Catalyst of Miracles

The Unknown Claudio Naranjo

Edited by David S. Flattery, Ph.D. and Reza Leah Landman

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This generous selection from the Festschrift articles collected for Claudio Naranjo's 70th birthday in 2002 includes personal memoirs and reminiscences going back to his school days in Chile; testimonies and accounts of meetings and activities over years of Claudio's consciousness-raising group, SAT (Seekers After Truth); and professional articles by colleagues of Claudio's ranging from contributions to the Amazonian Ibogaine research to an assessment of the contemporary Enneagram movement.

The most incredible thing is that with Claudio major things happen even if he doesn't seem to do something special to make them happen.

Ricardo Zerbetto from "A Dionysian Brujo"

I believe that Claudio is truly a "Teacher's Teacher." May he enjoy his wisdom years and continue to turn his own feet to the fire and offer his wisdom in its unvarnished and non-fantasy form--whether his associates appreciate it or not! I certainly do appreciate Claudio Naranjo, and I say, "Thank you, Claudio, for your efforts on behalf of all beings everywhere!"

E.J. Gold from "Festshrift Tribute for Claudio Naranjo's 70th Birthday"

In the course of its evolution as a program for personal and professional development of therapists and teachers since its rebirth in the late eighties, I can say that the SAT process has evolved and become continuously enriched through many new initiatives of Claudio, one of which he calls the "psychotherapy laboratory," in which people learn to help each other through the development of psychotherapeutic skills that do not require a background in the customary academic theoretical literature. He looks upon this way of teaching psychotherapy as a contribution to what he calls the "democratization of psychotherapy," and also to a new approach to the education of future teachers, who may be able to assist their students in their personal growth.

Reza Leah Landman from "Witness at the Turning Point"

v --- Table of Contents
vii --- Table of Illustrations
ix --- Introduction by David S Flattery
xvi --- Foreword by Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche

Part One: Biographical Mosaic

3 --- Suzanna Stroke - This is How I Experience You
8 --- Edmundo Covarrubias - Claudio Naranjo Comes Flying
16 --- Aristides Rojas Pucara - Claudio at the School of Medicine
17 --- Susana Bloch Arendt - I Have Known Claudio Since the Fifties
18 --- Ximena Sepúlveda - From the Final Chapter of The Fifth Kingdom
41 --- Paul B Herbert - Claudio at the Dawn of Esalen
41 --- Sher Phillips Gamard - Baraka Sunday
45 --- Bill (Ibrahim) Gamard - Transmission of Consciousness
48 --- Marilyn Sherwin - A Musical Partner
49 --- Marta Huepe - Dr Claudio Benjamin Naranjo Cohen
51 --- Iven Lourie - Happy Birthday Claudio
56 --- Leonard Aryeh Trupin - My Berkeley Neighbor
57 --- Reza Leah Landman - Witness at the Turning Point

Part Two: About Claudio's Work

65 --- Paco Peñarrubia - Rabbi Claudio
71 --- Abe Levitsky - Foreword to Gestalt Therapy
74 --- Riccardo Zerbetto - A Dionysian Brujo
76 --- Alfonso Montuori - The Culture of Transformation and the Transformation of Culture: Claudio Naranjo and the Evolution of Human Potential
95 --- E J Gold - Festschrift Tribute for Claudio Naranjo's 70th Birthday
97 --- Lee Lozowick - A Humble Man
100 --- Mariana Caplan - On Integrity in Spiritual Life
105 --- Gay Luce - Claudio Played a Pivotal Role
107 --- Hameed Ali - Claudio's Influence on My Mind and Work
112 --- Marie Ali - Hindsight after Thirty Years in the Work of SAT
117 --- Sandra Maitri - Reflections on Claudio Naranjo
119 --- Ron Kane - You Brought It All Together
121 --- Marion Pastor - Claudio and the Fischer/Hoffman Process
123 --- Delia Vergara - How Can We Find Love: An Interview with Claudio Naranjo
134 --- Alex Kalawski - The Voyage
139 --- Stanislav Grof - Preface to Claudio Naranjo's book: The Healing Journey: New Approaches to Consciousness
143 --- Rick Doblin - Claudio Naranjo: A Guiding Light in the Psychedelic Firmament
146 --- Ralph Metzner - Claudio Naranjo's Contribution to the Introduction of Psychoactive Substances into Western Psychiatry and Psychology
158 --- Howard S Lotsof - Naranjo, Ibogaine and I
161 --- Benny Shanon - Personal Insight, Personal Transformation and Healing with Ayahuasca
190 --- Ravenna Helson - Knowing Claudio at IPAR in Berkeley: Yagé and Studies of Fantasy for Children
197 --- Eduardo de Carvalho Ribeiro - The Musical Claudio Naranjo

Part Three: Experiences of Claudio