Oskar Rudolf Schlag

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Oskar Rudolf Schlag (born March 22, 1907 in Osterhofen / Niederbayern , † November 29, 1990 in Zurich ) was a German-Swiss psychotherapist , graphologist , writer and esoteric collector . He also gained fame as a medium .

Life

Schlag grew up in 1910 as the son of the cinema owner Xaver Schlag and his wife Luise in Landshut , where he was used early on by spiritualists as a medium through which various psychoenergetic phenomena could be perceived. In 1927, the parapsychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing discovered Schlags' talents and brought him to Munich .

In 1930 Schlag moved to Zurich, where he came into contact with the circle around Eugen Bleuler , Carl Gustav Jung and Rudolf Bernoulli . Initially, physical-media experiments were carried out, partly in the presence of Jung. From 1930 onwards, a circle was formed around Schlag as spokesman for the spiritual being A. or Atma Anupadaka , to which the Bleuler, Bernoulli and Pulver couples belonged, as well as Emma Jung-Rauschenbach , Hans Reinhart , Andreas Strohhofer and Fritz Allemann . At first the meetings were only recorded in handwriting, from 1941 they were also recorded on records. Schlag protested against publication for a long time, but from 1969 onwards brought the minutes into a legible form. Schlags teachings of A. have been published since 1998 .

The fact that Schlag made the acquaintance of Hitler during his time in Munich was a reason for him to stay in Switzerland. After 1933 he wrote protest letters to Hitler and took the citizenship of the " negro state " Haiti , despised by the National Socialists , which earned him an indictment by the fascists.

From 1932 Schlag studied psychology. He trained as a graphologist with Max Pulver and as a psychotherapist with Oskar Pfister . From 1938 to 1962 Schlag gave his own lectures at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zurich . He was particularly interested in Jung's depth psychology and the analysis of fate according to Leopold Szondi . From 1962 Schlag worked mainly as a graphologist and psychotherapist in Zurich. He made a name for himself when he sold a painting by Dalí . It is also linked to the OTO

Oskar R. Schlag had the Swiss artist Max Hunziker design his own tarot card set consisting of 22 major arcana.

Its special library of 26,000 volumes in the areas of religious studies and hermetics, including Buddhism, Hinduism, yoga, hermetic philosophy, mythology, ancient mysteries, gnosis, alchemy, tarot, Kabbalah, freemasonry and initiatic societies, theosophy, mysticism, magic, psychology and parapsychological research he bequeathed to the Zurich Central Library . Since then, the Oskar R. Schlag library has been open to the public. It is one of the largest such libraries in the world.

Schlag teachings of A.

A. initially refers to himself as an egregory, d. H. Product of the consciousness of the session participants, later he reveals himself as a being of a divine nature who strives for incarnation. The teachings of A./Atma represent a compendium of western and eastern esotericism and deal e.g. B. with initiation , magic , myth , yoga , theology , religion , Kabbalah , tarot .

The Kawwana Church of the New Aeon , headed by Thorwald Dethlefsen from 1996 to 2003, was influenced by Schlag / Atma . Ruediger Dahlke , who expressly distances himself from the practices of the Kawwana Group, thinks very much about Oskar Schlag. In his book " Depression - Ways Out of the Dark Night of the Soul " (2006) Dahlke describes Oskar Schlag as his teacher and appreciates his tenet "Where there is no Freud, there is no way."

literature

  • Oskar R. Schlag: Die Lehren des A. Edited and commented by Antoine Faivre and Erhart Kahle with the assistance of Annelis Bergmaier. Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag (1995-2011; 12 volumes, index).
  • Peter-R. König : The OTO phenomenon. Munich 1994.
  • Peter-R. König: Do you know Oskar R. Schlag In: Der Golem No. 14, 4/2003, Hadit Verlag.
  • Peter Mulacz: Oscar R. Schlag. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 60: pp. 263-267.
  • Antoine Faivre : Schlag, Oscar Rudolf. In: Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Ed.): Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-15231-1 , pp. 1040-1042.

credentials

  1. ↑ Räderer, Olaf: Tarot. Pillars of the inauguration, St. Gallen: Verlag RGS, 2003.
  2. ↑ NZZ August 5, 1998 Claudia Baer: A treasure trove for those interested in esotericism is opened up / cataloging of the Oskar R. Schlag collection in the Zurich Central Library

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personal data
SURNAME Schlag, Oskar Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss psychotherapist, graphologist, writer and esoteric collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterhofen , Lower Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1990
Place of death Zurich