The essential task of psychosynthesis is the discovery of our profound Being, of the Center of ourselves. By Roberto Assagioli , 1965, from The Assagioli Archive – Florence, translated by Gordon Symons. Original title La Psicologia E L’Arte Di Vivere There is a fundamental lack and disproportion in our civilization. Modern man knows many things, […]
For A New Aryan Humanism
Toward a New Synthesis of Eastern and Western Civilization
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Emotional And Mental Obstacles To Spiritual Development: Aggression and Criticism
One of the strongest obstacles to spiritual realization; is the instinct of personal self-assertion, with its aggressive manifestations. By Roberto Assagioli, Course in Spiritual Psychosynthesis, Lesson IV. April 2, 1938. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, (Docs #23038 and 23039). Original Title: Ostacoli emotivi e mentali allo sviluppo spirituale – Aggressività E Criticismo. Translated with […]
Mysticism And Medicine
In certain cases of so-called “melancholia,” which the patients themselves believed to be mere illness, a most profound spiritual upheaval was taking place in them. By Roberto Assagioli, Published in Ultra, March 1925 No.1. An Address made at the Fourth Mystical Conference, Florence, Italy, January 1925. From the Assagioli Archive in Florence, Docs # 27493, […]
