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Energy Vampirism and Sexual Abuse
By Stephen Proskauer MD | August 13, 2007
It is not customary in psychological and psychiatric circles to think of sexual abusers and their victims in energetic terms, yet the neglect of this dimension blinds us to important therapeutic possibilities. The following energetic description of abuse is derived primarily from my training in advanced shamanic healing with Jen Tarchin in Salt Lake City.
Sexual predators have huge holes in their energy fields due to previous trauma they have suffered. They experience these holes as a compelling need to get satisfaction from a victim. They are attracted to the young and innocent who have intact energy fields and are vulnerable to attack. This attraction masquerades as sexual, but is really something more sinister. The sexual assault disrupts the victim’s energy field and energy stolen from the victim gives the predator temporary respite from a driven sense of need. Ironically, energy taken from one being cannot be utilized by another to repair damage or for any other purpose. The sexual assault damages the victim and fails to help the predator, who continues to prey on innocents in a compulsive and addictive manner, until and unless energetic healing takes place.
Therapeutic possibilities exist here. We know that victims can be helped in this way, both by shamanic healing ceremonies and by other forms of energy healing, but I am not sure if these methods have ever been tested on perpetrators. If anybody knows, I’d like to hear about it.
Topics: Abuse, Dissociation, Energy, Psychotherapy |