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 Four Basic Types And Their Sub-Types
Four people look at the same landscape and describe four different worlds: Assagioli’s four psychological types trace how perceiving, feeling, thinking and intuiting each build a reality. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: I Quattro Tipi Fondamentali EI Loro SottotipiTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThis is unfinished notes from an early manuscript; Assagioli later developed […]
How To Develop Your Types
A stone-breaker at the roadside can outshine a famous sculptor: higher manifestations depend not on talent but on the purity of motive behind the work By Roberto Assagioli1932Original title: I Quattro Tipi FondamentaliTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThis is unfinished notes from an early manuscript; Assagioli later developed his sevenfold typology called The […]
The Four Psychological Types – Extroversion, Introversion, subversion and Supraversion
Turning outwards or inwards is not the whole story. Vital interest also probes the lower unconscious and reaches for spiritual experience, one like diving, the other like mountaineering. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Addendum Ai Tipi PsicologiciTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons.Assagioli Archive Florence Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
Individual And Differential Psychology
No single label captures a living soul: four vital centers reveal why we think, feel, and act in a pattern that belongs to no one else By Roberto Assagioli1932Original title: Psicologia Individuale E DifferenzalieTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThis is an extract from an early manuscript (1932), Assagioli later developed his sevenfold typology […]
How to understand people who push your buttons
Some people are simply hard to be around. Seven types and triggers, side by side: what grates on us in another is usually the quality we have least developed. By Kenneth Sørensen and Karianne StenshagenFacebook Live discussion on Kenneth Sørensen’s channel “Psychosynthesis and The Seven Types“, 2020 Psychosynthesis and The Seven Types Abstract In this […]
Psychosynthesis and the seven types
Everyone gets the same seven functions. What differs is how far each one has grown, and pairing psychological functions and types gives each pattern a name. Amanda Mattiussi interviews Kenneth Sørensen, author of The Seven Types first published in ” Il Sé” magazine , January 2020 Abstract In this interview, Amanda Mattiussi asks Kenneth Sørensen […]
Unity in Diversity
In order to establish proper relations between human beings and human groups, it is necessary to understand, accept and practice a great principle or truth, which is at the basis of life itself in all its manifestations: that of UNITY IN DIVERSITY.
Empathy: The Heart of the Matter
Most misunderstanding begins with a quiet assumption that everyone is built the way you are. Human diversity turns that assumption into curiosity, and curiosity into genuine contact. By Kenneth Sørensen, MA Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen explores how empathy can be cultivated through an understanding of typology. Drawing on twenty-five years of work in […]
