Damien Echols | High Magick

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

Cory Allen

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🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

West Memphis Three member Damien Echols has lived a life none of us can imagine. In the mid 90’s, Damien and two others were wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. He lived on death row for 18 years, 10 of which he was in solitary confinement. The HBO documentary Paradise Lost covered his story and brought the case to the attention of the public. Eventually, forensic evidence proved Damien’s innocence and he was released from prison. After his release, he wrote the NYT bestselling book Life After Death.

But how did Damien get through 10 years in solitary confinement? By studying and practicing magick and meditation. On this podcast, we go deep into what Damien experienced during his time in prison, how he was able to take ownership of his life and his new book High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row.

Before the interview, I answer a listener question on self-love and discuss how we can learn to feel whole by changing our focus.

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0:00.0	Hello my friend what's going on. Hey welcome to the asteroid
0:04.4	hospital. I hope that you're having a good day today. I hope that you're
0:07.4	feeling free today. That you're appreciating just how sweet it is to be able to walk around, do whatever you want.
0:17.3	Feel the sunlight on your face, breathe in.
0:20.2	Go have a meal with some friends. Go out, do whatever you like, go have a drink, relax.
0:26.6	It's so easy to take that type of thing for granted, you know, because we're used to it.
0:30.8	And not until it's taken away and hear someone talk about it.
0:33.4	Does it really strike a chord with you and show you just how much of a luxury it is
0:39.3	to be as free and live a life as peaceful as most of us are able to.
0:44.8	No one knows that more intimately than my guest today,
0:48.0	Damian Eccles.
0:49.7	He has lived a life that none of us can really imagine, or at least I hope that we can't imagine.
0:56.0	Most of you will probably know him as a member of the West Memphis Three and a subject of the
1:02.4	Paradise Lost documentary. In the mid 90s
1:05.5	Damien and two others were wrongly convicted for murder and sentenced to death.
1:09.6	He spent 18 years in prison.
1:13.0	And this is at the age of 18 whenever he was sent there.
1:15.5	18 years in prison.
1:17.5	10 of that was in solitary environment,
1:20.0	which is just crazy.
1:21.0	You know, I can't even begin to fathom living for 10 years in
1:24.4	solitary confinement we get into that on the podcast we talk about it quite a bit
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