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From Assagioli to Almaas

From Assagioli to Almaas. A Rough Guide to Transpersonal Psychology Keith Hackwood www.keithhackwood.com. The Transpersonal is the future of Psychology. Why? How? Culminating Crises in Positivist Materialsm Present from the outset Wide Vision. Contextual Crises. Outer. Inner.

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From Assagioli to Almaas

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  1. From Assagioli to Almaas A Rough Guide to Transpersonal Psychology Keith Hackwood www.keithhackwood.com

  2. The Transpersonal is the future of Psychology • Why? • How? • Culminating Crises in Positivist Materialsm • Present from the outset • Wide Vision

  3. Contextual Crises Outer Inner Anxiety Depression Loss of Meaning Loss of identity Alienation • Climate Change • Resource Depletion • Limits to Growth • ‘End of Progress’ • ‘Problem of Civilization’

  4. Civilizations don’t just happen… the spiritual impulse that originally gave rise to our Western culture is still presentPeter Kinglsey

  5. A Return to Essence • How? Art or Science (Psycho)Synthesis Education ‘Therapy’ is too small a word

  6. The World Behind The World D O I N G H A V I N G

  7. Psychosynthesis is the future of Psychoanalysis • Roberto Assagioli 1888 – 1974

  8. Psychosynthesis in Print Doctoral Thesis 1909-1910 Psychosynthesis ‘Manual’ – 1965 The Act of Will – 1974 Transpersonal Development - 1993

  9. Principal Ideas • Model of human being • I-Self Axis • The Will • Disidentification • Stages of Psychosynthesis (personal/transpersonal)

  10. “The only way out is the way up” The Egg Diagram Assagioli’s Draft

  11. Casa Assagioli

  12. Florence

  13. The Considerator

  14. “The Will to Publish”

  15. He was very early. Who was there to hear such a large and balanced statement? Not many. From the Eulogy for Assagioli, by James Vargiu

  16. The Transpersonal Field

  17. Transpersonal Disciplines Relates to: • Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy • Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology • Sociology • Anthropology • Cultural Theory

  18. Notable Peaks • C G Jung (Especially the Red Book) • Archetypal Psychology (Hillman) • Spiritual Psychology (Sardello) • Ecospychology & Ecophilosophy • Stanislav Grof • Integral Studies (Wilber)

  19. Notable Peaks • Washburn • Naranjo (Gestalt & Enneagram) • Influence of Buddhism (Watts, Suzuki, Trungpa, Elias Capriles) • Sufism • Kabbalah • Sri Aurobindo

  20. Back to Basics

  21. Back to Basics • Freud the ‘godless Jew’ • From ‘hysterical misery’ to ‘common unhappiness’ • Fear of the ‘black tide of mud of occultism’ Therapy as Shamanic Operation

  22. A H Almaas & The Diamond Approach

  23. The Structure of Reality • Being / Soul / World • Personal Essence • Essential Aspects • The Theory of Holes “Disidentification means the cessation of identification, the cessation of taking something to be you, or to belong to you, or to define you.”

  24. Method • Inquiry Socratic & Psychodynamic • Presence Embodied ‘felt-sense’ / limbs and hara

  25. Love of Truth • The soul is fundamentally faithful to the truth, but she is ignorant • The truth is now and your life is now • Giving ourselves to truth means giving up defences – the self cannot give itself up

  26. The Paradox The Way of Silence & the Talking Cure From Knowing to Being

  27. Coming Soon… Divine Rebel: The Life & Work of Roberto Assagioli By Mark Jones & Keith Hackwood Publishing Date: September 2014

  28. DiolchynfawrThankyou

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