Incredible how this episode unified the truth of many beliefs, without to attack, nor to present itself as a single truth.
In this episode, the one who was transformed was Damien Echols, who became a fish inside an aquarium that controls a robotic body. He explains how his time in prison helped him redefine the term "magic" to mean anything one can achieve on a spiritual level, such as Buddhism. He notes that Western magical paths, such as that advocated by Aleister Crowley, are intended to achieve enlightenment in a lifetime. He further explains how meditation is the key to achieving magic and how the Bible "when read correctly" can be understood as magic.
Echols is perhaps the best known of all the guests: he was sentenced to death with two other friends in 1994 after they were accused of murdering three eight-year-old boys. Without proof or any evidence, they were accused of having always shown an interest in magic and the occult, in a community dominated by Bible readers and followers. Pentagram designs and affinity with the sound of bands like Metallica contributed to the incrimination.
Echols has been painted as a Satanist leader of sorts, and the case, covered in HBO documentaries, has been dubbed the West Memphis Three. The two friends got life imprisonment, while he was sentenced to death. Eventually they managed to prove their innocence, and Echols used the years he spent in prison to further study the magic that so enchanted him.