Elisabeth Haich

Elisabeth Haich (1897-1994) was a spiritual teacher and author of several books on spirituality.

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.

In her best known book, Initiation, Haich describes a past life, her apprenticeship with Ptahhotep and her introduction to yoga in ancient Egypt. It also describes a little of a recent previous life, in which she was a washing-woman, whose daughter left, and she 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 1 archetype & its meaning ( e.g. the Hermit card identifying the stage of human development when one retreats into one's own path, not bothering to try communicating one's insights to anyone anymore ( hooded lantern ), one doesn't care about the look of one's plain clothes ( the brown cloak ), & one's path is being made/created by a kundalini-serpent, for one.

Her book Sexual Energy & Yoga identifies how sexual-energy, contained, builds among one's chakras, boiling the ignorance resident among them, eventually awakening them, making possible the consciousness of illumination/enlightenment ( shown in a Mayan rendering of kundalini: the SUN-crowned Mayan standing on a serpent-representing-kundalini-conquered, which is the same image-pattern as the Hindu rendition of it, and also shown in a Rosicrucian depiction, having the kundalini represented by a dragon breathing fire on a cauldron, the "wizard" holding his tree-of-life's roots in the cauldron, and the resultant boiling of the nervous-system or tree-of-life making the tree-of-life flower ).

Elisabeth Haich attained ego-death ( what the Japanese Buddhists call Zen ), as seen by her followers ( mentioned in the intros to her books ), 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.