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Meditation Triangle Units Some Collected Works Meditation Triangle Units Some Collected Works of Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D. (Compiled and arranged by Philippe L. De Coster, D.D., responsible for the French Section of MGNA and CMG) Satsang Press – Gent, Belgium © September 2010 – Philippe L. De Coster, D.D. Foreword by Philippe L. De Coster, D.D. This volume of the Collected Works of Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D., contains extracts from his books, essays, interviews and conferences given at Sundial House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. This collection is only a small part of the psychologist’s life work, today translated in many languages, and world-wide spread. Through his pioneering work in psychosynthesis, he brought so much to our understanding, clarifying that which was formerly so obscure about the microcosm (man), and the macrocosm (cosmos, universe), psychic and physical energies. In a way, he brought light to much obscure Jewish and Christian Dogma’s, exactly the way the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin did. The last was totally unheard in the Vatican, even avoided, but he persisted in his work. Especially through Carl Gustav Jung and Roberto Assagioli, we now know, that: - Psychic energies possess quantity and mass, just like physical energies. - As different forms of psychic work and psychic potentiality, they can be transformed into one another. - They can be converted into physical energies and vice versa, by means of psychological processes. Dr. Roberto Assagioli went even further than Carl Gustav Jung, he worked out another discipline, and that is psychosynthesis. However, he remained closer to Jung than to Freud, emphasizing that dynamic psychology should not only be concerned with depth (the unconscious), but also with the height (the superconscious). And, he found that “visualization” was very useful in making concrete the difference between therapeutic interventions which went downwards into unconscious material (mountain tops and chapels). Assagioli’s ‘egg diagram helps to make it all clear. The view of psychosynthesis is that the subpersonalities must become aware of one another before any integration can take place, so a phase of coordination is necessary where this happens. During this phase, there are inner changes within the subpersonalities – they cease to be dominant and 2 exclusive, and start to take the others into account. These changes and discoveries make it easier for all to work together. Contemporary understanding of human functioning is rapidly tending to abandon the old notion that mind and body can be brought of as being separate entities and is adopting more holistic concepts, such as the soma: the total living, breathing, experiencing, indivisible being, whose parts cannot be meaningful considered except in the light of the whole person. Man defines himself by his project. The collective unconscious is neither a philosophic construct nor a religious dogma; it is an attempt, though sometimes a primitive attempt, to present an accurate description of the “inner world” of the psyche and its relationship with the outer material world. The story of the knowledge and power hidden within, and the moral conflicts caused by that knowledge and power religiously, was to fascinate Roberto Assagioli throughout his life. When I look back 1960 ending, beginning 71’s , I feel indebted to Michal J. Eastcott and Nancy Magor, to have accepted me as co-worker with them and others at the headquarters of both the work of Dr. Roberto Assagioli, and of the two Meditation Groups at “Sundial House”, Nevill Court, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK represented by the two wonderful ladies. Tilla Grenier, a quite elderly lady at the time, arduously represented Sundial House’s work in Brussels (Belgium). She translated all the MGNA booklets (Meditation Group for the New Age); and partly, the CMG booklets (Creative Meditation Group), continued by me and those willing to assist me. I was for the very first time at Sundial House in 1971 joining the Wesak Festival. For me “Sundial House” was as for many others, a centre where creative meditation was promoted, opening as such the New Age, where we are now in. This “New Age” is, indeed, influenced by the Laws and Principles of the Kingdom of God. The life-work of Michael Eastcott can be presented in straightforward terms, namely the long journey of humankind to find and live in the High Self., the Soul, the only true Self, the other god. Michal always worked and wrote from an open heart and an experienced mind, her work reflecting Dr. Assagioli’s studies and Alice A. Bailey’s esotericism, infusing the personality life with the wisdom and the love of the divine within each human soul. 3 Michal J. Eastcott and Nancy Magor were hard workers, moving all the time from Italy to UK, translating for Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D. He, himself, came often to Sundial House, his second home. Today, I certainly miss them both. And, I am so sorry never having met Dr. Roberto Assagioli. Working with Light — Michal J. Eastcott By lighted thought, directed by the power of dedication, (disciples) can supply sublimated substance needed by the Hierarchy in its efforts to bring increased light content to the planet. Finally, Dr. Roberto Assagioli was one of the first psychologists who recognized the spiritual nature of man, along with Abe Maslow. His work came to be known as Psychosynthesis which was a more clinically applied form of psychotherapy incorporating the transpersonal aspect of human experiences. Dr. Roberto Assagioli’s life had a wholeness offered to few men or women as Michal J. Eastcott and Nancy Magor; whole, in the sense that the bold innovator born more than a century ago lived to see his ideas take form in hundreds of articles, books in many languages, students in numerous countries, a body of theory pregnant with new implications and consequences, and centres continuing to develop his work in Great Britain, the United States, Canada, , Italy, Switzerland, France, Greece and Argentina. Be that as it may, the achievement of the outstanding man he was, both public and personal, recalls our attention and deserves to be always remembered. © September 2010 – Philippe De Coster, Ghent, Belgium. 4 In Memory of Michal J. Eastcott Meditation Group for the New Age and Creative Meditation Group Sundial House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D., and Michal J. Eastcott (at the centre in front) 5 Tilla Grenier, responsible for the French Sections of MGNA and CMG, assisted by Philippe L De Coster, D.D. from 1969 Joy — A Special Wisdom By Michal J. Eastcott Joy is one of the soul's fundamental qualities. Let it once touch the heart and mind, and we can never be the same again. All right human activity can spark off a real experience of joy. We can be the athlete straining every muscle in a race; we can be the musician, artist or writer reach ing up to that true inner beauty; we can be the mother giving birth to her child; we can be the political leader battling to ground a new and needed ideal, or the scientist penetrating deeper into one of the universe's mysteries. Joy can also come to us out of the blue, as it were, when we are faced with difficulty and crisis in our personal lives. All these are situations when somehow we break through the barriers to spiritual awareness. In fact, whatever our outer circumstances, we can always allow the energy of the soul to permeate our being with a deep joy. Knowing it to be the expression of a deeper reality, joy confers on us a special wisdom. We can understand the truth of Julian of Norwich's insight, born of joy, that "all things will be well; all manner of things will be well". This is a profound and timeless realisation. Yet this sense that, deep down, 6 all is well cannot excuse distorted human actions and relationships. It does not justify suffering, and it should certainly not be used as an alibi for inaction. Rather, it points to the fact that, whatever the human condition, the energies of transformation, the soul's innate joy and its spiritual vision and ideas are eternally present. These gifts are always available to the individual, to the group and to humanity as a whole whenever we choose to live and act according to what we know is true and just. Joy is a special wisdom. When we touch the soul ourselves, we actually become a strand in the bridge that links humanity to the higher kingdoms. When we experience joy ourselves, we can bring this quality into the wider field of humanity's awareness. The worldwide network of triangles is of course an important vehicle for achieving this, and many have commented on the special joy they experience as they participate in the work. So, as we do our daily triangles meditation, thinking in the heart and loving with the mind, we can know that our directed thought, winging through the channels of light that we are creating, is bringing the time of right human choice ever nearer. Joy Lets In The Light Be joyful, for joy lets in the light, and where there is joy there is little room for glamour and misunderstanding. Alice A. Bailey 7 In spite of difficulties, treasure the higher joy of achievement. This joy of achievement must be cultivated in oneself as well as in others. This is most essential, since only in it lies the pledge of the salvation of humanity, the pledge for the approach of the New World! ... The joy of the future is ordained, but, indeed, the period of waiting at the threshold is always wearisome. Helena Roerich The salient characteristic of sympathetic joy is gladness, its essential property the opposite of envy, its manifestation the abolition of disaffection, its proximate cause the sight of the success of others.
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