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I'll bet nobody here has this one. I dropped by my local book store this afternoon and there was a set, shrink-wrapped and under glass. Volume 1 of the Encyclopedia of Tarot has a spread on pp. 160 - 61, but there's nothing online about it. This must be one of the rarest decks in existence.
Its designer, the Chilean occultist Oscar Ichazo, was a minor celebrity in the '60's when he founded the Arica Institute in Buenos Aires, where he drew such notables of the time as John Lilly and Claudio Naranjo. http://www.arica.org/ One of his students at the 1970 40-day training class in New York City was the soon-to-be Ma Deva Padma, already a tarot obssessive who created the Osho Zen Tarot nearly 25 years later. http://osho.tribe.net/thread/341a6d2f-bb7e-403f-8e75-70f072447826
Ichazo claimed to have invented the Enneagram and taught a rigorous mind-body training program. Much of his work was similar to Gurdjieff's, though it also benefitted from a certain similarity to the hugely popular writings of his contemporary Carlos Castenada.
I can't possibly afford this deck, but any collector who is able to can get it through Abebooks http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=12&tn=Arica+Tarot&x=66
If anyone is seriously interested I can view it myself and get more information for you.
Its designer, the Chilean occultist Oscar Ichazo, was a minor celebrity in the '60's when he founded the Arica Institute in Buenos Aires, where he drew such notables of the time as John Lilly and Claudio Naranjo. http://www.arica.org/ One of his students at the 1970 40-day training class in New York City was the soon-to-be Ma Deva Padma, already a tarot obssessive who created the Osho Zen Tarot nearly 25 years later. http://osho.tribe.net/thread/341a6d2f-bb7e-403f-8e75-70f072447826
Ichazo claimed to have invented the Enneagram and taught a rigorous mind-body training program. Much of his work was similar to Gurdjieff's, though it also benefitted from a certain similarity to the hugely popular writings of his contemporary Carlos Castenada.
I can't possibly afford this deck, but any collector who is able to can get it through Abebooks http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&y=12&tn=Arica+Tarot&x=66
If anyone is seriously interested I can view it myself and get more information for you.