Metagenealogy

Alejandro Jodorowsky is the legendary filmmaker of El Topo and The Holy Mountain. He has been profiled in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and other major media. His most recent film, The Dance of Reality, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. The creator of Metagenealogy, he is the author of more than 20 books, including Psychomagic, The Way of Tarot, and The Dance of Reality. He lives in Paris. Marianne Costa has worked with Jodorowsky since 1997, coteaching workshops on Tarot and metagenealogy. She is the author of No Woman’s Land and the coauthor of The Way of Tarot. Both authors live in Paris.

• Introduction by Marianne Costa Part OneMetagenealogyArt, Therapy, and the Search for One’s SelfOne From Art to Therapy by Alejandro JodorowskyTwo Orientation to the Work Jodorowskianism: The BasicsPart TwoYour TreeIndividual Faces LineageThree The Magic Carpet by Alejandro JodorowskyFour Clarify the Genealogy Tree Collecting and Organizing InformationPart ThreeThe Role of the FuturePersonal Goal and the Goal of the ConsciousnessFive The Call of the Future by Alejandro JodorowskySix Work toward the Goal Repetition, Creation, and Levels of ConsciousnessPart FourThe CoupleOrigin of LineageSeven The Magic of the Encounter by Alejandro JodorowskyEight The Couple in My Tree Encounter and Fertilization, Conflicts and CooperationPart FiveTo Be BornWhen the Child AppearsNine Birth: Toward Air and Light by Alejandro JodorowskyTen From Birth to Nativity Gestation, Delivery, Birth, RebirthPart SixFrom Triad to BrotherhoodFamily DynamicsEleven Conflicts between Siblings by Alejandro JodorowskyTwelve From the Triad to the Siblings Being Unique and Living TogetherPart SevenFrom Bond to KnotPsychomagic Rescues Toxic RelationshipsThirteen The Gordian Knot by Alejandro JodorowskyFourteen Links and Knots Unite in ConsciousnessPart EightAbuse and Acquired Identity“I Am Like That”: The Tree’s Final TrapFifteen The Ghosts of Abuse and the Phantom Body by Alejandro JodorowskySixteen From Error to Abuse Emerging from the Genealogy Tree’s ConditioningPart NineFamilial Body and Essential BodyThe Genealogy Tree and Body MemorySeventeen From Body to Soul by Alejandro JodorowskyEighteen From Familial Body to Essential Body Initiatic Massage, Psychoritual, and PsychoshamanismPart TenHealing the TreeThe Rebellious Heir Saves the LineageNineteen From Filiation Delirium to Fulfilled Consciousness by Alejandro JodorowskyTwenty The Healed Tree The Role of the Creative ImaginationEPILOGUE From the Soul to the World by Alejandro JodorowskyGlossary Bibliography Index