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Damien Daville
Founder of the Vampire Church
Question:
"The words old and vampire only seem to go together in the mythical
version of vampire legends. At 50 years old, you seem to be one of the oldest
vampires active in the community, on or off line. Why is it that you do not
see any "old" vampires and how has ageing affected your vampirism?"
Greetings..
Getting "old" is something all living things go thru, that is experiencing
the breakdown of tissue and the slowing or even loss of the ability to react
to our environment. With those with vampirism, they are more sensitive to
the environment around them and more impacted or affected by it all throughout
life. You might say that the mind and body of a vampire "ages" more quickly
than other people as a result of this greater impact that our environment has
on us. As all people age, so do their abilities decrease. It is my belief that
this happens to us also but more likely sooner because of our greater
sensitivities to the stresses throughout our lives. Perhaps we as people with
vampirism, as we get older like that of older people, slow down our activities
and "retire" or "retreat" away from public involvement and interaction.
For me while in my forties, I noticed a decreased ability to focus on
abilities and techniques learned as coping strategies earlier in my
life. I sensed that I was not as sharp now nor as quick with filtering
and shielding techniques, important abilities needed in processing
wanted energies. Attention to needs is greater now with more time
devoted and needed to successful energy manipulation for successful
feedings. Now that I am fifty years old, I have had to change much of
how I seek out energies and assimilate them. Alternatives have proven
to be more important now when an energy source proves to be more
difficult to find or more difficult to process. Instead of prana
energies being available, I have had to focus on elemental and some
psychic sources. Empathic abilities are not as sharp now making
filtering emotional feeding more difficult. All of these changes have
caused me to become more aware of my weaknesses in adapting to my
environment. Relationships with family and friends have also been
affected to a degree making them more difficult to maintain in a more
harmonious way.
I have found that as a real vampire ages, like any other abilities
and learned strategies, those for real vampirism do become more
difficult to manage and use. This in turn impacts the person and
results in difficulty in managing one's health and one's
relationships. Such changes warrant a person to change energy sources
and alternatives that may be easier to access and manage. This may even
result in the need to remove oneself from the effects other people and
other things in our environment have on us. Shielding ourselves from unwanted
energies is affected with age like all abilities. It is important to note
that all people who get older adjust their lives with regards to our
environments, it is even more important for people with vampirism to do so
Damien Daville
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