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Vampire Interview
On Tuesday, 10 November 1998
Questions & Comments: Tardis
Answers: Lane

Thank you both for allowing me to post this!

How old were you when you were changed into a vampire?

Changed? I don't hold that there was a change per se. Rather, I think of it more as recognizing what was there all along.

I have a majority of answers like yours. Most of them tend to state that they were born vamps, and that they just realized it some day. Some of the vamps who answered had children and found that they also were developing these characteristics. I had a discussion on this list with ******** on the vampiric nature and I must admit that his opinion proposing that vampirism has a genetic cause is quite reasonable.

But, let us take a sceptical position for a moment. Let us assume that becoming a vampire, or realizing that you have a vampiric nature is merely a change of behaviour. As a sceptical person, I could also suggest that the reason why children tend to develop vampirism is that children usually adopt the behaviour of their parents, and are affected consciously or not by their psychology.

The key element of the answer resides in how each vamp has realized its vampiric nature. By the way, this is a real *change* in my opinion, though some vamps feel that they were always like this, they must admit that some special day they have decided that they were vampires. They have found an identity.

What created you and how?

Dual archetypes within my psyche define much of what I am. I began to recognize some of this when I noticed that some of the mythical characteristics of the folkloric vampire and certain demonic entities associated with the historical ninja of feudal Japan were similar. I was curious as to whether these archetypes enjoyed some kind of common ancestor in the collective unconscious. As a student of nine old Japanese martial arts, I began to hypothesize that persons associated with the vampire myths of Europe might have employed similar methods, assuming they existed. I then began reading the works of chi kung practitioner who also dabbled in the art I study. A short passage in one of his books put it right out in front of me... that one eminently reasonable definition of a vampire was a person who, as he put it, can "work with energy". I had already begun training in some of the sensitivity exercises implicit in the arts I study, exploring pranic energy, and knew that, while I was very awkward, and mostly subconscious about it, I did indeed draw upon others, especially in intimate circumstances.

The ninja part is interesting. Could you explain what are the similarities that you have found with "folkloric vampires". Could you also explain "pranic" energy ? I am not familiar with this English word. I've never heard this ninja theory, I'm curious about whether or not other people on this list are familiar with it.... and what are their thoughts about it. This is interesting also because this is another kind of identity (very different at first sight).

What effects produce the lack of blood?
What effects produce the need for feeding on blood?

I am more focused on pranic energy, and less upon the medium of transport. The lack of blood, or any other source of pranic energy drags at me. I try to compensate as best I can; but, I also know that even with a donor, I am not as good with energy as I know is my potential.

I understand that you are a kind of psychic vamp.

Can you pass unnoticed in a group of humans?

I do it all the time. Besides, I tend to think that invisibility is more useful than invincibility. That's not to say that I'm invisible; but, people certainly don't automatically look at me and see a vampire.

I agree on the invisibility advantages. I don't know the ninja folklore very well.

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