What if the war ends and we get one chance to rebuild? Assagioli’s 1944 vision of a new world order grounded in goodwill, justice, and the practical work of men and women who can actually build it By Roberto Assagioli Likely written 1944–1945, during or just after his period of hiding from the Nazi occupation […]

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 […]

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 […]

Chaos to Cosmos was Assagioli’s own shorthand for the work. A group of doctors pressed him on what that means when a patient sits in front of you. 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 Dott. R. AssagioliTranslated and edited […]

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 […]

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 […]

Inside, we wish we were one. Outside, we ache to belong. Assagioli’s 1964 lecture on the illusion of separateness, the secret multiplicity of every self, and the long work of meeting both honestly By Roberto AssagioliA talk given December 9, 1964Assagioli Archives, Florence [in] Original title: Discorso sull’IllusioneTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] […]

Twelve apostles started one era. Hundreds of thousands could start another. Assagioli’s appeal to people of good will to organise themselves into a worldwide movement built on the most accessible form of love  By Roberto Assagioli [1]Adapted from material first published in Alice A. Bailey’s The Problems of Humanity (1947) [2]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23067Original […]