Awakening of Intelligence

"The Awakening of Intelligence” aims to put meaning back into the symbol which seems lost in this society. It is complex but rich in arguments, concepts and images which reflect not only the wide spectrum of transpersonal psychology but also threads interwoven with symbols.

States which C. G. Jung called “psychoid experiences” also perceive these symbols from a consciousness which looks at the divine to the synthesis of a mystic union. It is exactly this “coniunctio” which is the principle message behind this book. The struggle between good and evil, between children of the night and children of the day is the emblem of the cosmogonic archetype which struggles in the shadows of consciousness. Finally, it opens up to the primordial and multi-dimensional splendour of the collective unconscious.

Its invisible realms are archetypes, stones, jewels, diamonds of a “numinous” treasure rejected a priori by humanity which does not want to give this, the gold of revelation, the shaman of the prophets in front of the city of the gods, any symbolic significance.

The cosmogonic dimension – rediscovery – is rejected by man who, admitting that reality is dead, has relegated the gods to their paradise, where they as C. G. Jung says, are pathologies that torment consciousness like children of the Night with a fluid and rebellious archetype which escapes man’s and destiny’s control.

Symbolically enriched with different tones,images and metaphors, this book aims to appeal to the Invisible, to Intelligence as well to the Myth and the discoveries of Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber, Joseph Campbell, David Bohm, Stanley Krippner ,Stuart Sovatsky and other theorists of transpersonal adventure.

The sacredness of being seems like “an alchemy of symbols, the game of two lovers who betray each other and then regain unity once more in a mystic wedding celebration” and finally it opens up a bridge between man in his escape from the gods and his rediscovery of a hidden meaning: the interface between us and the invisible. This interface acts as a parallel reality, vision and prophecy,archetypes and myth,science-fiction and holographic-vortex,psychedelics and sacred journeys.

It is from this “Cosmic Game” revealed in a symbolic alchemy, that the book leads to an extraordinary Reawakening of Shiva from the Invisible which shapes our perceptions into a phenomenal seat of illusion. This is because the gods have turned pale and because they have hidden their symbols far away from human mediocrity, far away from a world which has already chosen how things should be by following the path of lying. “The Awakening of Intelligence” breaks this lie on contact with spiritual realities and their laws, which do not belong to this order of existence but whose existence underlies like the American physicist David Bohm’s implicate order. From the order laws appear to be invisible, a three dimensional tapestry, a hologram, in which the symbol reflects its projection.

Hidden worlds interact in the fabric of life and our perceptions. It is Shiva’s reality, it is his dance which beats in the metaphysical universe in which Hindus projected their visions.

Now we are far away from those realities but transpersonal studies reflect those visions propelling them again into a new revolutionary pattern which is overtaking the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm in a new vision of the Cosmos.

Parallel studies like those of Stanislav Grof, Richard Tarnas, Capra, Fred Alan Wolf, Jorge Ferrer and Ken Wilber have advanced extremely modern theories which, having thrown academic science (still based on the classic Newtonian-Cartesian model) into discussion are revaluating and re-shaping other theories accessible to both the scientist and the mystic. From here, from the great effort to reconcile science with religion and reconvert the pragmatism of western to the sacred mysticism of the east, attempts have been made, but they have never opened up to extraordinary and non-ordinary external reality.

Transpersonal psychology is an advocate of this reality, opening up the way to the mystic and scientist just as to an artist with such privileges.

Access to what is sacred and invisible is an accessible and at the same time inaccessible reality. We need to distinguish this numinous quality described by C. G. Jung and see it as a whole in the cosmic tapestry of consciousness, in this cosmic hologram which is close to the vision of our predecessors, prophets and mystics of all the ages.


Diego Pignatelli