Ancient Origins of the Vampire

It is often apparent when we look back in history to tales of the unexplained variety that certain types of occurance happened more often back then. To give an example poltergeist stories can be found going way back in time and the amount of such tales that one can point to it really does seem as if these things happened more often than nowadays. Is this because before 1900 people were more open to these ideas, in a frame of mind to accept these incidences for what they were? Perhaps in our age of scientific advancement where scientific theory rules, our cynicism is such that we are not able to experience these phenomena because we have shut ourselves off from such things being a reality to us.


There is one such phenomena I’d like to tell you about. This is an incidence that has been recorded in different countries throughout Europe from at least the 1200's to the 1800's. The accounts are so similar in describing the same details in each case that one cannot deny the existence of the phenomena when such accuracy has been made in the recording time and time again. The accounts are often enhanced in their credibility by the persons giving the testimony. For example one such account from 1732 is signed by five Austrian Officers three of which were doctors.

The stories typically begin with the death of someone in the village. After the persons death people report seeing him or her. What is more they are usually haunting the village with a degree of meance. People will claim to have been attacked and in some cases animals too.

Now what is interesting here is that those who are attacked by the ghost of the dead villager are more often than not throttled by the throat, often leaving marks upon the neck. Now we know that they are ghosts because while many villagers may be able to see them there were some who could not.

The villagers response to this was to dig up the corpse and burn it, often removing the head first. Now when the bodies are dug up in all these cases the body has not decayed in any way. When these corpses were cut into, large amounts of fresh blood gushed from them which should not be possible for a corpse that has been intered.

Once these corpses were burnt the hauntings and appearences stopped.

To summarise; Ghostly figure attacks the throat leaving red marks, body is gorged with blood, is stopped by removing the head and burning. That’s right this is where the legend of the Vampire began except these guys did not actually suck blood from the victims neck, they were taking their energy. So if you are bothered by spectres in the night maybe wear a crucifix around your neck at night, you never know it might just work.

Paradigms and Perceived Reality

Someone asked me the other day to explain what a paradigm is. The example I used to describe a paradigm was to compare it to a pair of glasses. It is through these glasses that we view everything in our world, not through the naked eye but always through our glasses. Everyone’s glasses are different to everyone else’s, this is because they are like our personalised set of sun glasses which filter out or shape what we see through them. One persons glasses could be rose tinted another could have lenses so dark they only make out rough shapes and little detail (as a metaphorical example).




What creates the view through your own glasses is the sum of your life experiences, your beliefs and personal values, this is your paradigm.

Incidentally the popular theory of Neural Linguistic Programming (NLP) often refers to this paradigm as your personal filters on reality. The process of NLP seeks to realise what your filters are and when they colour your responses to situations most. Then seek to override this so that you can take a greater degree of control over yourself, e.g. be brave when you would otherwise be afraid!



So why am I banging on about paradigms? Well it seems to me that your interpretation of what occurs to you during an experience such as Sleep Paralysis or an unexpected Out of Body Experience (OOBE) depends often on your own paradigm. I have read posts by people with a strong Christian beliefs say that sleep paralysis is the work of Satan and he has sent his demons to attack you!  I have read posts by Muslims who believe a similar thing and attribute the experience to an evil spirit from the tribe if Jinn. There are those that believe that what is happening to them is the work of aliens from out of space, perhaps because of their exposure to popular cultural influences. You may have read the post I did once before illustrating the similarities in the description of Sleep Paralysis effects and those of alien abductees’. The same experience is interpreted differently depending on the person’s life experience up unto that point in time.

I’m not trying to discredit anybodies particular view or interpretation. I am just bringing this effect (of the paradigm) into plain view so that we can be aware of it when we examine experiences of our own and those of others. Perhaps this will help in our understandings and finding a common ground with one another.

Deliberate Projection

Exit Training

There are many different techniques you can deploy to try and promote a deliberate exit of your physical body. As well as the range of techniques available there are different types of 'projection' experiences you can try.
The techniques require practice, a methodical training if you like. The techniques themselves aren't particularly difficult but more than often require persistence and discipline in order to stay the course and attain success. Once you have reached success in deliberately causing a projection it's not like riding a bike unfortunately. You may well still have difficulty in easily projecting the next time and indeed you may never may master complete control of where and when you project.

It for this reason that I have come to see sleep paralysis as a sort of gift in a way. I say this because once you get past the distress stage and are accustomed to the experience, turning an paralysis episode into a projection seems much simpler than going through the training routine.
That said using sleep paralysis alone as an exit strategy is leaving it much more to chance. And I haven't had a sleep paralysis experience for months