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



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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