Books by Anthony Damiani

Discussions on Perennial Philosophy: Plotinus, Paul Brunton, and Cosmic Astrology

by Anthony Damiani
Philosophy, Occult Science, Astrology
1-936012-42-1
978-1936012-42-8
$14.95, 268 pp., many diagrams, 6 x 9 paperback
Kindle: $9.99 (Amazon)

“After all, the greatest joy that a human being can have is to try to fathom the Unfathomable.”— Anthony Damiani, American Philosopher, Columbus, Ohio, 1977

In March 1984, a group of students met with Anthony Damiani (1922 –1984) an American philosopher and teacher under whose guidance and direction they had studied comparative mystical philosophy for many years. Damiani, largely an autodidact, had immersed himself in the various aspects of the perennial philosophy, East and West. He was also a close student of the late Paul Brunton (1898–1981).

Their discussion remains germane to the contemporary reader and to students of the perennial philosophy. Damiani’s was a uniquely comparative approach to the wisdom tradition, basing his work primarily in the Neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus along with the modern writings of Paul Brunton, both of whom he considered to have had the highest order of insight and philosophical development.

This foundation, along with his unique coupling of this wisdom, presents the symbolic image of the Living Cosmos, the body of God, as cosmic astrology. The today’s reader will find a rich source of Wisdom, all within the context of a friendly discussion among teacher and students.

Contents

Preface
Friday

The Fallacy of Divine Identity
The Nature of the Soul or Overself
The Undivided Mind of the Earth and the Divinity of the Sun
Our True Self and Its Unfoldment
Poltinus, PB and Philosophic Understanding, True Initiation
PB’s Schema: The Embodied Psyche and the “Witness I” and “Insight”
The Master Stroke
Saturday
On PB, The Nature of Thinking, Illumination
Overself World-Idea World-Mind
Stages of Illumination: The Who am I? and the What am I?
The Ego and Its World
Plotinus’s Teaching
The Traditionalists
The Chasm between “The Real and the Lower Intellect” and Its Symbolic Meaning
The Absolute within PB and Plotinus
The “Witness I” and the Double Nature of Soul
Astrological Unfoldment of the Individual Mind of the Earth Sun Consciousness
The Double Knower
Meditation — “The Master Stroke”
Symbolic Thought and Contemplation
Quotes on Meditation: Overself and Spiritual Knowledge, with Commentary
Sunday

Ideas in the Mind of God and Cosmic Astrology
Meaning of Words Sense in the Sensible Maya
Synthetic Approach: Magical Mythological Conceptual
The Complexities and Levels of Philosophy
Philosophy of Cosmic Astrology

Glossary
Appendixes

Astronomia by Anthony Damiani
The Metaphysical Chart
The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac by T. Subba Roe
The Undivided Mind of the Earth and the Divinity of the Sun by Paul Brunton
Epilogue from Search in Secret Egypt by Paul Brunton
Solar Logos: Gayatri Mantra
PB’s Night Mediation

Looking into Mind : How to Recognize Who You Are and How You Know

by Anthony Damiani
Philosophy / Spirituality
0-943914-50-7
978-0-943914-50-3
$14.95, 298 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, paperback

This well-edited transcript of lively discussions with students in Sweden invites you to experience directly the vital core of your own mind through meditation and to see how your everyday world expresses the same deep mental power that thinks your “I.” Anthony Damiani presents this combined practical and analytic approach as the most direct route to reliable spiritual independence—through commentary on Paul Brunton’s writings on meditation, epistemology, and mentalism.

Astronoesis : Philosophy’s Empirical Context, Astrology’s Transcendental Ground

by Anthony Damiani
Astrology / Philosophy
0-943914-00-0
978-0-943914-00-8
$90.00, 416 pages , 10 x 8″, 170+ diagrams, cloth binding

“This, the sensible universe,” states Anthony Damiani in his bold introduction,” is the primordial scripture . . . [It] embodies the wisdom of primal principles . . . that are as far beyond it as the heavens are beyond the Earth.”  He then draws us deep into the mind of possibly the greatest of all cosmologists of soul—Plotinus—to show “that the basis of astrology is an acquaintance with the wisdom-knowledge that sustains the cosmos.”  With incredible deftness, he shows how deep contemplation of universal and omnipresent “wisdom emanations” comes to a vital and unique spiritual fulfillment in each birth chart—that is, in the unique image of the whole of life that each of us calls “my mind.”

In keeping with its exquisitely contemplative content, Astronoesis is beautifully designed and meticulously manufactured.  It is in a 10″ x 8″ horizontal format, has 416 luxurious pages of 80# Finch vanilla vellum paper, and is two-color throughout.  It has more than 170 figures and diagrams, is full-cloth hardcover bound with gold foil stamping on front and spine, smyth-sewn to lay flat, and is wrapped in a non-curling four-color laminated jacket.  Each volume is individually shrink-wrapped and retails for only $90. Because Astronoesis is over-sized and heavier than the average book, shipping cost is higher than average.

Living Wisdom : Revisioning the Philosophic Quest

by Anthony Damiani
Spirituality / Philosophy
0-943914-78-7
978-0-943914-78-7
$15.95, 240 pp., 5.5 x 8.5

This book concisely and accessibly delivers the essence of the Paul Brunton / Anthony Damiani school of spiritual awakening and practice.  It offers what many consider a satisfying vision of mature spirituality: a perspective that honors reason and beauty, cultivates intuition and mystical experience, fosters reverence and true prayer, and inspires practical action and morality.  Its approach to self and world is as broad and deep as life itself, articulating the unique values of each of life’s many aspects.

As Robert Sardello wrote in his Parabola review, “People are starving to find meaning.  But the one path that is open to the modern person, the spiritual path of thinking, is neglected . . . because there are not many individuals around who are dedicated to this path, because thinking has been captured by the forces of hardness.  Perhaps this marvelous, this exciting, this truly tremendous book will give a new context for cognition—full of soul which reaches out to touch spirit.  Wisdom can be approached only through the path of thinking-feeling, and we must be deeply grateful to Anthony Damiani for showing us the way again.”

Anthony Damiani (1922–1984) founded the Wisdom’s Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Studies in 1972.  Living Wisdom is an edited transcript of his commentaries and elaborations on the “What Is Philosophy?” section of Paul Brunton’s Notebooks.

Standing in Your Own Way: Talks on the Nature of the Ego

by Anthony Damiani
Psychology / Spirituality
0-943914-60-4
978-0-943914-60-2
$15.95, 270 pp., 5.5 x 8.5, paperback

Cut through the fog of cliches and propaganda that obscures the central issue of all the world’s inspired spiritual traditions.  See why their goal is not destruction or abandonment of the ego, but development and refinement of its potentials in tandem with deepening spiritual detachment from them.  Understand how life’s shattering blows are often moments of Grace, bringing you to more conscious relation with your Source.  These talks are developed from transcripts of weekly classes and commentary, for a two-year period, by Anthony Damiani on Paul Brunton’s notes on the ego in volume 6 of The Notebooks of Paul Brunton.