Much of Anthony’s creative work was done in the context of preparing and leading classes at Wisdom’s Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Studies, which came into being under his directorship in 1972. In the mid-seventies, he started to express his key ideas in writing and enlisted a few students to help write papers that would form the basis of a book. Under the working title of Astronoesis (derived from Greek words that mean Star-Wisdom), the writing evolved in the spirit of a suggestive enquiry rather than with the goal of producing a polished, final statement. -- Editors’ Introduction from Astronoesis