There have been questions about this subject for some time, and there 
have been a lot of misunderstanding about it. Anton LeVay is critical 
of it calling psychic vampires as leaches on society. First we must 
have an understanding of what psychic vampirism is. Many people have 
some psychic ability to draw on the emotional and psychic energy of 
other people. Some seek out this energy and so msnipulate it for 
personal strength and energy and some just appeal to the sympathetic 
psychic energy of others. One can easily be a parasite of this energy 
in other people. It is my belief that this is what LeVay refers to in 
his description of psychic vampirism. 

Many including myself who are psychic vampires do not use and apply 
our psychic vampirism as parastes to society. To be a psychic vampire
 is to have a need for the emotional energy given away from other 
people. For the psychic vampire, this need translates to manipulating 
and absorbing this energy in amounts that are barely noticeable to 
those that the real psychic vampire feeds from. Real psychic vampirism  
as I define it is a controlled nonparasitic feeding of this emotional 
energy from other people. This means, the psychic vampire is self 
sufficient and does not have the parasitic dependency that is 
described by some on other people. Psychic vampires are ususally well 
adjusted and employed and so self sufficient in society, but do feed 
from the emotional energies of others in controlled ways. 

What many confuse true psychic vampirism is the parasitic dependency 
that many have on the general populace of society. This form of 
psychic draining of people may well be found in some individuals who 
appeal to the sympathies of other people for economic and social gain. 
These people I believe are the leaches of society that LeVey refers 
to. These are people who are seeking the emotional sympathies of 
others because of their own inability to be self sufficient both 
socially and in economics. Real psychic vampires are identity self 
sufficent, and creative and have the ability to take care of 
themselves. These are important differences in understanding psychic 
vampirism. 

Carpe intemptestata nox.. 
Damien Delano Daville