About Damien Daville
Greetings..
I am a 49 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
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Greetings,
I believe there are many that confuse what real vampirism is with
many things that they see in film and the books they read. I have
seen this often over time, and this also includes confusing real
vampirism with the use of magick and how magick may help the energy
needs of vampirism. Real vampirism is of couse a real life condition
that is not a chosen malady for the need of certain energies to
fulfill deficits within the self. A person afflicted with vampirism
seeks out psychic, elemental, and sanguine energies to maintain a
balance that is normally not there. This energy need is real and
substantive for one's self. While magick involves energy manipulation
through using rituals and the tools of your environment, the goal is
changing it and shaping it toward another end, even possibly creating
something that is useful to you. Real vampirism involves seeking and
possibly manipulating needed energy sources for health and well-being.
Magick involves energy manipulation from sources around you to create
tools and changing it thru channeling it ususally for a specific
creative thing. Now with that there is the possibility that some of
the energy manipulation involved with magick can benefit real
vampirism, but from my experience as a practioner of magick, this
benefit is miniscule, and the real vampire finds that sufficient
energy for wellbeing needs to come from psychic, sanguine, and
elemental sources or better yet a combination of several sources of
these. The intent of both real vampirism and magick are different in
regards to what both can do as well as what both will do for you and
your environment. Too many believe they are used for the same thing
and end, and this is incorrect. It is important to understand the
differences of these two processes and the intent behind both to
reduce the confusion between them.
Dark regards,
Damien Daville
Elder and Founder
The Vampire Church
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