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.