To avoid the second death, one needs to feed one’s astral body - that much seems clear.
However, after reading a lot of @Mulberry and @N.D_Blackwood of this forum, there seems to be an open debate:
Does one have to take this energy from humans, or is elemental or cosmic energy the better choice?
Both sides can be argued for. The astral body was fed by the physical body before the first death, so human energy might be what it needs.
However, we all know that we can also drive energy from nature, the sun etc. So shouldn’t that be better and more pure?
Mulberry mentions that the vampires have a broken energy system and thus can’t convert other energy into human energy, which is why they have to take it directly, while normal Occultists can get it from better sources.
Whereas Blackwood says (i don’t remember where) that one feeds on human “ancestral” energy that can’t be replenished in any other way.
Is there any way we can resolve this debate?