[Music] There are several spiritual concepts that are useful when giving us clarity into a larger framework for viewing the world around us, and energy vampires is one of them. But the true meaning of this term has been obscured by our own folklore, mixed with a healthy dose of wtf and animosity. So today, I'm going to be sharing what an energy vampire truly is, and at the end of this video, I will share how to free yourself from energy vampires. The most crucial thing to know about energy vampires, if we want to identify them and remove ourselves from these dynamics, is that everyone can behave like an energy vampire, including ourselves. Because behaving in a way that falls under the category of an energy vampire is a part of a spectrum, and that spectrum is calibrating the amount of energy siphoning that is taking place from a person's behavior, which is consciousness. If we were to make an arbitrary scale of consciousness, from entirely unconscious with absolutely no desire for awareness, to very conscious and doing the necessary inner work to broaden our

awareness. A person who behaves in a way that would make them an energy vampire would fall in the zone of being close to entirely unconscious, with no desire for awareness. So, this would be the extreme form of how energy siphoning presents itself. Since unconsciousness is what creates the sample platter for every kind of pain one can possibly imagine, the more conscious a being becomes, the more that is reflected in how they choose to source their energy. The desire for harmony with their environment is much stronger than the need to source their energy from turmoil. They still suffer, but they suffer well. They self-examine and self-correct because they don't get pleasure from endless durations of conflict. The less conscious a being is, the more they lack the light of their own awareness. So, energy vampires have different taste buds when it comes to how they source their energy. Because someone who truly falls into this category of an energy vampire is unconscious and has no desire for self-awareness, their traits and behaviors are going to naturally be experienced as draining.

even if they don't want to drain people, it would still be draining to be around someone who is unconscious because they are going to act in a very energetic, demanding way, like entrenched in conflict, lying with no remorse, not able to take any personal responsibility, or always telling people all of their problems but never interested in solutions. You see how just by being unconscious, it's its own special hell because you're going to perceive all of life in its most primal form. We're more threatened, we're more concerned with power grabs in our relationships, we feel a strong sense of entitlement, we feel we need to take even in scenarios when a person would have freely gave. Energy vampires operate primarily from the reptilian brain. Because of this, the predator and prey dynamic is very strong in an energy vampire dynamic. Their whole paradigm is filtered in infrared by the kinetics of the predator and prey connection. Either they play the role of eternal victims, unknowingly indulging in their martyrdom, or they are more at peace with their

nature. They correspond with their wounds, allowing them to get pleasure more directly from the drama that they design. And at the heart of the matter, what does all of this unconscious behavior add up to? The shadow. Energy vampires live in the shadow. The shadow is the name given to the aspect of us that stores everything that we have denied, repressed, or simply don't know how to embody. That is why shadow work is so important during a spiritual awakening, because shadow work eventually reveals to us all of the aspects within us that lack the light of our own awareness. But for a genuine energy vampire, they have no desire to become self-aware. They will double down on their behavior before ever cultivating true sincerity. They are repelled by their reflection, no different than how an actual vampire cannot see their reflection in a mirror. So, that is the defining factor that sets apart everyone else who can still act in a manner that's energetically draining but doesn't actually reside within the zone of parasitic. And the most important aspect in shadow work is the inner child.

the inner child is the gatekeeper. It holds the keys and is a threshold between us and infinity. So, if you would like to know more about the inner child's role in awakening, let me know in the comments. And if enough people are interested, I'll make a video explaining the role of the inner child in depth. There are prominent archetypes within the category of energy vampires, which can make it challenging to identify this behavior if we are only thinking of energy vampires as point-blank narcissists. One classical pattern is the damsel in distress, where a person feeds off of constantly being helpless. Another pattern is the white knight, who on first appearances seems to be selfless and supportive, only to slowly make a person dependent on them. Another vampiric archetype is the false father or the false mother. This is someone who uses their authority to emotionally manipulate others into doing their bidding for them. There is also a strong affinity for martyrdom with energy vampires. They like being martyrs because it's a flexible role. It's a way to be both predator and

prey at the same time. In fact, martyrdom is not only a role anyone can get stuck in; it's also deeply embedded into humans as a part of our programming by the false light. So, the feeling of martyrdom is natural for us to have since humans have a large capacity for empathy. But because we are inclined toward martyrdom, it is also one of the largest tools used to exploit us, especially spiritually advanced individuals. But there are so many different arrangements that energy siphoning takes on. It can play out in whatever way the energy vampire has an affinity for. It can insert itself into any dynamic, and even though it falls under the spectrum of entirely unconscious, that does not mean that all of them are clueless. On the contrary, there are other ways a person can behave in a manner of an energy vampire while even being relatively conscious, and these forms happen all of the time. This is when a person is conscious, but they have no desire for further self-awareness, so they are conscious enough to have

awareness, and they may even be spiritual or philosophical, but they lack the capacity to sincerely examine themselves, despite how intellectual they may be. This means they can be a conscious individual and still siphon other people's energy for their own means. A popular mechanism for this is love bombing. We see this all the time, both from individuals who are aware and aren't aware that they're using this technique to gain closer access into a person's life, to eventually pull a bait and switch. On the flip side of this, let's say you yourself are giving praise to someone, not to love bomb them, but to simply share your open admiration because that's what people do. A person who is behaving like an energy vampire will use the magnifying glass effect. This is where they interpret that praise as an invitation for a power grab because praise deteriorates a person into an infantile state of ego if they are not worthy of it. So, they take any positive compliments as a way to diminish our own reflection in their eyes in order to magnify their own reflection.

so they can't handle any energy exchange without turning into a power play. They use this to enhance their presence and lessen our own, while a person who can handle praise or admiration will not evaporate into an egomaniac. They will have no issue acting as a mirror and reflecting the compliment or praise back to the individual because power is awesome, it's sublime, and there's enough to go around. A clear example of the borderline territory when conscious individuals behave like energy vampires is when someone spends a lot of their time fighting other people online and camouflages it as helping humanity wake up when they are secretly feeding off of all of the conflict and drama that arises in order to gain a sense of authority. This dynamic is not the same as being a spiritual warrior, as spiritual warriors are committed to raising the consciousness of humanity but aren't doing it by desperately picking fights with anyone and everyone who will give them the time of day so that they can feed off of all of the conflict, endlessly draining people's energy by

micromanaging, making people defend themselves and over-explain, and it's all done in the name of spiritual awareness. Spiritual warriors are sincere and discerning; they are fierce and wise. They aren't afraid of conflict, but they pick their battles carefully, and not because of what will give them the most amount of drama. Whatever scenario you may find yourself in when you're dealing with energy siphoning, how to remove yourself from this dynamic is always going to be the same. You have to call them out directly on what they are doing. They're not going to own up to it or anything else you say. They will even completely turn the tables on you. They will accuse you of things that aren't true. They will fabricate stories. They are interested in the truth. What they are interested in is feeding. The reason you have to call them out, even if you look bad or if you look crazy, is because, like an actual vampire, they are repelled by the light of day. And when you call them out, you are bringing the light of awareness to their

shadows. So, even though they will attack you, they were going to attack you anyway, only now they can't do it and still feel securely hidden. Some of them will completely move on just by you calling out what they're doing. You have to take the L. This is a slang word I discovered for loss. You have to be very comfortable with taking the loss when you're dealing with an energy vampire. This means you have to let them accuse you and portray you however they insist on, instead of being held hostage by them and trying to prove yourself and defend yourself and get pulled back into their dynamics. Just take the L. Let them pull your proverbial hair on the way out, as uncomfortable as that may be. Any time we up-level in life, there's going to be some sort of reverb from it. But if we know there's going to be reverb, then we could actually treat it as a rite of passage. The next step in removing ourselves from an energy vampire dynamic is to hold ourselves accountable and to take

ownership for what we have in common with that person or that group. We have to walk this line without turning into a martyr, or else we will just have cycled back into the victim mentality. Martyrdom is pretty juvenile. It sounds good on paper, but it's a hot mess in the 3D. You don't want to get stuck in the murder mystery theater level of reality for the rest of this precious life. Use this experience to help you connect with any aspects of yourself that you had discovered during it or had rejected prior to it. On the spiritual path, we are not designed to avoid suffering, but to learn how to suffer well, so as to not reproduce our own suffering. And energy vampires are one of the best lessons for this. I hope this has helped you connect with your inner fang banger. Make sure to subscribe to my channel for higher-dimensional guidance through spiritual awakenings. See you next time. [Music] [Music] you

The Truth About Energy Vampires (And How to Deal With Them)

The Truth About Energy Vampires (And How to Deal With Them)