By Alejandro Jodorowsky
"This is great...like a cookbook of very worthy recipes which may support us to appreciate our lifestyles and the universe we are living in." –Marina Abramović, functionality artist
Traditional psychotherapy seeks to unburden the subconscious brain basically via speak and dialogue. Psychomagic acknowledges that it truly is tough to arrive the subconscious with rational concept. we must always in its place converse on to the subconscious in its personal language, that of desires, poetry, and symbolic acts. by means of interacting in this deeper point, we will be able to start up speedier and extra enduring switch to unravel repressed early life trauma, show buried feelings, and triumph over deep-seated intimacy matters. throughout the lens of psychomagic, disease will be visible because the actual dream of the subconscious, revealing unresolved matters, a few handed from new release to iteration. during this workbook of psychomagical spells, mythical filmmaker and author of psychomagic Alejandro Jodorowsky presents greater than 2 hundred profitable psychomagic recommendations for a variety of mental, sexual, emotional, and actual difficulties from stuttering, eczema, and worry of failure to repressed rage, hereditary health problems, and domineering mom and dad. every one answer takes a similar parts linked to a unfavourable emotional cost and recasts them right into a sequence of theatrical symbolic activities that let one to pay the mental accounts hindering their lives. Explaining the shamanic strategies on the origin of psychomagic, the writer bargains tools for aspiring practitioners to advance ideas for his or her personal specific sufferers. Jodorowsky explains how the surreal acts of psychomagic are meant to damage aside the dysfunctional personality with whom the sufferer identifies so that it will hook up with a deeper, extra genuine self. As he says within the publication, "Health basically reveals itself within the real. there isn't any attractiveness with no authenticity."
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She shut herself in her room and abused herself by not eating. She died soon after. Her prestige moved quickly through religious circles: fasting was a means for the spirit to triumph over the flesh. To go without eating (without sexual relations) was considered a sign of saintliness. These absurd religious ideas are transmitted, overlapping most of the time, from generation to generation, and they originate from delusional wishes for perfection, contempt for sexual pleasure, exaltation of spiritual purity, and hatred toward the body.
Therefore, the following psychomagic act only aims to improve the relations between an alcoholic and the person he lives with. ) ▶ It is necessary, in a corner of a room, that the consultant make an altar on which is placed a statue of the Virgin Mary with a child in her arms. Next to her, a bottle of the alcohol preferred by the consultant afflicted by this addiction. The consultant glues on the bottle a photograph of his mother. Each night, he lights two sticks of incense at the altar and puts on the altar a glass with two fresh roses in it.
In this chest, you can leave your name, and that way, you will never lose it. You can put it in your room. This is the name that fit you because you were small. ” Then offer the child a little marzipan bar on which, with sugar letters, the new name is written. “On this bar is written your new name; eat it. ” At the same time, uniting their voices, the father and mother will read the new name and wait for the child to eat the sweet bar. Then they hug the child and congratulate him or her. “From now on, we will call you this.