Alejandro Jodorowsky, Spiritual Journey, Commandments

By Xah Lee. Date:
“string of pearls”

Gurdjieffs daughter Reyna D'Assia relayed these “commandments” given to her by her father to Alejandro Jodorowsky. Mentioned in his book “the spiritual journey of alejandro jodorowsky” P 174-175.

Music:

Voiceover by Harold.

this is from [The Spiritual Journey of Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Creator of El Topo By Alejandro Jodorowsky. At http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594771731/?tag=xahh-20 , accessed on 2013-02-16 ]

Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) is a film maker.

here's Amazon's description of the book:

Jodorowsky's memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen -- magiciennes -- who influenced his spiritual growth

• Reveals Jodorowsky turning the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in El Topo to his own spiritual quest

• Shows how the author's spiritual insight and progress was catalyzed repeatedly by wisewoman shamans and healers

In 1970, John Lennon introduced to the world Alejandro Jodorowsky and the movie, El Topo, that he wrote, starred in, and directed. The movie and its author instantly became a counterculture icon. The New York Times said the film “demands to be seen,” and Newsweek called it “An Extraordinary Movie!” But that was only the beginning of the story and the controversy of El Topo, and the journey of its brilliant creator. His spiritual quest began with the Japanese master Ejo Takata, the man who introduced him to the practice of meditation, Zen Buddhism, and the wisdom of the koans. Yet in this autobiographical account of his spiritual journey, Jodorowsky reveals that it was a small group of wisewomen, far removed from the world of Buddhism, who initiated him and taught him how to put the wisdom he had learned from his master into practice.

At the direction of Takata, Jodorowsky became a student of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington, thus beginning a journey in which vital spiritual lessons were transmitted to him by various women who were masters of their particular crafts. These women included Doña Magdalena, who taught him “initiatic” or spiritual massage; the powerful Mexican actress known as La Tigresa (the “tigress”); and Reyna D’Assia, daughter of the famed spiritual teacher G. I. Gurdjieff. Other important wisewomen on Jodorowsky's spiritual path include María Sabina, the priestess of the sacred mushrooms; the healer Pachita; and the Chilean singer Violeta Parra. The teachings of these women enabled him to discard the emotional armor that was hindering his advancement on the path of spiritual awareness and enlightenment.

Here's the excerpt from the book:

“Reyna, you are telling me fairy tales! Such goal are 100 percent utopian -- and even if they were true, what is the first step on this path?”

“Whoever wishes to attain the supreme goal must first change his habits, conquer laziness, and become a morally sound human being. To be strong in the great things, we must also be strong in the small ones.”

“How?”

“We have been badly educated. We live in a world of competition in which honesty is synonymous with naivete. We must first develop good habits. Some of them many seem simple, but they are very difficult to reali-e. Believing them to be obvious, we fail to see that they are the key to immortal consciousness. Now I shall offer you a dictation of the commandments that my blessed father taught me:”

[in the book, the following are not numbered. They are in one paragraph.]

Most of the transcript are copied from http://archive.org/details/82Commandmentsspoken.Video. On that site, you can also download the video.

The producer of the video seems to be WITW Team. Who is WITW Team? According to their website http://www.wednesdayintheword.com/about/witwteam/, they are “Wednesday in the word: WITW is serious bible study applied to real life”.

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