Joos, Kurt (choreographer), 137
Jung, Carl, 212
Kath center, 259–60, 267
Landru, Bernadette (wife), 206–7, 361
Lefevre, Marie, 239–40
Lemaire, Catherine, 368
Lettuce Clown, 147
Lihn, Enrique (poet friend), 115
author’s first meeting with, 114, 116
carnival inspired by, 168
dance recital suggested by, 140
poetic acts with, 117–26
seen in dream, 208
lions, 3, 4, 146, 201–2, 267
lucid dreaming
accepting and receiving in, 229–30
author’s method, 201
author’s study of dreams, 200–201
becoming his own therapist, 221–23
bird man parallels with, 223–25
caring for others, 223
decision to change the dreamer, 220
first experience, 199–200
initiatory phase, 202–5
lucid witnessing learned, 220–21, 231
Parra met in a dream, 242
power dreams, 230–31
power of touch in, 223, 224–25
in the realm of myths, 211–14
in the realm of the dead, 205–11
results match the dreamer, 219
seeing his inner god, 214–15, 218–20
shared therapeutic dreams, 235
timing and order of, 205
treating reality as a dream, 231–35
Lucsic, Yerca (dance instructor),
139–40
Luz (angel girlfriend), 110–12
machis, 282, 355, 356–58
magic
charlatans, 293–302
Cristina’s air sculpture, 237
Fu-Manchu makes him disappear,
31–32
Lefevre’s Tarot readings, 240
Molina and the magic mirror, 238–39
witchcraft objects of F. S., 269–70
See also psychomagic; shamanism
Maimonides (Talmud master), 284
Maitreya, dream encounter with,
212–13
Marceau, Marcel, 173–76, 178, 180
Martinez, Don Arnulfo (healer),
294–95
Mattei, Eduardo or Frater Maurus, 142
Moctezuma, Juan López (TV host),
186, 189
Moebius (comic artist), 364–66
Moishe (grandfather), 14, 21, 22, 23,
88, 89
Molina, Chico (polyglot and liar),
238–39
Morgan, the gringo, 24–26
Moses, 212–13, 230
names, significance of
Avenida Providencia, 116
changing one’s name, 158
Diego de Almagro plaza, 33–34
exalting one’s own name, 157–59
father-daughter incest and, 349
Jaime, 158
psychomagic for, 332, 335, 392
Tocopilla, 1–2, 219–20
Neruda, Pablo (poet), 87, 95, 124–25, 238
Opéra Panique cast, 209
Oth center, 260–61, 267
Pachita (folk magic healer), 270–91, 271
author healed by, 282–84
baldness cure of, 287–88
Brother respected more than, 275–76
charitable purpose of, 279–80
concerns about meeting, 269, 270–71
daughter Eugenia and Enrique,
291–93
death without obedience to, 280–81
dream visit from, 291
eye within triangle from, 273–74
first meeting with, 272–74
gift passed to Enrique, 291
money problems cured by, 288–89
operations by, 274–82
patients who want to die and, 285–87
psychomagic ideas from, 281, 289–91
touch of, 273, 287
unbelievable statements by, 278
Pacifier Clown, 147, 148, 149, 152
Parra, Nicanor, 95, 96, 100–101, 102,
240–42
paternal great grand-parents, 13
Path center, 261, 267
phantom limbs, 368–70
Piripipí Clown, 147, 150–53
poetic acts, 117–27
carnival inspired, 168–69
clown shoes, 146
corrections to errors, 123–24
criminal acts and, 140
defined, 117, 122–23
errors in, 121–22
haiku illustrating, 123
before leaving Santiago, 125–27
with Lihn, 117–26
for Neruda, 124–25
Sara’s corset set free, 166–68
Stella as the impetus for, 97
at studio parties, 113–14
poetry
author’s, 42, 46–47, 91, 107, 384
Chile permeated by, 86–88
discovery of, 41–42
Ejo Takata’s, 304–5
haiku illustrating poetic acts, 123
Parra’s anti-poems, 95
read for Pachita, 274
Stella’s, 99
unity attained with Chilean, 73–74
Prince (Chinese singer), 135–36
Prullansky, Alejandro (grandfather),
27, 65
psychogenealogy, 310–11
psychomagic
basis in the subconscious, 333
beginnings of, 180, 182
changing Mexico, 346–47
charlatan’s methods vs., 316,
319–20
clients unable participate in, 350–54
courses taught in, 333
decision to induce acts, 312
defensive mechanisms and, 351–54
for depression, 344–45, 386
for divorced women, 332
dramatizations to heal a family,
311–13
examples of acts, 385–92
for fears and anxieties, 334, 336
for female frigidity, 334
for finding a lover, 330–31