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.
August 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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.
A clear purpose turns every choice into a step on a meaningful path, instead of just another way to pass the time.
August 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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.
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.
August 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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.
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.
August 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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 -
- Hermes Trismegistus -
"If you know the way broadly, you will see it in all things."
- Miyamoto Musashi -
July 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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 -
- 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.
Start walking it with presence, and you’ll realize it was beneath your feet the whole time.
July 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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.
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.
July 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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.
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:
www.eventcreate.com/e/goldofthep...
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:
www.eventcreate.com/e/goldofthep...
The Gold of the Philosophers | October 24, 2025 - October 26, 2025
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July 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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:
www.eventcreate.com/e/goldofthep...
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:
www.eventcreate.com/e/goldofthep...
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.
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July 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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.
open.substack.com/pub/damienec...
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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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What Is the Philosopher’s Stone? | Damien Echols
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July 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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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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.
It’s done while washing dishes.
Folding clothes.
Living life.
Presence turns the ordinary into alchemy.
June 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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.
It’s done while washing dishes.
Folding clothes.
Living life.
Presence turns the ordinary into alchemy.
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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Read the full article on Substack at:
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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.
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June 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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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Read the full article on Substack at:
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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:
www.youtube.com/live/KSvcrWF...
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Internal Alchemy: Earth
YouTube video by Damien Echols
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June 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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:
www.youtube.com/live/KSvcrWF...
www.youtube.com/live/KSvcrWF...
“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. -
Straight ahead is the pale morning moon.
Set your mind there without a cloud in sight.”
- Kenshin’s death poem. Written in 1578. -
January 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“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. -
Straight ahead is the pale morning moon.
Set your mind there without a cloud in sight.”
- Kenshin’s death poem. Written in 1578. -
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
-Epictetus-
-Epictetus-
November 23, 2024 at 8:31 PM
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
-Epictetus-
-Epictetus-
Everything you’re going through is preparing you for what you asked for.
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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-
-SENECA-
November 19, 2024 at 9:47 PM
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."
-SENECA-
-SENECA-