Collected Works of Massimo Scaligero
- Phoenix Amata
- Oct 18, 2024
- 2 min read
The Secrets of Space and Time
"Who can penetrate space or encounter the stream of time? Only those who are not fooled into believing that freedom from sensory conditions is attainable by moving beyond a space and a time considered real because of their measurability. The reality of time and space is immeasurable. It cannot be attained by overcoming the given forms of measurement, but rather by overcoming measurement itself. Before this can occur, we must know how and why measurement arises; we must know what the spirit wants by containing within measurement the substance of its eternal telling of tales, whose truth alone justifies measurement—the transitory vision of what space and time are in their most subtle forms.” — Massimo Scaligero
This masterly book by Massimo Scaligero—author of The Light (La Luce): An Introduction to Creative Imagination—teaches us how to enter and recognize the spiritual reality behind and within what we objectify as space and time. Those who read The Secrets of Space and Time with meditative effort will be well rewarded with profound insights about the true nature of the world around us.
The book is a translation from Italian of Segreti dello spazio e del tempo (Libreria Tilopa, Rome, 1963).
The Logic Against Humanity: The Myth of Science and the Path of Thinking
The Logic Against Humanity is considered by many to be Massimo Scaligero’s most important work. It examines the difficulties faced by modern-day philosophers and scientists who employ “discursive” thinking to explain the mystery of human existence. “Discursive” thinking, which accounts for the inherent limitations of rationalism and scientific presumptions, is viewed by Scaligero as a form of mental disorder, widely prevalent in today’s culture. Indeed, he shows how members of the scientific community and academia—unaware of the effect of thinking’s adherence to bodily forces—are often themselves inadvertent diffusers of the mental disorder that they seek to analyze in their research.
In the first half of the book, “The Myth of Science,” Scaligero discusses numerous topics, including ways in which the works of Freud and Jung have led to the elimination of the “sacred” through the “sacralization” of the unconscious.
In the second half of the book, “ The Path of Thinking,” the author contends that, to remedy problems of modern thinking, we must cultivate the perception of the “being” of thinking—a perception that has eluded many thinkers, from Hegel to Krishnamurti, who were unable to liberate their thinking effectively from “discursiveness.” Massimo Scaligero insists that a “science of thinking” must be engendered within humanity—thinking that transcends the limits of conceptual elaboration—a science enlivened continuously by the living being from which it arises. In helping us toward this end, Scaligero elucidates a path based on “the techniques of concentration,” ultimately necessary to the realization of the “I AM.”
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