I have been getting many questions lately about vampirism, what it is 
and what it consists of. I wish to address this subject in my address 
to the NightFlyer's of Lucifer's Den this week. As vampires we are 
constantly dealing with misconceptions of ourselves and we all have 
run into this sometime. I wish to speak about the finer points of our 
vampirism, our energy needs, for it is this that defines us and sets 
us apart from other humans.

Vampirism first exists in the abilities that are present. Vampires 
generally have heightened sensory abilities that other people find are 
absent. These are present in the psychic and empathic abilities to 
percieve and minipulate the mental and emotional energies of others 
who are susceptable to it. It is inherent in the ability to percieve 
this energy around people as energy fields, auras, and interractions. 
Vampirism can be first understood in this difference in abilities. As 
for the attraction of the blood energy and the protein and elemental 
properties of blood, vampires have an ability to tap the properties of 
blood unlike other people. We know that blood naturally makes people 
sick just by it's properties if injested too much, but we as vampires 
who take blood do not require much of it.

Vampirism is a conscious mental ability and then need that arises out 
of a deficit in energy. vampires thru this awareness and need are 
natural energy feeders and find the need to take this energy and so 
seek it. vampires mormally easily take the mental and emotional energy 
of others thru their own manipulation of it and then use this energy 
for where it is best needed within. Here one normally posesses some 
psychic and empathic ability that comes with the heightened sensory 
ability that many do not have. Vampires learn to use their abilities 
once there is a realization of them and the energy need. Whereas we 
easily are able to blend in well without detection, we sense the 
energy of others that other people do not "see".

The attraction of the blood energy and elements is more difficult to 
understand. Some have experienced accidental cuts or other exposure 
and find an attraction to the properties of blood for energy. Some 
vampires find that with blood one could use whatever is present in it 
to gain the energy lift that was desired, but then most do not need 
much of it for their satisfaction. Most have found that others have a 
lower threshold to ingest it. I think it is easy to get use to the 
energy and elemental properties of blood, for vampires do not need to 
ingest much for their needs.

It is important to understand that vampirism is highly dependent on 
abilities of sensory perception and awareness, which so many do not 
have. It also depends on balance, for too much of this mental and 
blood energy overturn's this balance. Vampirism is not something one 
learns to do, it is dicovered and those become aware of it thru  
discovery of sensory abilities and the need to use them. These energy 
feedings came natural for most but then as in all things one learns to 
use abilities. Vampirism is not just given to someone, it comes from 
the abilities and then needs that are largely a part of what you 
develop and then learn to use..