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Damien Daville
Founder of the Vampire Church
Question:
"You are a pillar of the vampire community and have had a great influence on
many over the years. Many look to you in respect and as their inspiration.
Surely, there must be some one that has had an influence on you or whom you
respect. Out of the Vampire community, who do you look to for inspiration?"
"
Greetings..
Well.. This is a good question. Thirty years ago I found people who
helped me understand the vampirism condition in its many forms and I then
learned from others and helped others understand it as I and many people
have lived it. I have met many people who have enriched my understanding
of what true vampirism is, and I owe them for my knowledge of it, and
for understanding the experience so many others have had as well as my
own. The more time I have been exposed to other people's experience with
vampirism, the more you further your understanding and knowledge of the
condition. That has helped give me the ability to help others understand
it, recognize it, and live with it.
I can recall being greatly influenced and inspired by the people I first
met in NYC in the early 1970s when there was very little talk about real
vampirism and finding others was difficult. Back then I joined together with
the few people I was fortunate to meet and we remained largely out of sight
as people even in NYC looked down on us and even went as far as trying
to run us out of the community. Vampirism was neither as understood nor as
well known as it is now. There was no internet and no way to reach people,
making finding other people lucky at best. It is these early days that I
look back on as having a big impact on my understanding of vampirism. There
was neither dressing up nor the wearing of fangs back then like it is so
widespread now.
I have always wanted to "give" to the understanding of vampirism since
I learned that it is something I live with. One of the ways I long ago
decided to do this was through organizing different groups and events for
educational purposes. One such Organization, the Vampire Church, I founded
about ten years ago, and it acts as a haven for people to meet, and offer
resources for information to learn and understand it. This Organization
has a presence both online and offline, and through it I have been greatly
influenced and enriched by people who have come to it and have joined it.
I have had the fortune of meeting and working with many who have joined me
in it. I would have to say that many people and events have influenced me
and inspired me over the years. With so many groups and egos on the internet
now, the community has become disjointed and fragmented. With that I have
become discouraged. There is too much role play and "rules". To me, you
either have the real vampire condition or you don't. Now I sit back and
watch these other groups "fight" over numbers and attention, something
that people who know me know I never cared about.
Damien Daville
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