Actually, the energy model I was taught in buddhism has the energy from earth and "the heavens", aka the elements as a different energy as life energy, which is what we believe we're taking.
I've said it a few times... the energy I expend to get energy from those objects is more energy than I get out from those objects.
Lemme try to say it differently... it is incredibly difficult to get energy out of the ground, for me at least. I have done it once, maybe twice. Very, very hard. It gives me migraines... it's more like a, "Haha! I did it! Roar! Yes!" kind of thing... because I got like... a penny worth of energy. But I used up a LOT of energy. I wasted so much energy to do that.
Which is unethical. I had taken energy from people before that day, and then wasted the energy I had stolen from them, to try to get energy from the ground.
Now, for those vampires who are so awesome at energy manipulation that they can get any type of energy they can from any object, all the power to you. I can't. And to continue to do so, is wasting energy. Stolen energy in the first place.
I don't think the earth has life energy. The earth has earth energy. The living has living energy. The air has air energy. There's also emotional energy, like metta, loving-kindness.
Quantum, are you reading the online version "The Vampire Codex" the physical "The Vampire Codex" or the online "The Psychic Vampire Codex" or the physical "The Psychic Vampire Codex"
What happened was that when it fiiirst got published it was called simply The Vampire Codex. But someone, I believe I know who but it wont make any difference to you, decided that he wanted it to be more... life styler-y. So, he typed it up made it oh so beautiful and...
cheesy
and put it online. Thus the first online version. Michelle didn't really have a problem with this. It made a nice distinction between who actually bought the book and was serious about wanting to know more, and who was just some kid who couldn't be caught with books like that under their mattress, so they read it online and got all the information wrong. Then, when Michelle wrote a rewrite, she made her own online version. The second version is called "The Psychic Vampire Codex" (shows that the community progressively gains a hatred towards sanguinarians, vampires who drink blood, and I'll debate about them in a new topic after waiting a month, since I don't drink blood). The online and physical are much closer alike than the first version but there are still differences, like leaving out some of the time lines and what not.
Point is, the main flaw I find in the book is it's written, like you saw, in a very, "Well, now that you know you're a vampire..." style. And you can get this book in BORDERS for god's sake! So people randomly pick up this book and go, "Well Gosh! I'm a vampire!"
Uuuh uuuh uuh NO! Arg. Makes me so angry.
The odd thing is, the book, like I said before, is mostly a very hippy book about energy working. Anyone can do energy working. Anyone. That's apart of being human. But then, in it's language, it makes it sound like, by being able to do energy working, you're a vampire.
That's not the stance Michelle takes. I've spoken with her and she actually has much higher standards for "what makes a vampire" than even I have (though I meet them, oddly enough) but it still bothers me that she intentionally went out and got it published with these views that she doesn't seem to go with.
End rant.
Daynah, dude, build yourself an orgone acculmulator.
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