494. Damien Echols

Buddha at the Gas Pump

Rick Archer

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 695 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2019

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Damien Echols is an artist and New York Times bestselling author of "Life After Death". In 2018, he published his first book on ceremonial magick: "High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row". He has been a practitioner of ceremonial Magick for over 20 years and leads classes on Magick across the country. He spent over 18 years on death row in Arkansas for a crime he didn't commit before gaining his freedom in 2011. Upon release, he, along with Peter Jackson produced the documentary film "West Of Memphis" which chronicled his legal battle. During his time in prison, he was ordained into the Rinzai Zen tradition of Japanese Buddhism. He lives in New York with his wife and three cats. Other offerings: Audio CD of "High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row" Angels and Archangels Royal Science of Angels Life After Death Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row Almost Home Damien's site: damienechols.com Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group. Summary and transcript of this interview. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump 00:05:30 - Growing Up in Poverty and Neglect 00:10:30 - False Confessions and Wrongful Convictions 00:15:20 - Satanism and Magick 00:20:03 - Life Inside Prison 00:24:50 - Morphic Fields and Collective Consciousness 00:29:25 - The Power of Meditation and Consciousness Alteration 00:34:04 - Alignment of Brain and Heart Electromagnetic Fields 00:38:27 - Ego and Karma in Enlightenment Practice 00:43:19 - Discovering Magick in Prison 00:48:06 - The Brutality in Prison 00:52:47 - The Power of Resilience and Endurance 00:57:49 - Balancing Polarities in Magick 01:03:01 - Balancing the energy centers 01:08:01 - The Disintegration of Self and the Trinity of Divinity 01:13:16 - Explaining the Concept of Archangels and Deities 01:18:00 - Magick as a Personal Journey 01:22:39 - Purifying Your Energetic Anatomy and Environment 01:27:29 - The Journey to Magick 01:32:31 - Adjusting to Life After Prison 01:37:02 - Magick and the Healing Power of Words 01:41:58 - The Misuse of Magick 01:46:28 - Working with Archangels and Negative Tendencies 01:50:55 - Talismans and Amulets: Harnessing the Power of Symbols 01:55:37 - Charging of Magick Items 02:00:14 - Surrendering and Relaxing 02:05:08 - The Importance of Relationships in the Awakening Process 02:09:39 - Unlocking the Collective Unconscious and Remembering Past Lives 02:14:31 - Expanding Psychic Perception, Overcoming Addiction, and Restructuring the Prison System 02:19:16 - The Problem with the US Prison System 02:23:40 - Check out the Impressive Documentaries

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome to Buddha at the Gas Pump.
0:28.6	Buddha at the Gas Pump is an ongoing series of interviews with spiritually awakening people.
0:33.6	By the way, I'm Rick Archer. Most of do you know that by now? I've done hundreds of
0:38.2	these by now and if you are new to this, you've never seen one and you'd like to check
0:43.5	out other ones, go to batgap.com, B-A-T-G-A-P, and check out the past interviews menu.
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1:03.8	donations which shows other ways to donate if you don't like dealing with PayPal.
1:08.0	My guest today is a fascinating fellow whom I've had the pleasure
1:11.9	of getting to know in person for the last few minutes and getting to know remotely over
1:16.9	the last week as I've been listening to many of his interviews and reading his entire book.
1:22.3	Damien Eccles. I welcome Damien. Thank you for having me. You're welcome. Damien is an artist and New York
1:30.5	Times bestselling author of Life After Death, which we'll explain in a minute. In 2018,
1:37.4	he published his first book on Ceremonial Magic. That's Magic with a K on the end, entitled,
1:43.6	I'll show a picture over here on the screen.
1:45.0	High Magic, a guide to the spiritual practices that saved my life on death row.
1:51.0	And there are all kinds of interesting endorsements of the book on the back, Tony Robbins and Ozzy Osbourne and Peter Jackson and some more endorsements
2:05.2	in the book I think probably Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder and Eddie Vedder wrote the intro to it.
2:10.6	Eddie Vedder was a singer for Pearl Jam. In any case, Damien has been a practitioner of ceremonial magic for over 20 years and leads
2:21.0	classes on magic across the country.
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