Introduction

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores psychosynthesis and the depth of mystical and scientific ideas behind it. The question of the authenticity' of psychosynthesis, raised in 1974 by Sam Keen who is quoted in the Introduction, no longer seems so real. The ideas of psychosynthesis now so obviously seem part of many ongoing streams of knowledge, and Assagioli created a distinct psychotherapeutic system out of them. Psychosynthesis relies on a large number of techniques not an eclectic mishmash' but held together by a firm and still developing framework. The mystical tradition is of course old, but at this point in time more perhaps even than at the beginning of the century the unsatisfactoriness of an entirely material framework is increasingly recognized.