Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Dance of Reality - A Psychomagical Autobiography

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

the dog brings a stone, 169–70

earthquake, 43–44

entry into world of poetry, 89–91

family seen as a trap, 37, 60

family strictures thrown off, 81, 83–85

father’s small penis seen, 44–46

field trip from school, 35–37

first meeting with Lihn, 114, 116

forgiveness with his family, 93–94

high jump competition, 47–48

humiliated as a Jew, 46–47

imagination chosen as a path, 69–70

imaginative techniques conceived,

70–75

indicating shoplifters to Jaime, 39–40

leaving for Paris, 125–27, 171–72

Lefevre’s Tarot readings, 239–40

lime tree hacked with ax, 88–89

Luz as his angel, 110–12

magic mirror episode, 237–39

meditative concentration deepened, 77

meetings with Parra, 100–101,

240–42

one-tooth landlady, 34–35

Parra puppet made, 96

path found in blown book page, 66

photographs burned, 49, 50

poems written, 42, 46–47, 91, 107, 384

poetry discovered, 41–42

pride of the drunkards, 38–39

puppet making, 92–93, 96, 110

reasons for birth considered, 86

Rebbe on basic rights, 60–62

return to parents after Stella, 109–10

self reimagined, 64–66, 77–78,

79–80, 82–85

shame about penis, 36, 46

sister’s crotch visited at night, 80

spider contemplated, 75–76

with Stella Díaz Varin, 96–109

surrealism discovered, 85

taken out of school, 38

Teatro Mímico formed, 162, 165

violin coffin, 40–41

weight gain, 40

worms emptied on parents’ bed,

81–82

See also poetic acts; theater

Zaratustra performance, 179, 181