What the heck is it? It is not what you think. It has nothing to do with biting a human or animal. In fact it is not physical at all. It can be a form of mind control or feeding of another person’s mind, grounding a groups excess energy & or sending energies with harmful intentions. It can be a form of mentally abusiveness if used unethically.

I must add here that NOT all psychic vamps are harmful. In fact there can be a "code of ethics" involving this subject. From what I recently learned about psychic vamps, is that most of them have no intentions of harming anyone. There are good and bad within ALL belief systems. It depends upon the intentions of the magickian, the individual or psychic person. There can be a useful way to using the psychic vamping. Suppose a group of people in a club are dancing a lot. Can you imagine how much energy each person can generate? Now think of how much 30 people’s energies are going to create. Dancing, frolicking and raising energies can cause a lot of chaos to people who are unaware of this great energy that they created. They have no idea about grounding and centering or releasing that energy that was generated. Too much energy in one spot or one person can be very harmful to ones health. Everyone needs to learn to ground themselves.

Have you ever felt like you were drained so badly after being around a new person in a group? Have you ever noticed that one single negative attitude person can bring down everyone around them? This could be a form of unintentional psychic vampirism. A Psychic vampire may not know they are even doing it to others and then again some do. They can look like everyday casual dressed people; sometimes they may be dressed in the cliché "Gothic" looking attire although you cannot judge based wholly on their clothes. Someone unethical might think it is some sort of a game or likes to harm other people for shits and giggles. But this can hurt another human being physically and or psychically.

Another way an unethical vamp might do this is he/she could be pretending to do other things within a group or social setting; however they may be pulling your energy out! For instance a recent example of this happened to me and my wife. We were at a local park meeting with a new potential member for our Coven. While talking and doing the interview with this person, the person’s friend that was with them was pretending to be meditating off to the side of our group meeting.

No one suspected anything awry. But after a few minutes had passed by, and while my wife was asking these questions, I starting feeling someone’s energy trying to tap me and my wife’s mental barrier. So I immediately suspected that the outsider was the culprit of this feeling. So I started blocking and shielding against him. However I found out later that by this person admitting to me that he was a chaos magician of 5 years of study. My wife got really ill and my daughter as well in that same day. Evidentially I did not catch his intentions in time. He was obviously pulling too much energy from my wife Magenta. Personally, we did not need anyone else to remove any excess energy from us. We are well aware of proper grounding and centering ourselves.

Some unethical ones may know there is a way to "steal" or grab thoughts from another person or pull energy from them without them even knowing it. This may be considered more along the lines of mind reading though. Ether way it is unethical to tap into someone’s mind without their knowledge or permission to do so. It isn’t that hard to do, with proper training and practice. So beware of an unfriendly or harmful person that your instinct tells you something is all wrong with this person or their aura. You may want to practice working with reading auras to help determine if someone is unethical.

Yes you can protect yourself against a psychic or magick attack. One way is to ground and center and block. Learn to do a LBR (lesser banishing ritual) or how to visualize a sphere of protection magick around you or a loved one. Learn to put your shields up around unknown people in unknown places. Do not suspect everyone is out to get you or cause harm or everyone is a psychic vamp. But be aware that there are people who can do this for harm.

If you go to a meeting of new witches or a meet-n-greet just keep a keen eye out for someone trying to pluck your brain! Immediately put your shields up if you feel threatened. Don’t give out your real craft name or name to anyone you do not trust or know very well. Some people say you can cross your arms across your chest to help block an attack too. I don’t know if this truly helps or not. You can create a witches bottle, set up a mirror spell around your home to reflect the harmful magick. Do protective shields spell? Last but not least, if you really believe someone is harming you or your family and you know who this person or entity is for sure, then do a full banishing against it or them. There are many ways to protect you it just requires a little studying and action (will).

Other ways might include setting wards around your home or property. Carrying amulets or talismans is another great way too. A simple candle magick spell can be as effective in protections as well.

Astral beings can attack you as well through psychic means. Using a divination board or oracle to communicate with the spirits can be dangerous if you do not know how to correctly use them and understand working with entities. During astral traveling or in dream states you could have an astral nasty trying to tag along with you in hopes of coming back to our mundane middle world. This is why you would want to cleanse yourself and ground & center the energy that accumulates during ritual, astral work or soul journeying. Keep in mind that like attracts like in the magickal (spirit) world like magnets. You do not want harmful astral baggage lingering around your home or yourself.

Harmful spirits and shadow spirits most likely develop from within your own household. The fighting, arguments and feelings of stress can create an energy ball of harmful magick or power beyond your wildest dreams. Remember the like attracts like axiom? If you and a spouse or partner have regular fights or live too stressful of lives you probably have already started making this harmful spirit really huge right now. It is feeding off of this negativity that you are creating. So be sure to banish, cleanse your house quite often if there is a lot of problems within your household.

You may also meet your shadow self at some point in your studies and otherworld travels. They are most likely negative/harmful and unhappy feelings of your other self. All your negativity, anger, frustrations, jealousy and self doubt problems are what this shadow self feeds upon. It has been developing for such a long time and may have really become powerful. Don’t let it rule or control your life. You can’t banish it totally and you shouldn’t anyway because it is a darker part of you.

There is always going to be eyebrows raised somewhere when we speak of negativity or harmful magickal intentions. Many people in the magickal world do not and will not use the word negative to reflect a harmful situation. There are differences in each use of these terms. Negative should not always be used to describe a harmful situation. It is simply because it takes both positive and negative aspects to create a union or whole cosmologically speaking. It is best described like the yen and yang train of thought.

Many things in our world deal with an equal but opposite of itself. Think of white and black colors, day and night, dry and wet. We would not know the difference of being wet if we did not know of being dry. So negative should be thought of in the terms of opposite of positive in lieu of electrical circuits. Whether or not we are talking about energies or mundane everyday life habits we should try to refrain from using negative in this aspect. It is best to use the word harmful in place of it instead. This will save an argument in the long run too.