presence
Presence is the end of every curse. Fear-based stories about hexes, generational curses, psychic attacks, or malicious intentions only have power when we abandon the present moment and step into imagination. A curse operates in psychological time. It feeds on memory and prediction. It requires the body to brace against a danger that doesn’t exist... See more
Substack • Damien Echols | Substack
Presence isn’t the destination. It’s the beginning of being able to act cleanly. Without presence, every action that comes from the mind is filtered through trauma, fear, insecurity, ego, and unconscious patterns. Strategy without presence is just ego trying to win. And yes - there is still tactics. Strategy exists. Planning exists. I have never... See more
Damien Echols | Substack
This is not passive. Presence is not a trance. Presence is not being dissociated. Presence is the most awake state a human being can be in. It is the direct, conscious embodiment of awareness itself. And it transforms your entire life. When you live from presence, nothing can haunt you because nothing can hook you. You are not entangled in the mind... See more
Substack • Psychological or Supernatural?
But presence is not psychological at all, because anything psychological is of the mind. Presence is what you are before the mind arises. It is the field of awareness in which the mind appears, like a bird flying through the open sky. Thoughts fly through that field, emotions move through it, memories appear and disappear, but none of those things... See more