Tuesday, June 02, 2009
What is Psychomagic?
Well, the short answer would be that it's a form of psychotherapy invented by Jodorowsky and practiced only by him, his son Cristóbal Axel (who starred as Fénix in Santa Sangre) and his wife Mariana Costa, that combines art, Eastern philosophies (particularly Zen Buddhism), mysticism and modern psychotherapy to heal patients with emotional problems. Louis Mouchet's 1994 documentary La Constellation Jodorowsky contains footage of one of Jodorowsky's weekly Paris workshops in which he treats patients at no charge.
So, is Psychomagic just a rehash of previously existing religions, philosophies and schools of thought? Not at all. To better understand what Psychomagic is, read what Jodorowsky says about it.
What does it take to be a psychomagician?
According to Jodorowsky:
# A true therapist cannot be trained in less than five years and a psychomagician in no less than seven years.
# A psychomagician must first be an actor, artist, poet, writer, painter, mime, musician, etc. He should have mastered all art forms.
# Studied a martial art, Eastern philosophies and shamanism.
# Experimented with hallucinogenic mushrooms and other elements.
# Have an occupation outside of being a therapist to work free of financial pressures.
# Be familiar with tarot, alchemy and cabbala.
# Had contact with a well known healer.
# Been psychoanalyzed, know the history of psychoanalysis and its many theories and know the works of Freud, Jung, Grodeck, Lacan, Erickson, Dolto, etc.
Psychomagical advice
1. A ten step recipe to being happy, by Alejandro Jodorowsky. When in doubt between "doing" and "not doing," choose "doing". If you're wrong at least you'll have the experience.
2. Listen to your intuition more than your reason. Words forge reality but they are not it.
3. Make some childish dream of yours come true. For example, if you wanted to play but were forced to become an adult before your time, save some 500 euros and go play them at a casino until you lose it. If you win, keep playing. If you keep winning, even if it's millions, continue until you lose it all. It's not about winning, but about playing with no end.
4. There is no greater relief than to start becoming what one is. Since childhood, we're coerced into other people's destinies. We are not in this world to pursue the dreams of our parents, but our own. If you're a singer and not an attorney like your father, abandon your law career and record your album.
5. Stop criticizing your body right now. Accept it as it is without concerning yourself with the stares of others. You're not loved because you're beautiful. You're beautiful because you're loved.
6. Once a week, teach others the little or lot that you know. What you give to them, you give to yourself. What you don't give to them, you take away from yourself.
7. Every day, look for a positive story in the newspaper. It's difficult to find one. But, amid all the atrocities, somehow, there always is one. A new species of bird was discovered; comets transport life; a boy who fell from the top of a five story building landed unharmed; the daughter of a president intent on drowning herself was saved by a laborer with whom she fell in love and married; young Chilean poets bombarded the palace of La Moneda where Allende was assassinated with 300,000 poems from a helicopter; etc.
8. If your parents abused you when you were a child, calmly confront them in a neutral place that is not their territory, developing four aspects:
This is what they did to me.
This is what I felt.
This is what, because of that, I now suffer.
And this is the reparation that I ask. Forgiveness without reparation has no use.
9. Even if you have a large family, assign yourself a personal territory where no one may enter without your permission.
10. Stop defining yourself: allow yourself every possibility that could be, and change paths as often as necessary.
# Failing does not exist. With each failure, we change paths. To arrive at what you are, you must go through what you are not. The greatest happiness is to become what you are. In every sickness there is: A prohibition: You are prohibited from being what you are.
# A lack of consciousness: When you don't realize what you are.
# A lack of beauty: When you lose beauty, you become ill.
Well, the short answer would be that it's a form of psychotherapy invented by Jodorowsky and practiced only by him, his son Cristóbal Axel (who starred as Fénix in Santa Sangre) and his wife Mariana Costa, that combines art, Eastern philosophies (particularly Zen Buddhism), mysticism and modern psychotherapy to heal patients with emotional problems. Louis Mouchet's 1994 documentary La Constellation Jodorowsky contains footage of one of Jodorowsky's weekly Paris workshops in which he treats patients at no charge.
So, is Psychomagic just a rehash of previously existing religions, philosophies and schools of thought? Not at all. To better understand what Psychomagic is, read what Jodorowsky says about it.
What does it take to be a psychomagician?
According to Jodorowsky:
# A true therapist cannot be trained in less than five years and a psychomagician in no less than seven years.
# A psychomagician must first be an actor, artist, poet, writer, painter, mime, musician, etc. He should have mastered all art forms.
# Studied a martial art, Eastern philosophies and shamanism.
# Experimented with hallucinogenic mushrooms and other elements.
# Have an occupation outside of being a therapist to work free of financial pressures.
# Be familiar with tarot, alchemy and cabbala.
# Had contact with a well known healer.
# Been psychoanalyzed, know the history of psychoanalysis and its many theories and know the works of Freud, Jung, Grodeck, Lacan, Erickson, Dolto, etc.
Psychomagical advice
1. A ten step recipe to being happy, by Alejandro Jodorowsky. When in doubt between "doing" and "not doing," choose "doing". If you're wrong at least you'll have the experience.
2. Listen to your intuition more than your reason. Words forge reality but they are not it.
3. Make some childish dream of yours come true. For example, if you wanted to play but were forced to become an adult before your time, save some 500 euros and go play them at a casino until you lose it. If you win, keep playing. If you keep winning, even if it's millions, continue until you lose it all. It's not about winning, but about playing with no end.
4. There is no greater relief than to start becoming what one is. Since childhood, we're coerced into other people's destinies. We are not in this world to pursue the dreams of our parents, but our own. If you're a singer and not an attorney like your father, abandon your law career and record your album.
5. Stop criticizing your body right now. Accept it as it is without concerning yourself with the stares of others. You're not loved because you're beautiful. You're beautiful because you're loved.
6. Once a week, teach others the little or lot that you know. What you give to them, you give to yourself. What you don't give to them, you take away from yourself.
7. Every day, look for a positive story in the newspaper. It's difficult to find one. But, amid all the atrocities, somehow, there always is one. A new species of bird was discovered; comets transport life; a boy who fell from the top of a five story building landed unharmed; the daughter of a president intent on drowning herself was saved by a laborer with whom she fell in love and married; young Chilean poets bombarded the palace of La Moneda where Allende was assassinated with 300,000 poems from a helicopter; etc.
8. If your parents abused you when you were a child, calmly confront them in a neutral place that is not their territory, developing four aspects:
This is what they did to me.
This is what I felt.
This is what, because of that, I now suffer.
And this is the reparation that I ask. Forgiveness without reparation has no use.
9. Even if you have a large family, assign yourself a personal territory where no one may enter without your permission.
10. Stop defining yourself: allow yourself every possibility that could be, and change paths as often as necessary.
# Failing does not exist. With each failure, we change paths. To arrive at what you are, you must go through what you are not. The greatest happiness is to become what you are. In every sickness there is: A prohibition: You are prohibited from being what you are.
# A lack of consciousness: When you don't realize what you are.
# A lack of beauty: When you lose beauty, you become ill.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Knowlege is the Beginning Documentary tonight 4/23/09 at SUNY Brockport in Edwards 103 at 7pm sharp
Sponsored by Students for Peace and Justice
www.knowledge-is-the-beginning.com/
Sponsored by Students for Peace and Justice
www.knowledge-is-the-beginning.com/
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
*The Long and Short* (lyrics)
I want to kill every single body
I want to see them bleeding in the streets
I am the eggman
I am the walrus
I am the glass onion
See through me
Chorus: The long and short
It's okay it looks right everything is fine to me
I'm so sorry
I can't say anything except what's said to me
All gone no more
You can't tell me anything that I don't already know
One more phone call
Then I promise with all my heart I'll get off of the phone
I'd like to thank every single body
I'd like to feel their burning eyes on me
In this my pocket Ecclesiastes
nothing I say can exonerate me
Chorus
I think it's clear
To every single body
As clear as it seems to me
Me and my private consternation
I'm only happy when I am free
Chorus
I want to kill every single body
I want to see them bleeding in the streets
I am the eggman
I am the walrus
I am the glass onion
See through me
Chorus: The long and short
It's okay it looks right everything is fine to me
I'm so sorry
I can't say anything except what's said to me
All gone no more
You can't tell me anything that I don't already know
One more phone call
Then I promise with all my heart I'll get off of the phone
I'd like to thank every single body
I'd like to feel their burning eyes on me
In this my pocket Ecclesiastes
nothing I say can exonerate me
Chorus
I think it's clear
To every single body
As clear as it seems to me
Me and my private consternation
I'm only happy when I am free
Chorus
Here are some story boards fromm Twitchfilm.net for the upcoming Jodorowsky flick King Shot They say do not duplicate. I hope I don't get in trouble.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Remember, show april 10th at undisclosed location.
free and freedom being being reading and being bleeding and beating fleeting greedy seedy looking seeing listening hearing loving living learning laughing crying bleeding being and being underground blowing and showing and being underground happy and sad and loving and free and freedom being reading bleeding living you and you are me and i bleed
free and freedom being being reading and being bleeding and beating fleeting greedy seedy looking seeing listening hearing loving living learning laughing crying bleeding being and being underground blowing and showing and being underground happy and sad and loving and free and freedom being reading bleeding living you and you are me and i bleed
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Stay in the Sun - lyrics
Stay in the sun
The leaf made of iron
Silver and gold
The philosophers stone
Part of it all
Participation
I am you
And you are only me
My love from me flows
Like a rainbow
From the chest I sang
Belladonnas rang
Warriors and lovers
Human emotion
Successful drama
Successful modesty
I'm the ubermench
I will eat it all
It will make me strong
And my brain will grow
Stay in the sun
The leaf made of iron
Silver and gold
The philosophers stone
Part of it all
Participation
I am you
And you are only me
My love from me flows
Like a rainbow
From the chest I sang
Belladonnas rang
Warriors and lovers
Human emotion
Successful drama
Successful modesty
I'm the ubermench
I will eat it all
It will make me strong
And my brain will grow
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
the Lineacratic Supervini (descendants of (the ex-Virgin) Mary (Erzulie)):
an esoteric order of those related to Mary, mother of Christ, who engage in secret mystical rituals
Barak Obama told me about them in a dream
I was in a high school classroom and the teacher kept calling on me and I said, "I don't have to take this, I'm only here for fun, I'm in college already."
I have a lot of dreams about being back in high school lately.
Then Barak Obama, who was one of my classmates, asked me, "What do you do in college?" I told him anthropology. He told me I should get involved in fantasy anthropology to which I replied, "I'm interested in mysticism." He then asked me if I had heard of the Lineacratic Supervini.
I have good dreams.
And then I have bad ones.
Last night I had a dream within a dream about zombies. It was a typical zombie story where the hero is the last one alive at the end. When I "woke up" I was scared and told myself that I should stop watching so many scary movies. I was scared inside the dream from the dream within the dream.
Then there was the time that I lucid dreamed. I remember motorcycles flying all around me in a circular pattern. And I was flying too. And there was a phone in the middle of the sky. I picked it up and called someone telling them, "I'm dreaming."
an esoteric order of those related to Mary, mother of Christ, who engage in secret mystical rituals
Barak Obama told me about them in a dream
I was in a high school classroom and the teacher kept calling on me and I said, "I don't have to take this, I'm only here for fun, I'm in college already."
I have a lot of dreams about being back in high school lately.
Then Barak Obama, who was one of my classmates, asked me, "What do you do in college?" I told him anthropology. He told me I should get involved in fantasy anthropology to which I replied, "I'm interested in mysticism." He then asked me if I had heard of the Lineacratic Supervini.
I have good dreams.
And then I have bad ones.
Last night I had a dream within a dream about zombies. It was a typical zombie story where the hero is the last one alive at the end. When I "woke up" I was scared and told myself that I should stop watching so many scary movies. I was scared inside the dream from the dream within the dream.
Then there was the time that I lucid dreamed. I remember motorcycles flying all around me in a circular pattern. And I was flying too. And there was a phone in the middle of the sky. I picked it up and called someone telling them, "I'm dreaming."
The fundamental condition of our existence is to revolve. There is no object, no being which does not revolve. The shared similarity between all created things is the revolution of the electrons, protons, and neutrons within the atoms that constitute their basic structure. From the smallest cell to the planets and the farthest stars, everything takes part in this revolving. Thus, The Semazens, the ones who whirl, participate consciously in the shared revolution of all existence.
March on Thursday was really great. Here are some pics from various sources. See Rochester IMC for more details.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL! MARCH 19th, 2009 PARADE & RALLY
End the War(s) Now! 6th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Please join MoveOn/PIA, RAW, IVAW, & PDAGV* for an area-wide march and rally to raise public awareness over the continuing war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other military conflicts.
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2009
Parade Assemble between 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Corn Hill Landing, Exchange Street, Rochester, NY
March north on Exchange St. and State St. to the Genesee River Crossroads Park
*Progressives In Action, Rochester Against War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Progressive Democrats of Genesee Valley.
* Demonstrations at: The War Memorial
* Military Recruiting Station
* Federal Building and Courthouse (Bush & Cheney trials)
* RALLY AT GENESEE RIVER CROSSROADS PARK
Rally at Genesee River Crossroads Park will include sentencing of George W. Bush and Richard “Dick” Cheney. The sentencing will culminate in a shoe throwing at Bush and Cheney, with each participating organization given time to speak on their reason for participating.
Please bring a pair of new or gently-used shoes. Shoes will be donated to charity by IVAW.
PLEASE JOINS US AND MARCH with your contingent, or individually, and rally at Genesee River Crossroads Park. Then plan on joining the bus to Washington on Saturday, 21 March 2009, for the Nation-wide rally and demonstration at the Pentagon.
Co-sponsors: Peace Advocates, First Unitarian Church, Military Families Speak Out-Upstate NY, CAN (Campus Anti-War Network), RAW Theater (Rochester Against War Theater), SDS Rochester (Students for a Democratic Society: Rochester), Students For Peace and Justice at SUNY Brockport
To sign on as a co-sponsor please contact:
Jim (jlswarts @ pdagv.org), Dawn (dawn8 @ frontiernet.net),Bryan (bryancasler @ rochesterivaw.com), or Robin (robin @ pdagv.org)
End the War(s) Now! 6th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion
Please join MoveOn/PIA, RAW, IVAW, & PDAGV* for an area-wide march and rally to raise public awareness over the continuing war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other military conflicts.
THURSDAY, 19 MARCH 2009
Parade Assemble between 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Corn Hill Landing, Exchange Street, Rochester, NY
March north on Exchange St. and State St. to the Genesee River Crossroads Park
*Progressives In Action, Rochester Against War, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Progressive Democrats of Genesee Valley.
* Demonstrations at: The War Memorial
* Military Recruiting Station
* Federal Building and Courthouse (Bush & Cheney trials)
* RALLY AT GENESEE RIVER CROSSROADS PARK
Rally at Genesee River Crossroads Park will include sentencing of George W. Bush and Richard “Dick” Cheney. The sentencing will culminate in a shoe throwing at Bush and Cheney, with each participating organization given time to speak on their reason for participating.
Please bring a pair of new or gently-used shoes. Shoes will be donated to charity by IVAW.
PLEASE JOINS US AND MARCH with your contingent, or individually, and rally at Genesee River Crossroads Park. Then plan on joining the bus to Washington on Saturday, 21 March 2009, for the Nation-wide rally and demonstration at the Pentagon.
Co-sponsors: Peace Advocates, First Unitarian Church, Military Families Speak Out-Upstate NY, CAN (Campus Anti-War Network), RAW Theater (Rochester Against War Theater), SDS Rochester (Students for a Democratic Society: Rochester), Students For Peace and Justice at SUNY Brockport
To sign on as a co-sponsor please contact:
Jim (jlswarts @ pdagv.org), Dawn (dawn8 @ frontiernet.net),Bryan (bryancasler @ rochesterivaw.com), or Robin (robin @ pdagv.org)
