By Kenneth Sørensen , MA Psychosynthesis 2025 has been a rich year for my professional life, as I have attended and contributed to two high points within the psychosynthesis community. The Synthesis Conference in New York was an extraordinary summit where 130 psychosynthesis practitioners engaged in rich exchange, group work, and high-level inquiries into the […]
Roberto Assagioli and Parapsychology
Assagioli was an ardent student of parapsychology and esotericism for many decades. In this eminent overview, we learn about his research and the historical times they played out – a truly astonishing piece of research by Mr. Barony. By Francesco Baroni , Ph.D., historian and psychosynthesis counselor. Edited and translated by Jan Kuniholm Introduction Parapsychology […]
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 […]
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 […]
Psychosynthesis and Spiritual Life
Assagioli speaks about psychosynthesis as a science and an art and shares his concern about the material nature of current psychology. He ask: “Why should an intuition, a telepathic perception, a premonition be less worthy and acceptable for study than the scientific study of an instinct, an impulse, or a tropism?” By Roberto Assagioli, Date […]
What is the difference between the ego and the Transpersonal Self?
Psychosynthesis uniquely defines the ego as the conscious core of the personality, a centre of pure self-awareness and will; the ego is also referred to as the conscious “I”, the personal self or the observer. We discover this conscious core when we disidentify from our thoughts, emotions and sensations, and identify with consciousness itself. In […]
