Alejandro Jodorowsky cytaty

So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us...
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called "life's a movie." The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: At a certain age, you have to make yourself useful for others. When you have lived and life has given you an experience, whether good or bad, the moment arrives when you should pass on what you know. Rather than turn into a dumb old person, you should go further every time. Aging does not exist, neither does mental decline. The memory can have less capacity to find a word or maybe you can feel less sexual desire, less virulence, but there is no reason for desire to have disappeared. If, during your life you have worked the emotions, when you mature you begin to know sublime feelings, which you did not have when you were young because nature did not let you. It takes forty years to find yourself. The true opening of the consciousness cannot be had before this age. From there, the journey begins.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: To transform oneself one must give, but to transform oneself one must also learn. One closes oneself off and does not admit love from another, the tenderness or the help of another. The real leap is learning to receive, which is as difficult as learning to give. And it is necessary to learn to ask for what one needs: justice is to give to oneself what one deserves. This is why the gospels say, "Knock and the door will be opened." If I ask for a long life, it is because I have the right to ask for it. If I ask that we will use an energy other than oil, it is because I have the right to ask for it. We have to learn to ask for what is just and to not ask for what it is not necessary to ask.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: Family hurts us, it is like a trap, it shortens our life, it bothers us psychically and socioculturally, it forces us into a limited level of consciousness, it robs us of our essential self, it inculcates ideas in us that are not our own, and at the moment when we find ourselves in the world, all of this collapses and we have to build a life from scratch. We forgive ourselves because no one is guilty. Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before. We end up with many centuries of being victims, but in the end you understand that there is no reason for resentment.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: I say: "What you give, you give to yourself; what you do not give, you give up." And this is to say that whatever you do in the world, you do to yourself; and whatever you do not give to the world, you lose. If I keep my knowledge, I lose it. (...) One receives knowledge and gives it. When you give knowledge, you enrich yourself. If you do not give love, you are detracting from yourself. If I begin to help people, if I begin to heal people, I begin to heal. Do you understand? To be a therapist, you have to be a patient. The first thing to do to heal yourself is to heal others. I have one more saying: "I do not want anything for myself that I do not want for others".

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: It is useless to know the future if one ignores who one is here in the moment. (...) The more I advance, the more I notice that all problems stem from the genealogy tree. To enter into a person's difficulties is to enter into his family, to penetrate the psychological atmosphere of his domestic milieu. We are all marked, not to say contaminated, by the psychomental universe of our people. A number of people have associated with them a personality that is not theirs, one that is borrowed from one or more members of their emotional environment. To be born into a family is to be, if I may say it this way, possessed. This possession is transmitted from generation to generation: the enchanted becomes the enchanter in projecting onto his children what was projected onto him—unless an awakening comes to break the cycle. (...) For the awakening to become operable, I must make the person act, lead them to commit a very precise act, but I must do so without taking charge or assuming the role of guide regarding their life.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Kontekst: We need to work in a job that we like and always be peaceful people, to do what we like. We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. To love what we love without obligation, without neurotic knots that we cannot untie. To desire what we want and to create what we are capable of making. To live with a certain prosperity, without wasting. But a prosperity for everyone, not a prosperity based on exploiting others. And, of course, it is necessary to become immortals and for this we have to live as if we were immortals thinking that we have a thousand years more to do what we want but without forgetting that in ten seconds we can die.

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Anarchy and Alchemy: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Ben Cobb (2007) p. 115

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)