#psychosynthesis

[magdalene-spirit]

Solstice Goddess Mysteries

The days we enter at this time of year in one way is all about our death/rebirth & crossing over between the upper- & underworlds— in our timeless moments in the underworld we meet & commune with the primordial Goddess.

In another way this is the time of the year that reminds us of our true reality & task of Self-realisation in the light of the Supernal Sun / star -

It is the Star that leads the Magi to the birth of the holy son- the descent or incarnation of the light into the form of man.

The descent of grace, is for the redemption & redeeming of man's Consciousness, that the divine light descends into a human form— awake to itself- therefore awakening others. Walking in the forest of darkness (human unconsciousness with the light of knowledge & love turned on- all manner of creatures, like butterflies I (the age-old symbol for psyche & soul) - are attracted to the light, & follow it, leading the way to Consciousness/ realisation.

In man's forgetfulness- the omnidirectional, transparent to itself, self-luminous, non-dimensional light- reflects itself

- (the descent of the light) - symbolised by the moon-however, the light, in whatever state of itself, remains the same divine, intelligible light.

The Supernal, the reflected/descended, & the human birth- is the completion of light in itself— the realised or divine human.

Although we think of the Supernal light as the divine Father or Absolute- it is also The Virgin Mother or Dark Goddess- this empty & full, dark but luminous or intelligible space is bother Father-Mother & also neither.

There are periods of history, we worship the divine as Father/Son/God & other periods as Mother/daughter/ goddess or both or neither.

Sometimes the star is the Sun, other times Venus.

Looking at the symbols, we don't look only with the eyes of analysis— symbols speak in Consciousness in ways that are layered & self-revealing in stages, like keys that onlock levels of understanding.

Wrapped up in the Virgin symbol with the Sun/Star behind the head a crescent moon under the teet is an immensity of knowledge that cannot be fully circumscribed by words.

This time of year is as much about the Virgin as about the birth of her Son.

[funeral]

Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis Star Diagram

[phantomladyoverparis]

Psychosynthesis (1975), dir. Barbara Hammer

[jungiananalysis]

Jung on Psychosynthesis

Paul Bishop (ed.), Jung in Contexts. 

As early as 1909, however, while starting work on ‘Transformations and Symbols of the Libido’, Jung had speculated in a letter to Freud of  April 1909 about the existence of ‘some quite special complex, a universal one having to do with the prospective tendencies in man’. From this speculation, Jung developed the notion of a psychology that did not just look back to the past but also looked forward to the future: ‘If there is a “psych[o]analysis” there must also be a “psychosynthesis” which creates future events according to the same laws.’16 Thus the logical distinction between analytic and synthetic judgments as set out by Kant in the first Critique became, for Jung, the conceptual basis of the distinction between what he saw as two entirely different psychologies. One of them—Freud’s—deals with the source of the neurosis (and hence, so Jung thought, says nothing new), whilst the other—Jung’s own—would deal with the trajectory of the neurosis and its implications for the future development of the patient (and hence, so Jung thought, would show what it meant). It remains unclear, however, why retrospective enquiry should be any less ‘synthetic’ than prospective enquiry. One might be forgiven for thinking that Jung merely presents the analogy between analytic/synthetic psychology and a concern with the past and with the future, rather than arguing for it. Yet the emphasis on ‘synthesis’ is intimately bound up with Jung’s redefinition of libido, and the goal of Jungian therapy. (4)

Footnote: Later, the notion of psychosynthesis was taken up by the psychologist Hans Trüb (1889–1949), while the Italian psychologist Roberto Assagioli (1888–1974) founded his own school of therapy on the term ‘psychosynthesis’.

[noosphe-re]

We pay far more attention to the higher unconscious and to the development of the transpersonal self. In one of his letters Freud said, "I am interested only in the basement of the human being." Psychosynthesis is interested in the whole building. We try to build an elevator which will allow a person access to every level of his personality. After all, a building with only a basement is very limited. We want to open up the terrace where you can sun-bathe or look at the stars. Our concern is the synthesis of all areas of the personality. That means Psychosynthesis is holistic, global and inclusive. It is not against psychoanalysis or even behavior modification but it insists that the needs for meaning, for higher values, for a spiritual life, are as real as biological or social needs. We deny that there are any isolated human problems.

Roberto Assagioli, The Golden Mean of Roberto Assagioli, An interview conducted with Dr. Assagioli by Sam Keen, December 1974, Psychology Today

[jillbeckermd-blog]

#berniesanders #brattleboro #psychosynthesis #beyondtheboxdoc

[funeral]

Roberto Assagioli’s Consciousness Egg

The Self is a transpersonal center, a source of essential being, an inner counsellor guiding us to truth, meaning, and purpose. The Self is represented as a star, and appears at the top and bottom at the top of the diagram.

[funeral]

We have first to penetrate courageously into the pit of our lower unconscious in order to discover the dark forces that ensnare and menace us—the 'phantasms,' the ancestral or childish images that obsess or silently dominate us, the fears that paralyze us, the conflicts that waste our energies.

Roberto Assagioli, Psychosynthesis