"There's no book available on the vampire culture today with the range, depth, and diversity of Belanger's Vampires in Their Own Words."
—Katherine Ramsland, author of Piercing the Darkness and The Science of Vampires
"Belanger gives empathetic access to an emergent new magical-religious community . . . An important sourcebook for both the scholar and inquiring public."
—J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, and author of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
The code of silence has been broken
For this anthology, vampire Michelle Belanger convinced nearly two dozen real-life vampires to break the code of silence that has kept their fascinating subculture shrouded in secrecy.
Sometimes provocative, sometimes surprisingly down-to-earth, these candid firsthand accounts come from both psi vampires who feed on energy and sanguine vampires who drink actual blood. Their true stories shed light on a variety of topics, including awakening to vampirism, the compulsion to feed and feeding practices, donor ethics and etiquette, and vampire traditions and codes of behavior.
Near death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon that has been reported from the teachings of ancient Tibet to the medical journals of the modern West. Near death experiences are remarkable in that the individual's experience does not stop with the experience itself—most experience profound, positive change in their lives. Michelle Belanger, author of Walking the Twilight Path, discusses how we can harness the empowering and beneficial experiences of a near death experience without trauma or risk.
1. The title of your new book is Walking the Twilight Path. How exactly do you define such a path? The twilight path walks in the places between: between life and death, between darkness and light, between the realm of spirits and the world of the flesh. Because it dares to approach the issue of death and personal mortality, the twilight path may initially seem like a dark path. But it is...
Vampires are ubiquitous; from vampires that walk among us (psychic and otherwise) to the mythology and media of every culture, we encounter vampires. As our own, Western ideas of what a vampire is evolves, however, these images are continuing to show up in Japanese culture.
Vampires are ubiquitous; from vampires that walk among us (psychic and otherwise) to the mythology and media of every culture, we encounter vampires. These creatures and their lore are also universal: no matter how different a culture is, there will be vampiric stories of many forms. This, in turn, has led to everything from bestselling vampire fiction (think Anne Rice) to popular blockbuster...
On the morning of March 26, 1997, San Diego police were called to a rented mansion in the upscale community of Rancho Santa Fe, California. There they discovered the bodies of 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult who had each apparently taken their own lives in an act of mass suicide. Why? Because they had been convinced by their leader that... read this article
