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Arica Institute

Arica Institute Community Spotlights Comparative Systems History Understanding the Enneagram
December 15, 2025January 1, 2026

The Third Octave

Burton Voorhees This could have been and perhaps was anticipated. Humans have an impulse to share information, to inform others of what they believe...

by Burton Voorhees
Arica Institute Comparative Systems Editorial and News Fourth way Latest Research Process Enneagram

Type, State, and Process in the Enneagram

Burton Voorhees Last Fall I posted an Enneagram of the Path in the Facebook group Enneagram Openings. I developed this enneagram pre-Covid to map...

by Burton Voorhees August 23, 2025August 8, 2025
Arica Institute History Spirituality Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

Excerpts from Oscar Ichazo’s early Lectures with commentary by an early student of claudio naranjo (4 of 4)

Read the previous part, Part Three, here. [September 12, 1972, San Francisico, © 1972 Arica Institute of America] “The prana-love energy manifestation of perfect...

by Bill Gamard March 27, 2025June 17, 2025
Arica Institute Fixations History Holy Ideas Instincts and Subtypes Passions The Nine Types Triads Understanding the Enneagram Virtues

Excerpts from Oscar Ichazo’s early lectures with commentary by an early student of Claudio Naranjo(part 1 of 4)

Bill Gamard Oscar Ichazo (1931 – 2020) learned the Enneagram typology from a man whose name he never revealed. When I was his roommate,...

by Bill Gamard February 17, 2024June 17, 2025
Arica Institute History

Tale of Two Enneagram Branches: Claudio Naranjo’s SAT vs. Oscar Ichazo’s Arica School-Pt.2

Continued from last issue (#258) [The ongoing comments responding to the EM interview with Oscar Ichazo. This debate was carried on for about a...

by Jack Labanauskas February 1, 2021October 6, 2023
Arica Institute History

Tale of Two Enneagram Branches: Claudio Naranjo’s SAT vs. Oscar Ichzo’s Arica School-part 1

This debate carried on for about a year (1996-1997) and is a good historic summary of the commonalities, differences and points of friction between...

by Jack Labanauskas January 1, 2021October 6, 2023
Arica Institute History

Oscar Ichazo born in Roboré, Bolivia July 24, 1931 – died March 26, 2020 in Kihei, on the island of Maui, Hawaii.

Oscar Ichazo was the founder of the Arica School and the originator (often referred to as the “father”) of the Enneagram of Personality. Oscar...

by Jack Labanauskas February 1, 2020September 12, 2023
Arica Institute Community Spotlights Editorial and News

Differentiating the Arica Theory and the Arica Model

by Mark G Johnson: Letters to the Editor Issue #23 January 1997 Dear Editors, Several of your readers have commented on the difficulty of...

by Mark G. Johnson     January 1, 1997October 6, 2023
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