by
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., is an
admitted psychopath who makes a tidy living through his site. His
book, “Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited,” is sold on
his site (samvak.tripod.com). Sam offers consultations and provides
a media kit.
The
behavioral strategy followed by the disordered is laid out in “The
Corporate Psychopath,” by the FBI on their site. This is outlined
as beginning
“by creating a mask, known as a psychopathic fiction, in the minds
of those targeted.” The
mask is the disguise the psychopath uses to operate.
Disordered individuals,
lacking empathy, work diligently to simulate emotions. They must
persuade their potential victims they are trust-worthy. Training
classes in these skills are given by other psychopaths.
Their numbers are large
enough, 1% according to experts at the University of Chicago, to make
it more than likely any normal person will encounter multiple
disordered individuals during their lives.
It is also large enough for
those who identify themselves as disordered to seek associations with
their kind. These associations founded, in self-interest, for
instance, share information and resources.
Psychopaths
of all kinds, are predators who routinely lie to get what they want.
The FBI site credits them with, “superficial
charm and grandiose sense of self make them likable on first meeting.
Their ability to impress others with entertaining and captivating
stories about their lives and accomplishments can result in instant
rapport.”
The Disordered come in all kinds, at all
levels of intelligence, race, gender, and income.
Resources
on the web include such sites as Psychic Vampire
(psychicvampire.org), or Tribes of Darkness. This site numbers the
community participating in their forum as 5000 and defines a psychic
Vampire as
“a person, Who by reason of a condition of their spirit, needs to
obtain vital energy from outside sources.”
The site makes no judgements on what is done, merely asking for
donations to off-set the cost of information.
The following instructions for stealing
energy from others from their Resources page.
“Focus
on a donor from across the room.. Reach out with your mind, envision
a long tendril extending from your subtle body to the donors.. Attach
your tendril so that it penetrates, if it does not the first
time...Try again.. Now envision your tendril is hollow, and suck in
the energy like a vortex , using your will....As you inhale, draw in
the energy.”
Who do you know who might be a
psivampire?