We Operate Our Inner Life Like a Machine We Do Not Understand – Assagioli on Psychological Ignorance and the Transformation of Inner Energies By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, Florence — Doc. #22426 Published in Darshana International Quarterly [1] (Moradabad, India) August 1963. Re-formatted with notes by Jan KuniholmEditorial NoteThe abstract, contextual subtitle, and cross-section headings in […]
Parsifal – Its Esoteric Meaning and Spiritual Significance
From Passion and Temptation to Compassion and Redemption – Assagioli on Wagner’s Parsifal as a Sacred Drama of the Soul’s Journey By Roberto Assagioli Lecture delivered with musical illustrations, February 1937 Published in Rivista Verso La Luce, No. 4, 1968 Assagioli Archive, Florence Original title: Parsifal [1] Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial […]
Future Work – Up To 1975 And Beyond
From the Eternal, in the Present, for the Future — Assagioli on the Three Saving Recognitions and Humanity’s Cooperation with the Spiritual Hierarchy By Roberto Assagioli Assagioli Archive, Florence [i]Original title: Il Lavoro Futuro – Fino al 1975 e Oltre Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract, contextual subtitle, and cross-section […]
The Horizons of Psychosynthesis
Five Fields, Two Levels, One Vision — Assagioli’s 1973 Panorama of Psychosynthesis and Its Future Development By Roberto Assagioli Meeting of Directors of Italian Centers of Psychosynthesis, December 1973 Assagioli Archive, Florence Translated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract, contextual subtitle, and cross-section headings in this online edition have been added by the editor, Kenneth […]
Religions, New Times And Young People
Assagioli’s 1948 paper on religious renewal, the irruption of the new spirit, and the call to young people to build a new world By Roberto AssagioliPaper given at the First Congress for Religious Reform, Rome, October 13–15, 1948Republished with slight modifications in 1965 and 1970Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #23692 [i]Original title: Le Religioni, I Nuovi […]
Inspiration
It is not I who think; it is my ideas that think in me. Assagioli’s essay on the mechanism of inspiration and the moments when the superconscious slips through into ordinary awareness By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #12087Formatted and edited with notes and appendix by Jan Kuniholm [i] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle […]
Interior Life III – The Inner World (II)
What if your thoughts and feelings were forms and forces? Assagioli’s working notes on idea-forces — those living, intelligent fusions of thought and feeling that grow inside us with their own will to live By Roberto Assagioli, MD [i]Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #18455Original title: Vita Interiore III – Il mondo interiore (II)Transcribed from an original […]
Internal Action
Modern life is one long external action. Assagioli’s 1947 talk on internal action: the inner work of self-discovery, the four methods of prayer, meditation, affirmation, and invocation, and the slow building of communities that can live them together By Dr. Roberto AssagioliAddress to the Fourth Conference of the Religion Movement, Florence, July 26–28, 1947Assagioli Archives, […]
Development of Immature and Higher Faculties
Some inner faculties wait like dawn light, others arrive like lightning. Assagioli’s 1933 lecture on the development of higher faculties and the long work of bringing every neglected part of the personality into the light By Dr. Roberto AssagioliLesson IX, Lecture Course on PsychosynthesisUnrevised notes from June 18, 1933Assagioli Archives, Florence, Doc. #24077 [i]Translated and […]
Group Life – A Living Entity
Half of what you think is yours was caught from a crowd, an audience, a tribe. Assagioli on group consciousness and the slow practice of staying yourself while becoming part of something larger By Roberto Assagioli [i]Assagioli ArchivesEdited version of a longer English typescript found in the papers of the late Phyllis ClayFormatted and edited […]









