"While psychotherapy is concerned with bringing the contents of the unconscious into the consciousness by talking and working through issues, Jodorowsky’s psychomagic has patients ritually enact their unconscious desires in order to free themselves from the blockages in their lives. In developing the method, Jodorowksy drew upon the tradition and language of European grimoire magick and South American faith healing, understanding that the techniques of...
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"The idea there is that we have gone sick by following a path of untrammelled rationalism, male dominance, attention to the visible surface of things, practicality, bottom-line-ism. We have gone very, very sick. And the body politic, like any body, when it feels itself to be sick, it begins to produce antibodies, or strategies for overcoming the condition of disease. And the 20th century is...
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