1. Translation exercise french to english pp. 9-10:
Alexandro Jodorowsky / Marianne Costa
Metagenealogie
Family, a Treasure, and a Trap
Editions Albin Michel (c) 2011
FOREWORD
What is metagenealogie (or metagenealogy)? Why not talk instead of psychogenealogie, since the word is fashionable?
The term psychogeneologie was invented by Alexandro Jordorowsky in early 1980. Since then, usage has been popularized to the point where it covers extraordinarily varied practices, and that diversity ultimatley effects the use of the term.
The relevent term is one of psychology pure and simple, the other term is more ambiguous. But, the common point of the approaches is that they focus on the emergence of consciousness, the influence of the individual lineage on soul.
The interest of therapists and the public for knowledge of one’s genealogical tree has grown steadily since the year 1970, when psychoanalysts first began to address the issue of the trans-generational line.
The West is discovering that many cultures have always asserted unconscious religious, magical or shamanic forms as a means of exploring how the family interacts with the personal unconscious, our good and for ill.
But, if you arranged today for a reading of a psychogeneologist you’d more likely than not find yourself in front of an educated therapist as opposed to a medium or clairvoyant. What would you get from that? Maybe a diagram that coldly analyzes five generations of ancestors, perhaps intutive messages from past memories or the assurance that your are descended from royalty. It is possible that you will be amazed by the information received.
Maybe you will discover some unconscious habits or family secrets or an obsession with a phobia. At worst that would be an exercise in cold intellectualism and unnecessary. But, it is a contrast to the irrational sessions rich in cliches and divination based on New Age fiction.
In between these two extremes, metageneologies proposes to reconcile apparent contradictions, situating them precisely at their point of junction. Where the rational collaborates with the irrational, or where science dances with art, or claravoiyance equals as much intuition as lucidity. In actual language, where concepts are neurologically henceforth the currency of being, we’ll be able to state that the left brain and right brain are equal.
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2. Translation exercise from French to English:
Metagenealogie by Alexandro Jodorowsky
and Marianne Costa
- the family: a treasure and a trap
© Editions Albin Michel 2011
pp. 10 - 11
(continuation of the Forward written by Marianne Costa)
How can we describe a discipline that is rooted as much in psychology as in art, in science as in spiritual and esoteric endeavors? This book will lay out and present in an accessible manner the thirty five years of research uncovered by Jodorowsky on the genealogical tree. The same question brought us together over more than ten years: how to transmit in a consistent manner the theory and its practice that their inventor developed? Solidly anchored in psychological and scientific theory of its time, metageneology reflects also the entirety of a life and the passionate quest to know oneself. It suggests that all maladies could be understood as a lack of beauty and consciousness and that healing consists in becoming an authentic self.
This is why, rather than a manual, we propose to write this novel with a double intention: that which is accomplished already, to introduce metageneaology and that of becoming, for those who are willing to play the game and begin this journey with us towards the reconquest of one’s true identity. For each part, an introduction retraces, in the form of an autobiography, key moments experienced by Jodorowsky. We organized this narration as an initiation story, which works as a pedagogical chronology and guide and thread to the reader, conducting a lecture for those who wish to study their tree and reflect on their proper destiny.
Following each of these slices of life, a more theoretical chapter embellished with references to the Tarot, our symbolical model for the travel to the self, will permit one to advance a bit farther in the understanding of, and the healing of, your family tree. You’ll find also here a series of exercises meant as resources to use attention, creativity and imagination, qualities which we think are essential in the enterprise of reappropriation and thus reinvention of the roots which we invite you to explore here.
We hope with all our heart that this double voyage will serve you as a classical hero, triumphing over your obstacles and providing the medicine capable of transforming in a substantive way your existence and your environment, This elixir, in the manner of Jordorowsky, carries the name of consciousness.
