The Cultivated Culture of the Vulture...

“And since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal. He began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.”

James Baldwin - Go Tell It On The Mountain 

There is an unfortunate reality that is never discussed with the brevity that it deserves. This unfortunate reality is that of the vulture and the culture they cultivate. The alien and impersonal eye of the vulture breeds the negative existence that spreads into the collective consciousness, picking at the corpses of individual existences they’ve decided to attack. 

In the wake of the devastation they cause, there is a void to be filled. This void is typically filled by other vultures who enjoy harvesting off of the energies they are unable to embody themselves. As we begin to work towards raising the collective consciousness, these vultures are shown for who and what they are, negative entities who offer nothing but their negativity. 

The unfortunate truth is that this has become the rule and not the exception. They offer nothing to the community but their hollow existence and their need to feed off of those who have found a purpose; those who have found a worthy and progressive ideal to work towards. 

Navigating the negative existence they create is made that much more difficult by the fact that these vultures operate in groups. They attack those who they deem themselves superior to. The vultures presence is not a necessary component of society. Those who offer nothing should receive just as much as they offer. 

The nature of the vulture is akin to the nature and behavior of the succubus. Dark personalities with even darker motives. Folks who have nothing to offer and everything to gain. Folks who deny themselves the ability to grow beyond their destructive needs and perverse wants. Moving away from that which does not offer a positive form of existence allows one to see the importance of perceiving ones own individual existence through the lens of a cleansed self concept. A vulture, or succubus needs a body to attack. It needs a corpse to pick at. 

Release yourself from the need to acknowledge the gaze of the alien and impersonal eye of the vulture, this may diminish negative affects of the culture they cultivate harvesting off of the corpse of those they deem themselves superior to. 

Their presence is unnecessary, as is your need to acknowledge it. 

-Yogabrofessor

Baldwin, J. (2013). Go Tell It on the Mountain. Vintage.