Damien is the founder and elder
of the Vampire Church



Question: "Throughout your experience within the community, how has your vampirism changed? and would you say that this is another form of 'awakening'?"

Greetings,

This is a very good question. My vampirism continues to evolve and so change much as I get older. Now that I am approaching fifty years of age, I have noticed changes in my vampirism that I believe are due to being older and also to having more experience coping with it. I will first say that as my vampirism has evolved over time, I have learned a lot more on how to "filter" energy sources so that my desirable energy sources are what I am benefiting from versus being impacted by energy sources that degrade my health. This of course involves better utility and use of shelding techniques and focusing techniques so that wanted energy sources are the feed of the moment. However, there has been a down side to my vampirism over the years which I attribute to age and getting older. I have found that now being about fifty years old, that my abilities to handle and cope with the attention my vampirism needs has been degraded from what those abilities were say twenty or even thirty years ago.

I am primarily an empathic vampire, that is I use emotional energy from people as a primary feed. My abilities to again "filter" out unwanted emotional energy are not what they use to be in past years, i.e. there has been some degrading of that ability with age. As for sanguine energy, I have come to distrust it and to not rely on it due to safety issues and the need for validation of background data. That has left me relying more on sporatic energy sources that come up such as elemental sources in weather events and any residual environmental energy to compliment my emapthic feeding. I have experienced how much one's vampirism can change with age, and have found that it has become more difficult to cope with and more difficult to secure healthful energies. I believe this phase in one's vampirism that comes with getting older is likened to another gradual awakening that occurs with getting older and then to the realization of lesser abilities to control and filter the right sources of energy that work for your wellness. I believe that we could call this the age awakening phase in one's vampirism. It can be a difficult time in one's life.

Dark regards,
Damien Daville
Elder and Founder
The Vampire Church

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