Teaching young people the biology of sex is not the same as educating them about it. Assagioli’s approach to sexual education begins where biological instruction ends. By Roberto AssagioliConference on Psychosynthesis, Rome, 29 September – 3 October 1968Original English Document. [1]Doc. #22275, Assagioli Archive, FlorenceReformatted and annotated by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]

Why has the science of sexuality developed so late, given how central it is to human life? Assagioli’s psychology of sexuality surveys the field and calls for an integral approach. By Roberto Assagioli1955Doc. #23833, Assagioli Archive, Florence [1]Published in L’Economia Umana, Year VI, Issue 6, November–December 1955Original title: La psicologia e la scienza della sexualitàTranslated […]

Spiritual love is not an emotion but a synthesis of feeling, wisdom and will. Assagioli maps the varieties of spiritual love from compassion for enemies to adoration of the Supreme. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: L’amore SpiritualeTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added by […]

Inner and outer communication is more than the words you choose: you are always receiving impressions and emitting into a shared psychic atmosphere your speech can poison or cleanse. By Roberto AssagioliFrom a series of lectures for the Meditation Group for the New Age, around 1965 —Tr.Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: ComunicazioneTranslated and edited with notes […]

These notes on psychospiritual work come down to daily discernment: telling an impulse ‘from above’ from one ‘from below’, and re-making yourself by affirming what you mean to become. By Roberto AssagioliDoc. #23071, Assagioli Archive, Florence [1] Original title: Appunti di lavoro psicospirituale (Notes on Psychospiritual Work)Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe […]

Training intuition is not waiting for a flash: it means carrying an insight down into reasoned argument, then building the same insight back up from the mind. By Roberto AssagioliIn conversation with BC, August 20, 1971Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Allenamento dell’intuizione – Livelli di realità – Conversazione con Roberto Assagioli di BCTranslated with notes by […]

The scope of psychosynthesis is wider than one method for one seeker: it crosses five kinds of people and five fields of work, twenty-five doorways needing different keys. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Ampiezza e Portata della PsicosintesiTranslated with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have […]

The structure of the unconscious divides into two parts: a plastic substance that records every impression, and a differentiated landscape of psychic complexes that work like electrical accumulators. By Roberto AssagioliFrom a course of lessons on Latent Energies In UsAssagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: La Struttura Dell’inconscio E I Suoi Rapporti Con La CoscienzaTranslated from Italian […]

Importance of the unconscious is no smaller than the discovery of America: Assagioli says nine-tenths of the psyche lies outside our awareness, a new continent waiting to be explored. By Roberto AssagioliLesson I, Course of Lectures on the Unconscious, 1928Assagioli Archive, FlorenceOriginal title: Importanza Dell’inconscioTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]

Assagioli presents the various fields where we can apply the insights and methods of psychosynthesis, from individual to social and global synthesis By Roberto Assagioli , undated, however it must be after 1968 due to the mentioning of dates in 1968, from the Assagioli Archive in Florence, translated by Gordon Symons. Original title: La Psicosintesi […]