Cristina (maid in Tocopilla), 214,
236–37
Cuauhtémoc, Brother. See Pachita
Dance of Reality, The (film), plates 1–12
death
childhood curiosity about, 23–27
as a disease, 354
fear of dying, 170–71
“Intellectual, learn to die!,” 198, 215
lucid dreaming of the dead, 205–11
patients’ desire for, 285–87, 349
of son Teo, 172, 208
Decroux, Ettienne, 173–75
Díaz, Stella (poet), 96–109
Donoso, José (novelist), 168
dreams. See lucid dreaming
ego, proper attitude toward, 243
El Topo (film), 194, 195
Emilfork, Daniel (actor), 161–63, 164
Enrique (folk magic healer), 277, 278,
285, 291–93. See also Pachita
ephemeral panics, 184–85, 188, 190–
92, 209
with Arrabal and Topor, 189–94
early spectacles in Mexico, 182–83, 186
on Mexican TV, 184–85, 186–89
theory of, 193–94
Ernesto, Don (healer), 296–97
family tree, healing. See psychomagic
Farcet, Gilles (interviewer), 333
Faz, Carlos (poet), 240
Fierro, Francisco (painter), 266
First Company of Firemen, 130–33, 132
Flores, Alejandro (actor), 153–60, 155
Frégoli, Leopoldo (actor), 129
Fromm, Erich, and disciples, 244–47
Fu-Manchu (Mexican magician),
31–32, 129
Furious, the (painter), 176
Gloria (healer), 295–96
Griffy, Tinny (performer), 129
Groddeck, Georg (writer), 336
Gross, Saúl (sister’s husband), 55–56, 59
Gurdjieff (teacher), 243
Hervey de Saint-Denys, 200–201
holiness, civil, 142–45
Holy Mountain, The, 215–18, 251–52, 266
Ichazo, Óscar (teacher), 252–62, 255
initiatory massage
beginnings of, 224, 229
death of son’s mother and, 361
experimental techniques, 367
on feet, 366–67
man trapped by train and, 360
massager/client dynamic and, 367–68
massaging a rock, 227–29
massaging the bones, 361–62
opening the body, 362
phantom body and, 368–70
scraping away the past, 359–60, 361
stretching the skin, 361
Jashe (grandmother), 21–23, 27, 37, 88, 89
Jesus Christ, 212–13, 225
Jodorowsky, Adan (son), 209, 303
Jodorowsky, Alejandro, 6, 115, 132,
148, 164, 179, 181, 184–85, 188,
190–92, 195, 209, 245, 310, 377,
383
bird man met, 223–24
birth of, 1
Breton and, 172–73, 200, 243–44
Castaneda met by, 262–65
Chevalier helped, 177–78
conception of, 53
death of son Teo, 172
with Decroux, 173–75
ephemeral panics, 182–94
films by, 194, 195, 215–18, 251–52,
266, plates 1–12
first months in Paris, 173
with Fromm and disciples, 244–47
hair cut by Julien, 176–77
haunted by fear of dying, 170–71
with Ichazo, 252–62
initiatory massage, 224, 227–29
LSD experience of, 256–61, 268
with Marceau, 175–76, 178, 180
in Mexico, 178, 180–89
mushroom experience of, 266–68
with Pachita, 269, 270–91
painting the Furious’s house, 176
seven-day Zen meditation, 196–98
Tarot reading sessions, 303–5
as theatrical advisor, 194–95
touching sacred symbols, 225–27
as unwanted child, 50–52
See also childhood in Tocopilla; lucid
dreaming; youth in Santiago
Jodorowsky, Alejandro (grandfather),
11, 23–24, 50–51
Jodorowsky, Axel Cristóbal (son), 179,
209, 222–23, 328–29
Jodorowsky, Benjamin (uncle), 37, 51
Jodorowsky, Brontis (son), 179, 207,
209, 361
Jodorowsky, Denisse (first wife), 207–8
Jodorowsky, Eugenia (daughter),
291–93
Jodorowsky, Jaime (father), 29
adultery by, 166
Alejandro not wanted by, 50–52
anger after house burned, 165–66
arts despised by, 41–42
business competition by, 14–16
childhood of, 37
circus career, 3, 146
cleaning banknotes, 42–43
cowardice hated by, 44, 51, 81
Cristina criticized by, 236–37
disappointment in his father, 50–51, 54
dream therapy with, 221–22
on giving away the red shoes, 10
God denied by, 26–27
at in-laws’ golden anniversary, 88, 89
name taken by, 158
Rebbe pushed on Alejandro by, 11
Santiago shop of, 38, 39–40
scabs peeled by, 18–19
on scratching Gadfly’s back, 8
small penis of, 44–46
Stalin mimicked by, 14
stamp collecting by, 18
teaching author to conquer pain,
16–18
toys denied by, 12
worms emptied on bed of, 81–82
Jodorowsky, Raquel (sister), 50, 53–60,
'57, 80, 208
Jodorowsky, Sara (mother), 29
Alejandro’s long hair loved by, 27
author’s letter to, 210–11
childhood of, 37
corset set free, 166–68
Jaime’s discipline supported by, 28, 81
not a virgin at marriage, 52
at parents’ golden anniversary, 88
red shoes bought by, 9
seen dying in dream, 208
sleeping with hand on Jaime’s penis, 45
socks mended by, 28
violin obtained by, 40–41
worms emptied on bed of, 81–82
Jodorowsky, Teo (son), 172, 208
Jodorowsky, Teresa (grandmother), 207
Joos, Kurt (choreographer), 137
Jung, Carl, 212
Kath center, 259–60, 267
Landru, Bernadette (wife), 206–7, 361
Lefevre, Marie, 239–40
Lemaire, Catherine, 368
Lettuce Clown, 147
Lihn, Enrique (poet friend), 115
author’s first meeting with, 114, 116
carnival inspired by, 168
dance recital suggested by, 140
poetic acts with, 117–26
seen in dream, 208
lions, 3, 4, 146, 201–2, 267
lucid dreaming
accepting and receiving in, 229–30
author’s method, 201
author’s study of dreams, 200–201
becoming his own therapist, 221–23
bird man parallels with, 223–25
caring for others, 223
decision to change the dreamer, 220
first experience, 199–200
initiatory phase, 202–5
lucid witnessing learned, 220–21, 231
Parra met in a dream, 242
power dreams, 230–31
power of touch in, 223, 224–25
in the realm of myths, 211–14
in the realm of the dead, 205–11
results match the dreamer, 219
seeing
his inner god, 214–15, 218–20
shared therapeutic dreams, 235
timing and order of, 205
treating reality as a dream, 231–35
Lucsic, Yerca (dance instructor),
139–40
Luz (angel girlfriend), 110–12
machis, 282, 355, 356–58
magic
charlatans, 293–302
Cristina’s air sculpture, 237
Fu-Manchu makes him disappear,
31–32
Lefevre’s Tarot readings, 240
Molina and the magic mirror, 238–39
witchcraft objects of F. S., 269–70
See also psychomagic; shamanism
Maimonides (Talmud master), 284
Maitreya, dream encounter with,
212–13
Marceau, Marcel, 173–76, 178, 180
Martinez, Don Arnulfo (healer),
294–95
Mattei, Eduardo or Frater Maurus, 142
Moctezuma, Juan López (TV host),
186, 189
Moebius (comic artist), 364–66
Moishe (grandfather), 14, 21, 22, 23,
88, 89
Molina, Chico (polyglot and liar),
238–39
Morgan, the gringo, 24–26
Moses, 212–13, 230
names, significance of
Avenida Providencia, 116
changing one’s name, 158
Diego de Almagro plaza, 33–34
exalting one’s own name, 157–59
father-daughter incest and, 349
Jaime, 158
psychomagic for, 332, 335, 392
Tocopilla, 1–2, 219–20
Neruda, Pablo (poet), 87, 95, 124–25, 238
Opéra Panique cast, 209
Oth center, 260–61, 267
Pachita (folk magic healer), 270–91, 271
author healed by, 282–84
baldness cure of, 287–88
Brother respected more than, 275–76
charitable purpose of, 279–80
concerns about meeting, 269, 270–71
daughter Eugenia and Enrique,
291–93
death without obedience to, 280–81
dream visit from, 291
eye within triangle from, 273–74
first meeting with, 272–74
gift passed to Enrique, 291
money problems cured by, 288–89
operations by, 274–82
patients who want to die and, 285–87
psychomagic ideas from, 281, 289–91
touch of, 273, 287
unbelievable statements by, 278
Pacifier Clown, 147, 148, 149, 152
Parra, Nicanor, 95, 96, 100–101, 102,
240–42
paternal great grand-parents, 13
Path center, 261, 267
phantom limbs, 368–70
Piripipí Clown, 147, 150–53
poetic acts, 117–27
carnival inspired, 168–69
clown shoes, 146
corrections to errors, 123–24
criminal acts and, 140
defined, 117, 122–23
errors in, 121–22
haiku illustrating, 123
before leaving Santiago, 125–27
with Lihn, 117–26
for Neruda, 124–25
Sara’s corset set free, 166–68
Stella as the impetus for, 97
at studio parties, 113–14
poetry
author’s, 42, 46–47, 91, 107, 384
Chile permeated by, 86–88
discovery of, 41–42
Ejo Takata’s, 304–5
haiku illustrating poetic acts, 123
Parra’s anti-poems, 95
read for Pachita, 274
Stella’s, 99
unity attained with Chilean, 73–74
Prince (Chinese singer), 135–36
Prullansky, Alejandro (grandfather),
27, 65
psychogenealogy, 310–11
psychomagic
basis in the subconscious, 333
beginnings of, 180, 182
changing Mexico, 346–47
charlatan’s methods vs., 316,
319–20
clients unable participate in, 350–54
courses taught in, 333
decision to induce acts, 312
defensive mechanisms and, 351–54
for depression, 344–45, 386
for divorced women, 332
dramatizations to heal a family,
311–13
examples of acts, 385–92
for fears and anxieties, 334, 336
for female frigidity, 334
for finding a lover, 330–31
ideas from Pachita, 281, 289–91
imitating desired qualities, 344
individuality of treatments, 319–20
for invasive mother, 329–30
Mystical Cabaret, 327
for names, 332, 335, 392
need for parental love and, 349–50
for parental abuse/neglect, 331–34,
389–91
for perfectionism, 342–44
for physical illnesses, 324–26
for “possessed” persons, 334–35
psychogenealogy, 310–11
relieving guilt, 331, 341–42
requirements for, 312–14, 348–49
responsibility of, 320
role playing before parents, 327–28
roots in family tree, 305–10, 335–36
rules for advised acts, 327
for self-worth, 330, 340–41, 385–87,
391
sexual acts in, 322–24, 336–37
shifting images, 340–42
small acts prescribed for safety,
320–22
for social neuroses, 345–46
with son Axel Cristóbal, 328–29
for suppressed feelings, 332
time saved by, 348
touching a woman’s chest, 314–16
undoing predictions, 337–40
unexpected synchronicities in,
316–19
See also psychoshamanism
psychomagical correspondence, 393–402
chewing on hair, 397–98
getting past prostitution, 399–400
giving partial fulfillment, 397
lesbian attraction to mother, 398–99
letter to absent parent, 400–401
the lost color red, 395–96
milk bath for the eyes, 396
sexual invalid, 401–2
stealing to heal the heart, 393–94
symbolic conversation, 394–95
psychoshamanism, 377
for boy in coma, 362–64
bypassing defenses and fears, 380–81
defenses and the need for, 351–54
examples of, 372–80
healer’s state during, 380
imagination in, 382, 384
magical setting for, 371
for Moebius, 364–66
operating in another’s name, 370–71
operating on the phantom body, 371–72
power of the “now” in, 380, 381–82
superstition eliminated from, 370
for woman abused by priest, 358–59
See also initiatory massage;
psychomagic
puppets
changes due to, 93–95
of family members, 93, 94
learning to make, 92–93
making after Stella, 110
of Nicanor Parra, 96
of Racz, 111–12
Roncal’s dance, 138–39
show of Lorca play, 125
TEUCH puppet theater, 140–42
TEUC puppet theater, 153
Racz, André (painter), 111–12
Rebbe, 11–12, 20–21, 37, 50, 60–62,
plate 11
Rialland, Chantal
(writer), 335–36
Rogelio, Don (Rabid Healer), 299–300
Roncal, Virginia (dancer), 138–39
Sabina, María, 235, 266
Said, Don Carlos (healer), 300–302
Santiago de Chile (pantomime), 245
shamanism
Castaneda’s, 262–65
charlatans, 293–302
Ichazo’s, 252–62
machis, 282, 355, 356–58
move to psychoshamanism from,
358–59
Pachita’s folk magic healing, 269–93
superstition needed for, 289
See also magic; psychoshamanism
Soledad (healer), 297–99
Takata, Ejo, 196–98, 215, 247–51, 249
Tarot
decision to charge for readings, 303–5
Lefevre’s deck, 240
meaning of Tocopilla and, 1–2
Strength image stolen from library, 3
theater
with Alejandro Flores, 153–60
art of theatrical advice, 194–95
awareness due to, 136–37
circus clown stint, 146–53
civil holiness, 143–45
dance performances seen, 137–39
dispensing with actors, audience, and
building, 180, 182
dissatisfaction with realism, 160–61
effectiveness vs. perfection, 154, 156, 157
ephemeral panics, 182–94
firefighter’s burial and, 130–33, 132
with Marceau, 175–76, 178, 180
mime, 162, 165, 175–80, 244
performers in Tocopilla, 128–30
seizure witnessed and, 133–34
singing Chinese Prince and, 134–36
studying emotions, 161
study with Decroux, 173–75
teaching, 161–62
TEUCH puppet theater, 140–42
TEUC puppet theater, 153
Tocopilla, plate 3
childhood house, 5
cultural richness in, 30
meaning of, 1–2, 219–20
performers visiting, 128–30
Toño, Don (healer), 297
Topor, 164, 189, 208
trickery, sacred, 239, 280
Troika, 262–63, 265
Trumbley, Valérie (wife), 179, 303
Uthoff, Ernst (dancer), 138
Varin, Stella Díaz (poet), 96–109
“Viper, The” (poem), 95, 100–101
youth in Santiago
address book tossed, 125, 171–72, 208
ambivalence about leaving, 165
body felt as an alien, 63–64
body seen as an enemy, 76–77
bullied at school, 46, 48–49
burning of family house, 165–68
at Cereceda sisters’ home, 89–93
chased by thieves/cops, 78–79
cleaning banknotes, 42–43
concepts redefined, 116–17
conquering space and time, 66–69
dance instructor murdered, 139–40
dead beggar and vomiting, 35
de-virginizing Consuelo, 144–45
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