The Energy Vampires
There are beings in the spiritual realms (Lower Aeons beyond the five senses) for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. If fear and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful.
Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair and doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed ...These are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.
Rudolf Steiner
There are beings in the spiritual realms (Lower Aeons beyond the five senses) for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. If fear and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they become more and more powerful.
Everything that feeds on negative feelings, on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair and doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel attacks on human beings, while they are being fed ...These are exactly the feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them.
Rudolf Steiner