Claudio Naranjo, Report from Chile 1 of 7

Naranjo reports on his first encounter with "Oscar Ichazo & the School". Recorded live, 1970, at Esalen. (Note: there's a 10 second silence about 1 minute 30 seconds into the talk due to an error in the transferring process, but no content was omitted).

Describing this period in his life, Naranjo has written the following: "... as many who were deeply affected by the Gurdjieff heritage, I had been disappointed in the extent to which Gurdjieff's school entailed a living lineage. I had turned in my search towards Sufism and had become part of a group under the guidance of Idries Shah by the time that friends from my home country invited me to meet a spiritual teacher steeped in the sources of that 'esoteric Christianity' that Gurdjieff called 'The Fourth Way.' ... I was excited to find somebody who declared himself, like Gurdjieff, an emissary of the specific school towards which my search had been polarized in recent years, the school about which Gurdjieff wrote at the end of Meetings with Remarkable Men and Roy Davidson wrote in his traveler's report on a visit to a Sarmoun community in the Hindu Kush [in Documents on Contemporary Dervish Communities, 1966]" (from the Foreword to Character and Neurosis, 1994)

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[citizenwangpeng]

Thank you very much for posting this video. I did the Arica trainings in the 1970s and was very much influenced by Ichazo's teachings. I had satori experiences that I couldn't build on outside of the trainings. Ichazo seemed very much into power - I say this even though I am very grateful for his teaching. There is very little info on Ichazo and on the history of the enneagram despite all the books.