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Alejandro Jodorowsky is well-known in the AH community, being responsible for one of the most fascinating what-ifs in the history of cinema, namely his aborted film adaptation of Dune.

Turns out he is quite the Protean figure:

Alejandro Jodorowsky (...) is a Chilean-French film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer, and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation".

(...) He has also written books and regularly lectures on his own spiritual system, which he calls "psychomagic" and "psychoshamanism" and which borrows from his interests in alchemy, the tarot, Zen Buddhism and shamanism.
As anyone who has seen the engrossing documentary Jodorowsky's Dune can attest, he comes across as something of a cult leader, between his shameless showboating, his magnetic personality and his raw charisma. So, with a POD any time after WW2, your challenge is to make him the prophet of an actual religion, with at least as many followers as OTL's Church of Scientology by the turn of the 21st century.

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