Psychomagic (the Transformative Power Of Shamanic Psychotherapy)

By (author) Alejandro Jodorowsky; By (author) Jodorowsky Alejandro
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A healing path using the power of dreams, theater, poetry, and shamanism.
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PSYCHOMAGIC presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art and theatre to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had travelled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest. For a young man who complained that he lived only in his head and was unable to grab hold of reality and advance toward the financial autonomy he desired, Jodorowsky gave the prescription to paste two gold coins to the soles of his shoes so that all day he would be walking on gold. A judge whose vanity was ruling his every move was given the task of dressing like a tramp and begging outside one of the fashionable restaurants he loved to frequent while pulling glass doll eyes out of his pockets. The lesson for him was that if a tramp can fill his pockets with eyeballs, then they must be of no value, and thus the eyes of others should have no bearing on who you are and what you do. Taking his patients directly at their words, Jodorowsky takes the same elements associated with a negative emotional charge and recasts them in an action that will make them positive and enable them to pay the psychological debts hindering their lives. . shows how psychological realisations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts . includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help
Table of contents
Prologue

Part One
Psychomagic: Sketches of a Panic Therapy

A Portrait of the Artist in Panic Character by Interviewer Gilles Farcet

ONE The Poetic Act

TWO The Theatrical Act

THREE The Oneiric Act

FOUR The Magic Act

FIVE The Psychomagic Act

SIX Examples of Psychomagic Acts

SEVEN Psychomagic Letters

EIGHT From Imagination to Power

Part Two
Lessons for Mutants

A Synthesis of Experiences by Interviewer Javier Esteban

NINE Keys to the Soul

TEN The Trail of Life

ELEVEN The Invisible Bridge

TWELVE Visions

THIRTEEN The Art of Healing

FOURTEEN Understanding Life

Part Three
An Accelerated Course in Creativity

Introduction

FIFTEEN Exercises for the Imagination

SIXTEEN Techniques for the Imagination

SEVENTEEN Therapeutic Applications


Index
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“Jodorowsky is a brilliant, wise, gentle, and cunning wizard with tremendous depth of imagination and crystalline insight into the human condition. His work is a source of inspiration for me and for many of the most important and innovative artists of our time. Psychomagic is necessary reading for all who long to shock the world into awakening and remembrance of what has always been and what is still to come.”
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“Currently there are books that have become essential to winnow out established ideas and open new horizons. The texts brought together here have that special ability to contemplate old problems from perspectives that were not thought to exist.”
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“Alejandro Jodorowsky seamlessly and effortlessly weaves togeth