Roberto Assagioli claims that every normal psychological function has corresponding parapsychological and supernormal faculties, in this way sight and clairvoyance are related. By Roberto Assagioli, Undated, from the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm. Original Title: Psicologia E Parapsicologia I repeat two other pieces of advice: first, to mark the results in writing. Here again […]
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Symbols of the Supernormal, Part I-III
By Roberto Assagioli, Conference of Dr. Roberto Assagioli in 1957, from the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi. Original Title: Simboli del Supernormale I-III […] I will say something more about language. Now, fortunately, we have realized the difficulties of language, and a whole semantic science has developed, as well as […]
Why You Are Not Your Body, According to Roberto Assagioli
Why did Assagioli maintain his “I am not my body…” affirmation in his disidentification exercise despite opposition to it? In this article, we will explore what underlying experiences and philosophy he bases his understanding on and how he responded to his critics. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA in Psychosynthesis and author of The Soul of Psychosynthesis […]
Old Age and Death
Assagioli: I neither desire nor fear the death of my body, since I am profoundly convinced not only of survival, but above all of the perenniality of life. Interview by Ms. Solange de Marignac of Roberto Assagioli, 1970, From the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi. Original Title: Vecchiaia […]
Interpretation And Use of The Physical Instrument (Body)
Assagioli included the physical body in his Psychosynthesis, and in these notes, he gives us an impression of what that includes. By Roberto Assagioli, undated, Undeveloped Notes, Assagioli Archives 3.6, From the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Amanda Mattiussi. Original Title: Interpretazione e Uso dello Stumento Corporeo. See also his […]
Spiritual Psychosynthesis
The conscious “I” manifests itself above all as a conscious, resolute and tenacious will, directed relentlessly toward the goal; a will that unceasingly works to master the areas of the unconscious. By Roberto Assagioli, XX Lecture – July 25, 1933. From the Assagioli Archives in Florence, Doc. #24183. Original Title: La Psicosintesi spiritual. Translated by […]
Subpersonalities, According to Roberto Assagioli
Roberto Assagioli was the first to coin the term subpersonalities, however, he was inspired by William James’s concept of various selves and sees subpersonalities primary as normal psychological formations based on our social roles and functions. By Kenneth Sørensen, 2022, the following text is my introduction to the free e-book Subpersonalities, which is a collection […]
Psychology and Human Existence, by Roberto Assagioli
Roberto Assagioli argues that the humanistic and integral conception of psychosynthesis and its methods offer the basis and means to solve the various existential problems that arise in life, due to life circumstances and spiritual emergency By Roberto Assagioli, 1974, Original Title: Psicologia ed Esistenza Umana, Translated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi, Assagioli Archive […]
Emotional And Mental Obstacles To Spiritual Development: Aggression and Criticism
One of the strongest obstacles to spiritual realization; is the instinct of personal self-assertion, with its aggressive manifestations. By Roberto Assagioli, Course in Spiritual Psychosynthesis, Lesson IV. April 2, 1938. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, (Docs #23038 and 23039). Original Title: Ostacoli emotivi e mentali allo sviluppo spirituale – Aggressività E Criticismo. Translated with […]
Mysticism And Medicine
In certain cases of so-called “melancholia,” which the patients themselves believed to be merely illness, a most profound spiritual upheaval was taking place in them. By Roberto Assagioli, Published in Ultra, March 1925 No.1. An Address made at the Fourth Mystical Conference, Florence, Italy, January 1925. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Docs # 27493, […]
