If someone believes that meditation is a practice extravagant imported from the East, read what scriveTommaso Campanella (1568-1639), Dominican philosopher and theologian, of course, persecuted by the Church. He says in summary: "We must choose a where there is no noise and where you can stay with a low light, possibly located behind their backs, or with eyes closed. You have to find a time when it is quieter or not is in the throes of passion so much as the body of the soul. You should not feel neither cold nor hot nor any pain. We should not have either a full stomach or empty stomach, and you have to sit in the most convenient. It is empty at this point the mind of emotions, thoughts, joys, sorrows, fears, hopes, feelings, concerns and memories. When a thought comes, you just cast it out, until you think nothing at all. Finally, it remains insensitive to both outwardly and inwardly and become immobile as a tree or a stone. "
