Metaphysical Thoughts and Visions

Exploring Mysticism and Parapsychology. This blog is also an attempt to promote awareness of a Modern Universal Paradigm known as Multi-Dimensional Science. It offers a "Scientific" testable Hypothesis for a more "objective" understanding of claimed Psychic and Spiritual Phenomena. A link to this subject should be found on this page or alternatively it can be found easily via a word search.Please note that the Internet articles here may not always reflect the views of the Blogger.

Monday, 22 October 2012

Psychosynthesis

Roberto Assagioli

Psychosynthesis is a holistic approach to human development that was developed by the gifted Italian psychiatrist

Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) from around 1910. It is non-dogmatic approach to growth and healing and expression of individual potential that includes spiritual as well as personal development. As such, it presents (like Jungian psychology) an integration of the personal (psychological) and transpersonal (mystical, spiritual) elements.

The purpose of Psychosynthesis is to further the ongoing process of evolution, and so to achieve a synthesis, a coming together, of the various parts of an individual's personality into a more cohesive self. That person can then function in a way that is more life-affirming and authentic. Along with this is the affirmation of the spiritual dimension of the person, the "higher" or "transpersonal" self, in addition to the personal and prepersonal ("lower" self). The Higher Self is seen as a source of wisdom, inspiration, meaning, and unconditional love. The integration, synthesis, or unification of the personality, happens around this higher self. This occurs in two stages: personal, and transpersonal.

Psychosynthesis is as a tool for psychological healing and personal transformation.is widely applicable and used in such diverse fields as counselling, religion, education, health care, business and management, diplomacy and international relations.

Like many other psychological and esoteric systems of thought, Psychosynthesis uses a number of maps or diagrams of consciousness in order to illustrate the various components of the self. Two diagrams used in Psychosynthesis are the Egg Diagram and the Star Diagram.

Egg Diagram		Star Diagram
	1. The Lower Unconscious 2. The Middle Unconscious 3. The Higher Unconscious or Superconscious 4. The Field of Consciousness 5. The Conscious Self or "I" 6. The Higher Self 7. The Collective Unconscious		1. Sensation 2. Emotion-Feeling 3. Impulse Desire 4. Imagination 5. Thought 6. Intuition 7. Will 8. Central point: The I, or personal self

diagrams from

Psychosynthesis Home Page

Books by Roberto Assagioli


Psychosynthesis	The Act of Will

Psychosynthesis Links

Psychosynthesis Home Page - Istituto di Psicosintesi - (mostly in Italian)

Psychosynthesis - includes What is Psychosynthesis?, Resources, Organizations, Publications, Essays & Articles, Centers & Practitioners, Projects & Activities, Events, and links

Kentaur Træning Danish site by Kenneth Sørensen - contains a large amount of material on Psychosynthesis. The Comprehensive English sectionincludes all Assagioli's English articles (36) and interviews. Some of them are very rare and informative and have never been published online before.

Psychosynthesis Home Page

The Synthesis Center, psychosynthesis

Psychosynthesis and Kabbalah - the Will Parfitt Website - Personal and spiritual development with the Kabbalah and its application through Psychosynthesis. Plus distance education, group courses, books, and articles to download.