The Awakening of Intelligence: toward a new Psychology of Being

Using poetic and psychological language, interwoven with metaphors, Diego Pignatelli reveals the originality and creativity of Spiritual Awakening by exploring the findings of comparative mysticism and some of the new groundbreaking theories which lie behind the transpersonal movement. As well as the researcher’s use of an accurate, descriptive and scientific style, Pignatelli articulates his writing with a sophisticated poetic language, centred around a particular creative mythology. Diego Pignatelli has produced a new mythologeme, following mythic structures of language which transcend human history. This mythologeme is ready to be received as a deep transformative spiritual message. The author takes his reader into the adventurous territories of Transpersonal Psychology, providing us with theories by C. G. Jung and other authors of promising new theories such as Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, Henrich Zimmer, David Bohm, Abraham Maslow, Ken Wilber, Alan Watts and Erich Neumann. The result is an eclectic leap into the invisible. This work makes a deep authentic appeal to an archetype of meaning which offers itself up as a new “meaning” of a “unifying symbol” in a society which no longer seems to be made up of archetypal meaning but which is actually “dissociated” from it. Thus we welcome Diego Pignatelli’s book which, following Jung’s metaphor of the soul of ancestors, chooses to act as a guide for the new generations as well as for man’s destiny. Diego Pignatelli explores in a creative and poetic modality, through myth,religion,science and spirituality—the “liminal” territories of modern psychology: from Transpersonal Psychology,to Grof’s framework and holotropic paradigm along the perinatal dynamics, from mythology to oriental and Indian psychology—from Psychology of Religion to Jungian and depth psychology—from parapsychological research to shamanism, to thanatology and Near Death Experiences, Out of Body Experiences (astral travels in parallel universes through the Star Gates or “portals” to other mythological dimensions), from Kundalini awakening and mandala cosmology to mystical states or nonordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), from psychedelic therapy and implications of new emerging paradigm whose holonomic theory and multidimensional psyche are explored by modern consciousness research. The Awakening of Intelligence explores images of the unconscious realms of mind as if was a Science-Fiction landscape or Shiva's heaven or Sufi's mundus imaginalis, weaving a symbolic tapestry better known as the Dance of Shiva. The archaic and primordial Source recognized by mystics and visionaries of all the ages. With the powerful use of metaphor, Diego Pignatelli brings the reader into each of these realms, following guides such as C. G. Jung, Michael Talbot, Abraham Maslow, Ken Wilber, Ksemaraja, Abhinavagupta, Bohm and Stanislav Grof, while also offering new insights. The Awakening of Intelligence is also a book enriched via tones, symbols, and images, parabolas and mythological fairy tales that introduce us to transpersonal psychology and its spiritual dimensions. The final aim of this endeavour is to bring together ancient religious systems, eastern traditions, in connection with the newest symbols and science of transpersonal psychology -- a bridge with the Sacred, similar to that formed by the famous phrase Tat Tvam Asi: You are It. The Awakening of Intelligence restores the knowledge of the ultimate spiritual dimensions to humanity.