The occultist Dion Fortune made some
interesting statements about energy vampires that are worth discussing. I can’t remember which of her books they came
from; I have paraphrased her words from memory and some scribbled notes.
She likened an energy vampire and victim to a
bullfrog and sucked-out orange.
This is a very memorable image. I think it
must apply mainly to powerful, driven and glamorous energy vampires, those who
need and obtain excessive amounts of extra energy. Many energy vampires are
being vampirised themselves - possibly by other people, possibly by some
internal parasitic obsession or idea - so they appear shrivelled, diminished
and sucked out too.
I am reminded of Petra Kelly, one of the
founders of the German Green Party, who is reported to have got through
seventeen secretaries in eight years:
“I loved her dearly,” said Heinz Suhr, a
Green Party spokesman, “but some hated her. They called her a vampire, sucking
the energy out of those around her. She was too big a star.”
