The Wolf Manifesto

My recent interviews and the snarling response an/or warm reception has given me the opportunity to solidify a few of my ideas on the circus that is the real vampire community. The Wolf Manifesto I am one representative and one voice of the vampire community. I have my own definition of vampire that guides me.  There exists an entity of living energy all around us and in the universe. This energy is both alive itself and imbues all things with life of one degree or another. A vampire is an adept at energy play, an adept at tapping into this living energy for self-benefit. A vampire knows how to take what energy they want and need and use it for their own purposes. There are semantic issues that we in the community need to face, and sooner rather than later. The woman who was my mentor was not looking at the vampire as the creature of legend. Instead, she saw a vampire archetype that seemed to be common to human beings around the world. The common denominator when everything was boiled down and examined was a creature that somehow was able to take living energy and life force. We never really know what goes through another person’s mind or what intentions they have in their heart. Therefore I’m not one for examining everybody who claims to be a vampire for an empirical list of symptoms that must be present. Drinking blood does not make anyone more of a vampire than anything else.  But the need is very real. We tend to be an open minded and accepting community. No one is alienated based upon their feeding preferences, provided they are carried out with careful consent and within the guidelines of the law. I can’t give you a personal account of the effects of drinking blood—not because I have never done it, but because other feeding practices have resonated more deeply with me. I can tell you that people have claimed everything from being restored to the attainment of some kind of Nirvana from blood. Literature and media are not responsible for the mindset of the criminal vampire. Generally these are people who are hip-deep in problems in the first place. The interest in vampirism simply masks other problems.  How do we pick out the mentally secure ones from the sociopaths? It’s a question facing the vampire community just as it faces society at large. People have a right to think what they want. It’s not likely that anything I could say would change their minds. In general I try to keep the peace. Individuals should define the community rather than the community defining individuals. We all need to forget what we think we know, and instead try to understand people of all types for who they are, even if their existence is somehow beyond our understanding. When a group seeks tolerance and understanding, they should first estimate how prepared they are to give these things in return.  Ananke!