Metagenealogy

by Jodorowsky, Alejandro; Costa, Marianne; LeValley, Rachael

• ISBN13: 9781620551035
• ISBN10: 1620551039
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-08-31
• Publisher: Park Street Pr

Summary

A practical guide to recognizing and overcoming the patterns and influences of the four generations before you

• 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.

Author Biography

Alejandro Jodorowsky is the filmmaker of the legendary El Topo and The Holy Mountain. The creator of metagenealogy, he is a psychotherapist and author of many books on tarot and spirituality, including Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot. 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.

Table of Contents

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

Glossary

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Index