Residential Trainings

The nine Hypergnostic Systems are foundational to the Arica teachings and practice for understanding and analyzing the precise parameters of our psyche and developing the internal Witness. An important aspect of this 14–day Training is the awakening of our chi or Kath energy for increasing our vital energy.

The word Hypergnostic is derived from the Greek words Hyper (over or above) and Gnosis (knowledge), meaning transcendental knowledge. These nine systems consist of three Instincts, four Functions, and two Poles.

The Conservation Instinct is the instinct for self-preservation and corresponds to our relationship with our mother and to our digestive system.

The Relation Instinct is the instinct for relating with others and is connected to our relationship with our father and to our circulatory and respiratory systems.

The Adaptation Instinct is the instinct with which we adapt to our surroundings and environment and is associated with our relationships with our siblings and children and to our central nervous system.

The four Functions — Space, Time, Expression, and Coordination — are the ways in which our Instincts interact with society.

Our entire psyche is supported by the Sexual Pole — our vitality, and the Spiritual Pole — our sense of identity and unity.

The Nine Hypergnostic Systems group training is a daily routine of exercise, clarification of past experiences (karma), meditation and ceremonies. Psychocalisthenics®, Kath Generation, and the Fire Exercise directly increase our vital energy, tone our bodies, and give us a sense of physical stability. The emotional charge of karma is released through self-observation, using specific questions and concomitant associations for each of the nine points of the Enneagram of the Hypergnostic Systems. The meditations for improving awareness, contemplation and one-pointedness include Psychic Space meditation, Hypergnostic Meditation and the Desert” — a day and a half of solitude and self-observation. Through the “Eyes of Karma” ceremony, we can obtain a deep sense of pacification with our parents, our children, and our life experience in general.

Length: 14 days • Prerequisites: None

Thought is not the result of just one specialized organ, the brain. In the Arica Mentations Training, we learn to divide and differentiate the body into twelve parts, each of which provides information about reality, producing a unified sequence that is basic to the way our mind structures thought.

Thought can be analyzed in twelve Mentations. All twelve Mentations are needed to provide a complete thought. In the Arica Mentations Training, we learn how the twelve parts of the body provide us with our perceptions of reality, producing a unified sequence that is the way our mind intuitively structures thought.

You will learn and experience the Mentations through a variety of exercises that include meditations, descriptions of the anatomy and cognitive function of each Mentation, clarification exercises, breathing exercises, and bodywork. The twelve Mentations have a systematic correlation with sense organs and limbs, providing questions of analysis for each of the Mentations, changing our linear thinking into a multidimensional pattern capable of completely and clearly analyzing any specific situation. Then, with practice, the clarification of the Mentations provides clear, objective, and spontaneous responses to reality.

The Arica Autodiagnosis training opens the central process of Protoanalysis (essential self-analysis), which is to discover, by identifying how our personal experiences of early life and childhood affected and determined our entire ego development and current everyday existence. Without this fundamental perspective and awareness, we are stuck in an endless cycle of suffering. The self-diagnosis (Autodiagnosis) method provides us with the recognition and understanding of our three Fixations, or Trifix, using clearly–defined maps, nine-pointed figures called enneagrams. Their application is used to clarify, from our endless subjective processes of suffering, into a level of witnessing our process objectively and clearly. This training can be easily assimilated and processed by those new to the Work. By awakening the Witness and recognizing our mechanisms of suffering, we can open the path to Self-realization and the State of No Suffering.

The Levels of Consciousness training is the study of the nine lower Levels of the human psyche, founded upon the subjectivity of the lower ego, and the nine higher Levels of the human psyche that establish the objectivity that leads into the State of Enlightenment. When we recognize the lower Levels as attachments and witness them as such, we free ourselves from the restrictions they have imposed on us. Enneagrams provides the maps to support the understanding of the Levels of Attachment, so that we can enter the attainment of the Levels of Spiritual Realization. By recognizing and processing our attachments, we can transcend the subjectivity of our lower ego and experience the objectivity of a Mind of No Attachments.

Protoanalysis gives a complete map of the human psyche, which is composed of the three basic Instincts that are correlated with the three major organic body systems, digestion, circulation, and nervous. The Four Functions of Reality training identifies the cardinal points of the fields of activities upon which human life exists, in relationship to the Instincts and the body systems. These fields of activity manifest as wealth, power, fame, and honor, and are entirely vital for human survival in a human society. By identifying the Four Functions and how we relate to them, we will see how our ego complicates and damages these four areas. Without this clarification, we are unaware of this ego process, which remains stuck and firmly in place. Processing the enneagram maps of the Functions allows for the Pure State of No Ego to arise.

All aspects of society can be found in nine Domains, which are the basis of our intentionality, the motives that are fundamental for our ordinary social and psychic life. The two–day Domains of Consciousness training, defines and analyzes the nine Domains and our process in each, providing a re-ordering of our entire life in its nine different Domains, from our sentimental life to our spiritual intentions. By clarifying each Domain, we are able to witness and transcend the relative processes of the Domains and enter a Mind of Emptiness.

This training shows us how we use various methods to compensate for the inevitable stresses in our lives. At the extreme, the Doors of Compensation become addictions and we become dysfunctional and out of control. Our suffering is attached to a chaotic perspective about reality, and our subsequent behavior is a life of endless compensations. With this training, we learn to recognize our behavioral patterns in each Domain and to change them so that we can direct our energy toward a more productive and fulfilling life. Witnessing your Doors and transcending them gives you an opportunity to enter a Mind of Emptiness and to experience The Good Life.