The Awakening of Intelligence: Toward a New Psychology of Being: Eastern Psychologies in the Direction of New Transpersonal Theories

Diego Pignatelli Spinazzola

iUniverse, Sep 23, 2010 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 256 pages

Using a creative and poetic modality, Diego Pignatelli explores myth, religion, science and spiritualitythe liminal territories of modern psychology. He introduces us toTranspersonal Psychology, Grofs holotropic paradigm and perinatal dynamics, mythology, oriental and Indian psychology, as well as Jungian, and depth psychology. Pignatelli also discusses the fields of parapsychology, shamanism, thanatology, Near Death Experiences (NDE), Out of Body Experiences (OBEs - astral travels occur during non-ordinary states of consciousness and travels to parallel universes through the Star Gates or portals of other mythological dimensions). He also teaches us about Kundalini awakening, mandala cosmology, altered/nonordinary states of consciousness (NOSC), psychedelic therapy and the implications of the new emerging paradigm whose holonomic theory and multidimensional psyche are currently explored by modern consciousness research.

Contents

• CHAPTER I THE AWAKENING OF INTELLIGENCE: 1
• Krishnamurti The Intelligence of Compassion: 6
• The Magic of the Imperceptible: 15
• The Bizarre Universe of Alan WattsThe Intuitive Knowledge of Krishnamurti: 23
• An Anticonventional Genius: 28
• The Transcendent Total Being in Transpersonal Psychology: 37
• Toward a Psychology of Being: 40
• The Siddha of Time: 45
• Psyche and the Animas Dream: 48
• Perceptions beyond the Threshold: 52
• The Door of Fear: 56
• The Cosmic Hide and Seek: 61
• The Five Faces of Shiva: 65
• Journey into the Holodeck of the Unconscious: 70
• The Reawakening of the Serpent: 74
• the Holographic Receptacle: 78
• CHAPTER II The Holographic Universe: 83
• Fiction or Truth?: 86
• The Transpersonal Spectrum in the Holotropic Therapy of Stanislav Grof: 90
• The Kaleidoscope of the Universe: 96
• Matrices Systems and Morphogenetic Fields in the Transpersonal Domain: 105
• Stanislav Grofs Model Theory and Space Travels: 112
• Parapsychology and Holographic Reality: 128
• Holographic Perception in Psychotic States: 131
• The Portals of the Unconscious: 136
• APPENDIX A New Cosmogony: 140
• The Mystic of the Universe: 144
• Archetypes of Revelation: 148
• The Altar of the Sacred: 151
• Cosmic Waters in the Cosmogonic Dimension: 153
• The Kosmogonical Mandala: 157
• A Science beyond the Boundaries: 163
• A Transpersonal Synthesis: 167
• BPMs and COEXs: 176
• Unveiling the Myth of Psychosis: 178
• Bibliography: 181
• Index: 197

About the author

Diego Pignatelli introduces an overview of the most fascinating topics of the transpersonal literature:Grof's holotropic paradigm,Ken Wilber's model of transpersonal psychopathologies ,Alan Watts and zen thought,Abhinavagupta's Tantra Shaivism and the aesthetic experience of the Numinous. He also illustrates Jung & Zimmer's common theory on mandala and Yantra. Pignatelli demonstrates original insights on sacred and karmic geometry whose dynamics are governed by archetypal and energy dynamics. Discussing about kundalini syndrome,Indic mythology,Grof's spiritual emergency and Star Gate or "portal":a doorway to the parallel dimensions,the author depicts an overview of the transpersonal world as numinous and fantastic. In the Awakening of Intelligence a spiritual and transpersonal narrative is poetically expanded through the introduction of the imaginal worlds.

Diego Pignatelli introduces an overview of the most fascinating topics of the transpersonal literature:Grof's holotropic paradigm,Ken Wilber's model of transpersonal psychopathologies ,Alan Watts and zen thought,Abhinavagupta's Tantra Shaivism and the aesthetic experience of the Numinous. He also illustrates Jung & Zimmer's common theory on mandala and Yantra. Pignatelli demonstrates original insights on sacred and karmic geometry whose dynamics are governed by archetypal and energy dynamics. Discussing about kundalini syndrome,Indic mythology,Grof's spiritual emergency and Star Gate or "portal":a doorway to the parallel dimensions,the author depicts an overview of the transpersonal world as numinous and fantastic. In the Awakening of Intelligence a spiritual and transpersonal narrative is poetically expanded through the introduction of the imaginal worlds.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Awakening of Intelligence: Toward a New Psychology of Being: Eastern Psychologies in the Direction of New Transpersonal Theories
• Author: Diego Pignatelli Spinazzola
• Contributor: Stanley Krippner
• Publisher: iUniverse, 2010
• ISBN: 1450232140, 9781450232142
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / New Thought