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<div><div> Michelle Belanger discovered her psychic abilities at an early age, and her affinity with psychic vampirism while in high school. She has been deeply and centrally involved in the vampire community since the early 1990s, working with many vampire luminaries as a vital part of House Kheperu. She edited and published the Gothic literary magazine <i>Shadowdance</i>. Belanger is a member of the Goth band URN, which performs widely in the Midwest. Belanger lives in Brunswick, Ohio. </div></div>

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THE PSYCHIC VAMPIRE CODEX

A MANUAL OF MAGICK AND ENERGY WORK

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
PART ONE PSYCHIC VAMPIRISM
chapter I • METAPHYSICS AND VAMPIRISM
chapter II • THE VAMPIRE COMMUNITY
chapter III • A JOURNEY OF MEMORY
chapter IV • REVISIONING THE VAMPIRE
chapter V • THE CODEX UNVEILED
PART TWO THE CODEX
Introduction • KHEPRIAN MYSTERIES
1. THE KHEPRIAN CHARGE
2. ORIGIN
3. FAMILY
Section I • AWAKENING AND RECOGNITION
4. AWAKENING
5. REMEMBRANCE
6. OTHER AWAKENED
7. POTENTIALS
8. UNCONSCIOUS FEEDING
9. THE BEACON
10. PROXIMITY AWAKENINGS
11. DEDICANTS
12. SYMPATHETIC VAMPIRES
13. RECOGNITION
14. OTHER QUALITIES
15. THE LONELY PATH
16. RESPONSIBILITY
17. CYCLES
18. ALTERATIONS AND CASTE
19. ACCIDENTAL ALTERATIONS
20. THE CASTE SYSTEM
21. THE PRIEST CASTE
22. THE WARRIOR CASTE
23. THE COUNSELOR CASTE
24. VARIATIONS ON CASTE
25. THE DISEMBODIED
26. SPIRITUAL IMMORTALITY
27. THE HIGHER SELF
Section II • FEEDING AND ENERGY EXCHANGE
28. THE ANATOMY OF ENERGY
29. FEEDING BASICS
30. CYCLING AND REFINING ENERGY
31. LEVELS OF NEED
32. INTERCASTE FEEDING
33. DYNAMIC EXCHANGE
34. AMBIENT FEEDING
35. INSPIRING EMOTION
36. SURFACE FEEDING
37. CONTACT FEEDING
38. TANTRIC EXCHANGE
39. DEEP FEEDING
40. DREAMWALKING
41. BREATH AND LIFE
42. DIMINISHED STATES
43. ENERGY AND EMOTION
44. RELIGIOUS ENERGY
45. PROCESSING ENERGY
46. QUALITY OF ENERGY
47. BLOOD AND LIFE
48. ASSESSING NEED
49. DEEP NEED
50. THE EFFECTS OF FEEDING
51. FEEDING DANGERS
52. CONSTANT FEEDING
53. CHOOSING FEEDING PARTNERS
54. SUBTLE LINKS
55. DEEP FEEDING AND LINKS
56. FEEDING THROUGH LINKS
57. DAMPENING LINKS
58. BREAKING LINKS
59. THE CALLING
Section III • BASIC ENERGY WORK
60. SENSING ENERGY
61. GROUNDING
62. GROUNDING TECHNIQUES
63. CENTERING
64. SHIELDING
65. CREATING FILTERS
66. MEDITATION
67. OTHER METHODS OF FOCUS
68. SEEING ENERGY
69. THE ENERGY BALL
70. BASIC ENERGY PLAY
71. CHARGING AN OBJECT
72. MANIFESTING
73. AUGMENTATION
74. ENERGY AND THE AURA
75. PERCEIVING THE AURA
76. AURAS AND MEANING
77. THE SUBTLE BODY
78. READING THE SUBTLE BODY
79. ENERGY MAINTENANCE
80. ENERGY ATTUNEMENTS
81. PERFORMING AN ATTUNEMENT
82. BASIC HEALING
83. REMOVING BLOCKAGES
84. NERVE BURN
85. HEALTH AND DISEASE
Section IV • ADVANCED ENERGY TECHNIQUES
86. LIVING WITH ENERGY
87. CLEANSING ENERGY
88. HEIGHTENING ENERGY
89. BUILDING WARDS
90. PSYCHIC ATTACK
91. COUNTERING INDIRECT ATTACK
92. COUNTERING DIRECT ATTACK
93. REPAIRING DAMAGE
94. MAKING THE PROPER TOOLS
95. AURIC WOUNDS
96. SUBTLE BODY WOUNDS
97. ENERGY INTRUSIONS
98. MALIGNANT ATTACHMENTS
99. OTHERSIDE BEINGS
100. ORDERS OF BEINGS
101. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN REALITIES
102. COMMUNICATING WITH SPIRITS
103. BANISHING THE UNWANTED
104. BINDING
105. BEGINNING MEMORY WORK
106. EDGE WORK
107. MAINTAINING BALANCE
108. FULL CIRCLE
Afterword • BEYOND VAMPIRES AND VAMPIRISM
DISCOVERY OF SELF
WISH BRINGS A GUEST
LOOKING AHEAD
Appendix I • A BRIEF GUIDE TO THE VAMPIRE COMMUNITY
Appendix II • A TIMELINE OF THE VAMPIRE COMMUNITY
Appendix III • THE BLACK VEIL: VAMPIRE ETHICS
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography