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 along with C G Jung as well as Talbot, Maslow,Wilber, Ksemaraja, Bohm and Grof, while also offering new insights relating to the connection of mandalas/yantras with star-gates (parallel realities in mysticism and wormholes in physics)and holograms as mandala 3D.
Holographic tunnels appear like trans-temporal, non-ordinary channels where mystics and seers encountered gods, Devas and other mythological divinities.
The Awakening of Intelligence is a book enriched via tones and images, parabolas and mythological fairy tales that introduce us to transpersonal psychology and its spiritual dimensions.The doorway final scope 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 as in the famous keyword Tat Tvam Asi: You are It. The Awakening of Intelligence restores the knowledge of the ultimate spiritual dimensions to humanity.


Diego Pignatelli is a gifted visionary and writer with encyclopedic understanding of spiritual psychologies whose book uplifts the reader toward the very mystical states that all the great saints have described.
--Stuart Sovatsky,PhD, Author, Words From the Soul, and Your Perfect Lips

"The Awakening of Intelligence" is a remarkable book.
Diego Pignatelli has presented an original and provocative perspective on this topic, a perspective that is crucially needed in a world that has been ripped apart by ignorance, fanaticism, and the lack of intelligence.
--Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

"The Awakening of Intelligence" is a wonderful compendium of contemporary transpersonal thought. Pignatelli has produced a very necessary synthesis of the most important trends in transpersonal scholarship and spiritual studies.

--Jorge N Ferrer,
Author of "Revisioning Transpersonal Theory:A Partecipatory Vision of Human Spirituality"

Diego Pignatelli's metaphor of the holodeck very intriguing as a way to envision the kinds of altered-state material that arises during holotropic breathwork. It seems like a good, contemporary explanation for what were previously called the "imaginal worlds" of altered states, since many seem to have similar imagery and "rules of operation." I think Pignatelli's construct is an intriguing metaphor that opens up new avenues of explanation and exploration for nonordinary phenomena.
--Jenny Wade Ph D.

Diego Pignatelli's "The Awakening of Intelligence" is an extraordinary book, adding new insights and understanding to the growing field of Consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology. Diego's synthesis of the ideas of Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, David Bohm, Stan Grof, Carl Jung,Ken Wilber and others helps us integrate as well as appreciate the complexity, richness and gems of wisdom these awakened minds offer humanity. Diego urges humanity to move from the duality, conflict and the illusion of our present world into the clarity, compassion and wisdom of enlightened intelligence. We are the Ones who will choose the world yet to be; The scope of this book is to journey into wholeness, to become One from the many, and to rediscover the cosmic dimensions of sacred truth and reality. Diego Pignatelli is our passionate guide.
--Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D., Ph.D.
Author: "Once Upon ASOUL: The Story Continues.... Science, Psychology and The Realms of Spirit,"
"Namaste': Initiation and Transformation," and 5 workbook series: "I AM WOMAN on a Journey called Life."