Claudio Naranjo
Claudio Naranjo (* November 24, 1932 in Valparaíso ) is a native of Chile American physicians, psychiatrists, Gestalt therapist and teacher of meditation.
Life
Naranjo studied - after visiting the schools in Valparaíso and Santiago de Chile - the specialist medicine. He received his doctorate in 1959. During this period influences came from the Chilean- German sculptor Totila Albert, the poet David Rose Man Deaf and the philosopher Bogumil Janowski. After the graduation Naranjo worked at the medical faculty of the University of Chile in a research project for anthropological studies. At the same time he trained as a specialist in psychiatry.
As a fellow Naranjo taught at Harvard University, the personality theory of Henry Murray and motivation by David McClelland know. Here Naranjo also attended seminars by Gordon Allport, and he was a student of Paul Tillich. After that, he was a colleague of Raymond Cattell in the Institute of Personality and performance tests. It was followed at the Berkeley University a study visit to the Guggenheim Foundation funded.
In the years after 1960, Naranjo then got to know Carlos Castaneda and Fritz Perls. During this time he belonged to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. And he visited Charlotte Selvers workshops on sensory consciousness.
1967 returned Claudio Naranjo back to Chile. In the same year he set up a LSD conference, which was organized by the University of California, his research supported by the results of a hallucinogenic ibogaine psychotherapy before. In Chile Naranjo worked at the university.
Naranjo was again at the Esalen institute. When Fritz Perls left the Institute in 1969 to start a Gestalt community at Lake Cowichan on Vancouver, Canada, Iceland, Naranjo was one of three successors. In the same year he took over duties at the Research Education Committees (Education Policy Research Center ) at the Stanford Research Institute. Here Naranjos wrote his first book, which was published under the title The One Quest. On behalf of Ravenna Helson he also examined matriarchal and patriarchal factors, as represented in different books. Helson had discovered these differences between authors of mathematical works on the one hand, and authors of children's books on the other. This research led many decades later, the publication of the book The Divine Child and the Hero.
After the accidental death of his only son on March 28, 1970, Claudio Naranjo moved - along with forty pilgrims - to a spiritual retreat in the Atacama desert near Arica for six months back. The management of this examination was Oscar Ichazo, who had founded in 1968 the Arica School. Naranjo taught the Enneagram to know and made spiritual and contemplative experience. The end of 1970 he mediated these experiences for the first time to a small group, who also belonged to his mother. In September 1971 his work began in Berkeley, which eventually was the establishment of the SAT Institute. 1976 Naranjo was a visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz for two semesters. Since that time he has been active and sets its satellite programs - a combination of psychotherapeutic work with the Enneagram - into practice, as in the USA, Spain, Argentina, Italy, Colombia, Brazil and Germany.
Position
Naranjo is a representative of the U.S. Human Potential Movement and the Fourth Way movement. Crucial to Naranjo were the contacts with Oscar Ichazo, who introduced him to the Enneagram. This initiation and encounters with spiritual personalities such as Idries Shah and Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche led Naranjo establishing his school of psycho-spiritual development, called SAT ( Seekers After Truth - seeker after truth and ( because ) His Sanskrit ).