This book (2002, 2003) continues to describe the subjects exposed in "Ipotesi sulla realtà" (1991), a new age book by the same author, Fabrizio Coppola, a physicist, transcendental meditation practitioner, and later, psychologist. It analyzes the history of science (especially physics, including Einstein's theory of relativity, and Quantum Mechanics), history of Western philosophy and Indian philosophy, and postulates a direct connection between "objective" nature and "subjective" human mind, so that consciousness should be considered as a deep and fundamental property of the universe. This theory could explain certain unexpected discoveries coming from different disciplines such as modern physics, neurosciences, psychology, and the practical psychological and psychological beneficial results achieved by transcendental meditation and similar mental techniques.