By Alejandro Jodorowsky
A glimpse into the brain and lifetime of the most inventive and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky
• Retraces the religious and mystical course Jodorowsky has because formative years, vividly repainting occasions from the point of view of an unleashed imagination
• Explores the improvement of the author’s psychomagic and metagenealogy practices through his attention that each one difficulties are rooted within the kinfolk tree
• comprises pictures from Jodorowsky’s visual appeal on the 2013 Cannes movie competition and from the movie in keeping with this ebook, which debuted at Cannes
Retracing the religious and mystical direction he has considering that adolescence, Alejandro Jodorowsky re-creates the magnificent experience of his lifestyles as an artist, filmmaker, author, and therapist--all phases on his quest to beat back the bounds of either mind's eye and reason.
Not a standard autobiography composed of a chronological recounting of stories, The Dance of truth repaints occasions from Jodorowsky’s existence from the viewpoint of an unleashed mind's eye. just like the psychomagic and metagenealogy remedies he created, this autobiography exposes the mythic types and family members templates upon which the occasions of lifestyle are based. It finds the improvement of Jodorowsky’s cognizance that every one difficulties are rooted within the genealogy and explains, via brilliant examples from his personal lifestyles, rather interactions along with his parents, how the individual’s highway to real success skill doing away with the phantoms projected via mom and dad on their children.
The Dance of truth is autobiography as an act of therapeutic. during the retelling of his personal existence, the writer exhibits we don't start up with our personal personalities, they're given to us by means of a number of participants of our genealogy. To be born right into a relatives, Jodorowsky says, is to be possessed. to see again into our prior is akin to digging into our personal souls. If we will be able to dig deep adequate, past familial projections, we will locate an internal light--a gentle that may aid us via life’s such a lot tricky tests.
Offering a glimpse into the brain and lifetime of the most artistic and enigmatic visionaries of our time, The Dance of truth is the publication upon which Jodorowsky’s significantly acclaimed 2013 Cannes movie competition movie of an identical identify used to be dependent.
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Someone who was not me! My true being still had not germinated. Only a shadow would have fallen dead in the sandy yard. However, chance had ordained that my dead soul would not yet die. If that mysterious pattern called destiny wanted me to live, then first I had to be born in order to live. I shut myself in the room they had given me, in the interior of the dark apartment. As there were few very cold days in the winter there were no electric or gas heaters, and we heated with braziers. I gathered all my photographs and watched them turn to ashes on those pieces of carbon lit up like rubies.
And in the circus gallery I would sit far from their box seat, near to the ring. In fact, my family was a triangle— father, mother, daughter—plus an intruder. It is also possible that Jaime, having lost his father at the age of ten, remained a child due to the trauma, never growing up emotionally just as his penis never grew. No one had ever loved him. Teresa, the ideal mother to whom he aspired once he took over the place of his father, had betrayed him. He could not trust grown women. The proof: after his wedding night with Sara there were no bloodstains on the sheets.
No one had ever loved him. Teresa, the ideal mother to whom he aspired once he took over the place of his father, had betrayed him. He could not trust grown women. The proof: after his wedding night with Sara there were no bloodstains on the sheets. He had been duped; the bride was not a virgin. Without a penny in his pockets Jaime left his wife, whom he had gotten pregnant, and went to work as a miner for a nitrate company. indd 52 5/6/14 3:48 PM The Dark Years 53 him with the keys to a shop in Tocopilla and a baby girl in her arms.