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The Shifting Spiritual Nature of Vampyrism |
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Written by Allin
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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
 “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” - William James, 1842-1910
I can without much uncertainty state that a great plethora of my own prejudices in support of the broad thinkers and the great debaters that I personally have come to admire in and throughout this vast community is due to the ability of many who veil themselves with the label of Vampyre, tend to also be cogent and valued thinkers in their own right. Not in any attempt to place one body of people outside the family of mankind or the realm of other thinkers in the world in any way.
It simply remains that some of the most enduring personalities that I believe I personally have ever encountered tend also to reside for at least a part of their conscious life, in this community and share of themselves, of their knowledge for their own fascinations connected to these plain issues and their abilities to recognize an apple for an apple and a proverbial orange for an orange. What then happens when one states that the apple has become the orange, when in frank terms it still for all seeming reasoning appears as an apple? Surely this person’s opinion is valued enough by me to consider the possibility that in fact it might now be an orange? Could it, would it?
Being so clouded in metaphors as it is might appear a bit extraneous in its own right, but the intent surely is apparent. Because someone might have an altered opinion on something that in the past appeared to be largely couched in certain terms, one way or the other doesn’t mean there is any reduced passion or an ever lessened sense of fascination in something. In many cases it can merely mean that things have begun to shift in the mind and in the soul and the spirit of someone and as a result their world and their innate definitions that construct that world have taken on a shifted change from where in the past, it all seemed to an outside view to be placed on a firm yet different foundation. With time spent in thought and the events and the contemplation of life’s experiences, comes ones certain growth and change from one state of being to another state of being. This cycle and process to the physical nature of life cannot be denied, for the proof lies only a mirror away, and so then it must be true that ones inner spiritual and soulful self also must grow, and shift and change from one specific state of being to another. This process has been likened in past circles to an awakening in short order to meet ones advent of an awareness and then the eventual growth of this awareness from one state of spiritual being, then into another state of being that in many communities such as these is seen by many as a sensible reaction to a very real metaphysical condition. This certainly makes most sense to those who in one way or another have taken the time and effort to focus their own mind and thoughts inward to contemplate this over some time. The end point of this kind of an awareness we quickly find isn’t an endpoint at all, but rather the starting point on a vast journey of ones soul across another azure sea to a new land with grand new ideas that enamor the mind and tantalize ones spiritual self with all of the ways of life as once held as they were, and as they now seem to be shifting towards.
This shifting of life as it happens to everyone regardless of circumstance reminds me of all of the souls I’ve heard speak of one of the greatest life changing events that can ever be, the birth of ones child. I can recall hearing an interview with one Actor who I quite admire, Johnny Depp. He sat in the interview and verbally related to the best of his ability how all of his life had seemed to him up until the point when he became a Father. He stated that suddenly the entire meaning to his life came into crystal focus, probably for the first time ever. He stated that the road was never the same after that event and probably wouldn’t ever be again. This certain and most extreme case of a life changing event does exhibit in a purist sense, just how changing some amount of time can be on someone’s life. Ones entire landscape varies, ones priorities shift and they move from a focus on the importance of one set of values and into another set of values, with some values remaining at the core of the self, unchanging and set in stone as guiding principles. Sometimes this process is slow, rather sure in its frequency and at a manageable pace, and then other times the process can be a virtual whirlwind, so uncertain that one hasn’t a real clue to its nature until some time settles in and one can proceed along the new course one suddenly finds themselves along. Johnny Depp related how his life had just “been” as it was up to the birth of his child, and after this event, it all started to make some sense to him. I never forgot his words for those were the loving words of a Father who had undergone a major “re-awakening” of his spirit. The shine in his eye said everything to anyone looking at it.
Many times its spoken that some of the things that absorb ones concern and do matter one day, just don’t seem to matter as much the next as life moves along and as ones priorities and the soulful nature of the self shifts from one manner of ones own nature to the next. A great part of this resides in the very aspect of living a spiritual life, for nothing of any spiritual nature can ever as it’s said, exist in a vacuum. Nothing remains stagnant and certainly nothing is without its own change.
Even the core values of ethics, of decency and of community that seem to take on such a hue of brilliance as they do often times become the subject of relevance and irrelevancy as compared to the relativistic society that seems to be such the nature in today’s common age. Many would state that in a manner of thinking of oneself as a soulful and a spiritual being as one who identifies as Vampyric, would need to stand on some firm grounding or foundation of responsible ethics in order to structure ones own spiritual self in relation to the world around them. Without such core principles in an active and a shifting dymanic life, much might rather become the victim of irrelevancy and an eternally relativistic outlook on things. The results of this have been seen and witnessed many times for what they are; an unbound sense of entropy and a complete lacking of responsibility to either oneself or to anyone in proximity. Life simply cannot exist without such basic structure and discipline and to state that it can is neglecting common sense. The nature to growth can easily become decline simply guised in another suit and without ones core, growth can easily degrade into an entropy effect in life.
This however doesn’t retract the fact that as time moves on many Vampyric souls do shift and change their perspectives on the things of life as they relate to them. This is normal, and certainly an expected path that everyone follows in life, and without much of a doubt its why we often see mindful, brilliant and soulfully spiritual souls come, spend much time in thought and in laughter, and eventually we no longer see them. They have left the rubric of our presence and gone on with their lives. This isn’t a negative turn of events, while however remaining sad and certainly mournful ones for the great loss that is often felt by their absence. This shifting of faces and of personalities can however be viewed as the greatest benefit of having been in the presence of a community such as this one. Along with the growth of ones spiritual and soulful nature, comes ones eventual exit and departure for new and meaningful particulars in life. Not in the least a two dimensional view of life at all, as might be the case for other varied communities of souls caught into the rubric of their own natures. Many of those who consider themselves Vampyric and have spent time sharing of themselves and of growing through the process of giving as much as they take in terms of learning and of enlightenment give everyone the greatest gift they can of themselves. They give their thoughts and their passions, the philosophy of their loves and their hates, their likes and their dislikes and when all is done and someone feels the time has come to move on to other things, its okay for them to move on. This is the landscape view of a three dimensional thinker who is able to view their benefits and their drawbacks hand in hand with their physical life and their metaphysical one. They realize that life sometimes moves down a different course for them, and sometimes this course is different from your own.
As Straczynski spoke so well and I believe it to be a great spiritual truth to all relationships in any group or gathering of people:
“As you continue on your path, you will lose some friends and gain new ones. The process is painful but often necessary. They will change and you will change because life is change. From time to time, they must find their own way and that way may not be yours. Enjoy them for what they are, and remember them for what they were.”
This spiritual vision I believe sometimes can be experienced to an even greater extent amongst a vast and wide community of sensitive, empathic and spiritual souls as the Vampyric who all, even sometimes to their dismay and argument, are in some way over time and through a fashion tied to one another in a fellowship that for most of society moves outside of their understanding. We are three dimensional people, three dimensional thinkers by our very nature and thereby our reactions can also exhibit this in our loves and in the passion of our needs and our relationships. This is at the core of the shifting nature of our spiritual selves and this is what speaks loudest to the reactions often witnessed when some as James said, re-arrange their prejudices in life. Nothing is ever lost in the experience and certainly never to the memory of what has come and gone and transitioned into a new state of being.
People come and go and places come and go as do our perceptions of our lives. This is simple and yet sometimes the most difficult of things to grasp at in life. It is and it remains however one of the greatest of definitions of our self and ourselves as we compare our lives as vampyric to those who do not. The experience tends to be one in the same, only the spiritual perception has shifted.
Think on it. Life comes into focus again, and again, and again…and with it, our own re-awakening time and again…
©2008
Peace>
Allin>
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