"Higher consciousness objectively exists. It is one of the primary experiences of living." Roberto Assagioli, M.D.


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For nearly 100 years, growing alongside the psychological work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung stands the work of Roberto Assagioli, M.D. and Psychosynthesis. A transpersonal and distinctly western psychology, Psychosynthesis puts forth a holistic model of human development that takes into account the spiritual dimension of human nature. Assagioli saw human nature as a vast array of biological, social and spiritual impulses and felt that a true psychology had to embrace all of these aspects of the person. Psychosynthesis believes that we each have an innate tendency to evolve and unfold our highest potentials and that we can consciously cooperate with this porcess.

Michael Murphy (one of the founders of the Esalen Institute at Big Sur) is quoted in The New Yorker:"What Aurobindo called yoga, what Abe Maslow called self-actualization, Fritz Perls called organismic integrity, Assagioli called psychosynthesis. All these share basically the same idea; that there is a natural tendency toward evolution, towards unfoldment, that pervades the universe as well as human sphere, and that our job now is to get behind that and make it conscious. But the disciplines that emerge to deal with this unfoldment have to reflect the many-sidedness of the human psyche, and this is why psychosynthesis is so valuable. Assagioli himself was really a man of very wide European culture. He was the truest sage I've ever met."

Psychosynthesis is both a theory and practice where the focus is to achieve synthesis and harmony within and around ourselves. Its hallmarks are a remarkable model of consciousness, concrete tools for developing and expanding awareness, tangible ways of working with the personality and a life long model for spiritual development.