For a quarter of a century, Jodorowsky held classes and lectures for free, in cafés and universities all over the city of Paris. Typically, such courses or talks would begin on Wednesday evenings as tarot divination lessons, and would culminate in an hour long conference, also free, where at times hundreds of attendees would be treated to live demonstrations of a psychological “arbre généalogique” (“tree of genealogy”) involving volunteers from the audience. In these conferences, Jodorowsky would pave the way to building a strong base of students of his philosophy, which deals with understanding the unconscious as the “over-self” which is composed of many generations of family relatives, living or deceased, acting on our own psyche, well into our adult lives, and causing ourcompulsions. It is important to note that of all his work, Jodorowsky considers these activities to be the most important of his life. Though such activities only take place in the insular world of Parisian cafés, he has devoted thousands of hours of his life to teaching and helping people “become more conscious,” as he puts it.
Presently, these talks have dwindled to once a month and take place at the “Librairie Les Cent Ciels” in Paris.
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An insight into Jodorowsky’s world with special attention to his relationship with Tarot and its therapeutic use. VIDEO: http://youtu.be/9-uoArXTJMo
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(Source: vanishedknights, via hazeltwotwiggs)
