Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky: “To heal a wound, you must first stop scratching it.”

Recovery from pain — emotional, relational, or psychological — requires you to stop returning to the source of injury. Revisiting grudges, replaying trauma, and keeping wounds open prevents them from closing. Healing is an active choice to stop aggravating what hurt you.

Jodorowsky developed his psychomagic therapeutic practice over decades and began writing about it systematically in the 1990s and 2000s. Drawing on his experience in theater, shamanism, and psychotherapy, he built a system of symbolic healing that blended performance, ancestry, and emotional confrontation.

Chilean-French filmmaker, theatre director, poet, and psychotherapist, celebrated for his surrealist films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, and for developing the therapeutic practice of psychomagic. His work combines avant-garde art, performance, and spiritual inquiry in ways that resist easy categorization.