Reflections in the time of a pandemic

Lecture for the World Day of Psychosynthesis, 20 September 2020
Organized by The Swedish Psykosyntesföreningen and Psykosyntesförbundet

The goal of The World day of Psychosynthesis is to encourage a greater connection and a true mutual recognition among all centers, groups and individuals in the world that resonate with the message of Psychosynthesis. During this meeting, we reflected and meditated together on the guidelines that can inspire us to foster this process of synthesis. We also reflected on the nature of the vision proposed proposed by Roberto Assagioli: a vision that today reveals its incredible and surprising topicality and from which we can draw precious indications to orient ourselves in these challenging pandemic times.

“It is urgent to establish Spiritual “Airways” between nations, institutions, movements and across the continents. Let us give to this work comparatively at least as much energy, determination, desire, time, efforts as those which are given to establish airplane communications throughout the world.” R. Assagioli, 20th September 1937

CONTENTS OF THE LECTURE

  • 0.00: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
  • 3.43: THE HEART OF THE PSYCHOSYNTHETIC MESSAGE
  • 6.17: WE ARE LIVING IN AN ERA OF TRANSITION
  • 8.24: THE PANDEMIC: globalization, responsibility and multiplicity of responses
  • 11.25: FREEDOM IN JAIL: Assagioli’s personal lockdown
  • 15.27: THE URGENT CHALLENGE THAT AWAITS US
  • 20.40: THE GIFT OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS: a bold, systemic and complex vision full of meaning
  • 21.45: SEVEN POINTS TO MEDITATE ON
    1. Psychosynthesis as a living Idea (min. 22.06)
      – An imaginative exercise: find your personal image of Psychosynthesis (min. 24.00)
      – The image of the Weaver (min. 36.26)
    2. Interdisciplinary openness (min. 37.58)
    3. Integrative vision and intercultural and international exchanges (min. 39.11)
    4. The original and central core of Psychosynthesis (min. 41.05)
    5. Existential experience and theoretical reflection (min. 42.45)
    6. The question of language: emancipation from literal thinking and the criteria of universality (min. 45.18)
    7. A Trifocal vision (min. 48.55)
  • 51.50: GROUP SHARING

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