20 Facts About Claudio Naranjo

Claudio Benjamin Naranjo Cohen was a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions.

Claudio Naranjo was one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls, a student of Oscar Ichazo who originally developed the Enneagram of Personality, and a founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute.

Claudio Naranjo was an elder statesman of the US and global human potential movement and the spiritual renaissance of the late 20th century.

Claudio Naranjo grew up in a musical environment and after an early start at the piano he studied musical composition.

In 1962, Claudio Naranjo was at Harvard as a visiting Fulbright scholar at the Center for Studies of Personality and Emerson Hall, where he was a participant in Gordon Allport's Social Psychology Seminar and a student of Paul Tillich.

Claudio Naranjo became Raymond Cattell's associate at the Institute of Personality and Ability Testing in 1963.

Claudio Naranjo eventually became one of Perls' three successors, along with Jack Downing and Robert Hall.

Claudio Naranjo became Carlos Castaneda's close friend and became part of Leo Zeff's pioneering psychedelic therapy group.

Richard Evans Schultes allowed for Claudio Naranjo to make a special journey by canoe up the Amazon River to study yage with the South American Indians.

Claudio Naranjo brought back samples of this drug and published the first scientific description of the effects of its active alkaloids.

Claudio Naranjo set off on a six-month pilgrimage under the guidance of Oscar Ichazo, the founder of the Arica School and the original developer of the Enneagram of Personality.

Claudio Naranjo considered this spiritual retreat in the Atacama Desert near Arica, Chile, to be the true beginning of his spiritual experience, contemplative life and inner guidance.

In 1976, Claudio Naranjo was a visiting professor at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California for two semesters and later intermittently at the California Institute of Asian Studies.

Claudio Naranjo began to offer workshops in Europe, refining aspects of the mosaic of approaches in the SAT program.

Since the late 1980s, Claudio Naranjo had divided each year between his activities abroad and his writing at home in Berkeley.

Claudio Naranjo published three books on the Enneagram of Personality, as well as The End of Patriarchy, which is his interpretation of social problems as the expression of a devaluation of the nurturance and human instinct and their solution in the harmonious development of our "three brained" potential.

Claudio Naranjo published a book on meditation, The Way of Silence and the Talking Cure, and Songs of Enlightenment on the interpretation of the great books of the West as expressions of "the inner journey" and variations on the "tale of the hero".

In 1990, the Arica School, whose materials Claudio Naranjo had not returned after his expulsion, considered taking legal action against Claudio Naranjo for the unauthorized use of Arica School materials and recordings.

Claudio Naranjo's book Changing Education to Change the World published in Spanish in 2004, was meant to stimulate the efforts of teachers among SAT graduates who are beginning to be involved in a SAT-in- Education project, that offers the staff of schools and the students in schools of education a "supplementary curriculum" of self-knowledge, relationship-repair and spiritual culture.

In 2006 the Foundation Claudio Naranjo was founded to implement his proposals regarding the transformation of traditional education into an education that does not neglect the human development that he believed our social evolution depends on.