Roberto Assagioli on Reincarnation
This glossary entry is a compilation of quotes by Roberto Assagioli on Reincarnation. He never hides his belief in reincarnation, even though it is not part of Psychosynthesis, which remains agnostic or neutral toward that question.
“Assagioli: Death looks to me primarily like a vacation. There are many hypotheses about death and the idea of reincarnation seems the most sensible to me. I have no direct knowledge about reincarnation but my belief puts me in good company with hundreds of millions of Eastern people, with the Buddha and many others in the West. Death is a normal part of a biological cycle. It is my body that dies and not all of me. So I don’t care much. I may die this evening but I would willingly accept a few more years in order to do the work I am interested in, which I think may be useful to others. I am, as the French say, disponable (available). Also humour helps, and a sense of proportion. I am one individual on a small planet in a little solar system in one of the galaxies.”
“…there is a hereditary fear; i.e., one transmitted by ancestors.
“However, we spiritualists go further and ask ourselves: are all innate fears in humans inherited from their ancestors, or could they be part of the mysterious individual inheritance of the soul through the cycles of reincarnation? In this regard, I recall what I mentioned earlier, namely that those who accept reincarnation do not deny the existence of heredity, including the psychic characteristics of ancestors. There is no contradiction, but rather a “sum of influences.” Our personality is the confluence, the result of these two orders of facts, of these two currents. This explains many things and provides satisfactory answers to many questions.”
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