Dismissing spiritual experience as illusion is not scepticism, it is prejudice. Assagioli maps spiritual consciousness from William James to the young seekers religion has lost. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #24085, Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: Il Risveglio e lo Sviluppo della Coscienza SpiritualeTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
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Bio-psychosynthesis
A patient wishes to be healed but keeps drinking. A surgeon halves the anaesthesia by reaching the patient’s mind first. Assagioli’s 1966 London talk on the will to heal and why the body belongs inside any real psychosynthesis By Roberto Assagioli, MDA talk given at the Knightsbridge Hotel, London, August 1966Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23617Original […]
Development of Immature and Higher Faculties
Some inner faculties wait like dawn light, others arrive like lightning. Assagioli’s 1933 lecture on the development of higher faculties and the long work of bringing every neglected part of the personality into the light By Dr. Roberto AssagioliLesson IX, Lecture Course on PsychosynthesisUnrevised notes from June 18, 1933Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24077 [i]Translated and […]
Discourse on Illusion
Inside, we wish we were one. Outside, we ache to belong. Assagioli’s 1964 lecture on the illusion of separateness, the secret multiplicity of every self, and the long work of meeting both honestly By Roberto AssagioliA talk given December 9, 1964Assagioli Archives, Florence [in] Original title: Discorso sull’IllusioneTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] […]
Appeal To People of Good Will
Twelve apostles started one era. Hundreds of thousands could start another. Assagioli’s appeal to people of good will to organise themselves into a worldwide movement built on the most accessible form of love By Roberto Assagioli [1]Adapted from material first published in Alice A. Bailey’s The Problems of Humanity (1947) [2]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23067Original […]
