Table of Contents

Prologue

Part One
Psychomagic: Sketches of a Panic Therapy

A Portrait of the Artist in Panic Character by Interviewer Gilles Farcet

ONE The Poetic Act

TWO The Theatrical Act

THREE The Oneiric Act

FOUR The Magic Act

FIVE The Psychomagic Act

SIX Examples of Psychomagic Acts

SEVEN Psychomagic Letters

EIGHT From Imagination to Power

Part Two
Lessons for Mutants

A Synthesis of Experiences by Interviewer Javier Esteban

NINE Keys to the Soul

TEN The Trail of Life

ELEVEN The Invisible Bridge

TWELVE Visions

THIRTEEN The Art of Healing

FOURTEEN Understanding Life

Part Three
An Accelerated Course in Creativity

Introduction

FIFTEEN Exercises for the Imagination

SIXTEEN Techniques for the Imagination

SEVENTEEN Therapeutic Applications


Index

About the Author

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a filmmaker who made the legendary El Topo and The Holy Mountain. He is also a visionary writer and innovative psychotherapist living in Paris.

Reviews

“Jodorowsky is a brilliant, wise, gentle, and cunning wizard with tremendous depth of imagination and crystalline insight into the human condition. His work is a source of inspiration for me and for many of the most important and innovative artists of our time. Psychomagic is necessary reading for all who long to shock the world into awakening and remembrance of what has always been and what is still to come.”
*Daniel Pinchbeck, author of 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl*

“Currently there are books that have become essential to winnow out established ideas and open new horizons. The texts brought together here have that special ability to contemplate old problems from perspectives that were not thought to exist.”
*El Mundo*

“Alejandro Jodorowsky seamlessly and effortlessly weaves together the worlds of art, the confined social structure, and things we can only touch with an open heart and mind.”
*Erykah Badu, artist/alchemist*

“The best movie director ever!”
*Marilyn Manson*

"Writers Gilles Farcet and Javie Esteban draw the secrets of [Jodorowsky's] genius out in Parts I and II of the book. In Part III Jodorowsky offers us 'An Accelerated Course in Creativity.' Simultaneously cutting-edge and down-to-earth, this one's in a category all its own."
*Anna Jedrziewski, New Age Retailer, June 2010*

"Jodorowsky is a psychotherapist for love rather than money, and he accepts no fees for his services. His unconventional and visionary way of being is in itself the truest recommendation of the path to freedom and creative evolution he foresees for us all."
*Robert Simmons, MetaGuide Magazines, October 2010*