Integral Meditation

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Receptiveness to the soul’s intuitive impressions Receptive meditation is a very valuable part of mental training, but it is at the same time the most difficult form of meditation, because mistakes can easily be made in its execution. There are real dangers attached to […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. The meaning and place of prayer today The word prayer is understood very differently by many today. The most prevalent is that prayer is an inner act that can be expressed in countless ways, such as meditation, contemplation, invocation and heartfelt desires, and it […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Pictures (performances) Visualization can be defined as a conscious and special use of images. In reality, it is a psychological reality that man lives in a world of images . The so-called objective world is by no means as we see it. Philosophers have […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. The nature and technique of invocation The etymological meaning of invocation is to “call down,” “to call into.” It is basically a demand, an appeal to something higher, a plea for help or intervention. The same can be said in general of prayer, but […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Types of radiation At this time, humanity is confronted with the problem of how to use the energies evoked or received through meditation, prayer and invocation. The need to use these energies has two reasons: To avoid accumulation and overstimulation in the interior. Because […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Meditation and elements of action A natural and proper effect of meditation is action, both inwardly and outwardly. Internal action by emanation has been mentioned, and now we come to external action. Even if one does not think much about it, and whether it […]

In this article, Roberto Assagioli gives a very deep and wise presentation of meditation and the art of meditating correctly. By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. “Personal” meditation and “service meditation” The widespread interest in meditation throughout the world shows that a significant expansion of human consciousness is taking place. […]

By Roberto Assagioli. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Introduction In the first instruction of the second year, there is a brief discussion of the present world situation and of the period of transition from the old to the new age which humanity is witnessing and in which all are inevitably participants. In the meditation […]

By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Meditation has a very important function, in that it creates awareness of the many inner “pairs of opposites,” of the problems involved, and of techniques for balancing them. The “pairs of opposites” are the great dualities between which one tends to oscillate, responding first […]

What is reality and how do we recognize it? Meditation sharpens our ability to perceive multiple layers of reality and in this article Roberto Assagioli and others describe the many levels and aspects of reality. By Roberto Assagioli and others. Excerpt from the book Creative Meditation. Introduction In this fourth year of instruction, a completely […]