This series covers events from 09/06/1979 - 03/05/1980

In 1979–80, Anthony Damiani led seven months of intensive examination of the core chapters of Paul Brunton’s The Wisdom of the Overself, from "The Meaning of Mentalism" through "The World-Mind." In the course of these classes, he developed revolutionary interpretations of some of PB’s key concepts by bringing to bear insights from his study of Plotinus. Thus he distinguishes between the World-Mind as the soul of the universe (or cosmic soul) and the World-Mind as Intellectual-Principle and compares the arisal of the World-Mind from Mind Absolute to the arisal of the Intellectual-Principle from the One.

Key topics include the crucial distinction between mind as the thinking principle and awareness as the knowing principle; the three states of consciousness (prajna, taijasa, vaishvanara) and their cosmic correspondences; karmic impressions as the memory traces of the functioning of the cosmic soul; the process by which seed-thoughts from the heart center become external experience through the functioning of the brain and chakra system; distinguishing between the empirical self, Witness-I, and pure awareness; the Overself as an eternal image of World-Mind; individual entities as self-begotten within the cosmic soul's thought-made environment; the seven lokas as a framework for evolutionary development; matter as the principle of existence; the cosmic soul as symbolized by our sun and celestial fire; the dream analogy as an aid to understanding cosmic mentalism; and how to sharpen the question of how the Many can arise from the One.

The verbatim transcripts preserve authentic Socratic dialogue, and the numerous diagrams used in these classes to depict the cosmological and astrological principles discussed make the text come alive.

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