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Alchemy has made an ongoing impact on literature and the arts, with many artists from varying disciplines incorporating alchemical themes into their work. | |||
Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film ''[[The Holy Mountain]]'' is based around a character called The Alchemist who brings a group of spiritual seekers on a quest to find and climb a mountain that will connect them with the heavens. Several characters are archetypes based on [[tarot]] cards and each has an [[astrology|astrological]] connection to a specific planet. The movie contains a graphic scene showing the lead character gaining enhanced spirituality through an alchemical processing of his defecation. Jodorowsky was intensely interested in tarot, alchemy, and other [[New Age]] ideas, although these specific subjects are not mentioned in the original novel upon which the film was based, ''[[Mount Analogue]]'' (1952) by French author René Daumal. | Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film ''[[The Holy Mountain]]'' is based around a character called The Alchemist who brings a group of spiritual seekers on a quest to find and climb a mountain that will connect them with the heavens. Several characters are archetypes based on [[tarot]] cards and each has an [[astrology|astrological]] connection to a specific planet. The movie contains a graphic scene showing the lead character gaining enhanced spirituality through an alchemical processing of his defecation. Jodorowsky was intensely interested in tarot, alchemy, and other [[New Age]] ideas, although these specific subjects are not mentioned in the original novel upon which the film was based, ''[[Mount Analogue]]'' (1952) by French author René Daumal. | ||