Damien Echols describes non-physical senses that mirror our five physical ones but atrophy from disuse. By exercising these inner faculties, he says you can perceive realities beyond the material world, including what he experiences as genuine encounters with angels.
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To perceive and interact with other levels of reality, just like our physical senses allow us to, you know, operate in the physical world. We can hear, we can see, we can touch, we can taste, that sort of thing. We have like mirrors of those faculties in our energetic system, but for most people, they are completely withered up, not working, atrophied. It's like somebody who has never done a day of any kind of exercise in their entire life. Mm-hmm. What happens the more you do this, the more you're starting to work with those things, use those things. What happens is you start to perceive on these other levels of reality. So I'm invoking all of these angels. Suddenly, there's no way that I could ever put this, I could ever articulate this into words, but I knew suddenly to the core of my being there's something here. Like, I now know this is not just me playing mind games with myself.