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March 16, 2024

The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism

The Subtle Vital Interchange and Vampirism

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Ch. 1 Life Through the Eyes of the Yogin, pg. 19 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/03/14/the-subtle-vital-interchange-and-vampirism/

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When Bram Stoker wrote his
classic horror tale Dracula, he

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popularized and sensationalized
an actual phenomenon of vital

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interchange that operates mostly
unnoticed and not as

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sensationally as his tale
implies.

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To put it in simple terms,
vampirism is the ability of

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someone to utilize the occult
vital interchange to draw off

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energy from another individual,
leaving the other person feeling

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weak, drained, exhausted, were
practically helpless and held

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under a type of spell to carry
out the bidding of the person

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who is dominating their vital
force.

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The vitality can be drained to
such a degree that it can lead

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to various forms of illness and
wasting away of the life force

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and will to survive and thrive.
Vampirism can take place at a

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relatively low level when it is
not consciously enhanced and

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fortified through the action of
any powerful forces of the vital

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plane that feed upon human vital
energy.

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An extension or subset of this
phenomenon is vampirism that

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takes place utilizing the sexual
energy.

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The result is similar, but since
it is focused on the powerful

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force of the sex drive, it can
lead to a form of sexual slavery

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and submission to the will of
the perpetrator, to virtually

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anything demanded of the victim,
including deploying the sexual

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energy to entice and capture
third parties and subject them

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to the will of the original
perpetrator.

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There is also the potentiality
of binding the victims despite

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various forms of abuse, threats
and even physical harm carried

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out upon them.
It is from actual instances of

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this type of vital vampirism
that the more sensational horror

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genre has emerged and distorted
the reality far beyond its

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original power or scope of
action.

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Most people, being unaware of
the actual subtle, vital

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interchanges that take place and
the manner in which these forces

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work, do not realize consciously
that their energy is being

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drained through certain vital
relationships, whether sexual in

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nature or not.
Other than perhaps a passing

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reference to feeling exhausted
after a meeting with someone who

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happens to exercise this form of
action.

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As the spiritual seeker awakens
to the action of the occult

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forces that operate behind the
overt external actions, he can

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both begin to identify these
actions and the people who

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express them, consciously or
unconsciously, and create a wall

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of protection to enhance the
strength of their vital envelope

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or aura to ensure they are not
victimized.

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Or else they can choose to
consciously avoid such

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individuals so as to not subject
themselves to that force.

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The protective force can be
built up through active

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conscious efforts of will and
rejection of undesired

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vibrational impulses, through
use of mantras or through

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consecration to a protective
deity or guru, as the case may

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be.
Sri Orbindo writes quote.

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When people mix together, there
is generally some interchange of

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vital forces, which is quite
involuntary.

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Vampirizing is a special
phenomenon, a person who lives

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upon the vital of others and
flourishes vitally at their

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expense.
The tired feeling which the

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people felt after seeing this X
is a sign of vampirism.

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But very often there is no such
feeling.

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But there is an after effect on
the whole.

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The nerves get gradually wrong.
What is called the nervous

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envelope becomes weak or in one
way or another the vitality

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becomes weak or gets into an
abnormal condition, excitable

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and irritable.
There are many such ways in

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which the effect shows itself.
Sex vampirism is a different

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matter.
In sex interchange the normal

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thing is to give and take, but
the sex vampire eats up the

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others vital and gives nothing
or very little.

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End Quote Reference Sri
Aurobindo and the Mother, the

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Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter
One, Life Through the Eyes of

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the Yogin, page 19.