Blog Posts

  • In Compagnia (Part II)

    August is here again, and as part of our summer break, I offer you a story I wrote about making gnocchi for our village festival. This is long story for a blog and comes in two parts. To read Part I, click here. I hope you enjoy it and your summer! I had been on my feet…

  • In Compagnia (Part I)

    August is here again, and this weekend I will be busy making gnocchi for our village sacra (food festival). A part of our summer break, I offer you a story I wrote about this experience. This is long story for a blog and comes in two parts. I hope you enjoy it and your summer!…

  • The Only Way Out is Up!

    Assagioli wrote the motto of psychosynthesis as: During Journey to Places of the Higher Self, September 17–23, we will be doing just that… As we descend into the Frasassi Caves, some of the largest in Europe, we will have no choice… the only way out will be the way up! Assagioli often wrote about how mountain…

  • A Mystic’s Gift

    Recently I wrote about Sorella Maria – “A Wild and Free Creature”, who founded a small Franciscan community in the heart of Umbria. While further exploring the life of this inspiring spiritual pioneer, I discovered that Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) also visited the Hermitage of Campello in 1927 (a place that we too will visit on…

  • Bread and the Art of Synthesis

    Synthesis occurs when a pair of opposites continually interact until they are brought into equilibrium. Ultimately the opposites are transmuted into a transpersonal quality. But synthesis is even more than the balancing of opposites. Assagioli writes that: “Synthesis is not just between two opposites, but between multiple and heterogeneous endpoints. All syntheses of polarities are…