Because vampires seem so close to who we are and because they have been so humanized in recent years, many people ask “are vampires real or myth”?
There is also a lot of hype lately with movies such as “Twilight” and TV shows such as “Vampire Diaries” or “True Blood“, resulting in an increased enthusiasm for the vampire culture.
To simply answer the question “are vampires real?” with a no, as rational people would expect, is facile. That’s because among those who call themselves vampires today, the definition has changed. The myth involves the immortal creatures that thrive off blood, sleep in coffins, change into bats, and need an invitation to cross a threshold, yet few aside from moviegoers actually do think of vampires that way anymore.
We’ve always known that vampires really exist, lurking in the shadows, stalking their victims, seeking whom they may devour.
However, they are not the undead, returning from crypt or cemetery plot to steal blood, the vital fluid of existence from the living. Although they may look like us and when it serves their purpose they may skillfully impersonate us in order to deceive and to prey upon us – they have never been human. Real vampires are parasitic, shape shifting entities that feed upon the energy, the life force, and the souls of humans.
From whatever dimension of time and space they may have originated, real life vampires may be compared to an ancient, insidious virus that first infects, then controls its host body, causing it, in turn, to possess other victims, feeding upon its life essence and its very soul. Some who have sought to appease or to control this parasitic blight from the far reaches of the multidimensional universe have only found themselves being exploited and cruelly inspired to form secret societies, blood cults, and hideous rituals of human sacrifice.
Regardless of the seductive aura of the vampire depicted in contemporary novels, films, and television series, none of these romantic transformations of an ancient menace to humankind portray real vampires. While the vampiric virus may infest handsome men and beautiful women, none of those infected have superhuman powers. Real life vampires and those whom they possess are loathsome slashers, rippers, and murderers who do not promise immortality with their sensual “bite,” only a painful death.
Real vampires and their human hosts can walk freely in the light of day. The rays of the rising sun do not send them scurrying back to their coffins. Crucifixes do not cause real vampires to shrink back in fear of the symbol of Christ’s triumph over sin.
Real vampires are the spawn of ancient entities such as Lilith, the seductive fallen angel, or of other paraphysical beings – such as the Jinn, the Cacodaemons, the Raskshasas, and the Nephilim – who have traversed the boundaries of time and space to prey upon humankind.
Real vampires are immortal, and when the spirit parasite that has invaded a human body has tired of that fleshly residence, it dispassionately discards its temporary dwelling and possesses another, abandoning its former host to death and decay, rather than to an existence of attractive eternal youth and everlasting sexual prowess.
Although these entities cannot be killed, they can be driven away from their potential victims. We can resist them. We can become immune to their power. We can fight them and defeat them.
While the very essence of the real vampire originates in other dimensions of reality, down through the centuries psychopathic murderers have envisioned themselves as vampires who must feed upon human blood in order to gain power over their fellow humans. And, in one of those bizarre twists of the human psyche, in the Middle Ages self-righteous individuals who were in power condemned men and women as monsters who must be slaughtered in order to establish a triumph of God, faith, and conformity.
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