Elisabeth Haich

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Elisabeth Haich
Elisabeth Haich (1897-1994) was a spiritual teacher and author of several books on spirituality.
Life
She was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. After the end of the World War II, she fled to Switzerland and
founded with Selvarajan Yesudian the oldest yoga school in Europe.
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In her best known book, Initiation, Haich describes early experiences of her life in Hungary, as well as details of her
past life during which she was initiated by her uncle, Ptahhotep, in ancient Egypt. It also describes a little of a recent
previous life in which she was a washing-woman, was abandoned by her lover, lost contact with her daughter, and
ended up a beggar on the streets.
Her book The Wisdom of the Tarot is based on the Oswald Wirth deck's images (but some colors are different, for
some details), and it is about the archetypes of human development, each Tarot card identifying one archetype and
its meaning.
Her book Sexual Energy & Yoga identifies how sexual energy, when contained, builds among one's chakras, boiling
the ignorance resident among them, eventually awakening them, and making possible enlightenment.
Elisabeth Haich claims to have attained "ego-death". It was described by her followers (mentioned in the
introductions to her book) as visible in her gaze: "her gaze wasn't the gaze of a person, it was the gaze of infinity,
and it wasn't blind to one's unconsciousness or ignoring: a gaze that cut right through one's unconsciousness, a gaze
very difficult to bear."
Books by Elisabeth Haich
Initiation, German language edition, Einwehung, 1960, publisher Verlag Eduard Frankhauser. English translation,
1965, by John P. Robertson, publisher George Allen & Unwin. Reprinted 1979, Pocket Books.
The Day with Yoga
Sexual Energy and Yoga
Wisdom of the Tarot (co-authored with Selvarajan Yesudian)
Self Healing Yoga and Destiny
References
[1] About this school and its influence in Switzerland, see Jean-Franois Mayer, Les nouvelles voies spirituelles : enqute sur la religiosit
parallle en Suisse, Nationales Forschungsprogramm 21--Kulturelle Vielfalt und Nationale Identitt, L'ge d'Homme, 1993, ISBN
2-8251-0412-4, ISBN 978-2-8251-0412-5, p. 195.
External links
Conversations with Elisabeth Haich (http:/ / godspeakstoday. info/ elisabeth_haich. html) and Ptahotep (http:/ /
godspeakstoday. info/ ptahotep. html)
Elisabeth Haich bio (http:/ / www. aurorapress. com/ html/ elisabeth_haich. html)
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