Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“When we do something we have never done, we are already on the road to healing. We must break the routines.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“I remember some artists who said this world isn't worth anything, that it is a pigsty, that we are going nowhere, that God is dead, and all those things. Bad literature is this. To expose your navel, to tell how you drank your morning coffee amid general disgust, with everything around you rotting. While the world is dying, I drink my coffee. Or I perform my little sex acts. This is old-fashioned. One must cross this neurotic curtain.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

“At that time they said I was crazy because I wanted to make a movie that was 14 or 16 hours. But now people do it. There are three—"Hobbit 1," "Hobbit 2," "Hobbit 3." Everything I wanted to do is possible to do today.”

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“When we didn't make the picture, Dan O'Bannon needed to be interned in a mental institution for two years, suffering because we didn't get to do "Dune." And when he came out he wrote the script for "Alien." "Alien" was the reaction to not doing "Dune."”

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“The people with low level of consciousness look for someone else to affirm their value, but people with higher levels of consciousness, what they seek is someone to point out their defects so they can become better.”

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Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)