Damien Echols

Alchemy isn’t about leaving this world for some hidden realm. It’s about transmuting every ordinary act into sacred practice. Breath, posture, awareness—this is where the Great Work lives.

Why do magick? YouTube video by Damien Echols

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A clear purpose turns every choice into a step on a meaningful path, instead of just another way to pass the time.

Daily motivation:

Every disciplined choice you make today is a strike of the hammer on the forge of your soul—don’t quit, because this is your magnum opus.

Stop asking what’s next. If you can’t find God in washing a dish, you won’t find Him on any mountaintop.

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere."
- Hermes Trismegistus -

"If you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things."
- Miyamoto Musashi -

The path isn’t separate from your life—it is your life.
Start walking it with presence, and you’ll realize it was beneath your feet the whole time.

Two people can stand in the same place and see two different worlds—because the world you perceive is a reflection of your inner state. In alchemy, we say “the laboratory doesn’t lie”—your reality is your lab report.

The Gold of the Philosophers | October 24, 2025 - October 26, 2025 Join us on October 24

You don’t need experience.
Just presence.
Just a willingness to begin.

This October, we gather in the Hudson Valley to explore internal alchemy, movement meditation, and ancient ritual—no black belts or robes required.

Beginners welcome. The path begins here:

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Why I Write There was a time I gave up.

I write because one voice—on the worst day of my life—breathed fire back into my soul. Now I do everything I can to pass that spark to someone else.

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Why I Write There was a time I gave up.

Why I write…..

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What Is the Philosopher’s Stone? | Damien Echols Get more from Damien Echols on Patreon

The Philosopher’s Stone isn’t found—it’s forged, one act of presence at a time. What you touch with awareness, you transmute.

Read it here for free:

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The Great Work isn’t done in a temple or a cave.
It’s done while washing dishes.
Folding clothes.
Living life.
Presence turns the ordinary into alchemy.

Every moment is a fork in the road There’s a myth people tend to believe about life—that we make a few big, dramatic choices that set our path, and then we just live out the consequences.

You can have comfort, or you can have transformation….but you can’t have both.

Read the full article on Substack at:

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Internal Alchemy: Earth YouTube video by Damien Echols

I just posted a new video on the first stage of internal alchemy - the phase which corresponds to the element of Earth. You can see it here:
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Thanks, Poppy!

“Do not concern yourself with Heaven and Hell.
Straight ahead is the pale morning moon.
Set your mind there without a cloud in sight.”

- Kenshin’s death poem. Written in 1578. -

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"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
-Epictetus-

Everything you’re going through is preparing you for what you asked for.

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
-SENECA-