I am a well developed psychic and empathic vampire. I have gone this path for nearly 30 years due to a lack of reliable pranic donors for blood vampirism. Psychic vampirism is a less reliable energy source as it is less dense and more chaotic then the pranic sources of blood and sex. It is also more difficult to develop and control. In short, one uses abilities to recognize the mental and emotional energies of other people and to then benefit from the "absorption" of these energies. It takes more of the psychic energies to fulfill the energy needs as apposed to the pranic sources. Psychic energy may be picked up from the words of another as well as the emotional energy present. Some psychic vampires can also perseive the energy "halos" around other people and so can sense the level of energy present. All people give all this energy around you, it is just most people do not "see" it enough to be able to benefit from it for health. The psychic vampire differes from just a "psychic" in that in psychic vampirism there is a need for this energy for health just as in any vampirism. The empathic vampire has a natural ability. An empath easily "absorbs" the emotions of others and so experiences those emotions when displayed nearby. This entails sensing both negative based emotions such as depression and forms of anger and positive emotions such as in laughter and joy. So what effects the vampire here are both positive and negative effecting emotions. With the ability of being an emapth, a skilled vamp can psychically "draw" upon the energy of the emotions thus experienced from these people. One must however learn how to dispose of unwanted emotional energy in favor of the postive emotional energy. This will take time in learning how to sheild onself against the negative emotions and also to dispel that energy. As in any sheilding, you know that there is methodology in this process using focusing and imaginative skills. So what may work well for one may not work so well for another. Once sheilding skills are well developed and the ability is acquired to separate out that emotional energy that is desired, can psychic feeding off of emotional energy be successful. As are all souls, vamps are bombarded by emotional energy constantly when around other people, it is the vamp who is sensitive to that energy and so becomes it. This is what truely separates emapthic vamps from ordinary people, ie. the ability to readily absorb any emotional energy nearby. So with the postive comes the negative and the "pain". It is the well skilled vamp that can sheild the pain of negative emotions so to avoid them. This of course does not mean some of this energy will get thru. I as a well developed empathic vamp feel the pain of negative emotional energy every day when around other people, but it is kept at a minimum with my sheilding ability. Now getting back to feeding. Emotional energy is perhaps one of the more intensive psychic feeding sources along with maybe elemental sources from storms or some other earth energy. I have been quite able for many years to feed well on both as a psychic vampire and stay my health well. There is a balance here as in all things. I have learned over many years how to keep that balance without extreems. That has taken many years to develop. A successful psychic feeder is rare, simply because the energy sources are less dense than the pranic and larger amounts are needed both in quality and quantity. Every day/night I psy feed off people and my environment as one who has learned to use a developed ability to acquire this energy, and as one who has learned what part of this energy I benefit from and how to use this energy for that benefit. Psychic vampirism is much more difficult to develop and use for these reasons. I had the ability as a teen and saw it, and then knew to learn to use it. Three dacades later, I feed well with it. let me know if you have any further questions.. Damien Daville List owner Elder and Founder The Vampire Church