anthropology
Psychic Vampirism
The condition, often unconscious on the vampire's part, in which one person chronically drains the vital force of another in close relationship, leaving the victim persistently exhausted or ill while the vampire is sustained. Distinct from psychic_attack in mechanism (a parasitic, often unintentional energy-transfer within an ongoing relationship, rather than a deliberate willed assault) and in being a chronic condition rather than a discrete event.
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Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | Preface-c
“As a young girl of twenty I entered the employment of a woman who I now know must have had a considerable knowledge of occultism obtained during a long residence in India, and concerning which she used to drop hints that I could make nothin…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 2. Analysis Of The Nature Of Psychic Attack-g
“Taken separately, any of the incidents in this strange eventful history can be explained away, but taken together they make a curious story, especially when it is remembered that without any previous information a psychic investigation had…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-a
“THE alleged Vampire has always been a popular character in tales of mystery and imagination.
There is a considerable literature concerning his doings, from the famous novel Dracula to serious studies of the medieval witch-trials, for which…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-b
“Such cases are by no of means uncommon, and clear up rapidly when the victim is separated from the vampire.
Whenever there is a record of a close and dominating bond between two people with the devitalisation of one of them, it is a good p…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-c
“Taverner, but the actual facts are such that they were unsuitable for a work supposedly designed to amuse.
At that time I was doing the tutorials in abnormal psychology at the clinic I have spoken of, and supervising the work of the other…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 5. Vampirism-d
“It was, in fact, the same method that I was instructed to use in dealing with my were-wolf, but it is a much more formidable task to absorb and transmute the projection of another person than to absorb one’s own, and could only have been ac…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 6. Hauntings-d
“It was merely force in a state of tension.
It was sheer physical noise that made the disturbance, as I can testify, for I have slept, or rather, tried to sleep, there.
Where a ghost is seen, it is usually also heard because for a form to…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 6. Hauntings-e
“Celts are notoriously susceptible to psychic influences, and are always the first to be affected by them.
It will be observed that the babies went down first under the attack, their resistance being low compared to that of an adult; and th…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 7. The Pathology Of Non-Human Contacts-b
“In all cases the physical, etheric and astral bodies are involved; the vortex therefore always reaches as far as the astral plane; a soul upon the astral plane may be drawn into this vortex if it is ripe for incarnation, and thus enter the…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 16. Diagnosis Of The Nature Of An Attack-d
“Note the dates carefully, and turn them up in an ephemeris of those years, and observe how the moon stood in relation to them, also the planets.
Observe whether they fell on or about the equinoxes or solstices.
Note also the days of the w…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 18. Methods Of Defence II-e
“I called to her to return, and as she entered she exclaimed, “Look what has happened to the door!” and we found that one of the panels had split clean in two.
It was this that had evidently caused the loud crack we had both heard.
I offer…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 19. Methods Of Defence III-c
“Having discerned the type of the force with which he has to deal, he then proceeds to meditate upon its opposite, concentrating upon purity and selflessness if the force be lust; compassion and love, if it be malice; and upon God as the cre…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 19. Methods Of Defence III-e
“That for many past lives she had been upon the Path, and that in her last life, a male incarnation, in order to speed up her progress she had travelled in the East, and eventually took initiation into one of the Thibetan Orders, which unfor…”
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