It consists in becoming aware of the fact, and in drawing all the consequences from it, that we live in a psychological world as real as, if not more real than, the external world. Yet another important step leading to other great cognitive and practical achievements can and should be taken. Concomitantly, the increasing control of nature emerged through the discovery of natural laws, and the technical inventions for controlling and utilizing natural forces. It is only in relatively modern times that there developed a really objective study of nature, conducted in a scientific spirit. Then followed the development of the mind and self-consciousness, paralleling the differentiation of the self from the external world.
A number of mythologies, the Indian and the Greek, for instance, reveal the origin of the gods as personifications of natural forces: air, fire, wind, water, etc. He feels himself in the grip of forces and seeks to propitiate them. Primitive man does not distinguish himself from the external world he believes natural forces to be beings, to whom he attributes psychological qualities and passions. Various kinds of relationships exist between the external and the inner worlds. The understanding and use of means appropriate for this purpose call for awareness of the fact that we live in a psychological world, in which energies of various types are at work. It is a subject that is always current, but never more so than now. 34įor purposes of this writing, I shall restrict myself to a discussion of the ways of resolving, or still better preventing, the conflicts produced by the combative and aggressive energies. They must all be confronted and overcome within the heart and mind of man.īy Roberto Assagioli: 1975, Psychosynthesis Research Foundation, Issue No. We can discriminate between normal psychological conflicts and spiritual induced conflicts. 2 PART TWO: SPIRITUAL CONFLICTS AND CRISES.1 Part One: The Resolution of Conflicts.
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