I had the honor of presenting my keynote “Bio-psycho-spiritual Alchemy and Psychosynthesis of Humanity” at two meaningful gatherings this year - the Psychosynthesis Summit & Festival (Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis, New York, July 24–27, 2025) and World Psychosynthesis Day (European Psychosynthesis Association, September 20, 2025).
These events brought together colleagues and friends from around the world - people who, like me, feel both the deep challenges of our time and the enduring call of the human soul toward synthesis, peace, and transformation.
Assagioli once wrote, “It’s quite likely that humanity has never been so without peace as it is now.” His words feel timeless. Whether he wrote them during the chaos of the world wars or the turbulence of the 1960s, they seem to echo eternally - as if peace is an ever-unfinished task of the human spirit.
And yet, Assagioli reminds us: the cultivation of peace is not a spiritual luxury but a daily necessity. It is through individuals - through each of us - that peace becomes a living presence in the world.
“The mind is brought into harmony with spirit and includes the body, achieving an organic, harmonious unity of all aspects of a person’s being, which we might call Bio-psychosynthesis. This is true spiritual alchemy.”
- Roberto Assagioli
When I speak of bio-psycho-spiritual alchemy, I am referring to the process of transforming and sublimating the raw energies of our instincts, emotions, and desires - the vital forces that, if left unconscious or unregulated, can turn destructive.
This inner work - this alchemy - roots us in what is nature and natural. It asks us to recognize our shared life with all beings and to transform the energies of aggression, fear, and longing into creative, relational, and spiritual forces.
In this sense, psychosynthesis begins with alchemy. It is through transforming the energies that stir within us that we may become capable of participating in what Assagioli called the Psychosynthesis of Humanity - the gradual creation of a harmonious planetary organism.
The alchemical process connects the most intimate aspects of our inner lives with the broader currents of human evolution. It reminds us that personal transformation and collective transformation are deeply intertwined.
In the emerging field of Psychoenergetics, which Assagioli foresaw as the “fifth force” of psychology, this relationship between the individual and the cosmos becomes explicit. We are not separate from the world we seek to heal; we are participants in its unfolding. Every thought, every act of awareness, every gesture of love contributes to a greater synthesis.
The path of inner alchemy begins with awareness and continues through practice: balancing our emotions, recognizing polarities, and transforming them into creative energy. It calls us to become conscious alchemists -shaping our lives, relationships, and societies with intention, compassion, and will.
It is my hope that this work - both ancient and urgently contemporary - can serve as a bridge between inner realization and outer transformation.
As Assagioli wrote, “The spiritual Self is both individual and universal… the most powerful energy for creating communion between human beings - the Psychosynthesis of Humanity.”
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