Nothing in us needs to be condemned or amputated: peaceful co-existence of every inner voice is the first step, and synthesis the last By Roberto AssagioliJuly 17, 1972 From the Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: La Verità Centrale Della PsicosintesiTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition […]
Psychosynthesis and Spiritual Life
Intuition deserves the same scientific respect as instinct – if psychology can study a tropism, it can study an illumination, and spiritual culture demands that it does By Roberto AssagioliArchivio Assagioli – FlorenceOriginal title: Psicosintesi E Vita SpiritualeTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
Psychological Poisons and Drugs
If merchants can advertise soap with such success, why not courage and joy? Psychological advertising places a phrase where you cannot avoid it, repeated until it becomes an inner force. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Feleni e Farmaci PsicologiciCourse of Lessons on The Latent Energies In Us, and Their Use In eEducation and Medicine (1934)Translated from […]
To Know The Human Soul
No catalogue of traits or drives captures who we truly are: every person is a spiritual center, and silence is the way to reach it By Roberto AssagioliArchivio Assagioli – Florence 1932Original title: Per Conoscere l’animo UmanoTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
The Psychosynthesis of Nations and of Humanity
A nation is more than its borders and its commerce: the national Soul holds a vocation, and no country is too small to fulfil it By Roberto AssagioliFrom the magazine: La Cultura nel Mondo, No. 3, mag–giu 1968Translated from Italian by Gordon SymonsSee also this article: Psychosynthesis – Individual and Social Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
The Position of Psychosynthesis in Contemporary Psychology
The discipline shed its soul to look respectable, and then shed its senses too: higher consciousness restores what reductionism discarded without losing the rigour it gained By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli, Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: La Posizione Della Psicosintesi Nella Psicologia Contemporaneatranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]
A Conversation about Subpersonalities
Child, partner, professional: subpersonalities and roles are the shape a life takes, not masks worn over a truer self, and Assagioli traces some of them to earlier incarnations. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Subpersonalita-intuitive-di-BCAssagioli Archive FlorenceTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symon Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the […]
The Wisdom of the Inner Teacher
Emotion clouds what it claims to cherish: wise love sees without distortion, and the Self within teaches what no distant master can impart By Roberto AssagioliArchive: Assagioli Archives, FlorenceFilo Conduttore – Research Booklet of the Center of Rome, No. 4, third yearTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition […]
Practical contributions to a modern yoga
In the last few years the need of a new Yoga has been expressed in many quarters, that is, of a Yoga which would lead to the same eternal goal as the Yoga’s of the past, namely, the conscious union with the One-Self, with the Supreme; but a Yoga, the formulation and the practical methods of which would be suited to the mentality and the needs of modern man and to the conditions existing in our western civilization; a Yoga which would express the spirit of the New Age that is rapidly permeating the minds and souls of the more progressive men and women of today.
An Introduction to Yoga Sutras
Amid the wreckage of global conflict fuelled by untamed passions, spiritual psychosynthesis charts a path from self-mastery to compassionate service in the outer world By Roberto AssagioliArchive Assagioli – Florence Source: From the Italian edition; Introduzione agli Yoga SutraTranslated by Gordon Symons. Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
