Psychology

Just a great True story of this old guy who went from a 6 figure
salary career, to a minimum wage job. But realizing
the sweetness of being alive and living, for the moment...

“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
- Steven Weinberg

I saw this great quote today. This is similar to how I've felt for most of my life. It's true that there is wisdom to be found everywhere, even in the most narrow-minded religions, but it seems that many religious people focus on dogma more than spirituality. Dogma does not apply properly in all situations. Add to this the fact that many people will use anything they can to convince people to do what they want them to do, and the fact that many religions contain a wide variety of conflicting ideas, and you quite often end up with evil people convincing good people to do evil things "because God commands it," or for similar made-up reasons.

The good people of the world are simply trying to do what they think will be truly beneficial for everyone. The evil people usually only care about themselves and their close friends and family, ie their own interests, or the destruction of things they hate. They often purposely mislead good people in order to convince them to do evil. Religion certainly has its good points, but this is one of its greatest weaknesses. There are a great number of evil people misusing its power.

Of course, by evil people, I mean people willing to do evil repeatedly in order to get what they want. Usually, the evil people who misuse religion think they are good people. Quite often, the greatest damage they do is to themselves, wielding the power of religion to convince themselves that some dark desire they have is the correct thing to do, rather than actually thinking it out and realizing that it would do more harm than good. Then they sometimes aggressively go around poisoning their family, friends, and anyone else they can convince to listen to them, with the same corrupted religious ideas that are eating away at their own souls.

My world is unaffected,
there is an exit here
if I say it is then its true
There is a dream inside a dream
Im wide awake the more I sleep

I went to god just to see,
and I was lookin at me

-M. Manson

I found this article fascinating. Dr. Bruce Goldberg explains very well how energy vampires draw their victims in and drain their energy. Keep in mind that there are other views about what energy vampires are, and I don't agree with all of his conclusions. Some of his insights are very interesting and seem quite likely, especially in respect to these particular kinds of people. Rather than state here which parts I agree with, I'll simply share the article and let you decide for yourself what has merit within it.

Energy Vampires

Dr. Bruce Goldberg writes:

Some people, by their very presence, seem to drain the energy of those unprotected people around them. They will often associate with a victim who exhibits the classic signs of this drain.

General debility, lack of motivation and energy, an emaciated physique, a pallid complexion, and an overall sense of weakness are typically noted. These victims also tended to be highly suggestible people. The dominant partner (energy vampire) always resists a successful treatment, or protection, applied to their victim.

Most of these energy vampires are well-meaning, normal people. They are an unhappy lot, and do their damage by a telepathic draining of their victim's energy resources. Mere separation of two people results in immediate positive changes in the victim. In my Los Angeles office I train all such victims in the art of spiritual protection techniques to eliminate any recurrences of this syndrome. Try the psychic protection negativity experience on the hypnotic exercise link for your own protection.

I prefer to use the term "psychic parasitism" for cases where this energy drain is involuntary and subconscious. If this effect is the result of a premeditated psychic attack, I refer to the perpetrator as an energy vampire.