Jodorowsky Alejandro

Jodorowsky Alejandro: The Dance Of Reality [CD]

Jodorowsky Alejandro: El Topo [CD]

Jodorowsky Alejandro: El Topo [Vinyl LP]

Jodorowsky Alejandro: Holy Mountain [2 Vinyl LP]

Jodorowsky Alejandro: Dance Of Reality [Vinyl LP]

Before he became the film maker and graphic novel author known throughout the world today, Alejandro Jodorowsky studied with Zen master Ejo Takata in Mexico City. In THE FINGER AND THE MOON, Jodorowsky recounts how he became Takata's student and offers his interpretations of the teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans and enigmatic haikus he learned at the feet of his great and humble teacher. Blending the same burlesque slapstick and sublime insight that characterise his films such as El Topo and The Holy Mountain, each story is accompanied by the author's lucid and penetrating commentary, as well as insights from ancient Zen teachers. Yet their most significant gift to the reader is the sudden shock of realisation they impart that can lead to spiritual awakening. Jodorowsky notes that most people are incapable of self-realisation because of their fear of the void within, an emptiness they seek to fill with noise and chatter. He shows that Zen teachings can be compared to a finger pointing at the moon, directing you to awaken to your true nature - the Buddha within. The danger lies in mistaking the pointing finger for the moon, mistaking the words for the essential enlightenment, which can only be grasped once words have been surpassed. Unlike most tales, these stories are intended to evoke silent illumination - as true awakening and self-realisation cannot occur until the mind has been stilled. · Offers more than 60 Zen teaching tales, initiatory stories, koans and haikus for self-realisation and spiritual awakening · Each story or koan is accompanied by the author's lucid and penetrating commentary, blending the same burlesque slapstick and sublime insight that characterise his films · Explains how one must see beyond the words of the story to grasp the spiritual insights they contain

In 1967, in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political "black list" in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled, Alejandro Jodorowsky decided to pursue a new form of artistic expression to earn his living: comics. Working with his friend, Luis Spota, the editor of the cultural section of the newspaper 'El Heraldo de México', Jodo initially planned 3 months' worth of weekly comics which he would draw himself. However, his "Panic Fables" - named after his early '60s avant-garde theatre movement in Paris - were met with such insatiable popularity that he continued the series for six and a half years, from June 1967 until December 1973. Appearing for the first time in English, this book presents all 284 of Jodorowsky's Panic Fables in full colour, along with an introduction by the author. He reveals how his first comics reflected his pessimism about the future and the meaning of life, the negativity of which soon exhausted him. He realised he needed to show the positivity that he encountered in life and thus, little by little, he began incorporating Zen teachings, initiatory wisdom and sacred symbology into his Panic Fables. Through this transformation and the outpouring of support from his devoted readers, Jodo discovered that art can serve to heal as well as raise consciousness. Writing himself into his comics, Jodo can be glimpsed as the character of the disciple, who talks with his master and, as the series progresses, gradually grows to assume the role of master, providing psychomagic solutions to the problems of everyday life. In reading the complete Panic Fables in chronological order, much like his film The Dance of Reality, we witness in colourful detail Jodorowsky's own path of spiritual growth.