Your site is amazing! So your site is how to become a vampire? Did I read that right?? How to get ahead in life?
Yes. That is a good summary.
From the common sense, everyday perspective (what we refer to as the Dayside), we view the Vampire as a metaphor for proactively forging a life of increasing personal control over events for personal satisfaction and happiness.
The Dayside is divided into six categories of control: self-control (intrapersonal), social control (interpersonal), survival (of immediate threats to one's life), health (avoiding disease, boosting vitality, and achieving longevity), money (reducing debt, increasing income, achieving financial independence) and physical immortality (based on two compatible scientifically promising approaches).
As a religion we also refer to members of our Temple as Vampires with a capital "V" in the same way that we refer to members of other religions such as Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, etc.
From the paranormal, transcendent perspective (what we refer to as the Nightside) we view the Vampire as precisely descriptive of our practice of taking the excess radiation of Lifeforce from human beings (Vampirism) to empower our efforts to master psi phenomena to include the out of body experience which, in turn, leads to our traditional approach to Nightside immortality.
We also accept as a working hypothesis the supposition that Others have previously achieved these capabilities and that the most ancient religions referred to Them as Gods. We refer to Them as the Undead Gods and dictated information from Them comprise much of what is found in The Vampire Bible.
We do not assume that the Undead Gods are "supernatural" nor are they considered all-knowing and all-powerful as is the usual conception of Gods such as Jehovah, Allah, etc. We assume the Undead Gods to simply be other human beings who have mastered the esoteric Nightside path that They have shared with us in creating this Temple.
At no time do we require anyone to believe any of the Nightside claims of the Temple. At more advanced stages of Temple membership (called Graded membership) the members can willingly choose to assume that certain elements of the Nightside are correct and true as a working hypothesis to determine if doing so is useful in producing desirable results.
All in all, the Temple is not a search for truth but a laboratory for producing personal results in both the Dayside and Nightside, as desired by the member.
