Inside us, a clever lawyer is winning a bad case with sentimental appeals. Assagioli on making right decisions, the rationalisations we mistake for our own voice, and the harder discipline of choosing from somewhere truer By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24218Original title: Dell’indecisione alla Scelta [1]Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [2] […]
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Group Life – A Living Entity
Half of what you think is yours was caught from a crowd, an audience, a tribe. Assagioli on group consciousness and the slow practice of staying yourself while becoming part of something larger By Roberto Assagioli [i]Assagioli ArchivesEdited version of a longer English typescript found in the papers of the late Phyllis ClayFormatted and edited […]
How To Practice Suggestion
You cannot pull on a seedling to make it grow. Assagioli’s 1934 lecture on self-suggestion as an actual practice – relax the body, harmonise with the unconscious, plant the seed, and trust it to do its slow work By Roberto AssagioliLesson VIII, Course of Lectures on The Energies Latent in Us, March 4, 1934 [i]Assagioli […]
How To Work With Subpersonalities
The angry one. The pleaser. The critic at three in the morning. Assagioli’s working manual for working with subpersonalities – how to find them, name them with humour, listen to what they actually need, and bring them into dialogue with the Self By Roberto AssagioliExtract from the Opening Address to the International Conference on Psychosynthesis, […]
In The Theater Of The World
Most of us play our parts in life unconsciously, and therefore we play them badly. Assagioli on playing roles in life as the pivotal technique of psychosynthesis, and on acting each part fully without ever forgetting you are not the character By Roberto AssagioliExcerpted from Filo Conduttore – Research Notebook of the Rome Center, No. […]
Indirect Suggestion
Doomscroll the news, then wonder why you feel scattered? Assagioli on psychological hygiene and the five everyday channels that quietly shape who we become. By Roberto AssagioliFrom the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Doc. #21887 [1]Edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the […]
Interindividual Psychosynthesis And International Cooperation
The psychology of international cooperation begins between two people, not two nations. Assagioli’s 1965 UN-year lecture on the four conditions that have to be in place before cooperation works at any scale, from a marriage to a treaty. By Roberto AssagioliLecture Course on Psychosynthesis, Lecture 1, January 17, 1965. [i],From the Assagioli Archive in Florence.Translated […]
Introduction To The Book “Wu-Wei”
The Wu-Wei meaning everyone gets wrong: not “inaction,” but something Lao-Tse uses paradox to point at on purpose. Assagioli’s 1932 introduction to Henri Borel’s book on what the phrase asks of us in practice, and why ordinary language cannot carry it. By Roberto Assagioli [in]Rome, June 11, 1932.Assagioli Archives, Florence – Doc. #23562Original title: Introduzione […]
Scientific Method, Psychology, and the Origins of Psychosynthesis
A 1968 newspaper interview where Assagioli, eighty years old, walks a journalist through the origins of psychosynthesis, his fascist-era exile, the limits of scientific quantification, and why he refuses to be called a wise man. Conversation with Roberto AssagioliInterview conducted by Mariella Crocellà [i]Published in La Nazione, February 21, 1968Assagioli Archives, Doc. #23493Translated and edited […]
Let Us Understand Each Other
Why does the news always sound like the world is ending, when most of life is quietly constructive? An essay written on the brink of war, calling for constructive news, real cross-cultural contact, and the slow work of clearing prejudice on both sides of the Atlantic. By Roberto AssagioliFirst published in The World Observer, Vol. […]
