In this interview, Assagioli gives insight into how introversion and extroversion can express itself on the different levels of the personality and how he defines psychosynthesis. By Lilian Gibson. Source. From the Occult Review,1934, v59, April. Translated by Gordon Symons from Italian. After the formation of the Psychoanalytic Schools of Dr. Freud and Adler in […]
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Ian Gordon-Brown about psychosynthesis
Ian Gordon-Brown, a long time friend of Assagioli, speak about the core elements of psychosynthesis and what he consider to be the most valuable aspect of psychosynthesis Original title: Ian Gordon-Brown talks to June Posey, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Author June Posey Ian works at the Centre for Transpersonal Psychology. He knew Roberto […]
A meeting with Assagioli – Tilde Bozzo
The author writes about her encounter with Roberto Assagioli in 1972, and remember his clarity and simplicity, his gentle, loving wisdom, which so many student rapport was his essential emanation. By Tilde Bozzo; translated by Gordon Symons from Italian. The uphill road is the one that leads to Fiesole. The house I’m looking for is […]
ASSAGIOLI – THE MAN AND HIS THOUGHT, by Sergio Bartoli
Sergio Bartoli, one of Roberto Assagioli’s close collaborators, shares his impressions about Assagioli and summarises the ideas behind psychosynthesis Translated from Italian by Gordon Symons This subject immediately invites me to reflect: the figure of a great man can only be reduced by the mind of whoever interprets it. Aware of this limit, I will […]
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH PSYCHOSYNTHESIS
Stuart Miller, the first Vice President of Development at Esalen Institute, visited Roberto Assagioli in 1970 and was inspired by his profound authority and “lightness.” By Stuart Miller (1938-2014), translated from Italian, by Gordon Symons, (Archivio Assagioli – Florence) Michael Murphy, President of the Esalen Institute, my wife and I were in England in the summer of […]
ROBERTO, NELLA AND LUISA
Luisa Lunelli was a dear friend of the Assagioli family, and in this memorial, she gives many intimate details of Assagioli’s life. His imprisonment, the death of his son Ilario, the expansion of his work. A much-valued contribution to the story of Psychosynthesis. By Luisa Lunelli Translated by Gordon Symons, from the Italian edition: ROBERTO, […]
Practical contributions to a modern yoga
In the last few years the need of a new Yoga has been expressed in many quarters, that is, of a Yoga which would lead to the same eternal goal as the Yoga’s of the past, namely, the conscious union with the One-Self, with the Supreme; but a Yoga, the formulation and the practical methods of which would be suited to the mentality and the needs of modern man and to the conditions existing in our western civilization; a Yoga which would express the spirit of the New Age that is rapidly permeating the minds and souls of the more progressive men and women of today.
