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, April 5th, 1978
Wednesday, April 12th, 1978
Wednesday, April 26th, 1978
Wednesday, May 10th, 1978
Wednesday, May 17th, 1978
Wednesday, May 31st, 1978
Wednesday, June 7th, 1978
Wednesday, July 5th, 1978
Saturday, January 9th, 1982
Sunday, January 10th, 1982
Saturday, January 16th, 1982
Sunday, January 17th, 1982
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Class

Apr 5th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Vesica

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 10

Keyword(s): Nidana Chain, Manas, Idea of Man, Lokas, Yogacara, Chaldean Schema (Ethereal, Upper Solar, Empyrean), Dhyani Buddhas, Skandhas, Directions

Paper presented on multiple days

Apr 12th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Emotion

The Four Aspects of Emotion: An Essay Based on James Hillman’s Emotion

Anthony J. Damiani

Summary of a published work with commentary by Anthony Daminani
Diagrams: 6

Keyword(s): Hillman, Psychology, Symbolific Activity, Manas, Alaya-Vijnana, Vasanas, Energy, Logos Spermaticos, Skandhas, Dhyani Buddhas, Buddhist Stupa, Aristotle’s Four Causes

Class

Apr 26th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Emotion

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Cosmology, Jung, Skandhas, Vasanas, Lokas, Nidana Chain, Seven Chakras, Vesica, Aristotle’s Four Causes

Class

May 10th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Knowing

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 10

Keyword(s): Reflective Consciousness, KWF (Knowing, Willing, Feeling), Four Causes and Four Levels of Knowing (Divided Line), Gods, Five Cosmic Skandhas, Nidana Chain, Daemon as Reflective Apparatus, Four Aspects of Knowing and Determinate vs. Indeterminate Cognition, Demiurgic Intellect, Seven Lokas and Chakras

Class

May 17th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 9

Keyword(s): Manas, Five Cosmic Skandhas, Jupiter in Sagittarius, Determinate and Indeterminate Perception, Gnostic Faculties (Platonist, Buddhist), Seven Levels of Vesica, Sun, Perception and Pure Sensation, Reflective Consciousness, Vijnanas and Quadrants, Jung’s Four Functions

Class

May 31st
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Vesica

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Wheel of Existence, Trikaya, KWF (Knowing Willing Feeling), Five Cosmic Skandhas

Class

Jun 7th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Vesica

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 7

Keyword(s): Nidana Chain, Five Skandhas, Nyaya Realists vs. Buddhist Logicians, Senses as Subtle and Physical, Sensation and Perception

Class

Jul 5th
1978
Wednesday

Buddhism

Idea of Man

Student notes of a class/seminar
Diagrams: 15

Keyword(s): Fixed Cross, Zodiac, Five Dhyani Buddhas, Five Cosmic Skandhas, Vesica, Manas, Nyaya (Eight Categories), Trikaya

Class

Jan 9th
1982
Saturday

Astrology

Theory

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio
Diagrams: 3

Keyword(s): Symbolism, Imagination (Productive and Reproductive), Parts (Arabic Parts), Skandhas, Gnostic and Fabricative, Jung, Epistemology, Alchemy

Class

Jan 10th
1982
Sunday

Buddhism

Bodhicitta

Edited transcript
Diagrams: 4

Keyword(s): Subtle Physiology, Chakras, Descent of Bodhicitta into Body, Skandhas, Kalachakra

Class

Jan 16th
1982
Saturday

Epistemology

Symbolism

Student notes of a class/seminar

Keyword(s): Productive Imagination, Kant, Jung, Five Skandhas, Alchemy, Planets and Parts, Corbin, Paracelsus

Class

Jan 17th
1982
Sunday

Buddhism

Astrology

Verbatim, unedited transcript
Audio

Keyword(s): Vaibhashika, Sautrantika, Abhidhamma (Abhidharma), Yogacara, Dharmas, Skandhas, Vijnana, Bodhicitta, Parts (Arabic Parts), Aspects, Samkhya, Gunas, Matter

Paper

Undated

Buddhism

Tantra

Commentary on "The Tantra of the Reality of Transcendent Awareness"

Anthony J. Damiani

Paper
Diagrams: 12

Keyword(s): All-ground, Samsara, Nirvana, Buddhahood, Five Dhyani Buddhas, Sun in Leo, Saturn in Leo, Soul, Soul Ring, World-Constructor, Demiurge, Alaya-Vijnana, Mentality, Generic Mind, Karma, Nidana Chain, Skandhas, Sheaths

Paper

Undated

Buddhism

Willing

The Four Aspects of Willing: An Essay Based on Paul Dahlke’s Buddhism & Science

Anthony J. Damiani

Summary of a published work with commentary by Anthony Daminani

Keyword(s): Vasanas, Samskaras, Karma, Skandhas