What Sight Is to the Eye, Clairvoyance Is to the Soul: Supernormal Faculties as the Higher Octave of Every Ordinary Psychological Function By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive Florence.Original title: Psicologia E ParapsicologiaTranslated by Jan Kuniholm. Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to support readability, […]
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Symbols of the Supernormal, Part I-III
From the Acorn to the Oak and the Lotus to the Light: Eleven Symbols That Map the Supernormal Possibilities Latent in Every Human Being By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive Florence. Conference of Dr. Roberto Assagioli in 1957Original title: Simboli del Supernormale I-IIITranslated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi. Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this […]
Why You Are Not Your Body
I Am Not My Body, Said Assagioli, and His Critics Never Forgave Him: The Contentless Self as the Pivot of Disidentification By Kenneth Sørensen, MA in Psychosynthesis Author of The Soul of Psychosynthesis (revised March 2023 – see update notes at the end) Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen examines why Roberto Assagioli insisted on […]
Old Age, Death, and the Perenniality of Life
I Take Advantage of Deafness, for It Spares Me Much Nonsense: The Perenniality of Life as a Fearless Answer to Old Age and Death Interview with Roberto AssagioliConducted by Solange de Marignac, January 1970Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Vecchiaia e MorteTranslated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco ViglienghiTranslation from French revised by Roberto Assagioli Editorial […]
Interpretation And Use of The Physical Instrument (Body)
Be in a Friendly Relationship with Your Body and Reward It When It Has Earned It: The Body as Instrument of Perception and Action By Roberto Assagioli From the Assagioli Archive Florence, 3.6Original Title: Interpretazione e Uso dello Stumento CorporeoTranslated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Amanda Mattiussi. See also his lecture about bio-psychosynthesis Editorial […]
Spiritual Psychosynthesis
See Yourself as You Would Like to Be, for Energy Follows Thought: The Ideal Model as a Safe Path to the Superconscious By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives in Florence, Doc. #24183Original title: La Psicosintesi spiritualeCourse of Lectures on Psychosynthesis, Lecture XX, July 25, 1933Translated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]
Subpersonalities
Assagioli coined the term subpersonalities, drawing on William James’s various selves: subpersonality formation is a normal process built from the social roles and functions we live by. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA2022 The following text is my introduction to the free e-book Subpersonalities , which is a collection of 10 articles by Roberto Assagioli. Abstract In […]
Psychology and Human Existence
Everything That Formed His Life Seemed Like a Dream, Dissolved Like a Larva: Existential Anxiety as the Gateway to Superconscious Awakening By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive – Florence, 1974Original title: Psicologia ed Esistenza UmanaTranslated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, […]
Emotional And Mental Obstacles To Spiritual Development: Aggression and Criticism
All Men Are Mad, Except You and I, and Even You Have a Little Bit of It – The Combative Tendency Behind Every Act of Criticism By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive in Florence, Docs. #23038, #23039Course in Spiritual Psychosynthesis, Lesson IV, April 2, 1938Original title: Ostacoli emotivi e mentali allo sviluppo spirituale – Aggressività E CriticismoTranslated […]
Mysticism And Medicine
Madness Would Sometimes Be Infinitely Superior to the Sanity of Normal People: Mystical Phenomena as Spiritual Awakening, Not Nervous Disorder By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive – Florence, Docs. #27493, #27494, #27495Original title: Mistica e MedicinaAddress at the Fourth Mystical Conference, Florence, January 1925Published in Ultra, No. 1, March 1925Translated and Edited with Notes by Jan Kuniholm […]
