Trainings
Nine Hypergnostic Systems Trainings SM
The word Hypergnostic is derived from the Greek words Hyper (over or above) and Gnosis (knowledge). The Nine Hypergnostic Systems are one of the foundations of the Arica® theory and practice for understanding and analyzing precisely the parameters of our psyche and developing the internal Witness. An important aspect of this basic work is the awakening of our chi or Kath energy for increasing our vital energy and for developing the State of Awareness of the Witness.
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 our digestive system.
The Relation Instinct is the instinct for relating with others and is connected to our relationship with our father and 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 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 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 pressure and emotional charge of karma is released through honest self-observation, using specific questions and concomitant associations for each of the nine systems. The meditations for improving awareness, contemplation and one-pointedness include Plantar Audition, 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.
Length of training: 14-day group training (intensive or extended formats) followed by an optional 10-day individual Hypergnostic Meditations training and 10-day individual Psychic Space Meditations training.
Prerequisites: None
Autodiagnosis SM
The Autodiagnosis training is as central and foundational as the Nine Hypergnostic Systems training. It opens the central process of Protoanalysis, which is to discover, by inquiring into personal experiences of early life and childhood, how these experiences affect and determine our entire ego development and future life. The self-diagnosis (Autodiagnosis) method provides us with the recognition and understanding of our three Fixations or Trifix in a technical and scientific way. Once the Trifix is established and analyzed, our process of self-observation accelerates and we clarify each aspect of our Trifix into the Higher States of the Divine Ideas. When we understand ourselves intimately and knowledgeably, our life changes, acquiring real meaning, real purpose and Real Self.
Each individual has three Fixations, which correspond to the three Instincts as proposed in the Protoanalytical theory. One Fixation is the major or predominant Ego-entity and the other two Fixations are the Minor Fixations or Co-egos. When we discover our three fixated types, we are able to observe the pattern of the triad in our own subjectivity, and determine the Conjunction Points that stop the process of the ego and produce objective self-observation. Specific enneagrams and their application are used to free the individual from endless subjective processes into a level of understanding of Objective Reality. This training can be easily assimilated and processed by newcomers to the Work and opens the path to self-realization.
Length of training: Autodiagnosis is a one-day intensive group training and the Advanced Fixations and Autodiagnosis is a two-day intensive group training.
Prerequisites: None
Mentations/Deviations SM
The Mentations/Deviations training presents the twelve Mentations, which are a method of inquiry and investigation into the basic structure of any matter. The Mentations have a systematic correlation with sense organs, the viscera and the limbs, providing questions of analysis for each of the twelve Mentations. This analysis changes our linear thinking pattern into a multi-dimensional pattern capable of analyzing any specific situation completely.
In the Mentations training, we learn to divide and differentiate the body into twelve parts, each of which provides information about reality, producing a harmonic sequence that is basic to the way our mind structures thought. Thought is not the result of just one specialized organ, the brain. For example, it is with our eyes that we perceive form and with our nose that we smell out possibilities. All twelve Mentations are needed to provide a complete thought. The study of the Mentations sensitizes the different parts of our body and trains us to make thorough analyses. Deviations are distorted perceptions of the Mentations that we all have and that give us comically inaccurate information. These Deviations can be identified and clarified.
Length of training: Two-day intensive group training presented over one or two weekends.
Prerequisites: None
Levels of Consciousness SM
There are nine lower levels of the human psyche, which are founded upon the subjectivity of the lower ego, and nine higher levels of the human psyche, which establish the objectivity of the state of enlightenment. In this training, these levels are clarified across enneagrammatic analysis, which supports the understanding of our levels of attainment or our levels of spiritual realization. By orienting our process toward transcendence of the subjectivity of the lower ego, we are able to experience the objectivity of the higher states. Theater is also employed to recognize the levels of ego process. This training gives an accurate delineation of the lower and higher states of mind.
Length of training: Levels of Consciousness is a one-day intensive group training and Advanced Levels of Consciousness is a two-day intensive group training.
Prerequisites: Autodiagnosis or Advanced Fixations and Autodiagnosis
Four Functions of Reality SM
The Four Functions are the fields across which the three Instincts manifest. The Four Functions of Reality training further clarifies these Functions of Space, Time, Expression and Coordination. With this training, we recognize how these four areas manifest in our behavior as well as in our internal process, freeing us from the desires and attachments of wealth, power, fame and honor.
Length of training: One-day intensive group training.
Prerequisites: Autodiagnosis or Advanced Fixations and Autodiagnosis
Doors of Compensation SM
The Doors of Compensation training shows us how we deal with the pressures of life through one or more of the nine forms of compensation called Doors. When we know what the Doors are and how they are provoked in us, we can reverse their effect on us, giving our life balance and a new level of being.
From the inevitable pressures of everyday life, our nine Domains of Consciousness (See Nine Domains of Consciousness Training) become imbalanced and dysfunctional. When this happens in any one of the nine Domains, we compensate for this pressure through the Doors of Compensation. These compensations, when clearly recognized, can be reversed and used in a balancing and functional way to support a productive and happy life. Different patterns of enneagrams are employed throughout this training to enhance the understanding of the Protoanalytical theory and its application to life.
Length of training: Doors of Compensation is a one-day intensive group training. The Advanced Doors of Compensation is a two-day intensive group training.
Prerequisites: Levels of Consciousness or the Advanced Levels of Consciousness
Domains of Consciousness SM
A Domain is a physical manifestation of our social structure. All aspects of society can be found in the nine Domains. The Domains are the basis of our intentionality, or the motives that are fundamental for our ordinary and psychic life. The Domains of Consciousness training analyzes the nine Domains and our process in each of them. The training provides a total reordering of our entire life in its nine different Domains, from our sentimental life to our spiritual interests.
In the same way that our internal psychic processes are organized into nine systems, our society and the activities of our external life fall into nine distinct Domains. Within every Domain there exists a natural dichotomy. For instance, in the case of the Work Domain there is an interplay between working and resting. Both sides of the dichotomy are equally valid, but we, along with society, tend to favor one side over the other. This results in internal contradiction and tension.
The Domains of Consciousness training is the study of all nine Domains and their dichotomies, using characters, theater and examples from our life. The goal is to have a balance of energy among all the Domains and within each dichotomy. Support techniques include Kath Generation, group meditation and introduction to the Virtue positions (mudras). The Nine Domains provides a deeper understanding of the Protoanalytic theory and establishes an important basis for the work that follows.
Length of training: Two-day intensive group training.
Prerequisites: None
Arica® Psychocalisthenics®
Psychocalisthenics® is a sequence of 23 movement and breathing exercises that activate the flow of vital energy through all muscle groups, organs, glands and tissues. It is performed in the Arica® Daily Routine and during many Arica® trainings.
Psychocalisthenics® is easy to learn. The entire series takes only sixteen minutes to complete and produces a flash of vital energy through the entire body.
Length of training: Psychocalisthenics® can be learned in a group or individual class taught by certified Psychocalisthenics® teachers worldwide, or on your own with the help of the Master Level Exercise book, videotape or DVD.
Prerequisites: None
Chua Ka SM
In this training, Chua Ka–deep bodywork done on oneself–enables the body to evolve to its highest degree of sensitivity and awareness. The impact of life experience creates networks of muscular tension (pain) that are remembered fears.
Working the tissues with precise hand and finger positions and a stick called a 'ka', we learn to transmit energy and heat to the bone, removing the tension. When we release physical tension, we release psychic tension as well.
Length of training: Two-day intensive group training
Prerequisites: None
Kath State SM
This one-day group training based on Oscar Ichazo's book, Kath State, the Energy of Inner Fire is an excellent opportunity to embody his qigong (Kath) work of the Five Elements. Oscar adapted his five movements from Master Cheng Man-Ch'ing's Tai Chi Chuan and relates them to his theory of the Five Elements of Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Space. In his theory, each movement energizes the chi of the Element that he associates with the five physical Realms of Existence found in the human body.
The training includes a complete Introduction that explains the Kath State and how this State is generated in the physical body. When chi is generated in specific areas (realms) of the body, the endocrine system related to that part of the body is awakened, regenerating all the organs and tissues of that area. When all five areas (Realms of Existence) are regenerated through these five movements, the Kath State is attained, becoming quite noticeable in the brain and felt throughout the body.
Breathing techniques and exercises are employed to further enhance the Kath State experience. Slides are used in the training to give a clear presentation of the material. Meditations with the five movements ensure that a proficient level of embodiment of the Kath State is attained from the day's work.
Length of training: One-day intensive group training
Prerequisites: None
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The Nine Hypergnostic Systems SM, Autodiagnosis SM, Mentations/Deviations SM, Levels of Consciousness SM, Four Functions of Reality SM, Doors of Compensations SM, Domains of Consciousness SM, Chua Ka SM, and Kath State SM are service marks of Oscar Ichazo. Used with permission. All rights reserved.