• Provides exercises to uncover your family's psychological heritage, heal negative patterns of behavior and illness in your family tree, and discover your true self

• Explains how we are the product of two forces: repetition of familial patterns from the past and creation of new ideas from the Universal Consciousness of the future

• Interwoven with examples from Jodorowsky's own life and his work with the tarot, psychoanalysis, and psychomagic

The family tree is not merely vital statistics about your ancestors. It is an embodied sense of self that we inherit from at least four prior generations, constituting both a life-giving treasure and a deadly trap. Each of us is both an heir of our lineage and a necessary variation that brings the family into new territory. Are you doomed to repeat the patterns of your parents and grandparents? Or can you harness your familial and individual talents to create your own destiny?

In Metagenealogy, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Marianne Costa show how every individual is the product of two forces: the imitating force, directed by the family group acting from the past, and the creative force, driven by the Universal Consciousness from the future. Interweaving examples from Jodorowsky's own life and his work with the tarot, psychoanalysis, and psychomagic, the authors provide exercises, visualizations, and meditations to discover your family's psychological heritage and open yourself to the growth and creativity of Universal Consciousness. They reveal how identifying the patterns, emotional programming, and successes and failures of the four generations that influence you--your siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and great-grandparents--allows you to see beyond the stable identity formed by family lineage. It frees you to overcome your inherited subconscious patterns of behavior and illness, stop the transmission of these patterns to future generations, and reconnect with your true self and unique creative purpose in life.

By understanding your family tree and your place in it, you open your ability to heal the ancient struggle between the repetitive forces of the past and the creative forces of the future.

Autorentext

Alejandro Jodorowsky is a playwright, filmmaker, composer, mime, psychotherapist, and author of many books on spirituality and tarot, and over thirty comic books and graphic novels. He has directed several films, including The Rainbow Thief and the cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. He lives in France. In 2019, Alejandro Jodorowsky was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

Inhalt

Introduction by Marianne Costa

Part One
Metagenealogy
Art, Therapy, and the Search for One's Self

One From Art to Therapy by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Two Orientation to the Work Jodorowskianism: The Basics

Part Two
Your Tree
Individual Faces Lineage

Three The Magic Carpet by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Four Clarify the Genealogy Tree Collecting and Organizing Information

Part Three
The Role of the Future
Personal Goal and the Goal of the Consciousness

Five The Call of the Future by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Six Work toward the Goal Repetition, Creation, and Levels of Consciousness

Part Four
The Couple
Origin of Lineage

Seven The Magic of the Encounter by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Eight The Couple in My Tree Encounter and Fertilization, Conflicts and Cooperation

Part Five
To Be Born
When the Child Appears

Nine Birth: Toward Air and Light by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Ten From Birth to Nativity Gestation, Delivery, Birth, Rebirth

Part Six
From Triad to Brotherhood
Family Dynamics

Eleven Conflicts between Siblings by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Twelve From the Triad to the Siblings Being Unique and Living Together

Part Seven
From Bond to Knot
Psychomagic Rescues Toxic Relationships

Thirteen The Gordian Knot by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Fourteen Links and Knots Unite in Consciousness

Part Eight
Abuse and Acquired Identity
"I Am Like That": The Tree's Final Trap

Fifteen The Ghosts of Abuse and the Phantom Body by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Sixteen From Error to Abuse Emerging from the Genealogy Tree's Conditioning

Part Nine
Familial Body and Essential Body
The Genealogy Tree and Body Memory

Seventeen From Body to Soul by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Eighteen From Familial Body to Essential Body Initiatic Massage, Psychoritual, and Psychoshamanism

Part Ten
Healing the Tree
The Rebellious Heir Saves the Lineage

Nineteen From Filiation Delirium to Fulfilled Consciousness by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Twenty The Healed Tree The Role of the Creative Imagination

EPILOGUE From the Soul to the World by Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Index