Why Carlyle’s vision of society built on veneration and Emerson’s account of enrichment converge in a psychosynthesis of the worship of heroes and ideal models By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23320 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceTranslated and edited by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, […]
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Desire for Knowledge and the Capacity to Know
How unfinished lecture notes from 1932 trace the ascent from sensory curiosity through rational limits to intuitive realisation and the thirst to know the true Self By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23249 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Desiderio di sapere e capacità di conoscereCourse of Lectures on Individual Psychology, Lesson XIV (1932) Individual (spiritual) elements in […]
Reality Is One: Roberto Assagioli’s Evolutionary Monism
Spirit, Matter, and the Unified Ground of Psychosynthesis By Kenneth Sørensen, MA, Psychosynthesis | Psychotherapist and Author, 2026 Editorial NoteThis paper is based on my earlier research paper, “Reality is One,” a compilation of quotes by Roberto Assagioli. The reader seeking a fuller picture of Assagioli’s monistic philosophy should consult this paper. Abstract This article […]
Static Happiness and Dynamic Joy
How a 1936 lecture contrasts stagnation with the regenerative current of Divine Life, presenting dynamic joy as a volitional resolution for daily rebirth By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23419 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Felicità Statica e Letizia DinamicaA Talk Originally Given in Florence, New Year’s Eve 1936Translated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
What Is Free Will?
How a psychosynthesis dialogue reveals the path from conditioned reactions through disidentification to authentic freedom, tracing the developmental relationship between will and desire By Anja Bjørlo and Kenneth SørensenFirst published on the YouTube channel Psychosynthesis Self-Mastery Channel, 2025. Editorial NoteThis piece began as an online conversation and has been edited for clarity, precision, and flow […]
To Educate Better – Assagioli on Suggestion in Education
Every word, image, and gesture sinks into the child’s unconscious like a seal into wax: constructive suggestion gives educators a method for shaping that impressionable ground with care. By Dr. Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23730 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Per Meglio EducareCourse of Lectures on “The Latent Energies in Us and Their Use in Medicine […]
Power and Will
From primitive terror before the gods to quiet mastery within – spiritual power is not seized but received, and it radiates only when the personal will yields to the greater. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Potenza – VolontàIstituto di Psicosintesi, Florence, “Scritti di Roberto Assagioli”Course of Lectures on Individual Psychology (1932), Spiritual Elements in Personality: IVTranslated […]
Struggle – Acceptance – Unification
Will alone cuts like a blade, but will infused with the strength of love becomes a shield: Assagioli traces the path from struggle through acceptance to divine union. By Dr. Roberto AssagioliArchive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Lotta – Accettazione – UnificazioneTranslated with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online […]
Current Orientations and Tasks
The old world is ending, not breaking – what rises in its place depends on inner renewal and on a form of group cooperation that no solitary pioneer can replace. By Roberto AssagioliArchive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Orientamenti e Compiti AttualiTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThis essay was written by Roberto […]
Crises of Spiritual Growth
Meaning drains, guilt sharpens, and the ground gives way beneath a life once felt to be solid: inner dissolution is the price the soul pays for its own awakening. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23243–23244 | Archive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Le crisi di crescenza spiritualeTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [1] Editorial NoteThis article […]
