Vampirism – 09.30.10

Student Question: Could you please expand more on the concept of vampirism?

“I think the vampire is the dominant archetype today,” argues Shunyamurti, the founder of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “And that’s because the ego, in its most negative form, becomes a vampire: it sucks the life energy out of others, but it has nothing to give. And so, life has become vampiric: whole societies are vampiric on other societies. . . . And this same process is true at every level, including the most intimate relationships, which is why they don’t last very long, you know: you suck whatever blood you can get, and the other one doesn’t have any more—you leave and find your next victim. And so relationships have become that kind of pattern. . . . And just as we have an oil shortage, we now have a blood shortage, a love shortage, so that the vampires are dying. And you know the myth of the golden spike, and they hide from the Christ symbol. They die in the face of God-consciousness. So the more that people awaken and allow the vampiric archetype to die, and bring the God archetype back, the more that the whole vampirism of the world will be dissolved, and the New Dawn—you know the vampires have to run away in the dawn and go back into their coffins—the dawn of a new age will end the vampiric ego pattern.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, September 30, 2010.