Before the foundation legally existed, its founders wrote down what they hoped for. This psychosynthesis research program named the superconscious, the will, gifted children, and the training of practitioners. By Roberto Assagioli and Co-WorkersWritten circa April 1957 (Derived from AAP Archive, Folder PRF_AAP_Correspondences, 1957) Preliminary Vision Statement Prior to Legal Incorporation (November 1957) Editorial NoteThe […]
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The Practical and Human Value of Psychic Culture
How a 1929 pamphlet on psychic culture mapped the practical, therapeutic, and social dimensions of conscious inner development, foreshadowing the full programme of psychosynthesis By Dr. Roberto AssagioliDirector of the Institute of Psychic Culture and Therapy Doc. #23914–23915 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Il valore pratico ed umano della cultura psichicaPublished as a pamphlet in […]
The Internationale of the Spirit
Why a post-war essay prescribed moral regeneration as the remedy for chauvinistic nationalism, envisioning each homeland’s distinct mission within a brotherhood of peoples By Roberto Assagioli1922Doc. #23492 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: L’Internationale dello SpiritoTranslated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
The Effects of Laughter and Its Pedagogical Applications
How an eighteen-year-old Assagioli mapped the intellectual, moral, and pedagogical effects of laughter, linking comic detachment to the serene perspective of wisdom By Roberto Grego AssagioliDoc. #23288–23289 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Gli effetti del riso e le loro applicazioni pedagogicheJournal of Psychology Applied to Pedagogy and Psychopathology, Florence, March–April 1906Translated and Edited With Notes […]
How to Decide? Guidance from the Self
How a practical psychosynthetic exercise employs imaginative personification to bypass conscious resistance, opening a channel between the personal self and spiritual guidance By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #14375 | Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Come Decidere?Translated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to […]
Science and Parapsychology
A sealed object in the hand produces images, but are they memories or metaphors? The symbolizing function explains why psychic material must be read twice before it earns trust. By Roberto AssagioliMarch 9, 1958Doc. #23906 – Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Conversazione del Dottor R.AssagioliTranslated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm[1] Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
National and International Psychosynthesis
Why nations are living psychological entities whose maturation from adolescent self-assertion to conscious planetary service depends on recognising global interdependence as a practical necessity By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Psicosintesi Nazionale e InternazionaleReport presented at the Fourth International Congress of Psychosynthesis, Florence, Italy, September 1–7, 1961Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm [1] Editorial NoteThe […]
Ideas- Positive Religions – Evolution
A Conversation on Energy, Inspiration, Religion, and Reincarnation By Dr. Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23896 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Idee – Religioni Positive – EvoluzioneConversation with friends following lecture “The Use and Transformation of Energies”, June 23, 1973 [1]Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]
Lectures, Conversations and Notes on Transformation and Sublimation of Psychic Energies
Anger and ambition need not be repressed. In these lectures the sublimation of psychic energies becomes a practical craft, with humility as the test of whether the change is real. By Roberto Assagioli(Doc. #23894, #23895, #7533, #7599, #7569, #4856, #23896 – Assagioli Archives – Florence)Originally delivered 1933, 1963, 1973Translated and Edited With Notes by Jan […]
Images and Colors: Their Psychological Effects
How contemplation of visual forms, from architectural lines to therapeutic hues, serves psychosynthesis by awakening latent qualities through the influence of color and design By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #24147 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, Florence [1]Original title: Immagini e colori: loro effetti psicologiciTranslated and Edited With Notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in […]
