Oscar Ichazo

Oscar Ichazo (* 1931 in Bolivia ) is a philosopher, author of the modern version of the Enneagram of personality types and founder of the Arica School.

Life

Ichazo - came from a Roman Catholic family - grew up in Bolivia and Peru. He attended a Jesuit school and as a teenager studied the Kabbalah, as well as the works of PD Ouspensky. 1940 Ichazo learned in esoteric circles in Buenos Aires in addition, the system of Georges I. Gurdjieff know.

1956 undertook Ichazo traveled extensively in the Orient as well as to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir and Pamir. During this study trips he came in contact with Naqshbandi communities, and according to his testimony, he was given to the source of the Enneagram.

Ichazo founded in 1968 in Chile, Arica School, who also bears the name Arica Institute. It is named after the Chilean city of Arica. Within this school, which is expected to the concept of the Human Potential Movement, Advanced Ichazo the historic Enneagram Enneagram of personality types to a. Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo got to know in the spring of 1970. Naranjo then has contributed to the worldwide recognition of the Enneagram.

Publications

• Arica Psycho - calisthenics. Simon and Schuster, 1976, ISBN 0671222376
• Letters to the School. Oscar Ichazo Foundation, Kent (Connecticut), 1988, ISBN 0916554171
• Vitality of the center. Earthscan, Munich 1998, ISBN 3426060086