Anthony Damiani

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Anthony Damiani (1922-1984) was an American philosopher and teacher. Born and raised in New York City, Damiani moved with his family upstate in the 1960s. They settled by Lake Seneca, one of the Fingerlakes in upstate New York. Damiani started a bookshop in Ithaca, New York where students and professors from Cornell University and Ithaca College would gather to discuss philosophy. In 1972 the group of people gathering at the bookshop had built the first building of what were to become the Wisdom's Goldenrod Center for Philosophy in Hector, New York. Here such spiritually important people as the Dalai Lama, Paul Brunton, Khamtrul Rinpoche and numerous other teachers would come and teach.

Damiani's published material can be divided into two parts: the first three published books, all of which are dialogues. The second part is Damiani's magnum opus, Astronoesis. Rob Hand, an American astrologer, writes "I think that [Astronoesis] is possibly the most important book on philosophy and astrology and the metaphysics of astrology in 1500 years... It serves to reconnect astrology with its own philosophical foundations..."