About the document archive: The bulk of the documents are class transcripts, but they also include papers written by Damiani or students and presented in class, student notes of classes, drafts of chapters for Damiani’s book Astronoesis, and annotated abridgments of books and articles. Search the documents below, or click here to learn more about the document archive.
Wednesday, December 1st, 1971
Wednesday, December 8th, 1971
Friday, August 3rd, 1973
Tuesday, November 20th, 1973
Friday, January 25th, 1974
Friday, February 8th, 1974
Friday, March 15th, 1974
Sunday, March 17th, 1974
Sunday, October 6th, 1974
Sunday, October 6th, 1974
Sunday, January 9th, 1977
Sunday, February 27th, 1977
Tuesday, August 23rd, 1977
Thursday, August 25th, 1977
Saturday, September 3rd, 1977
Thursday, September 15th, 1977
Sunday, March 12th, 1978
Sunday, April 30th, 1978
Sunday, June 11th, 1978
Friday, October 12th, 1979
Saturday, October 13th, 1979
Friday, October 19th, 1979
Saturday, January 3rd, 1981
Friday, March 5th, 1982
Wednesday, April 7th, 1982
Wednesday, April 14th, 1982
Thursday, April 22nd, 1982
Thursday, June 3rd, 1982
Friday, November 11th, 1983
Friday, February 17th, 1984
Thursday, March 1st, 1984
Thursday, August 2nd, 1984
Friday, August 3rd, 1984
Friday, August 24th, 1984
Friday, August 31st, 1984
Wednesday, September 19th, 1984
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Class

Dec 1st
1971
Wednesday

American Brahman Bookstore, Ithaca, NY

Hinduism

Antahkarana

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Metaphysics, Essence and Substance, Samkhya, Vedanta, Witness, Psychology, Vasanas, Anandamaya/Vijnanamaya Koshas, Vedantic Epistemology

Class

Dec 8th
1971
Wednesday

American Brahman Bookstore, Ithaca, NY

Psychology & Mysticism

Levels of Consciousness

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Ego, Sri Aurobindo, Vedanta, Vasanas

Class

Aug 3rd
1973
Friday

Jung

Epistemology

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 2

Keyword(s): “Spirit and Life,” Psyche, Vedanta

Class

Nov 20th
1973
Tuesday

Archetypal Psychology

Hillman

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Witness-I, Four Psychological Functions, Emotion, Feeling Function, Advaita Vedanta, Jung

Class

Jan 25th
1974
Friday

Epistemology

Levels and Types of Thinking

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 2

Keyword(s): “The Meaning of Mentalism,” The Destiny of the Mind (William S. Haas), Jung, Vedanta, Yoga, Steiner, Scholastics

Class

Feb 8th
1974
Friday

Epistemology

Vedanta

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Steiner, Concept/Percept, Mentalism, Witness-I

Class

Mar 15th
1974
Friday

Epistemology

Vedanta

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): “Seven Levels of Earthly Consciousness,” Lokas, Mentalism, Gayatri Mantra

Class

Mar 17th
1974
Sunday

Soul

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Nous, Overself, Reason, Plato, PB, Vedanta, Aurobindo

Class

Oct 6th
1974
Sunday

Epistemology

The Given

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Mentalism, Vedanta, Maya, Bertrand Russell, Kant, Sensibility and Understanding

Paper

Oct 6th
1974
Sunday

Epistemology

The Given

Abridgment of S.K. Chattopadhyaya's “The Object and Sensibility” and “The Real, the Given, and the Objective”

Anthony J. Damiani

Summary of a published work

Keyword(s): Mentalism, Vedanta, Bertrand Russell, Kant, Sensibility and Understanding

Talk

Jan 9th
1977
Sunday

PB Visit

Ed McKeown

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Nirvikalpa and Sahaja, Jnana and Bhakti, Zen and Vedanta, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Transcendental Meditation, Diet

Class

Feb 27th
1977
Sunday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Epistemology, AD paper ("Occult Epistemology"), Steiner, Formative Forces, Astral, Pranas, Senses, Karma Indriyas

Class

Aug 23rd
1977
Tuesday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Edited transcript

Keyword(s): Five Sheaths, Epistemology, Astral Body, Prana, Sensation, States of Consciousness

Class

Aug 25th
1977
Thursday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Five Sheaths

Class

Sep 3rd
1977
Saturday

Hinduism

Epistemology

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 6

Keyword(s): Vritti, Pramanas, Vedanta, Samkhya, Koshas, Unity-Monad Relation

Class

Sep 15th
1977
Thursday

Buddhism

Substance vs. Function

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Samkhya, Madhyamika, Vedanta, Point-Instants, Epistemology

Class

Mar 12th
1978
Sunday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 5

Keyword(s): Casual Body, One, Dyad, Koshas

Class

Apr 30th
1978
Sunday

Hinduism

Vedanta & Nyaya

Student notes of a class/seminar

Keyword(s): Manas

Class

Jun 11th
1978
Sunday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 2

Keyword(s): Truth and Falsity, Nyaya, Buddhism, Samkhya

Class

Oct 12th
1979
Friday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Epistemology, Internal Organ (Antahkarana), Perception, Taijasa and Vaishvanara Consciousness

Class

Oct 13th
1979
Saturday

PB Books

Wisdom of the Overself

Edited transcript or student notes of a class/seminar

Keyword(s): Vedanta, Epistemology

Class

Oct 19th
1979
Friday

PB Books

Wisdom of the Overself

Edited transcript or student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 2

Keyword(s): Epistemology, Mentalism, Buddhism, Vedanta

Class

Jan 3rd
1981
Saturday

Hinduism

Vedanta

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Grid, Epistemology, Mercury Nature (Pisces), Antahkarana, Gnostic and Fabricative, Animate, Astral Soul, Astrology, Aspects, Parts (Arabic Parts)

Class

Mar 5th
1982
Friday

Alchemy

Bodhicitta

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Mentalism, Buddhism, Vedanta, Nous Atom, Mind-Continuum, Astrology, Quintessential Body, Body of Light

Paper

Apr 7th
1982
Wednesday

Hinduism

G.R. Malkani

Malkani on Reason and Intuition

Student

Paper

Keyword(s): Reason, Iyer, Vedanta

Paper

Apr 14th
1982
Wednesday

Hinduism

G.R. Malkani

Malkani on the Role of Reason

Student

Paper

Keyword(s): Reason, Vedanta

Paper

Apr 22nd
1982
Thursday

Hinduism

G.R. Malkani

Malkani on Reason's Relation to Reality

Student

Paper

Keyword(s): Reason, Vedanta

Seminar

Jun 3rd
1982
Thursday

Hinduism

Four States of Consciousness

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 6

Keyword(s): Kashmir Shaivism (7th House Idea), Vedanta (4th House Idea), Samkhya, Divided Line

Class

Nov 11th
1983
Friday

Epistemology

Synthesis

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 5

Keyword(s): Buddhism (Sautrantika), Kant, Vedanta, Platonism, Mentalism, Seed-Thoughts, World-Idea, Primal Image, Intellect

Class

Feb 17th
1984
Friday

Plotinus

Soul

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Divided Line, Astrology Theory, Solar Logos, Cosmology, Separative Intellect, Metaphysical Chart, Samkhya, Vedanta, Buddhism, Bhavas of Buddhi

Seminar

Mar 1st
1984
Thursday

Epistemology

Fourfolds

Student notes of a class/seminar

Keyword(s): Astrology, Cosmology, Buddhism, Vedanta, Yoga, Scholasticism

Class

Aug 2nd
1984
Thursday

PB Paras

Philosophy

Edited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Buddhism and Vedanta, Epistemological vs. Ontological Perspectives

Class

Aug 3rd
1984
Friday

Buddhism

Madhyamika

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): PB, “Birth of the Universe,” Vedanta, Two Kinds of Consciousness, Cosmology, Epistemology, Non-duality

Class

Aug 24th
1984
Friday

PB Books

Wisdom of the Overself

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): “Birth of the Universe,” Buddhism & Vedanta, Cosmology, Solar Logos, Soul, Intellectual-Principle, Metaphysical Chart, Causality

Class

Aug 31st
1984
Friday

Buddhism

Yogacara

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Epistemology, Mentalism, Vedanta, Meditation on Emptiness (Hopkins)

Class

Sep 19th
1984
Wednesday

PB Paras

Philosophy

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Two Kinds of Consciousness, Sage, Serpent’s Path, Mind, Buddhism, Vedanta, Nirvikalpa vs. Sahaja, Non-duality

Paper

Undated

Astronoesis

Soul & Nature

On the Complementarity of the Buddhist and Vedantic Perspectives

Anthony J. Damiani, Editors of Astronoesis

Paper
Diagrams: 1

Keyword(s): Buddhism, Vedanta, Witness I, Two Streams, Movie Projector Analogy