You cannot avoid pain, only choose its kind. The pain of growth or the pain of stagnation, and the difference between symptoms that go forward and symptoms that go back. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA, Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist and Researcher. Published August 2026. (This article is based on the e-book Conflict, Crises and Synthesis, a compilation of […]
Transpersonal Psychology in the Consulting Room
In a public clinic the word itself can be risky. Two practitioners talk about holding a transpersonal framework in the room, and about the moment the joy collapses. By Kenneth Sørensen and Anja Bjørlo2026 Editorial NoteThis article is based on a conversation between Kenneth Sørensen and Anja Bjørlo on Psychosynthesis, Meaning, and the Soul’s Emergence; […]
Synthesis in Psychosynthesis: Assagioli’s Unified Teaching
Synthesis in psychosynthesis runs from the atom to the Supreme Synthesis. This article gathers the whole of Assagioli’s teaching on it, including archive pages never brought together before. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA Psychosynthesis 2026 Editorial NoteResearch and drafting assistance provided by Claude (Anthropic). All archival sources, citations, interpretations, and the final text are the author’s […]
Facilitating Depth through Psychosynthesis
Two clients, two outcomes. This keynote on psychosynthesis coaching sets surface identity against the contentless witness, and asks the question that separates them: who is speaking? By Kenneth Sørensen, MAKeynote address delivered at the Sixth Psychosynthesis Coaching Symposium, NCVO, London, 10 April 2026 Editorial NoteThis article has been adapted from a recorded keynote address. An […]
Roberto Assagioli on Parapsychology
Higher octave is how Assagioli explained telepathy and precognition: not anomalies but the ordinary senses running further up the scale, with dangers he took seriously. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA 2026 Abstract In this introduction, the archive of Assagioli’s writing on the parapsychological faculties is set out, with an account of why it belongs inside a […]
My Association with the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation and Its Pioneers
An article handed to him in 1963 sent a psychiatrist to the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation, where he found Swartley, Hilton and Cooper, and ten years later, Assagioli himself. By John H. Parks, MDAAP Psychosynthesis Quarterly, March 2018 Editorial NoteThe abstract, contextual subtitle, and cross-sections in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth […]
Short History of Psychosynthesis
The history of psychosynthesis told from inside the office that ran it: courses, congresses, a discarded motto, and the point where it declared itself a constellation rather than a school. By Ida PalombiWritten circa 1974 by Ida Palombi, secretary of the Istituto di Psicosintesi, FlorenceTranslated by Jan Kuniholm (reformatted and copyedited) [1] Editorial NoteThe abstract, […]
The Psychosynthesis Research Foundation – Its Vision, Mission, and Program
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
