Hello folks,

I realize I have been a little bit behind on posting news in the vampire community. I recently moved, and have been having problems with setting up my new internet connection. As soon as possible, I will catch up.

Take Care RVN Readers,

-John Reason

A Colorado woman says a vampire’s sudden appearance caused her to wreck her sport utility vehicle late Sunday night.

The victim was driving down a dead-end dirt road in Mesa County about 11 p.m. when she said she saw a vampire in her headlights, according to Grand Junction’s nbc11news.com.

She quickly threw the SUV in reverse but backed into a canal in her haste. The SUV ended up on its side, stuck in the narrow ditch.

Troopers who arrived on the scene say they found no evidence of a blood-sucking undead traffic hazard. They also say there were no drugs or alcohol involved in the wreck.

The woman was treated briefly by paramedics, then taken home by her husband.

Story by Alice Wolke

Just in time for the new Twilight movie, BU Today interviewed Joseph Laycock:

For millions of Twilight fans, the saga of young Bella and handsome vampire Edward is nothing more than a love story — a romantic escape from reality. But according to religious studies scholar Joseph Laycock (GRS’13), vampires are more than pop culture icons. They believe they’re as real as Twilight author Stephenie Meyer — and Laycock has written a book exploring the phenomenon.

Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism (2009) takes a look at teenagers, stay-at-home moms, grandmothers, and professionals, all unremarkable subjects save for one little thing: they claim to feed off of other people’s energy, and, every so often, they drink human blood.

Click here for the rest of the story.

Steve Wohlberg, occult researcher and bestselling author, has come out against Twilight in his new book The Trouble with Twilight: Why Today’s Vampire Craze is Hazardous to Your Health. In the book he states, “Twilight has positive features, but it is laced with occultism, contains mixed moral messages, and is now fueling the dangerous practice of sipping real blood among teens and adults.”

While many in the community have noticed an increased interest in Real Vampirism over the last few years due to the vampire craze becoming more active, the Twilight Saga is not the only contributing factor. Many vampire movies, books, and television shows have come to light in the last few years which cater to all types of people. I think it would be detrimental to the vampire community to automatically assume that the Twilight Saga is the reason for many of the fractures noticed between groups of vampires.

I leave you with one more quote from AvoidTwilight.com:

“In fiction, the vampire denotes power, sexuality, romance, and immortality; but in reality those who experiment with occultism, witchcraft, and drinking blood can easily slip through an alluring doorway into darkness, immorality,  and despair. Buyer, beware!” – Steve Wohlberg

Directly quoted from VVC Email:

June 2010 Global Vampire Community Discussion
Hosted By Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)

Global Vampire Community Discussion on Sunday, June 27, 2010 @ 7:00 PM Eastern US/ET
(11:00 PM GMT).  If you need assistance with time conversions refer to: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
The discussion will be held in the IRC channel #vampirevoices on
Dalnet.

Topic: What kind of things do you get from the vampire community that assist you in understanding and functioning with
your personal vampirism?  What are some things the vampire community
could do that we’re not currently doing, or that we could do better, to
help our fellow vampire or donor?

If you have the ability to install or use an IRC client (a program used to connect to an IRC
server) to access the discussion, please do so. If you don’t have an irc
client already installed on your machine, two popular clients are mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/)
and xchat (http://www.xchat.org/
or http://www.silverex.org/news/).

If you do not have the ability to access IRC another way, you can access
the discussion by going to http://tiny.cc/vampirevoices and entering your
desired Username, then clicking “Connect”. Please be aware that Dalnet
limits the number of people who can connect via the browser-based chat,
so if you have another option for connecting, we strongly encourage you
to not use the browser-based system.

For anyone who has an IRC Client, use irc.dal.net or another dalnet server (http://www.dal.net/servers/)
and join #vampirevoices

Please help spread the word to all those you know in the vampire community. The channel (#vampirevoices) is
always open so feel free to drop by anytime you wish. We hope to see
everyone there!

- Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC)
http://www.veritasvosliberabit.com/vvc.html

A Magazine article from way back in 1999 was recently hosted by the Atlanta Vampire Alliance, courtesy of Sarasvati. The article focuses mainly on sanguinarian vampires from the last millennium, but also mentions psychic vampirism. Several vampires that are still integral in the community today are quoted in the article such as Sanguinarius and Sarasvati. FATE writer Larry Mastbaum offers a very down-to-earth representation of what self-identified “Real Vampires” are, and how they represent themselves. This is a very interesting look back to the past when Real Vampirism was gaining media attention for the first time.

Zoom over to the Atlanta Vampire Alliance forum to read the article.

Donor and blogger “Mizz Dizz” has posted a review of the upcoming scholastic article by Joseph Laycock.  Here is a brief excerpt, after which you can follow the link to her blog to read more.

Joseph Laycock has been at it again, this time with an academic article: Real Vampires as an Identity Group [1]. My regular readers will know that i’m a bit of a fangirl of Laycock’s [2], so i was quite excited when the article was announced, and already planning an eventual review here. Getting some direct encouragement from a prominent member of the VC (vampire community) decided the case and moved it up on my priority list.

Click here to read more.

SphynxCatVP, a noted vampire author, has released a new article detailing Circadian Rhythms, and the adverse affects they may have on vampire’s lives.

If you would like to learn more, click here.

The Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC) is hosting a Global Vampire Community Discussion on June 27, and they are currently looking to vampires all over the world to suggest possible topics. If you have any ideas, you can submit them to the VVC by clicking this link and filling out the information under the subheading “Vampire Community Feedback.”

The chat will be held on IRC (Internet Relay Chat) in the #vampirevoices channel on Dalnet. If you do not have an IRC client, you can download one mIRC or XChat. One added note from the Atlanta Vampire Alliance site:

If you do not have the ability to access IRC another way, you can access the discussion by going to http://tiny.cc/vampirevoices and entering your desired Username, then clicking “Connect”. Please be aware that Dalnet limits the number of people who can connect via the browser-based chat, so if you have another option for connecting, we strongly encourage you to not use the browser-based system.

Sanguine vampire Drake Mefestta recently did an interview for the June issue of Inclination Magazine. An interesting and expressive piece, his interview explains Drake’s journey with vampirism from the beginning to present. Mefestta covers a variety of complicated questions ranging from his philosophy on writing music to how he views vampires as normal people with an affliction-as opposed to the oft covered vampires of literature.

You can read the full story by going to Inclination Magazine’s website.

To learn more about Drake Mefestta, click here.