Ritual: An Essential Grimoire

by Damien Echols, Lorri Davis

Overview

Damien Echols and Lorri Davis share a beginner-friendly treasury of their most valuable practices for weaving magick into your everyday life.

The promise of magick is both simple and extraordinary: it is that magick can support you in any aspect of life, from helping you succeed in everyday tasks to enabling you to achieve your most cherished dreams. What’s more, you don’t even have to believe in magick to make it work. The only thing that’s required is regular practice—and the easiest way to practice is to make magickal rituals part of your daily life.

With Ritual: An Essential Grimoire, magicians Damien Echols and Lorri Davis share a broad selection of their most effective rituals, meditations, and prayers—presented in terms accessible to all. “You won’t find a lot of arcane terminology or lengthy ceremonies here,” says Damien. “What you will find are simple practices to develop your own connection to the energy and intelligence of the universe.” Here you’ll discover:

• Essential breath and concentration techniques for working with subtle energy
• Grounding practices to cleanse your body and environment from stagnant energies or thoughts
• Everyday meditations for improving sleep and dreams, blessing food, inviting abundance, and more
• On-the-spot practices that include invoking protection, relieving pain and anxiety, and seeing goodness in difficult situations
• Methods to amplify and reinforce your ritual work with talismans, celestial forces, and angel magick
• How ritual work can advance your spiritual evolution and openness to divine guidance
• Moving stories from Damien and Lorri about how magick changed their lives—and how it can change yours

Damien and Lorri learned magick to help them get through the most trying times—to help free Damien from his wrongful incarceration, then to help both of them heal from the traumatic aftereffects of his imprisonment. “Many of these rituals are the very same we used to rebuild our lives,” Lorri says. “We share these practices in the hopes that you will use them to survive, thrive, and create the life you desire.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683648208
Publisher:	Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	179,235
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Damien Echols’s wrongful conviction, sentencing, and eventual release as part of the West Memphis Three case is the subject of the HBO documentary Paradise Lost and West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. While in prison, Damien was ordained into the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition. His books include the New York Times bestseller Life After Death, High Magick, and Angels and Archangels, as well as Ritual: An Essential Grimoire and Yours for Eternity (both with Lorri Davis). Today, he teaches magick and works as a visual artist.

For more, visit damienechols.com.

Lorri Davis is a film producer, practicing magician, and the wife and teaching partner of Damien Echols. The story of their courtship-by-mail during Damien’s unjust imprisonment in the West Memphis Three case is profiled in the 2019 book Savage Appetites and is the topic of their coauthored book Yours for Eternity. She is the coauthor of Ritual: An Essential Grimoire.

For more, visit damienechols.com.

Editorial Reviews

01/24/2022

Echols and Davis (Yours for Eternity), husband-and-wife magicians, present an accessible introduction to personal magick that’s filled with “simple practices to develop your connection to the energy and intelligence of the universe.” Each chapter includes a step-by-step illustrated guide to a spell or ritual along with historical and theoretical context interspersed with anecdotes from Echols and Davis’s lives. The authors walk readers through ways to perceive and move “subtle energy,” “a substance that exists on the etheric or astral level of reality,” and discuss spells aimed at purification, balance, and protection. For example, to protect an object, one should hold it, breathe deeply, then summon energy from the earth to create a shield around it. Or to improve a subway commute, one should imagine a massive tube sucking harmful energy out of the train and visualize an incandescent gold orb brightening the space. The simplicity and grace of the manual distinguish it from similar titles that get bogged down in minutiae, and the authors make beginning magical practice feel unintimidating without talking down to the reader, though readers expecting a primer on ritual design may be disappointed by the omission of finer details. This will resonate with those interested in magick without the bells and whistles. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"The simplicity and grace of the manual distinguish it from similar titles that get bogged down in minutiae…"
—Publishers Weekly

“In their brilliant new book, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis strip down essential core energy practices and foundational magickal rituals to their bare mechanics, providing the reader with the fundamental energetic keys to unlocking a magickally connected life. Clearly written, accessible to any occult experience level, and void of unnecessary fluff or advanced esoteric jargon, Ritual: An Essential Grimoire is a gem that any magickical practitioner is sure to treasure in their occult library and will reference time and again.” —Mat Auryn, bestselling author of Psychic Witch and Mastering Magick

“Magick is all around us and within us, available any time it is needed or wanted. Yet so many of us forget this simple truth. Instead, we move through the world feeling powerless, believing that our fate in life is sealed. In Ritual: An Essential Grimoire, Lorri Davis and Damien Echols share the powerful daily rituals they’ve used to change their lives. Inside this beautiful book, you’ll find practices for every situation or need. Learn how to cleanse your aura, manifest your deepest desires, and protect your energy with practical, uncomplicated rituals that involve few to no tools. Don’t be fooled by the simplicity—these practices work. Make them a part of your everyday life and you’ll see results too, sometimes unfolding in real time.” —Theresa Reed, author of Tarot for Kids and Tarot: No Questions Asked: Mastering the Art of Intuitive Reading

“Damien and Lorri have always been so honest with us about their lives, and Ritual brings that to the next level. They both have such warm and welcoming ways with words, and this book feels like you’re learning about their work through a casual conversation with dear, dear friends. This was written for you, in a sincere and accessible way, by people who really care about what they do, and it comes through on every page.” —Gillian Pensavalle, actor, writer, and podcast host

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