Sacred Trickery and the Way of Kindness
The Radical Wisdom of Jodo
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Publisher Description
Enter the mind of Jodo and follow his initiatory saga from Zen disciple to revolutionary filmmaker to spiritual teacher
• Explores the sacred trickery of shamans he encountered, including Carlos Castaneda, and how intention and action matter more than notions of “true” and “false”
• Explains the Way of Kindness and how small acts of generosity and goodness can have a profound effect on your spirit, infusing life with a wealth of happiness
• Includes contributions from friends and students of Jodorowsky on their experiences with him, including his son Adan Jodorowsky
Known for his surrealist films, his unique approach to tarot, his symbolic comics, and his shamanic therapeutic method of psychomagic, Alejandro Jodorowsky has accomplished an extraordinary amount in his more than 80 years. In this book, we get an intimate look into the inner workings of the cult figure of Jodo. What is revealed is a man who has evolved since his groundbreaking films of the 1970s, El Topo and The Holy Mountain, a man who has grown from a sacred trickster, a shaman of psychomagic, into a brilliant spiritual maverick of the 21st century. We get to see Jodo’s own reflections on the rich tapestry of his remarkable life, including the initiatory failure of the Dune film project, which combined the talents of a multitude of creative greats, including Moebius, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, and H. R. Giger. We learn about Jodo’s years with Marcel Marceau and with great masters such as Ejo Takata, whose Zen training featured strenuous physical and mental ordeals; the sorceress Pachita, who performed psychic surgery on Jodo; and the mysterious Carlos Castaneda, whose sacred trickery reveals how intentions matter more than notions of “true” and “false.”
Discussing the Way of Kindness that he now follows, Jodo reveals how intentionally practicing small acts of generosity and goodness can have a profound effect on your spirit, infusing life with a wealth of happiness.
From sacred trickery to the path of kindness, Jodo’s radical wisdom discerns the timeless within the immediate and gauges the everyday by the measure of eternity.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cult film director, comic book writer, puppeteer, tarot card reader; the list goes on when describing Jodorowsky. In this collection of interviews spanning 15 years, readers are confronted not just by Jodorowsky and the many hats he has worn, but by a man that is perhaps most defined by his dedication to the "path of goodness." As revealed here, the essential Jodorowsky is found in relation to others. The book unfolds as not merely a series of interviews between Jodorowsky and Farcet about the former's accomplishments, but as a vivid account of their interactions with each other. Though Jodorowsky disavows the idea that he is a guru, Farcet includes a number of interviews with people whose lives have been profoundly affected by him. Readers learn of many famous figures that he has met, from Carlos Castaneda to Allen Ginsberg, but it is Jodorowsky as a man in everyday life that is emphasized. This is most poignantly felt in a heartfelt letter from his son. Perhaps interest in this book will begin with cinephiles, but it would be unfortunate if it did not find a much wider audience.
