Roberto Assagioli, nineteen years old, writes a glowing and passionate essay for including Buddhism and Hinduism in Western culture as part of a call for moral regeneration. Roberto Assagioli ([i] See correct endnote at the bottom) Excerpt from LEONARDO Magazine of Ideas. Series III April-June 1907 Year V, No. 2. Original Title: Per Un Nuovo […]
The Interplay Of Psychic Forces
Psychic life is essentially made up of a continuous, very complicated and wonderful interplay of a myriad of forces, of the most varied origin and nature, associating and fighting, diverting or transforming each other in a thousand guises. By Roberto Assagioli. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Doc. # 23421. Original Title: Le Forze Psichiche […]
Parapsychological Faculties And Nervous Disorders
The study of parapsychology, the accumulation of established facts, of evidence, has forced open the doors of some universities and academies. The study of those facts, under the name of parapsychology, is becoming “respectable!” By Roberto Assagioli, MD. From the magazine UOMINI E IDEE, January 1961, Year III, No. 1. From the Assagioli Archives, Florence. […]
The Parapsychological Faculties
Parapsychological faculties are generally regarded as something exceptional, extraordinary and marvelous, but this does not correspond to the truth, and today I aim precisely to highlight their universality and normality. By Roberto Assagioli, A Talk Given May 7, 1961. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm. Download the free e-book Psychosynthesis and […]
Inner Life II – The Inner World
There is a series of inner worlds that are just as real as the external world and we must learn to conquer them if we are to become masters of our life. By Roberto Assagioli, Transcribed from an Original Written Document by Istituto di Psicosintesi, Translated with Notes by Jan Kuniholm. From the Assagioli Archive […]
Psychology and Parapsychology
Roberto Assagioli claims that every normal psychological function has corresponding parapsychological and supernormal faculties, in this way sight and clairvoyance are related. By Roberto Assagioli, Undated, from the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated by Jan Kuniholm. Original Title: Psicologia E Parapsicologia I repeat two other pieces of advice: first, to mark the results in writing. Here again […]
Interpretation And Use of The Physical Instrument (Body)
Assagioli included the physical body in his Psychosynthesis, and in these notes, he gives us an impression of what that includes. By Roberto Assagioli, undated, Undeveloped Notes, Assagioli Archives 3.6, From the Assagioli Archive Florence. Translated from Italian by Jan Kuniholm and Amanda Mattiussi. Original Title: Interpretazione e Uso dello Stumento Corporeo. See also his […]
The Art of Synthesis 4
Assagioli presents how a woman can find meaning as grandmother and as an inspirational woman and give his view on the differences between men and woman. By Roberto Assagioli, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: Tipi E Gradi Della Psicosintesi I– (Types And Degrees Of Psychosynthesis I). From the Assagioli Archive in […]
The Art of Synthesis III
For a woman the maternal role can be a partial synthesising centre, helping to accomplish the individual psychosynthesis, and Assagioli is presenting the idea of spiritual motherhood By Roberto Assagioli, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: Tipi E Gradi Della Psicosintesi III– (Types And Degrees Of Psychosynthesis III). From the Assagioli Archive […]
The Art of Synthesis – II
Assagioli continues to expand on the different synthesizing centres concerning individual psychosynthesis, vocation, and the social roles of husband and wife are dealt with here. By Roberto Assagioli, translated from Italian by Gordon Symons. Original Italian title: Tipi E Gradi Della Psicosintesi II – (Types And Degrees Of Psychosynthesis II). From the Assagioli Archive in […]
