Hundreds march to highlight casualties of War on Drugs - Mexico City
A march organized by writer Alejandro Jodorowsky, attracted around 1,000 people, many with faces painted as skulls symbolizing the 50,000 casualties in the 'War on Drugs' between the Mexican government and drug cartels. Mexico. 27th November 2011
Psychomagic is the name of a therapeutic practice used by Alejandro Jodorowsky and combines Buddhism, mysticism and modern psychotherapy to heal patients with emotional problems. The principle relies on the belief that the unconscious mind takes a symbolic act as a fact. So a symbolic act could accordingly help solve some types of non rational conflicts.
With the idea of gathering people with their faces painted as skulls, (representing the victims of the so called "War against drugs") the march started at 9:00 in the middle of a mild rain at the Olympic Stadium of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) stopping at the Fine Arts Palace and then continued to the Plaza Garibaldi in Mexico City where the people performed a psychomagic event.
Psicomagia es el nombre de una técnica usada por el escritor Alejandro Jodorowsky y es una mezcla de Budismo, misticismo y psicoanálisis para curar ciertos trastornos emocionales. El principio de la técnica consiste en que el inconsciente toma los actos simbólicos como si fuesen hechos reales de manera que un acto mágico-simbólico-sagrado podría modificar el comportamiento del inconsciente, y posiblemente curar ciertos traumas psicológicos.
Con la idea de congregar gente pintada como calavera (representando a las víctimas de la llamada "Guerra contra las drogas", la marcha comenzó a las 9:00 en el Estadio Olímpico de la UNAM en medio de una lluvia ligera llegando al Palacio de Bellas Artes para finalmente llegar a la Plaza Garibaldi en donde la gente reunida realizó un acto psicomágico.


























































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