Sean Wilde is an author, occultist, teacher, and ritual specialist whose work bridges lived spiritual experience, rigorous participant-observation, and practical magic. He is the author of Living Vampires: Modern Tradition, Magic & Practice, a comprehensive examination of vampirism as a spiritual condition, initiatory path, and energetic practice, drawing on more than three decades of research, lived awakening, and community involvement.
Sean’s spiritual journey began at the age of four, following direct supernatural experiences in his childhood home. By his teenage years, he was actively studying the occult, and by eleven he had already begun public speaking. He later pursued university training in philosophy, anthropology, and religion and culture, grounding his magical practice in both academic frameworks and experiential knowledge. This dual lens, scholar and practitioner, has become a defining feature of his work.
He has been consciously awake as a vampire for over thirty-five years and as an awakened member of the ancient Kheprian current for more than twenty-six years. Sean is an early initiate of the Kheprian Order, where he has held multiple ranks over time, including Priest, Progressionist Priest, Counselor, Warrior, and Vizier. He currently leads the New Orleans Temple, a chartered temple within the Order, and is widely recognized for his work on vampiric ethics, subtle body anatomy, energy exchange, and spiritual immortality.
In addition to his work on vampirism, Sean is internationally known for reviving and publicly performing traditional sin-eating, becoming the only publicly verified traditional sin-eater in the modern world. His work reframes sin-eating as extraction magic, psychopomp work, and a form of spiritual healing applicable to both the living and the dead, a subject he teaches and demonstrates internationally.
Sean is the creator of the Magic Without Tools system, a practical approach to magic that emphasizes energy work, intent, subtle anatomy, and ethical responsibility without reliance on ritual tools. He teaches extensively on chakras, the aura, grounding and shielding, energetic links, vampiric defense, reincarnation, and spiritual immortals. His classes are taught across Turtle Island (North America) at conferences, festivals, universities, and metaphysical institutions, and are suitable for both beginners and advanced practitioners.
Residing in New Orleans, Louisiana, Sean co-owns Sassy Magick, Sassy Magick Noir, and Sassy Magick Boutique, metaphysical shops located in the heart of the French Quarter, where he also teaches regular classes and supports community-based magical education. His work is deeply informed by New Orleans’ living magical culture, Catholic mysticism, folk magic, and liminal traditions.
Sean’s spiritual background is notably expansive. He has trained in Western Mystery School traditions, Roman Catholic healing and charismatic practices, liberal Catholic sacramental theology, and Opus Dei spiritual disciplines, and he has received episcopal consecration within the liberal Catholic tradition. He is also a member of Aurum Solis and has worked across multiple initiatory systems, integrating their insights into a coherent, experiential magical worldview.
Throughout his career, Sean has worked as a professional psychic, ghost hunter, teacher, ritualist, and consultant. He has co-authored a published training manual for a Western magical tradition in Ontario, advised on multiple books concerning living vampires and energy work, and continues to write and lecture on magic, vampirism, reincarnation, and the structure of the subtle body.
Known for his directness, depth, and refusal to romanticize spiritual practice at the expense of truth, Sean Wilde’s work challenges misconceptions while offering practitioners practical tools, ethical frameworks, and transformative insight into the unseen forces shaping human experience.
Read more
Read less
