Psicomagia Quotes

“One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“el ave del espiritu debe liberarse de la jaula racional”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“De la realidad, misteriosa, tan vasta y imprevisible, no percibimos más que lo que se filtra a través de nuestro minúsculo punto de vista. La imaginación activa es la clave de una visión amplia, permite enfocar la vida desde puntos de vista que no son los nuestros, pensar y sentir a partir de diferentes ángulos. Ésa es la verdadera libertad: ser capaz de salir de uno mismo, atravesar los limites de nuestro pequeño mundo individual para abrirse al universo.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating...
... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“Life is rich. If you carefully observe a meadow, you realize that each plant is a different color of green, each ladybug is different from the other. Many of us know the anecdote of the man who photographed snowflakes and discovered that each one was different: thousands of millions of snowflakes, each one with its own shape. That is to say, everything is variety, difference. But, at the same time, everything communicates; we are united by secret threads. Life is a miraculous creation. All of reality is a pure union of mental and emotional threads.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it. Man, when he achieves an adequate level of consciousness, feels the sacred in everything around him, and the world takes on this essence. The plants, the rocks, the joke: they are sacred; these things are consecrated.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“If you do not tell me what is your purpose in life, I cannot heal you.” 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.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“To, co nás zneklidňuje, je ve skutečnosti naše víra v 'objektivní' svět, naše moderní mentalita, která si říká racionální. Pořád se tváříme jako distancovaní pozorovatelé jevů, které pokládáme za vnější a jejichž fungování chceme zmapovat ve zřetelných obrysech. V rámci 'šamanské' mentality k podobným problémům vůbec nedochází. Nenacházíme tu ani pozorující subjekt, ani pasivní objekt - jediné, co existuje, je svět, sen plný hemžících se znaků a symbolů, pole vzájemných interakcí, kde se stýkají nejrůznější síly a vlivy. V takovém kontextu nezáleží na tom, jestli jsou operace staré léčitelky 'reálné', nebo ne.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“Vamos en una cárcel racional que navega dentro de un loco.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“La única manera de alcanzar la sabiduría es atravesar nuestra propia locura.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“For all that I tried to be more than what I am, I am not more than what I am. It is necessary to be conscious of what we are. The greatest power of your life is to be able to help, and the greatest blessing man has is to be able to live in peace.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“Could you explain to us what the tarot really is? The tarot is a metaphysical machine. An organism of images and forms that is very difficult to summarize, one of humanity’s first optical languages.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“Why call something a play that’s based on a text?”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“For us, these five poets formed an alchemist mandala: Neruda was water, Parra air, de Rokha fire, Mistral earth, and Huidobro, in the center, quintessence.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“The consultant buys a bottle of fake blood at a theater supply store and once every lunar month, for four days, imitates having a period by putting some of this blood into the vagina and preventing it from gushing out by using a tampon. After repeating this for four months, the consultant’s period will return to normal.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Manual of Psychomagic: The Practice of Shamanic Psychotherapy

“What could be the utopia for the present age?

To begin with, I would want all of human order to make a partnership, beginning in schools. It is atrocious that the children leave the partnership and go to be educated by a professor, just a man or a woman. This negates partnership. Classes should be taught by couples of both sexes, and children should be educated by a man and a woman...
... not necessarily a husband and wife. This is what I would do as a first political measure to improve social life: all human activities would have to be carried out in complimentary pairs.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

“Není možné ospravedlňovat věci skrze nějaký osud. Ano, jsme poznamenáni rodinnými, vzdělávacími, společensko-kulturními podmínkami. Je to něco, co si neseme s sebou už od narození, ale neznamená to, že bychom museli naplňovat jakýsi osud. Člověk vidí svět odlišným způsobem, pokud mluví anglicky, španělsky nebo francouzsky. Jsme vycvičeni kulturou, která formátuje náš mozek. Ale musíme s těmito danostmi zápasit, abychom mohli být sami sebou.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia