An outstanding description of the various growth phases of personal and spiritual development, including the meaningsful crises that many people experience on their path to a greater inner enlightenment.
Meditation and The Razor Edged Path
Living with one eye turned inward and the other fixed on daily work, the razor-edged path asks us to balance stillness with committed action. By Kenneth Sørensen , MA in Psychosynthesis Abstract In this article, Kenneth Sørensen examines the dual life that Western discipleship demands, a simultaneous engagement with outer activity and inner spiritual reflection. […]
Toward a psychosynthetic approach to the group
What is it that distinguishes the psychosynthetic approach to group work from other kinds of approaches? This
is the question which we have set in this paper-a question which it would be premature to attempt to answer in a
definitive way, but toward which we can begin to make some preliminary probes, if only to stimulate
discussion. Our tactic will be to analyze certain fundamental principles and premises of such a group rather than
to concentrate on the description of specific techniques, though some of the latter will be referred to for
purposes of illustration.
Psychological energy transformations: Developing positive polarizations
This paper will discuss certain principles and techniques of converting negatively polarized energies into their opposite positive form, as applied in the practice of transpersonal therapy and transpersonal growth work.
Psychosynthesis: Some key aspects of theory and practice
The foundations of psychosynthesis were laid in the second decade of this century by the Italian psychiatrist,
Roberto Assagioli, whose work was far ahead of its time. The founder was one of those rare persons who can
truly be called a “sage”. His wisdom, his radiant love, his down-to-earth simplicity were appreciated by all who
knew him. Psychosynthesis was not merely an abstract doctrine to him but a practical philosophy that he
applied in his, daily living.
Esoteric Psychology And the Psychology of Motivation
In the European tradition, speculation on what makes people behave as they do goes back, as so many things do, to the Greeks . What motives drive, orient, and select behavior? One answer to the problem, the Epicurean, was
essentially hedonistic, that is , humans naturally sought pleasure and avoided pain .
