FAQ

Teacher/Philosopher, Oscar Ichazo, is the founder of the Arica School and the originator of Arica Integral Philosophy, a complete analysis of the human condition from the lowest levels of suffering to the highest states of consciousness.

THE ARICA SCHOOL
Schools of knowledge have been in existence since ancient times, from the Greek Schools to the schools of the Hindu, Buddhist and Sufi traditions. The Arica School presents a complete method and practice to enter the State of Enlightenment. What makes the Arica School different from the ancient schools is that Ichazo’s Integral teachings provide a contemporary method of clarification, employing biology and psychology in order to reveal the human experience with modern knowledge to establish the ground to enter and continue on into the Higher States of attainment.
Both Arica Institute and the Oscar Ichazo Foundation are working together to offer teachings for the enlightenment of humanity.

ARICA INSTITUTE
Arica Institute is a non-profit educational corporation established in 1971 to present Ichazo’s teachings and practices in group trainings through licensed training sponsors.
The Institute has a very active Board of Directors whose function is to steer the organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies, as well as by making sure the School has adequate resources to advance its mission. There are many Teams that work for the board, such as the Arica Membership Team, the Trainings and Sponsors Coordinating Team, and the Finance Committee.

THE OSCAR ICHAZO FOUNDATION
The Oscar Ichazo Foundation is a non-profit foundation with the sole purpose of developing and producing the publications, and the group and individual trainings of Oscar Ichazo for the Arica School and the public at large. The books are available on the Arica public website, at Amazon and at Barnes and Noble. The individual trainings and group practices are described and may be purchased on the public website. www.arica.org

What makes the Arica School different from the ancient schools is that Ichazo’s Integral teachings provide a contemporary method of clarification, employing biology and psychology in order to reveal the human experience with modern knowledge and language to establish the ground to enter and continue on into the higher States of attainment.
The Arica School provides a clearly defined map of the human psyche in order that each of us can discover the basis of our ego process and transcend this process by awakening our Witness into the Higher States of Mind, which in these trainings will be awakened in each of us. This ‘state of being’ is our True Essential Self, experienced as an Internal State of great happiness, Light and liberation.

Ichazo’s Integral teachings recognize Ultimate Reality, the Source of all, and bring us from the scientific fundamentals of human existence to the higher Stages of human Self-Realization, giving us a way to understand the perfection of our human creation, its Source, and our connection to the Universe.

Ichazo is the originator of the logic of Trialectics, enabling the understanding of reality as it is, Protoanalysis (proto = first, first analysis) and the Enneagrammatic Theory which is based on disclosing the answers to three questions:
● What is humankind?
● What is the Supreme Good of Humanity?
● What is the Truth that gives meaning and value to human life?

Since 1968, Ichazo has lectured about the existential crisis we are facing: rapid overpopulation, uncontrollable pollution, nuclear dangers, and misuse of basic resources.

His teachings propose a new method for awakening an ethical force, innate in all of us, that supports the recognition that we can unite as one humanity, into a State of Unity and together solve the problems of our precious planet and our survival as a species.

Ichazo considered ethics to be not only moral judgments of good and bad but as an actual energy directed toward our Higher Self, culminating in mature ethical behavior and attained States. Working with Integral Ethics liberates us from behavior considered lower manifestations of behavior (Enneagram of the Immoral Force) by introducing a more evolved perspective in which the outcome of the State of Unity is attained and offered for the benefit of all humanity.

The teachings of Oscar Ichazo are available through online group practices and in-person group trainings as well as books, study groups, videos, and individual at-home trainings.
For more information: Arica Group Trainings (link to TIS Group Trainings texts), Oscar Ichazo Online (YouTube), arica.org, and/or Contact us (link)

From 1956 onward, groups in major cities in South America studied the insights on transcendence, new philosophical theories, and the deep understanding of the human psyche proposed by Ichazo.

In 1969 he lectured about Protoanalysis and the Ego Fixations to the public at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Santiago, Chile.

One of the students in Ichazo’s early lectures traveled to Esalen Institute and reported that Oscar was available to teach. In 1970, a group of North Americans traveled to Arica, Chile to embark on a ten-month training with Ichazo to discover the parameters of the mind. After this training Ichazo moved to New York City where he founded Arica Institute and taught his theory, method and practices.

Oscar Ichazo died at his home on Maui in March 2020 at the age of 88. He is survived by Sarah, his wife of 40 years, who, with many students and friends of the Arica School, continues to offer Ichazo’s teachings for the benefit of all, and the realization of a united humanity, Humanity-One.