Danger: El Topo
--this is not a film fit for human consumption
Warning: This film is extremely offensive. There is absolutely no excuse for watching this film. Do not come to this screening if you are sensitive to disturbing images of Real One. There is a surfeit of blood, body parts, violence, sexuality, and deformity.
The film is horrible. Yet, it is a modern classic as well, a spiritual anti-hero's journey, the ultra-left hand path into the hell realm of the unconscious and through the wormhole of the archetypal inferno to a transcendent immanence that remains bound to kali yuga, but offers the only vision of salvation that the contemporary consciousness can envision. It is Alejandro Jodorowsky's masterpiece, a destabilizing anachronistic post-Freudian Western myth of psychic development through encounter with ultimate horror, deceit, seduction, perversion, and literal castration--all the joys of postmodern life.
By carrying the fantasy of unbridled jouissance to its farthest reaches, the film deconstructs the psychotic logic of fantasy itself, and leads the viewer to finally satiate the salivating lower death drive, leaving one in exhausted vairagya, and at last ready to truly enter into the mystery of the underworld cavern in which divine rebirth becomes possible.
Here is a true mythical journey for the end of our degraded age. Its message is profoundly Christian--in the best sense of being a living reconstruction of the Atonement. For some, it may provide the only kind of path back to a saving faith that is still open to a cynical and loveless ego in this materialist age of godless narcissism. Because of that, the price of the horror is not too much to pay. We are seeing our own sins writ large on the screen, and through identification, which is the essence of all faith, we can finally die upward for our own karma, through the crucifixion of this transcendental cowboy, the ego ideal who has been sent to free us. Come watch this only if you dare. Don't say you weren't warned!
Schedule: Saturday, May 19, at 7:00pm
Suggested Donation: 10,000 colones (to help support the Institute and ashram)
Minimum Donation: 7,000 colonesPopcorn and delicious treats from Radha's Kitchen will also be offered to celebrate this gruesome masterpiece.
If you wish to attend we ask that you please register in advance, simply call our staff at 2288-3294 or send us an email with your confirmation!
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Sat Yoga Ashram Retreats!
2012 Retreat Schedule - Now Posted!
We're happy to announce our retreat schedule for the rest of 2012. The remainder of this year of transformational weeks at Arunachala promises to accelerate and enhance each participant's spiritual development and inner peace.
We invite you to join our June 7-day retreat, "Alchemy of the Atman." In this extraordinary retreat, we will perform a series of graduated spiritual exercises designed to liberate us from the false ego consciousness and empower us to live as the Atman, with full integrity, illumination, and immersion in God-realization. Please sign up and make your deposit soon as we are already receiving many reservation inquiries for this retreat.
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Lost and Found
Over the past few months, we have accumulated a considerable collection of personal belongings both at the Institute and Ashram. For the next few weeks, we ask that you please check our lost and found box at the Institute (preferably Thursday nights) to make sure you have no belongings there. At the end of May, we will clean out the Lost and Found and make a donation of all of the left over items. Thanks for your cooperation.
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Every Monday during the month of May, at 5:15pm, we will be holding weekly Shabda Yoga classes. Shabda Yoga means the Yoga of the sung Word (the Logos that manifests itself through the archetype of music). Together we will attune our vocal apparatuses to the sublime resonance of the Divine through a singing series of meditative mantras with musical accompaniment, led by Shivani. We will be guided through a series of soothing and ego-shattering intonations to excite the kundalini energy. We will harmonize with the primordial sound, AUM, perform a number of ashram classics, and drown out the noise of egoic interference in the interplay of silence and heavenly melodies. This will be a class of song-singing, but we encourage students at all levels of singing capacity to join us. 
In Mythos, Joseph Campbell takes us on a (hero's) journey through the myths that have shaped culture throughout the entire scope of recorded history. We will traverse the terrain of the ancient world, from Greece to India, collecting gems of wisdom, going fishing with Indra's net, and follow the ancient chakra maps that will lead us to the hidden treasure of archetypal insight. Filmed during the last year of his life, Campbell shares with us a lifetime of discoveries gleaned through his own hero's journey. 
Mother India, the cradle of our cultural civilization, has a mysterious and profound background that begs to be rediscovered. The Story of India will shed light on the rich history of this magnificent civilization--whose roots stretch back to prehistory and whose limbs still reach out in postmodern society. We will travel all over the Indian subcontinent, visiting holy pilgrimage sites and searching for the secret recipe of soma. We will also learn what led to the downfall of ancient Indian societies and how this pertains to our current global, ecological catastrophe. Shunyamurti will supplement this beautiful six-part series with his accounts--and anecdotes--of his decade-long residence in the holy land. 
