Stand still, raise your arms, watch your mind protest. Assagioli’s 1929 notebook of self-experiments in training the will, complete with bored mornings, intrusive thoughts, and the moment he saw his own personality try to talk him out of it By Roberto AssagioliApril–May 1929 experimental notebookAssagioli Archives, Florence, Docs. #3044 and #3045 [i].Translated and edited with […]
Inner Life
The mountaineer of the soul climbs by his own muscles, but with maps from those who went before. Assagioli’s introduction to the inner world and the psychospiritual work that meets the chaos found there with discipline and grace By Roberto Assagioli, MD [i]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #1279Original title: Vita InternaTranscribed from an original written document […]
Mental Development
We don’t actually think – we rationalise. Assagioli on mental development as the slow work of freeing the mind from the service of desire, and bringing it into harmony with love By Roberto AssagioliSource: psicoenergetica.com [i] Original title: Sviluppo MentaleTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this […]
Inspiration
It is not I who think; it is my ideas that think in me. Assagioli’s essay on the mechanism of inspiration and the moments when the superconscious slips through into ordinary awareness By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #12087Formatted and edited with notes and appendix by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle […]
Interior Life III – The Inner World (II)
What if your thoughts and feelings were forms and forces? Assagioli’s working notes on idea-forces — those living, intelligent fusions of thought and feeling that grow inside us with their own will to live By Roberto Assagioli, MD [i]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #18455Original title: Vita Interiore III – Il mondo interiore (II)Transcribed from an original […]
Internal Action
Modern life is one long external action. Assagioli’s 1947 talk on internal action: the inner work of self-discovery, the four methods of prayer, meditation, affirmation, and invocation, and the slow building of communities that can live them together By Dr. Roberto AssagioliAddress to the Fourth Conference of the Religion Movement, Florence, July 26–28, 1947Assagioli Archives, […]
Meeting Of Doctors From Perugia With Dr. R. Assagioli
A doctor sits across from a patient and they actually meet. Assagioli’s 1970 conversation on the therapist patient relationship as real human encounter, and on what psychosynthesis offers in therapy, education, and art By Roberto Assagioli, MDMeeting with doctors from Perugia, March 15, 1970 [1]Source: psicoenergetica.com [1].Original title: Riunione dei Medici di Perugia con il […]
The Awakening and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
Dismissing spiritual experience as illusion is not scepticism, it is prejudice. Assagioli maps spiritual consciousness from William James to the young seekers religion has lost. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #24085, Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: Il Risveglio e lo Sviluppo della Coscienza SpiritualeTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
Bio-psychosynthesis
A patient wishes to be healed but keeps drinking. A surgeon halves the anaesthesia by reaching the patient’s mind first. Assagioli’s 1966 London talk on the will to heal and why the body belongs inside any real psychosynthesis By Roberto Assagioli, MDA talk given at the Knightsbridge Hotel, London, August 1966Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23617Original […]
Development of Immature and Higher Faculties
Some inner faculties wait like dawn light, others arrive like lightning. Assagioli’s 1933 lecture on the development of higher faculties and the long work of bringing every neglected part of the personality into the light By Dr. Roberto AssagioliLesson IX, Lecture Course on PsychosynthesisUnrevised notes from June 18, 1933Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24077 [i]Translated and […]
