also has a critical energy imbalance which reels wildly from deficit to overload and back again. This capacity for handling energy is a gift, but the constant imbalance of her own system is the cause of the negative behavior patterns and characteristics which may be notable about a vampiric person.
Real vampires do not necessarily drink blood-in fact, most of them do not. Blood-drinking and vampirism have been confused to the extent that for the average person, a vampire is defined as something that drinks blood (such as a "vampire bat"). But when we look beyond casual assumptions to the details of common beliefs, we find something quite different. Throughout both folklore and literature, there is an understanding that vampires require energy or life force. Many old folktales accept that vampires suck blood, yet never describe this actually happening. The victims slowly decline and waste away, and the survivors assume that some evil fiend is draining them of blood. They know that the Bible says, "the blood is the life", and anyone who was losing their life force must be losing blood. Yet, in many instances the vampire's "attack" does not even involve physical contact. In others, it is clearly sexual energy which is exchanged.

Fresh blood is the highest known source of pranic energy (life force). Human beings have practiced blood-drinking for many reasons throughout history, but drinking blood alone does not indicate that a person is a vampire. Only real vampires can directly absorb the pranic energy in fresh blood, and for this reason some real vampires are attracted to blood and find different means of obtaining it. However, it is a rare vampire who cannot absorb energy in much more subtle ways. This is the mechanism that causes real vampires to inflict harm on others and themselves if they fail to recognize what is happening and do conscious work on transforming their inner natures. Vampires are no more likely to be either malicious or spiritually aware than the general population, but without awareness, they can spend their lives making themselves and others unhappy, and will continue to incarnate in this pattern until they take action to change it.

There are a number of external symptoms of vampirism, but it is important to realize that some of them are found in ordinary human behavior. Real vampires are identifiable partly because they have a majority of the symptoms, not just one or two. But more significantly, real vampires are distinguished by a certain quality to the energy. While anyone reading a description of the symptoms and behavior patterns might find a few that apply to people he knows, or even to himself, real vampires have a way of standing out vividly to everyone who interacts with them. There are few people who do not know at least one vampire.

Physically, vampires are usually "night people"" on a biochemical level. They have inverted circadian rhythms, with body cycles such as temperature peaks, menstrual onset, and the production of sleep hormones in the brain occurring at the opposite time of day from most people. They have difficulty adjusting to daytime schedules and frequently work nights. They tend to be photosensitive, avoiding sunlight, sunburning easily, and having excellent night vision. Their vitality ranges widely, and they can be vigorous and active one day, depressed and languorous the next.

They frequently have digestive trouble. Even those with cast-iron stomachs have many issues with food that are rooted in their constant hunger for energy. Contrary to the image of the vampire as thin, many real vampires are troubled by obesity because of a hunger that makes them food addicts, and a system that is sluggish in processing physical food. They are also sometimes troubled by other substance addictions for the same reasons, but since their systems are tuned to pranic energy more than to processing physical substance, they may not be as sensitive to drugs and alcohol as an ordinary person would be.

Emotionally and physically, vampires are unpredictable, moody, temperamental and overwhelming. The major distinguishing characteristic of real vampires as opposed to ordinary people who share those qualities is the vampire's intensity. Vampires are extremely intense people. They are frequently given nicknames such as "the black hole." When others talk about them (usually to complain about them), vampires are often described by such terms as "needy," "attention-seeking," "grandstanding," "manipulative," "exhausting," "draining," "monopolizes the conversation," "jealous," "huge ego," and so on. A vampire's emotions are deep, fervent, and powerful, and she usually displays great psychic ability and has uncontrolled magickal and psychic experiences. Vampires are also empaths, and while they remain unconscious of their natures, they are frequently "psychic sponges" who simply absorb vibrations from everywhere, with the expected emotional instability resulting.

Courtesy of: http://www.earthspirit.com/fireheart/fhvampire.html

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I love you guys and all but the truth is...if no one goes on this site, i'm going to have to get rid of it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! What more can i do???? I'm writing a fanfic for Twilight WHAT MORE DO I HAVE TO DO???!!! I'm just a girl that wants to share my stories with others :( please?

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I need help :S

I posted a new chapter on diaries of a newborn but i guess i'll be the only one reading it :'(

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Another Juicy Chapter...

Hey! I DID IT! I finished typing up the next chapter of 'Diaries of a Newborn' it's on the blog so go check it out if you wanna read about what juicy story ideas I've been playing with! I hope you don't sigh when you read it...I hope you're happy with where I'm going with it.

Not only that, this week I will post ANOTHER CHAPTER (kay...I know they're short but i'm not a professional). Before I follow through with that, if I get more comments within a few days then I will post a discussion explaining the chapter (including the introduction). But that's only going to happen if more people read my stuff so I ask for a favour... IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND THAT YOU KNOW MAY LIKE THE KIND OF STUFF I WRITE ABOUT, TELL THEM TO GO TO THIS SITE ALONG WITH *http://nataliethenewborn.blogspot.com/* PLEASE IT WOULD MEAN A LOT TO ME IF YOU COULD HELP POPULATE THIS SITE. *IN RETURN I WILL WRITE UP MORE CHAPTERS (if all goes well).

Thank you sooo much!

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Nat

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Sunday, October 5, 2008

Good News...

Hey! I have some good news for those of you who are interested in the coming of 'The Diaries of a Newborn' theme. I just started a new blog called 'The Diaries of a Newborn' this evening and made a new post, it's kind of like a prologue, so check it out at: http://nataliethenewborn.blogspot.com/

So...I hope you like it! I will be writing more 'chapters' soon so stay tuned!

Oh, and by the way, i'm also looking forward to tomorrow 'cause i'm getting some Tarot Cards! Oooh creepy! Hah, well i'll be writing about those experiences later.

G'Night!

Lots of Love,
Nat

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Hallowe'en Research

I love Hallowe'en. And just because I love it so much i've decided to dedicate my blog only to subjects of the Hallowe'en theme. I hope people who actually read this are as excited as I am.



Oh, and by the way, i'm aware I said I would start right on the first day but I couldn't because I had too much school work to do.



So, i've been searching for some interesting stories on the internet for vampires and werewolves.

Here are some of the things I read from these sites...



There are different types of strigoi: strigoi vii are live witches who will become vampires after death. They can send out their soul at night to meet with other witches or with Strigoi mort who are dead vampires. The strigoi mort are the reanimated bodies which return to suck the blood of family, livestock, and neighbours.
A person born with a caul, tail, born out of wedlock, or one who died an unnatural death, or died before baptism, was doomed to become a vampire. As was the seventh child of the same sex in a family, the child of a pregnant woman who didn't eat salt or was looked at by a vampire, or a witch. And naturally, being bitten by vampire, meant certain condemnation to a vampiric existence after death.
The Vircolac which is sometimes mentioned in folklore was more closely related to a mythological wolf that could devour the sun and moon and later became connected with werewolves rather than vampires. The person afflicted with lycanthropy could turn into a dog, pig, or wolf.
The vampire was usually first noticed when it attacked family and livestock, or threw things around in the house. Vampires, along with witches, were believed to be most active on the Eve of St George's Day (April 22 Julian, May 4 Gregorian calendar), the night when all forms of evil were supposed to be abroad. St Georges Day is still celebrated in Europe.
A vampire in the grave could be told by holes in the earth, an undecomposed corpse with a red face, or having one foot in the corner of the coffin. Living vampires were found by distributing garlic in church and seeing who didn't eat it.
Graves were often opened three years after death of a child, five years after the death of a young person, or seven years after the death of an adult to check for vampirism.
Measures to prevent a person becoming a vampire included, removing the caul from a newborn and destroying it before the baby could eat any of it, careful preparation of dead bodies, including preventing animals from passing over the corpse, placing a thorny branch of wild rose in the grave, and placing garlic on windows and rubbing it on cattle, especially on St George's & St Andrew's days.
To destroy a vampire, a stake was driven through the body followed by decapitation and placing garlic in the mouth. By the 19th century people were shooting a bullet through the coffin. For resistant cases, the body was dismembered and the pieces burned, mixed with water, and given to family members as a cure.


(this information courtesy of: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~vampire/vhist.html)



That's all i've got for now but i'll be finding more tonight and later on.



Right now I do realize I am writing for no one :( No one notices my blog :'( Help!?

Still,
Lots of Love,
Nat the Hallowe'en Spirit :D :[