There are vampires in FST.
FST was designed to be something anyone can do, with patience and persistence. Egalitarian, like that. All within the realm of regular human potential.
Training that only specifically genetically gifted people can do, typically happens outside of FST. I don't like to show off, or tease, or waste time teaching things to someone who can't learn them, there is no benefit in frustrating people.
I have mostly been able to keep the shaman training I do, out of FST because the Shaman guides are ok with calming things down and following along with FST until the seeker graduates. Then we start getting into the training specific for them. Shaman training is mostly done post-graduate.
Vampires, though... does not work the same.
It is hard for vampires to progress with FST until they get that aspect of themselves sorted. The rules for them, are different. Many vampires have difficulty grounding deeply because they are designed to get some of their energy from other people- ideally, as a healing exchange but that requires making it conscious.
I prefer to keep the vampire training outside of FST, because it does not fit with the FST egalitarian ideals. I do not think the vamp-specific training is useful for most of the members, and wonder if it is a distraction? (Personally, I find it fascinating.) I have set up a separate website and private forum for the three types of vampires, and a classroom and group in secondlife.
Someone is not going to join Vampire Mystic Academy, if they do not know they are a vampire.
FST members who are struggling because they are vampires and do not know it, need to be able to access enough information to identify themselves and get the help they need. So long as they do not know it, they are suffering. A lot of overwhelmed empaths, turn out to be psi-vamps.
My compromise, is to create a new board titled Tenement because I like alliteration, and because it sounds kind of goth. It is a word for a room to call home.
Inspiration: "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls." (https://vimeo.com/291933465) Our words, and the stubborn silence of the vamp vortex guide when it is hiding.
I moved the three main vampire related threads there (I hope the authors do not mind) to get it started and centralize the information. FST members who are not vampires, can skip reading that board.
Tenement Hall Board (http://fire-serpent.com/tearoom/index.php/board,12.0.html)
Vampires who do not know they are vampires, are unconsciously drawn to FST because the group egregore of their guides, calls me Queen and tells me the ascension tech of FST is cutting edge, especially for vampires. They call me Queen because in shaman terms it means responsibility, it marks a calling. This is the only place in the world to learn what I teach them, besides my other website. They are going to continue to find FST and are welcome here.