av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | mar 24, 2026 | Experience
Synthesis (from greek): to put together, to combine separate elements to form a connected whole As is inherent in the name, synthesis is central to psychosynthesis. This process of connecting elements is ongoing in all life. What changes along the path of...
av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | mar 23, 2026 | Experience, Methods
Once our will to explore our inner worlds is activated, it is helpful to set a direction for how to go about it. To this end, Assagioli developed his ideal model. It is a method which takes help from the imagination and intuition to set our transpersonal development...
av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | jan 11, 2026 | Experience
I remember reading many years ago how the Dalai Lama asked a group of Western scientists about whether it was possible to separate one’s awareness of a certain stimulus from one’s reaction to it. Could we choose our response more deliberately, if we were...
av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | dec 5, 2025 | Experience
This is Evert Taube, troubadour whose songs have been widely sung since he wrote them on his travels by sea around the world in the 20s and 30s and later. Taube could capture the beauty of the moment, even when marked by hardship. One of my favorites goes like this:...
av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | nov 27, 2025 | Experience
We are dominated by everything with which our self is identified. We can dominate and control everything from which we disidentify ourselves. The normal mistake we all make is to identify ourselves with some content of consciousness rather than with consciousness...
av Anna Thurdin Hedblad | nov 5, 2025 | Experience
One of the psychosynthesis models which has informed my self-inquiry is the Star. In it, Assagioli captures six psychological functions through which we as human beings form our knowing: sensation, feeling, thought, intuition, imagination and impulse. We develop these...
