Oscar Ichazo

Oscar Ichazo (* 1931 in Bolivia ; † March 26, 2020 in Hawaii ) was a Bolivian philosopher, an author of the modern version of the Enneagram of Personality Types and founder of the Arica School .

Life

Ichazo - from a Roman Catholic family - grew up in Bolivia and Peru . He attended a Jesuit school and, as a teenager, studied Kabbalah and the works of PD Ouspensky . In 1940 Ichazo also got to know the system of Georges I. Gurdjieff in an esoteric circle in Buenos Aires .

In 1956 Ichazo undertook extensive trips to the Orient as well as to Pakistan , Afghanistan , Kashmir and the Pamir . During these study trips he came into contact with Naqschbandi communities and, according to his statements, found the source of the Enneagram .

Ichazo founded the Arica School in Chile in 1968 , which is also called the Arica Institute . It is named after the Chilean city of Arica . Within this school, which is included in the concept of the Human Potential Movement , Ichazo expanded the historical Enneagram into an Enneagram of personality types. Oscar Ichazo and Claudio Naranjo met in the spring of 1970. Naranjo then contributed to the worldwide popularity 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
• Life force from the center. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3426060086

literature

• Johannes Bartels: Into the heart of the soul. The Enneagram in the Context of Religious Adult Education. Dissertation at the University of Münster 2003. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-7282-3 .

Web links

• Homepage Arica School. Retrieved September 16, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ obituary arica.org. Accessed March 31, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Johannes Bartels: Right into the soul. The Enneagram in the Context of Religious Adult Education. Dissertation at the University of Münster 2003. Lit, Münster 2005, pp. 31–32.