We can act, behave, and thus really “be in practice” as we would like to be “as if” we possessed the qualities and had the positive states of mind that would naturally prompt us to act in the right way. By Roberto Assagioli, November 29, 1963, From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Doc. #23041.Original Title: […]
Archives for June 2023
Repetition and Rhythm
It might at first seem strange to consider repetition as an actual technique in the field of psychology, but it is one of significant importance. By Roberto Assagioli, undated[1], From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Docs. #24086 and 24087. Original Title: Repetizione e Ritmo. Translated with notes by Jan Kuniholm. It might at first seem […]
Exercise Of Disidentification And Self-Identification
Assagioli teaches a group of students the use of his famous exercise of disidentification and self-identification. By Roberto Assagioli, Lecture Course on Psychosynthesis, Psychological Exercises and Training, Doc. #23994 dated March 8, 1964[1], from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. Original Title: Esercizio di Disidentificazione e di Auto-identificazione. Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm. […]
Exercise Of the Ideal Model
Assagioli works together with a group of his students, with the exercise of the ideal model, a central experience in psychosynthesis Roberto Assagioli, 1967, From the Assagioli Archive in Florence[1]. Original Title: Esercizio del Modello Ideale. Translated, Compiled, Edited with Notes by Jan Kuniholm[2] Part I (from Doc. #23382 – Assagioli Archives – Florence) Assagioli: […]
Concentration
Then there is a form of concentration that is higher and more important than those indicated so far: that of the Inner Observer or Spectator … By Roberto Assagioli, May 17, 1934, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence, doc. #23152. Original Title: Concentrazione. Translated and Edited with Notes by Jan Kuniholm It is appropriate first […]
Understanding – Evaluation – Choice – Plan of Action
Understanding ourselves has a transformative and liberating power that is generally not understood By Roberto Assagioli, Course of lessons on Psychosynthesis; Lesson XIII – 23 April 1933. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Doc. #23151. Original Title: Comprensione – Valutazione – Scelta – Piano di Azione. Translated and Edited with Notes by Jan Kuniholm The […]
How to Educate the Memory
In psychology, we can consider memories as psychic facts, forming baggage that, for the most part, is unconscious. By Roberto Assagioli, undated, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. (Docs. #23134 and 23135)[1] Original Title: Come si educa la memoria. Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm Memory is a fundamental property of organic matter; […]
The Scientific Way
Scientists have arrived – perhaps almost in spite of themselves – at the same conclusions reached millenniums before in the East. Roberto Assagioli, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence. Original title: Piercing the Veil of Matter. The Cognitive (Scientific-Philosophic) Way – Beyond the Veil of Matter. The fundamental obstacle to the realisation of spiritual states […]
The Aesthetic Way, by Roberto Assagioli
The spiritual awakening happens to be often produced and promoted by Beauty, which expresses itself on some phenomenon of nature, as, for instance, the one described by Rabindranath Tagore.
