By Alejandro Jodorowsky
Jodorowsky’s memoirs of his reports with grasp Takata and the crowd of wisewomen--magiciennes--who motivated his non secular progress
• finds Jodorowsky turning an analogous unsparing religious imaginative and prescient obvious in El Topo to his personal non secular quest
• exhibits how the author’s non secular perception and development used to be catalyzed many times by means of wisewoman shamans and healers
In 1970, John Lennon brought to the realm Alejandro Jodorowsky and the motion picture, El Topo, that he wrote, starred in, and directed. The motion picture and its writer immediately grew to become a counterculture icon. the recent York occasions stated the movie “demands to be seen,” and Newsweek known as it “An outstanding Movie!” yet that was once merely the start of the tale and the talk of El Topo, and the adventure of its great author. His religious quest all started with the japanese grasp Ejo Takata, the fellow who brought him to the perform of meditation, Zen Buddhism, and the knowledge of the koans. but during this autobiographical account of his religious trip, Jodorowsky finds that it was once a small crew of wisewomen, a long way faraway from the realm of Buddhism, who initiated him and taught him the way to positioned the knowledge he had discovered from his grasp into practice.
At the path of Takata, Jodorowsky grew to become a scholar of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, therefore starting a trip during which very important religious classes have been transmitted to him by means of quite a few ladies who have been masters in their specific crafts. those ladies integrated Doña Magdalena, who taught him “initiatic” or religious therapeutic massage; the strong Mexican actress referred to as los angeles Tigresa (the “tigress”); and Reyna D’Assia, daughter of the famed non secular instructor G. I. Gurdjieff. different very important wisewomen on Jodorowsky’s religious direction contain María Sabina, the priestess of the sacred mushrooms; the healer Pachita; and the Chilean singer Violeta Parra. the lessons of those ladies enabled him to discard the emotional armor that was once hindering his development at the course of religious wisdom and enlightenment.
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