About Damien Daville



Greetings..

I am a 50 year old primarily empathic vampire now living in Norfolk, Virginia in the States. I also like elemental sources, and am a sanguine vampire with the right donor. I first learned of my vampirism as a teen in high school around 1970, and have developed its needs and abilities ever since. I have worked in some way helping others understand real vampirism for about thirty years. I came to the internet about 1995 and worked online in the few vamp forums around. I founded the Darkfear Network in early 1997, and then the Vampire Church in 1998. I also founded Web Alliance. In 2001, I founded the Texas Vampire Association, to better bring real vampires together in the state of Texas. Then in 2003, I founded the MidAtlantic Vampire Association to do the same thing in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and in Delaware. I spend most of my time now, working in the offline vampire community and in the public, helping other people to understand real vampirism. The Vampire Church is active both online and offline.

Damien Daville

Damien is the founder and elder of the Vampire Church



Greetings,

I think that this is an important question. While we give a lot of our time to online responsibilities and building a community on the internet, there is an importance to what we can do to bring people together offline in the world before us. I think of the internet as a vehicle to help people of like minds and lives find each other and start sharing information and personal experience. Then I believe it facilitates personal growth to have personal meetings offline with people you have found near you, sharing information and experience with others before you.

I have had the pleasure of participating in offline meetings of a regional group that includes the area I live in, the Midatantic Vampire Association of MVA. In addition to sharing information and experience, I have had the pleasure of teaching many topics about the vampire condition. The MVA has the purpose of bringing people together that know they are in the same regional area in meetings, social activities such as in clubs, and classes and workshops for education. I also remain a contact for the Vampire Church as it's founder for helping organize other regional groups thru the Vampire Church with the same purpose.

I also believe in talking to the local and national media thru interviews for the purpose of reaching more people about the subject of real vampirism and dispelling the myths and misconceptions associated with it from film and written publication. I will be doing another radio interview later this month for the Kevin Smith Show, a followup of one I did a couple years ago. To reach the public and others who seek more about the vampire condition, offline meetings and interaction is a must that more energy needs to go into.

Damien Daville
Elder and Founder
The Vampire Church

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