What is the experience of inner light, and why does it arrive mixed with illusion? The way of illumination is Assagioli’s guide to what they are and what distorts them. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: La Via IlluminativaTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
The Mystical Approach
Mysticism means one specific thing: the way of love directed upward. The mystical approach traces how that love works, what it is not, and what happens when it is genuine. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: La via dell’amore Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, […]
The Seven Psychosynthesis Types Applied to Management Style
From the boardroom tensions that reveal clashing temperaments through a sevenfold framework for managerial character to a developmental path for each leadership style By John W. Cullen Ph.D Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth Sørensen, to support readability, navigation, and archival consistency. The original […]
A Psychoenergetic Autobiography – My Life with The Seven Types
From the combative isolation of a dynamic boyhood through the successive unveiling of five dominant types to a mature integration of the full energy composition that defines personal wholeness By Kenneth Sørensen, From the book “The Seven TypesYou can buy the book at Amazon Abstract In this chapter, Kenneth Sorensen tells his own story to […]
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 .
Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development (1)
Children, rebels, and elders share one planet: the age of the soul reveals why no temperament theory can explain the distance between them. By Roberto AssagioliLecture 1 of six addresses, International Center for Spiritual Research, Ascona, Switzerland, August 1930Published in: The Beacon, October 1930 Editorial NoteThis is an extract from an article that first appeared […]
Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development (2)
Your opinions, passions, and habits may not be yours at all: the collective psyche pours racial, national, and ancestral forces into every personality it touches. By Roberto AssagioliLecture 2 of six addresses, International Center for Spiritual Research, Ascona, Switzerland, August 1930Published in: The Beacon, November 1930 Editorial NoteThis is an extract from a five-part article […]
Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development (3)
Four people stand before one landscape and see four different worlds: the four fundamental types reveal why human beings so rarely understand each other. By Roberto AssagioliLecture 3 of six addresses, International Center for Spiritual Research, Ascona, Switzerland, August 1930Published in: The Beacon, Dec. 1930 Editorial NoteThis is an extract from a five-part article that […]
Individual psychology and spiritual development (4), Extraverts and Introverts
We wear our types like costumes: extraversion and introversion are not fixed traits but alternating currents, and each conceals a higher form most people never reach. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Individual psychology and spiritual development, part 4 – Extraverts and Introverts.Lecture 4 of six addresses, International Center for Spiritual Research, Ascona, Switzerland, August 1930Published in: […]
Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development (5)
Your personality pulls one way and a deeper force pulls another: the egoic ray explains why inner growth so often feels like civil war. By Roberto AssagioliLecture 5 of six addresses, International Center for Spiritual Research, Ascona, Switzerland, August 1930Published in: The Beacon, February 1931 Editorial NoteThis is an extract from a five-part article that […]
