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Ok /x/ redpill me on psychomagic.
A little background:
Alejandro Jodorowsky. Director of many famous avant-garde films including el topo and holy mountain. After a failed attempt to make a dune movie with the help of meobius and salvadore dali he began a successful comic career, writing such classics as incal and the metabarons. Then he fell into obscurity becoming a recluse for decades. He created something called psychomagic, which he claims blended modern psychology with tarot divination and teachings of "spiritual masters." It has been published in 23 novels and treatises, as well as free public lectures, neither of which are in english.
>For a quarter of a century, Jodorowsky held classes and lectures for free, in cafés and universities all over the city of Paris. Typically, such courses or talks would begin on Wednesday evenings as tarot divination lessons, and would culminate in an hour long conference, also free, where at times hundreds of attendees would be treated to live demonstrations of a psychological "arbre généalogique" ("tree of genealogy") involving volunteers from the audience.
So thats all I have to go on. Can anyone tell me about it? What does it claim? Does it work? Are there english language resources about it?
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>Of all his work, Jodorowsky considers these activities to be the most important of his life. Though such activities only take place in the insular world of Parisian cafés, he has devoted thousands of hours of his life to teaching and helping people "become more conscious," as he puts it.
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A close friend of mine who does Tarot loves the guy and practices tree of geneology also. Calls him master/sensei/teacher. Fanboy for him basically. He has a couple of clients that actually pay him for his work and it seems to help them.
I'm not very interested in Jodorowsky to be honest, but he seems pretty legit.
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>>19323395
Thanks. I'll keep trying to look into it. I've always been a fan of his books and movies, they feel like there is always some essence of greater truth to them at best and at worst they contain an interesting and unique perspective.
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>>19323418
I've seen two of them. Holy mountain is still one of my favorite movies of all time. Great mind trip.
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>>19323500
Watch dance of reality if you haven't. It is in my opinion his best.
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I think it is mostly a form of therapy that goes beyond the conventionally accepted parts of the human spirit.
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Jodobump
why haven't these things been translated into English?
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>>19324822
>why haven't these things been translated into English?
A few of them have. OP was just too dumb to sort out all the comic books from the search results.
https://www.amazon.com/Psychomagic-Transformative-Power-Shamanic-Psychotherapy/dp/159477336X/
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Even in the english speaking world he is regarded as an expert. Described as taking pieces of truth from many disciplines to synthesize a coherent whole
https://www.amazon.com/Panic-Fables-Mystic-Teachings-Initiatory/dp/1620555379
https://www.amazon.com/Where-Bird-Sings-Alejandro-Jodorowsky/dp/1632060957
https://www.amazon.com/Sacred-Trickery-Way-Kindness-Radical/dp/1620554593
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Tarot-Spiritual-Teacher-Cards/dp/1594772630
https://www.amazon.com/Metagenealogy-Self-Discovery-through-Psychomagic-Family
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>>19325063
found another one:
https://www.amazon.com/Manual-Psychomagic-Practice-Shamanic-Psychotherapy/dp/1620551071
I'd go so far as to say nearly all of them are in english. OP didn't search very hard.
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So no one here is familiar with it? I don't want to shell out $200 for a stack of books that turn out to be bullshit.
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>>19325888
Don't buy all of them at once dumbass. If you want I can ask my friend which book he recommends as an intro, that has been translated to english.
I'm sure he's read pretty much all of them, travels to go to his conferences etc. I'll see him tonight.
Asking him this is a guarantee for 3 hours of him ranting on all his Jodorowsky shit while we drink. So you welcome.
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>>19325925
See if you can get him to rant here.
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So people actually go to coffee shops and listen to him? Like a cult?
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This explains why incal had so many metaphysical plots
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