Manifestations of the unconscious are easier to notice than to explain. Assagioli starts with what breaks through anyway: the forgotten name, the sudden solution, the vision no one asked for. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23484Original title: L’InconscioTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this […]
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The New World Order
What if the war ends and we get one chance to rebuild? Assagioli’s 1944 vision of a new world order grounded in goodwill, justice, and the practical work of men and women who can actually build it By Roberto Assagioli Likely written 1944–1945, during or just after his period of hiding from the Nazi occupation […]
Roberto Assagioli and Psychosynthesis (Essay by Stuart Miller)
A Personal Reflection on Psychosynthesis and Its Founder By Stuart MillerFirst published in the United States by Popular Psychology (date uncertain).Archival source: Assagioli Archives, Doc. #24343 (dated 1972).Re-formatted and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm (2024). Editorial NoteThis essay is a personal recollection by Stuart Miller. The abstract and subheadings have been added by the […]
Roberto Assagioli’s Experiments in Training of the Will
Stand still, raise your arms, watch your mind protest. Assagioli’s 1929 notebook of self-experiments in training the will, complete with bored mornings, intrusive thoughts, and the moment he saw his own personality try to talk him out of it By Roberto AssagioliApril–May 1929 experimental notebookAssagioli Archives, Florence, Docs. #3044 and #3045 [i].Translated and edited with […]
Inner Life
The mountaineer of the soul climbs by his own muscles, but with maps from those who went before. Assagioli’s introduction to the inner world and the psychospiritual work that meets the chaos found there with discipline and grace By Roberto Assagioli, MD [i]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #1279Original title: Vita InternaTranscribed from an original written document […]
Mental Development
We don’t actually think – we rationalise. Assagioli on mental development as the slow work of freeing the mind from the service of desire, and bringing it into harmony with love By Roberto AssagioliSource: psicoenergetica.com [i] Original title: Sviluppo MentaleTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this […]
Inspiration
It is not I who think; it is my ideas that think in me. Assagioli’s essay on the mechanism of inspiration and the moments when the superconscious slips through into ordinary awareness By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #12087Formatted and edited with notes and appendix by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle […]
Interior Life III – The Inner World (II)
Forms and forces are what the outer world is made of. Assagioli’s working notes ask what follows if the life inside you runs on exactly the same two. By Roberto Assagioli, MD [i]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #18455Original title: Vita Interiore III – Il mondo interiore (II)Transcribed from an original written document by Istituto di PsicosintesiTranslated […]
Internal Action
Modern life is one long external action. Assagioli’s 1947 talk on internal action: the inner work of self-discovery, the four methods of prayer, meditation, affirmation, and invocation, and the slow building of communities that can live them together By Dr. Roberto AssagioliAddress to the Fourth Conference of the Religion Movement, Florence, July 26–28, 1947Assagioli Archives, […]
Meeting Of Doctors From Perugia With Dr. R. Assagioli
Chaos to Cosmos was Assagioli’s own shorthand for the work. A group of doctors pressed him on what that means when a patient sits in front of you. By Roberto Assagioli, MDMeeting with doctors from Perugia, March 15, 1970 [1]Source: psicoenergetica.com [1].Original title: Riunione dei Medici di Perugia con il Dott. R. AssagioliTranslated and edited […]
