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Interview with Eric Michael Goulet / Shadow FireRaven
Interviewd by LA Judge


Greetings Eric - welcome to the Vampire Church interview seat. Please introduce yourself to the VC Magazine readers and tell us a little about yourself and your vampirism.


Eric: Thank you for inviting me here. I am a 20 year old and I have known about my vampirism for a good many years. I am primarily Psi, but I can feed empathically very well on negative emotions. Right now, I live my life as a meteorologist working for the Air Force.

LA.: Thank you Eric. I know that you have been an Associate of the Vampire Church for a few years and have come and gone several times. What brought you here and what keeps you coming back?

Eric: I originally came to the group a couple years back looking for others like myself to communicate with and further my growth as a person. The VC has me greatly to look beyond who I was trying to be and see whom I truly am. Since joining the military, there have been times when I have not been able to have time to access the internet to participate with the VC because of my training. I had periodically checked in to let people know I was still around and interested. A few months ago, I finally arrived here at my permanent duty station. I've been able to be much more active in helping out newcomers, writing poetry, answering questions for the 'zine, and now this interview. I will be sticking around for good now... that is until I am deployed, which I hope will not be for years.

LA.: Cool that the VC has helped you to better understand yourself. The help that you as an Associate give is very valuable in helping to keep this organization running Do you find a sense of family here?

Eric: I am beginning to get that sense of family again now that I am settling down. I hope it continues, as I am able to participate more.

LA.: Eric you mention that you have moved a lot over the past few years, many vampires have BIG problems with that and adapting - it is one of the harder things. How has that affected you and how have you dealt with the affects of it on your vampirism?

Eric: At first, it was rather taxing on me. Taxing to the point where I was no longer able to meditate, let along get into a deep state of meditation. It seemed I needed to feed more than ever. I found a group on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi that helped clear my mind and since then I have had no problems traveling from place to place around the US.

LA.: Is that a local vampire group? Tell me a little about that…

Eric: It was not a local vampire group, it was a local Pagan coven that was opened minded to who I was and helped me on my path.

LA.: Cool that you can work with them and cooperate together - so many seem to have problems that way because of the different end results to the energy use.

Eric: Not all in the group where so accepting.

LA.: Being meteorologist must be pretty interesting right now. Many vampires are affected by elemental changes - especially weather. How does the weather affect your vampirism?

Eric: Haha. Oh in soo many ways. Not only does it stress me out to no end when I have a severe storm moving over my area of responsibility, but a powerful storm can be so up lifting, especially a strong, steady wind. It gives me the rare opportunity to feed on nonhuman sources.

LA.: I know I become a train wreck when these big low-pressure storms (like hurricanes) move thru - then I have to feed on the backside of the storm. Are you affected by that at all?

Eric: The big storms only have a positive affect. I love the power they have. It is an absolutely awesome feeling. Little storms that produce light drizzle on the other hand can be a bother because they don't really have the energy to feed on and it generally makes me feel a little drained.

LA.: That sounds like it is very good for you that way. Very cool too that your vampirism ties to something you enjoy as work

Eric: No doubt it is.

LA.: How open are you about your vampirism - and how does it fit into your life?

Eric: I am very open in the online world because it cannot directly affect me in my work place. In my offline life, I must be a lot more careful how I portray myself. Some of my closer friends and family know of who/what I am. More often than not, I keep it a secret because a lot of my friends work in my squadron. I do not believe my supervisors would be very open minded about vampirism.

LA.: Being that it is the military, I imagine not. Empaths often have a hard time in a crowed impersonal setting. How has been being in the military affected you that way? Was there anything special you had to do to adapt?

Eric: As I mentioned earlier, it was very taxing on me. I had to feed much more often. I could not feel others emotions or thoughts because I was shutting down. It took a lot of effort on my part and effort from the group in MS. Meditation was key to my adaptation.

LA.: How did the meditation work - tell me a little about that. Did it provide shield type barrier or did it provide a pathway for you to find a way of taping into the local energies?

Eric: I used the meditation primarily to clear my mind enough that I was once again in touch with my empathic side and so that i could feed. I wasn't ever too worried about shielding techniques because I can feed very well on negative energies.

LA.: Many vampires cannot handle negative energies - how do you do that - especially being an empathic feeder?

Eric: In all honesty, I am not completely sure how. I have just found, that since finding out about my vampirism as a young teen, I have been able to take the negative in for a positive effect.

LA.: I know that as a vampire myself that uses negative energy, the key for me is not becoming personally involved. The negative energy itself just seems to "amp" me up - is this how it works for you?

Eric: For me, I also do not get personally involved. It is energy. When I feed, it is neither positive nor negative. It is energy for me to take in and 'amp' me up it does.

LA.: Thank you - that is very interesting. I really like how the Associates share a bit of the personal side of how they take energy and all in the interviews. It is really good way for understanding and gets away from all those “do you have fangs - do you drink blood” type questions that are so often asked of vampires. Thank you for being so personal. How do you handle people that make those kind of assumptions about vampirism? You are a pretty mellow guy and do a lot of work on the Message Boards - you seem to never loose your cool
Eric: Your welcome, glad to be here. Inside, I may chuckle a little bit; but outside I keep a very serious and cool front. I try to answer questions or correct falsehoods and keep a very professional attitude. It seems to get through to even the most closed minded of people.

LA.: That it does - and your work there is very appreciated by many. Is there anything else that you would like to share with the VC magazine readers?

Eric: Nothing really, I would just like to thank you for having me here and I would like thank the people of Vampire Church for the help I was given years ago and for making me feel at home and to let any of the members know that I am here for them if they need help on their path.

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