Enrique (folk magic healer), 277, 278,
285, 291–93. See also Pachita
ephemeral panics, 184–85, 188, 190–
92, 209
with Arrabal and Topor, 189–94
early spectacles in Mexico, 182–83, 186
on Mexican TV, 184–85, 186–89
theory of, 193–94
Ernesto, Don (healer), 296–97
family tree, healing. See psychomagic
Farcet, Gilles (interviewer), 333
Faz, Carlos (poet), 240
Fierro, Francisco (painter), 266
First Company of Firemen, 130–33, 132
Flores, Alejandro (actor), 153–60, 155
Frégoli, Leopoldo (actor), 129
Fromm, Erich, and disciples, 244–47
Fu-Manchu (Mexican magician),
31–32, 129
Furious, the (painter), 176
Gloria (healer), 295–96
Griffy, Tinny (performer), 129
Groddeck, Georg (writer), 336
Gross, Saúl (sister’s husband), 55–56, 59
Gurdjieff (teacher), 243
Hervey de Saint-Denys, 200–201
holiness, civil, 142–45
Holy Mountain, The, 215–18, 251–52, 266
Ichazo, Óscar (teacher), 252–62, 255
initiatory massage
beginnings of, 224, 229
death of son’s mother and, 361
experimental techniques, 367
on feet, 366–67
man trapped by train and, 360
massager/client dynamic and, 367–68
massaging a rock, 227–29
massaging the bones, 361–62
opening the body, 362
phantom body and, 368–70
scraping away the past, 359–60, 361
stretching the skin, 361
Jashe (grandmother), 21–23, 27, 37, 88, 89
Jesus Christ, 212–13, 225
Jodorowsky, Adan (son), 209, 303
Jodorowsky, Alejandro, 6, 115, 132,
148, 164, 179, 181, 184–85, 188,
190–92, 195, 209, 245, 310, 377,
383
bird man met, 223–24
birth of, 1
Breton and, 172–73, 200, 243–44
Castaneda met by, 262–65
Chevalier helped, 177–78
conception of, 53
death of son Teo, 172
with Decroux, 173–75
ephemeral panics, 182–94
films by, 194, 195, 215–18, 251–52,
266, plates 1–12
first months in Paris, 173
with Fromm and disciples, 244–47
hair cut by Julien, 176–77
haunted by fear of dying, 170–71
with Ichazo, 252–62
initiatory massage, 224, 227–29
LSD experience of, 256–61, 268
with Marceau, 175–76, 178, 180
in Mexico, 178, 180–89
mushroom experience of, 266–68
with Pachita, 269, 270–91
painting the Furious’s house, 176
seven-day Zen meditation, 196–98
Tarot reading sessions, 303–5
as theatrical advisor, 194–95
touching sacred symbols, 225–27
as unwanted child, 50–52
See also childhood in Tocopilla; lucid
dreaming; youth in Santiago
Jodorowsky, Alejandro (grandfather),
11, 23–24, 50–51
Jodorowsky, Axel Cristóbal (son), 179,
209, 222–23, 328–29
Jodorowsky, Benjamin (uncle), 37, 51
Jodorowsky, Brontis (son), 179, 207,
209, 361
Jodorowsky, Denisse (first wife), 207–8
Jodorowsky, Eugenia (daughter),
291–93
Jodorowsky, Jaime (father), 29
adultery by, 166
Alejandro not wanted by, 50–52
anger after house burned, 165–66
arts despised by, 41–42
business competition by, 14–16
childhood of, 37
circus career, 3, 146
cleaning banknotes, 42–43
cowardice hated by, 44, 51, 81
Cristina criticized by, 236–37
disappointment in his father, 50–51, 54
dream therapy with, 221–22
on giving away the red shoes, 10
God denied by, 26–27
at in-laws’ golden anniversary, 88, 89
name taken by, 158
Rebbe pushed on Alejandro by, 11
Santiago shop of, 38, 39–40
scabs peeled by, 18–19
on scratching Gadfly’s back, 8
small penis of, 44–46
Stalin mimicked by, 14
stamp collecting by, 18
teaching author to conquer pain,
16–18
toys denied by, 12
worms emptied on bed of, 81–82
Jodorowsky, Raquel (sister), 50, 53–60,
'57, 80, 208
Jodorowsky, Sara (mother), 29
Alejandro’s long hair loved by, 27
author’s letter to, 210–11
childhood of, 37
corset set free, 166–68
Jaime’s discipline supported by, 28, 81
not a virgin at marriage, 52
at parents’ golden anniversary, 88
red shoes bought by, 9
seen dying in dream, 208
sleeping with hand on Jaime’s penis, 45
socks mended by, 28
violin obtained by, 40–41
worms emptied on bed of, 81–82
Jodorowsky, Teo (son), 172, 208
Jodorowsky, Teresa (grandmother), 207
Joos, Kurt (choreographer), 137