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The Will Project website and associated wiki have been set up to encourage and facilitate the continuation of research, education, and experience of the Will

You may make suggestions and comments on th Will Project Suggestions and Ideas page. If you would like to ask questions or get more information on contributing to this wiki you may email willproject@gmail.com.

1. History of the Theories, Beliefs, and Doctrines on the Will
2. The Will in Modern Psychology
3. Nature and Aspects of the Will
   1. Strong Will
   2. Skillful Will
   3. Good Will
   4. Transpersonal Will
   5. Individual Will identified with the Universal Will
4. Qualities of the Will
   1. Energy - Dynamic Power - Intensity
   2. Mastery - Control - Discipline
   3. Concentration - Attention - One-Pointedness - Focus
   4. Determination - Decisiveness - Resoluteness - Promptness
   5. Persistence - Endurance - Patience
   6. Initiative - Courage - Daring
   7. Organization - Integration - Synthesis
5. Stages of the Volitional Act
   1. Purpose - Aim - Goal - Valuation - Motivation - Intention
   2. Deliberation
   3. Choice - Decision
   4. Affirmation - Command
   5. Planning and Programming
   6. Direction of the Execution
6. Relationship of the Will with the Other Psychological Functions
   1. Sensory-Motor - Impulses - Drives and Desire - Emotions and Feelings - Imagination - Thought - Intuition
7. Methods for the Development and Training of the Will
   1. Physical Activities: Manual Labor - Gymnastics - Rhythmic Movements - Sport
   2. "Useless" Exercises
   3. Training of the Will in Daily Life
   4. Use of External Aids: Words and Phrases - Images - Music
   5. Concentration - Meditation - Invocation
   6. Affirmation - Command
   7. Creative Activities
8. Fields of Application of the Will
   1. Individual
      1. Psychotherapy
      2. Education
      3. Self-Actualization (Personal Psychosynthesis)
      4. Self-Realization and Spiritual Psychosynthesis
   2. Interpersonal and Social Relationships
      1. Between two individuals
      2. Family group
      3. Communities and social groups of various kinds
      4. Racial groups
      5. Religious groups
      6. National groups
      7. International relationships
   3. Planetary Relationships ecology) between the Four Kingdoms of Nature
   4. Mineral - Vegetable - Animal - Human
   5. Relationship between the Human Will and the Universal Will
9. Experimentation
   1. By individuals and groups - reports of results
10. Collections of Examples of the Use of the Will and Its Results
    1. Historical Figures
    2. Individuals
       1. Self-actualizing
       2. Self-realizing
       3. Clients
       4. Pupils
11. Bibliography of the Will
    1. In various languages
12. Specific Projects
    1. By individuals
    2. By groups

Organization and Execution of the Program Through:

1. Foundations
   1. For the whole program
   2. For specialized research, experimentation, and application. Location and fields of work: local - national - according to language areas
2. Communication and Diffusion
   1. Through: Lectures - Publications (articles - pamphlets - books - international journals) - Conferences - Symposia - Associations
3. Coordination and Utilization

Special thanks to the following people:

• David Watkins for allowing me to add his notes from The Act of Will into the appropriate pages
• Will Parfitt for allowing me to include the chapter Purpose and the Creative Will from his book Psychosynthesis: The Elements and Beyond (ISBN 0955278600)

7 May 2008 - Upgrade to the latest version of MediaWiki software has been completed. Some of the current exentions (e.g. SpamBlacklist) have been updated also. A new extension reCAPTCHA has been added which makes you confirm you are a human if you link to external websites. Other than that it should not bother users, and it should cut down on the amount of spam and the need for protecting so many pages. Finally, an initial entry has been made for Rollo May's book Love and Will.

6 May 2008 - A first draft of the concepts of Elmer Gates' concepts of the will has been added to the Elmer Gates entry.

3 May 2008 - I have posted the end of year report for 2007 giving some statistics on the website. You can view it at: Will Project Report 2007

As a sidenote, for the first 4 months of 2008 statistics show that there have been:

• Total visitors: 2,376 (compared to 4,910 in 2007) from 102 countries/territories (compared to 110 in 2007)
• Total page views: 6,627 (compared to 16,423 in 2007)

2 May 2008 - I have protected most pages on the website for 1 or 2 weeks to try and cut down the administration work required on removing spam. If you need to update or add information to the page then please email me via willproject@gmail.com.

22 April 2008 - A page for the Annotated Bibliography of the Will has been started. APA-styled citations have been added. Annotations to be added later. The The Will Project Book Store has been replicated to an Amazon.co.uk Astore for those in the UK who would like to support The Will Project when purchasing books. You can find it at: The Will Project UK Book Store

28 January 2008 - A new edition of Roberto Assagioli's book Transpersonal Development (ISBN 0953081125) is now available. It is a revised translation published by Inner Way Productions.