Vampire Manifestations: The Luminous Liberation of the Virgin Ghosts

All is burning. . .

The ear is burning, sounds are burning. . .

The nose is burning, odors are burning. . .

The tongue is burning, flavors are burning. . .

The body is burning, tangibles are burning. . .

The mind is burning, ideas are burning . . .

 

-- The Fire Sermon, The Adittapariyaya Sutra

The professor walked into the lecture hall, looked around and noticed everyone was very hot, in the city of Utqiaġvik, the farthest northern tribal town formerly known as Barrow, Alaska. He was a guest lecturer at the Iḷisaġvik College. He continued his lecture on World Religions:

"According to the Lotus Sutra (around 2nd BCE), a Buddhist scripture which became popular in the Chinese or Mahayana tradition, a family resides within a house on fire. Within this burning edifice, the children don't seem to notice even when the father warns them to leave. Ironically, the fiends, devils, and monsters are more enlightened than their humans counterparts, for they are responsive to the warning by the father and to the pain of their dead skins being roasted. "All of the goblins and ghosts and beasts howled in fear, not knowing how to escape the burning house' (64 Watson)."

"Herein lies the meaning of the parable: humans should know better and should respect the silent screams of demons. The house symbolized more, for it represents their bodies or their realities. The initial narratives of Dracula forgot to decode the empty sounds or the silent howls of horror that Asian audiences expected. The real battle of life is about being awakened to the inner fight, best embodied by the demons we bear within us. We are all trapped in the hynogogic state of delusion with the multitude of Draculas entering our nightmares, paralleling the multitude of real monsters surrounding us, sucking our economies, minds, friends, and souls dry."

"Ultimately, horror is neither a fiction nor a genre; instead, it is a metaphor for the chaotic mixed vestiges of life, being neither about good nor evil, nor about death and rebirth. Hence, horror returns us to our true/false sense of realities merging and incorporating the delusion that inundate us. "In our memories, the reality we believe we've experience is inevitably mixed with illusion" (Oshii 7). What can we say is real, and what can we say is unreal or undead? Stupefied, we stay submerged, immersed, and trapped within a fiery, smoke-filled darkness. We remain hungry ghosts incarcerated within the burning house of horror that Dracula built, waiting for nirvana. To reiterate, nirvana literally means extinguishing the flame. Thank you, that is all for today's lecture,"

He looked around for it was late fall or early summer, and the sun never went down, for it was sunlight 24 hours a day, from May to August. It usually was below freezing; however, there was a heat wave.

However, the vampires were becoming restless in their caves deep in the earth and wanted to rise up to blood to drink to quench their eternal thirsts.

All of the sudden, the earth started to shake violently, and one could hear massive explosions of volcanoes

Everyone in the lecture room was frightened as some started to scream, for the heat was overwhelming and the sounds of lava bursting out of the earth was terrifying.

Then the panic occurred as the audience of students ran outside to cool off.

In the distance, there were flying shapeshifting undead virgins of wetico called vampire phoenixes and some zombie vampires or zompires rising up out of the deepest caves of desire, destiny, and doom.

The end of the world was near, for we have destroyed mother nature as even Alaska starts to burn in the hell of global warming. . . We must pray for redemption, rebirth and reawakening, now. . .

 The professor started to pray as as he got down on his knees . . .

"All is burning. . .

The ear is burning, sounds are burning. . .

The nose is burning, odors are burning. . .

The tongue is burning, flavors are burning. . .

The body is burning, tangibles are burning. . .

The mind is burning, ideas are burning . . ."

 Namaste. . .

Works Cited

Oshii, Mamoru. Blood: The Last Vampire, Night of the Beasts. Trans. Camellia Nieh. Milwaukee: D H Press, 2005.

Watson, Burton. Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.