I first met Vincenzo Iannone many years ago, when on behalf of the newspaper "Il Mattino" I carried out a short survey of the new conquests of bioelectronics and its practical applications.

I made acquaintance of this pleasant Neapolitan: gray-haired, very lively and penetrating eyes, a turn of speech characterized by some particular well-aimed word, an exceptional versatility.

Since then, in his study-laboratory in Via Manzoni, Vincenzo Iannone was already devoting himself to a series of theoretical and practical researches which were at the times absolutely new.

In fact, coming back from a long period of studies in the United States and in Brazil, he had decided to use his psychological and electronic knowledge to help (as he often says) mankind. In other words, he had realized that the greatest problem for man today was, and still is represented - by stress, anxiety, neurosis and the different forms of phobias and obsession.

He realized that for a modern illness it was necessary to discover a remedy being equally modern and up-to date, not, based on the traditional therapeutic systems (psychotropic drugs, psycho-analytic and psychiatric sessions and so on).

That is why the psychologist Vincenzo Iannone has turned into an engineer realizing Psycotron systems, the Onytron, the "emotionometer" and a whole set of instruments which have widely attracted the attention of Television, Radio and a large part of daily and periodical press, both in Italy and abroad, since the results have been and still are highly satisfactory.

Of course human contact and the constant relationship with a large category of persons rather eager to express their inner problems and their own needs, has allowed Dr.. Iannone to gain, during several years, a remarkable experience in this field, and above all the conviction that it was and it still is necessary to invite man to meditate on his most important existential problems.

To do this, it was indispensable to cast a seed, to throw a stone in order to agitate the stagnant waters of human mind, which sometimes, rather frightened, either refuses reality or changes it remarkably. This is therefore the final aim of this book, a book that does not pretend to provide solutions or a panacea for every illness, but simply invites the reader to "reflect" upon himself. And, in a period like the one in which we live, this is certainly not a little thing.

FRANCO AUSILIO

This book does not claim to explain ancient mysteries and functions and finalities that have escaped the attention of philosophic wisdom and the research of all time. Therefore it is neither a journey into the fantastic nor a search in the imaginary to discover man.

You will find here concrete indications of the path leading to the genuine function of man. He emerges from an overwhelming biological past and he is the expression of successive stratification. His history is the history of a quixotic struggle, all in all irrational and emotional. Since the beginning of time, he has never ceased fighting against chimeras, continuously frightened, constantly influenced by images that have ended up by upsetting his sensitive psycho-physic equilibrium.

Ignorance is at the basis of this struggle, a struggle which can be essentially defined as an unsuitable defense.

Always for defense and with his characteristic fantasy and imagination, he has invented religious myths - and manifold divine figurations, but he has finished up by becoming their prisoner and victim. However, the religions have had the great function of indicating the superhuman spark concealed in the inner nature of man.

Through faith, man ‘discovers’ himself. In fact, faith has allowed him to emphasize a power which, wrongly attributed to the transcendent, is in reality his true dimension. In this perspective, faith is only a means, a catalyzer, a means of reaching the absolute Self.

It is also the anti-fear that man has as an antidote to the poison of existential anguish.

Difficulties and limitations exist for man only at the strictly physical and sensorial level. But the fact that man can give much more than what the five troubled senses can give, is by now a well - established reality at a scientific level.

Starting from these premises, the author wants to suggest a new attitude towards life, an attitude aiming at man's recovering a function more consistent with his vocation, an attitude which has been confirmed at a rational level by the bio-techniques he has finalized and which aims at establishing a connection with the so far unknown inner dimension. Only by crossing - the threshold of the conscious Self, can we reach this dimension.

From the conscious-unconscious relationship arise unusual possibilities that are considered a privilege of particularly endowed individuals only from ignorance.

All this is, to say the least, inexact. These possibilities are real and tangible in every man and they are only an infinitesimal part of the human powers.

MASSIMO INARDI