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Oscar Ichazo | |
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| Born | July 24, 1931 |
| Died | March 26, 2020 (aged 88) |
| Era | Modern philosophy |
| School | Arica School |
| Notable students | John C. Lilly Claudio Naranjo |
Oscar Ichazo (July 24, 1931 – March 26, 2020[1]) was a Bolivian philosopher and an advocate of integral philosophy. Following his early life in Bolivia, Ichazo was later principally based in Chile, where he founded the Arica School in 1968. He lived his last decades in Hawaii, where he died. Ichazo's Arica School can be considered, as Ramparts magazine described it in 1973, "A body of techniques for cosmic consciousness-raising and an ideology to relate to the world in an awakened way."[2] An American headquarters, the Arica Institute, was established in New York in 1971.
The Arica School's origins began in 1956 when groups of people formed in major cities in South America to study the theory and method that Ichazo was proposing. For fourteen years these different groups studied his teachings. In 1968, Ichazo presented lectures on his theories of Protoanalysis and the ego-fixations at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Santiago, Chile.
Ichazo's theories are based upon traditional metaphysical questions such as: "What is humankind?"; "What is the supreme good of humanity?"; and "What is the truth that gives meaning and value to human life?"[3]
- ^ Staff writer (2020).
- ^ Kopkind (1973), p. 30.
- ^ Ichazo (2021), p. 11.