Damien Echols was sentenced to death in 1994 for the infamous West Memphis murders of three young boys, but was freed in 2011. By Becca van Sambeck Mar 22, 2019, ... Practicing magick for Echols ...

Freed Death Row Inmate Damien Echols on What Helped Him Survive ... often devoured five books a week on various subjects and spent hours each day sitting on the concrete floor doing Zen meditation.

Damien Echols’ interest in magick can be traced back to when he was seven years old. ... Magick, according to Echols, is more akin to the combined practices of manifestation and meditation.

Damien Echols chose the latter, learning the disciplines of magic and meditation — and art. “At one time I tried to make a paint brush out of my own hair” in prison, Echols said.

Damien Echols is the author of Life after Death, a memoir about his 18 years on Arkansas's death row for a crime he didn't commit. He now teaches meditation classes at the Hermetic Reiki Center in ...

Damien Echols talks Life After Death. ... When he can finally slow down, he wants to open a meditation center. Echols still writes. A recent tweet: “It’s cold outside!

As he recounts in his new memoir, Life After Death, Echols taught himself meditation, the particulars of a host of religions, and even the one thing that might be truly unteachable: how to write well.

There were days when Damien Echols stared at the walls of his cell on death row wondering if he might die from exhaustion before the authorities finally executed him ...

Damien Echols writes in an article published in Salon today that his meditation practice kept him sane in prison and was, though he didn’t know it, preparing him for his life after Death Row ...

Damien Echols, the member of the three who was sentenced to death, also helped to produce the film. And they are both with us now from New York. Welcome to you both.

Read about Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three. After 18 years on death row, Echols was freed and is now rebuilding his life in Salem, Massachusetts.