Roberto Assagioli claims that every normal psychological function has corresponding parapsychological and supernormal faculties, in this way sight and clairvoyance are related. By Roberto Assagioli , Undated, from the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm. Original Title: Psicologia E Parapsicologia I repeat two other pieces of advice: first, to mark the results in writing. […]
Symbols of the Supernormal, Part I-III
By Roberto Assagioli , Conference of Dr. Roberto Assagioli in 1957, from the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi. Original Title: Simboli del Supernormale I-III […] I will say something more about language. Now, fortunately, we have realized the difficulties of language, and a whole semantic science has developed, as well […]
Interpretation And Use of The Physical Instrument (Body)
Assagioli included the physical body in his Psychosynthesis, and in these notes, he gives us an impression of what that includes. By Roberto Assagioli , undated, Undeveloped Notes, Assagioli Archives 3.6, From the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Amanda Mattiussi. Original Title: Interpretazione e Uso dello Stumento Corporeo . See […]
Spiritual Psychosynthesis
The conscious “I” manifests itself above all as a conscious, resolute and tenacious will, directed relentlessly towards the goal; a will that unceasingly works to master the areas of the unconscious. By Roberto Assagioli , XX Lecture – July 25, 1933. From the Assagioli Archives in Florence, Doc. #24183. Original Title : La Psicosintesi spiritual. […]
Psychology and Human Existence
By Roberto Assagioli , 1974, Original Title: Psicologia ed Esistenza Umana, Translated by Jan Kuniholm and Francesco Viglienghi, Assagioli Archive – Florence The very fact of being alive, of existing — “being in the world”, to use Heidegger’s expression — confronts the individual with a series of situations that can be characterized as existential . […]
Emotional And Mental Obstacles To Spiritual Development: Aggression and Criticism
One of the strongest obstacles to spiritual realization; is the instinct of personal self-assertion, with its aggressive manifestations. By Roberto Assagioli, Course in Spiritual Psychosynthesis, Lesson IV. April 2, 1938. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, (Docs #23038 and 23039). Original Title: Ostacoli emotivi e mentali allo sviluppo spirituale – Aggressività E Criticismo. Translated with […]
Mysticism And Medicine
In certain cases of so-called “melancholia,” which the patients themselves believed to be mere illness, a most profound spiritual upheaval was taking place in them. By Roberto Assagioli, Published in Ultra, March 1925 No.1. An Address made at the Fourth Mystical Conference, Florence, Italy, January 1925. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Docs # 27493, […]
Goodwill
We must differentiate between Benevolence, Goodwill and Will-to-Good, they are all combinations of love and will, however, they have very different qualities. By Roberto Assagioli , translated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm & Amanda Mattiussi, Original Title: BUONA VOLONTÀ, From The Assagioli Archive Florence. Editor’s Note: This essay appears to have been part of the […]
Psychological Multiplicity
We are not a psychological whole but rather a multiplicity of subpersonalities often in conflict with each other and in this article, Roberto Assagioli offers his insights into our inner domain. By Roberto Assagioli, (Undated), Assagioli Archive Florence One of our major blind spots, one of the most naive and dangerous illusions which all of […]
The Moment, The Cycle, Eternity
By Roberto Assagioli, Jan. 1954, The Beacon 1. Primitive man lives in the moment, or rather, in a series of ‘defined’, disjointed moments, within a series of sensations which have no continuity. 2. The average man lives in a period or ‘segment’ of time, which could be graphically represented by a line of greater or […]
