Michelle Belanger
Author of The Psychic Vampire Codex: A Manual of Magick and Energy Work
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
Michelle Belanger is not related to Jeff Belanger, another popular paranormal author.
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Series
Works by Michelle Belanger
The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide: Protection Techniques for Encounters With The Paranormal (2009) 60 copies, 1 review
Summoning Spirits: The Heptameron of Peter de Abano (Ancient Magick Series) (Volume 2) (2016) 9 copies
World of Darkness: Ghost Hunters 3 copies
Kheprian Ritual Archives: a collection of rituals written and performed within House Kheperu 1996 - 2020 (2022) 2 copies
The Kheprian Handbook 2 copies
Codex Vampiricus 2 copies
A Winding Path of Words: Volume One: Magick, Paganism, and the Occult (Collected Articles 1994-2004) (2020) 1 copy
Shadowdance issue 15 1 copy
Associated Works
Outside the Charmed Circle: Exploring Gender & Sexuality in Magical Practice (2020) — Foreword — 49 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Belanger, Michelle Anne
- Other names
- Le Mourru, Tasha
Sethanikeem
Anikeem, Seth
Belanger, Michelle A. - Birthdate
- 1973-01-11
- Gender
- female
- Education
- John Carroll University (magna cum laude)
- Occupations
- instructor
public speaker - Organizations
- House Kheperu
- Awards and honors
- Joseph T. Cotter Memorial Poetry Award (1992)
Joseph T. Cotter Memorial Poetry Award (1993) - Short biography
- Michelle Belanger (Ohio) is a popular author best known for her writings on psychic vampirism and the modern vampire subculture. She also writes in spirit communication, paranormal phenomenon, and energy work. She has appeared on numerous documentaries featured on the History Channel, WE!, Reelz, HBO, and A&E. In addition, she is a regular guest on A&E's "Paranormal State." She lectures at colleges across the United States on a variety of topics and occasionally does guest vocals for bands like URN, Nox Arcana, ad Xyla. More information can be found at www.michellebelanger.com and www.twilightpath.com.
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
- Places of residence
- Medina, Ohio, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Michelle Belanger is not related to Jeff Belanger, another popular paranormal author.
- Associated Place (for map)
- Ohio, USA
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Reviews
The Ghost Hunter's Survival Guide: Protection Techniques for Encounters With The Paranormal by Michelle Belanger
This book appears to accomplish what it sets out to do, namely to arm a paranormal investigator with the basic tools to protect themselves and to effect "cleansing" activities in their surroundings and those of potential clients.
The book is laid out in a very readable manner, alternating between how-to and narrative examples from the author's history in the field.
The content is not preachy or specifically denominational, making this a reasonable fit for the spiritual sensibility of a broad show more range of ghost hunting and paranormal field research types.
Is the content accurate / complete / best-practice advice? That is left to the reader to determine. But there is nothing to suggest that the author speaks with anything less than the authority of experience. show less
The book is laid out in a very readable manner, alternating between how-to and narrative examples from the author's history in the field.
The content is not preachy or specifically denominational, making this a reasonable fit for the spiritual sensibility of a broad show more range of ghost hunting and paranormal field research types.
Is the content accurate / complete / best-practice advice? That is left to the reader to determine. But there is nothing to suggest that the author speaks with anything less than the authority of experience. show less
'The Psychic Vampire Codex' is a book that seeks to examine the phenomenon and experience of modern vampirism completely from the vampire's perspective. Psychic vampires are people who, according to the author, prey on the vital, human life energies of others. They are not believed to be undead. They are mortal people whose need for energy metaphorically connects them to the life-stealing predators of vampire myth. In this book, Michelle Belanger introduces readers to the system of energy show more work used by vampires themselves and provides the actual codex text widely used by the vampire community for instruction in feeding and other techniques. Belanger also examines the ethics of vampirism and offers readers methods of protection from vampires. 'The Psychic Vampire Codex' explodes all preconceptions and myths about who and what psychic vampires really are and aims to reveal a vital spiritual tradition based on balance, rebirth, and an integral relationship with the spirit world. show less
As much as I may respect the author for her Psychic Vampire Codex, this did not impress me much at all. It seems like Belanger has been bitten by the Llewellyn Cultural Appropriation and fluff bug, much to my disappointment. While some attention in this work was paid to various different burial traditions, these were then mashed together with little regard to cultural seperation.
The idea of the visualizations where the practicioner's body is destroyed in different ways is interesting, and I show more have to admire Belanger's creativity there. However it is a very poor idea for a Left Hand Path practicioner of a school of magic such as Ordo Sekhemu to even consider such a ritual, unless they do so in order to overcome such decay and destruction. The meditation wherein one imagines one's face decaying too could have very negative effects on someone with a low self image, such as many teens who may be drawn to this book.
In my opinion, this work would have been much better if you didn't have watered down versions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead next to a "medicine bag" of items from a graveyard. I also personally feel that shamanic initiation should involve some kind of actual risk or challenge, not just a visualization. The destruction of the Heart Scarab at the end of the final rite also worries me from a magical perspective, as that could cause damage to the practicioner if taken to to great an extreme.
In all, I would classify this on the same page as Konstantinos's fluffy dark wicca books. Honestly I regret buying this one new and wish I had waited to read more of it before spending the money. show less
The idea of the visualizations where the practicioner's body is destroyed in different ways is interesting, and I show more have to admire Belanger's creativity there. However it is a very poor idea for a Left Hand Path practicioner of a school of magic such as Ordo Sekhemu to even consider such a ritual, unless they do so in order to overcome such decay and destruction. The meditation wherein one imagines one's face decaying too could have very negative effects on someone with a low self image, such as many teens who may be drawn to this book.
In my opinion, this work would have been much better if you didn't have watered down versions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead next to a "medicine bag" of items from a graveyard. I also personally feel that shamanic initiation should involve some kind of actual risk or challenge, not just a visualization. The destruction of the Heart Scarab at the end of the final rite also worries me from a magical perspective, as that could cause damage to the practicioner if taken to to great an extreme.
In all, I would classify this on the same page as Konstantinos's fluffy dark wicca books. Honestly I regret buying this one new and wish I had waited to read more of it before spending the money. show less
This was one of those book that I just did not realize how much I had read before I looked at the page numbers. Suddenly I was on page 100, so obviously I had to read on. But I did stop at page 300, I mean I had to get something done that evening. So I finished it in the morning instead ;) This book shows lot of promise, I hope it will get better and better.
I do like the amnesia premise. Zach wakes up and knows nothing, so we know nothing. Little by little we learn of different tribes of show more angels, the wars they have fought, and the conspiracy that Zach tried to get to the bottom of. He is in danger, but he does not know why. There is mystery and suspense thrown into this UF.
Zach, well he does not know much, duh. But he seems nerdy with his pop culture references and love of languages (some things he remembers, we will see why later). But is he good or not? He feels he is, but then he knows nothing. But I liked him.
Helping him later on he has someone calling himself his brother, I was so unsure about Remy all the way through. And Lilli, who was a breath of fresh air. She never stopped, aye I liked her.
I think the reason why I read it so fast but did not know it, is, oh maybe page 1 was heavy? But the rest just flowed? Anyhow, like I said, it shows promise and was a good start to a new series.
I look forward to reading more of this promising series, everything is good for now, but everything is so not ok in the world. Intriguing. show less
I do like the amnesia premise. Zach wakes up and knows nothing, so we know nothing. Little by little we learn of different tribes of show more angels, the wars they have fought, and the conspiracy that Zach tried to get to the bottom of. He is in danger, but he does not know why. There is mystery and suspense thrown into this UF.
Zach, well he does not know much, duh. But he seems nerdy with his pop culture references and love of languages (some things he remembers, we will see why later). But is he good or not? He feels he is, but then he knows nothing. But I liked him.
Helping him later on he has someone calling himself his brother, I was so unsure about Remy all the way through. And Lilli, who was a breath of fresh air. She never stopped, aye I liked her.
I think the reason why I read it so fast but did not know it, is, oh maybe page 1 was heavy? But the rest just flowed? Anyhow, like I said, it shows promise and was a good start to a new series.
I look forward to reading more of this promising series, everything is good for now, but everything is so not ok in the world. Intriguing. show less
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