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Parmenides and The Way of Truth
Translation and Commentary
Monkfish Book Publishing Company - 2007
The Pre-Socratics somehow clarify us, as if those who approach them with inquiry and love are changed. Richard Geldard, author of a marvelous study of Heracleitus, returns here to their world and to the difficult terrain where Parmenides still speaks to us of Being. Geldard's fresh translations of the surviving fragments jump into one's mind. "Only one account of the Way remains: It Is! Along this path are many signs. . . " -- Roger Lipsey, author of Have you been to Delphi? Tales of the Ancient Oracle for Modern Minds
Reader's review
What this world needed was a nice, balanced, introductory text to Parmenides. It needed to be scholarly without being academic, wise without being new-agey. And lo and behold, a book like that is just what Richard Geldard has given us. Of course he is a bit indulgent of his own interests in places, but we can forgive him that for hitting on the Golden Mean, for his very nice translation of the fragments of Parmenides' poem, for his insightful overview of the reactions of others to Parmenides, for his accessible writing style, and for general excellence. -- King Wolf on amazon
RICHARD GELDARD
QUEST BOOKS - 2000
This spiritual guide to the glorious temples and palaces, the hallowed mountains and springs, and the great frescoes, sculptures and mosaics of ancient Greece is perfect for both the armchair and real traveler. Full of photography, poetry, historical tidbits, time charts and tours to three major museums, this handbook to Greece's sacred sites takes us on the pilgrim's journey to rediscover the living mythology that still has the power to transform lives.
Richard Geldard, author of The Traveler's Key to Ancient Greece and Remembering Heraclitus, has traveled throughout the Mediterranean in search of the ancient pagan spirit still living in the brilliant light, powerful land and seascapes, and ancient sanctuaries of the gods. His evocation of the Earth Mother Goddess and the psychic forces that swirl around her sacred places, combined with a retelling of the Christian legends surrounding Mary Magdalen in Ephesus, remind us that forces greater than our own limited perception still have power to move and mold the human spirit in deep and unfathomable ways.
Midwest Book Review
The Traveler's Key to Ancient Greece: A Guide To Sacred Places is the ideal guidebook for exploring sacred locations that once were home to the secret mysteries at Eleusis, the oracle at Delphi, the Labyrinths of Knossos, the vast theater and healing center at Epidauros, the perfect symmetry of the Parthenon, and more! This unique and very special travel guide offers informative and expert commentary on the Hellenic world's palace and temple cultures and sites; Greek drama, philosophy, art, and sculpture; sacred geometry and architecture; and gallery collections in three major museums. Whether you are an armchair explorer or plan to be an on-site visitor, The Traveler's Key To Ancient Greece is a compelling, informative, superbly written and flawlessly produced introduction to understanding as well as visiting these sacred sites of antiquity.
Indispensable for traveling with a spiritual intent. - Normandi Ellis, author of Feasts of Light
Other guide books furnish facts; The Traveler's Key provides understanding. Ancient Greece seen without this book is another and lesser Greece altogether. - John Anthony West, author of The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt
Reader's Review
"If your intention in Greece is to explore the wonders of the ancients, this is the best book to take. Of the several books I had with me, it was the most complete, detailed, informative and enjoyable--it was the one I came to trust and refer to the most often. Small enough to stuff into a pocket, it allows you to sit at the sites and read while looking at the ruins. The facts and suppositions were generally supported by other sources, so being able to rely on its accuracy is another plus." - Nina H. Ward, MD, New Bern NC USA
This book has British, Italian and Czech Editions
Remembering Heraclitus
RICHARD G. GELDARD
Lindisfarne Books - 2000
This bright, deep, meditative jewel-like study brings Heraclitus to life in a new way, and shows him to be one of the principal sources of Western mystical thinking. From Geldard's point of view, the study of Heraclitus is not just an academic matter but, on the contrary, presents us with very real existential and phenomenological challenges. The book includes new translations of all the essential fragments.
Geldard, through his exploration of Heraclitus, shows us, "The more that human beings openly and humbly seek higher knowledge, the more they develop the power to perceive it, until finally they penetrate to the hidden universal order. The result of this penetration is knowledge of the Logos, that "which directs all things through all things." The acquisition of this knowledge is not an event; it is a stance in the world. It is Being in its fullness." - Paul Cohen, Lindisfarne Books
"It will surely become THE book on Heraclitus." - COLIN WILSON
Excerpts from Remembering Heraclitus
Heraclitus shows us how to recover the past in our quest to understand the present. Human ethos (roughly "character") has changed very little in five thousand years, and advances in technology have failed to improve our understanding of the mysteries of existence beyond what the so-called "ancients" understood. In fact, technology may well have blurred our vision substantially. Those moderns who assume an arrogant superiority in the face of ancient culture reveal in that arrogance their own superficial knowledge. In the same way, those who bemoan the loss of esoteric knowledge in the ruins of the past have also lost faith in their own intuitive capabilities.
"To be wise is one thing: to know the thought that directs all things through all things"
"We should not act like the children of our parents"
"I searched my nature"
- Heraclitus
This book has British and Greek Editions
Order from amazon.comThe Olympic Ideal
A Tribute to the Ancient and Modern Games
RICHARD GELDARD
Archetypo Books, Greece - 2004
The
return of the 2004 Olympic Summer Games to Greece after 108 years signals a
renewal of the original ideals of the Ancient Games. For a thousand years, from
776 BC to AD 395 the greatest athletes in the known world gathered in Olympia,
Greece, to celebrate the ideals fostered by the Olympian gods. The Ancient
Games were both an athletic and a sacred event, and in the Greek vision, the
athlete represented the ideal of human perfection.
Greek scholar and writer
Richard Geldard, PhD, has given us a warm, vivid tribute to the ancient and
modern Summer Olympic Games, and has told the stories of those special
champions, like Jim Thorp, Jesse Owens and Wilma Rudolph, who literally changed
history with their accomplishments and in the process made us better people.
From Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Three-time Olympic Champion, Los Angeles, 1984
"In my eight years as a world-class athlete, I competed in hundreds of other regional, national and world competitions before attending the 1984 Olympic Games. And yet, the Olympics felt like my first competition -- the important one -- my noble purpose that made me proud of swimming 800 laps a day for almost a decade. Most of these spectators had never seen a swim meet in their lives, and yet they were visibly stirred by the competition -- I looked out into a crowd of rapture and tears. Richard Geldard captures the deepest truth of the Olympic Games, which represent far more than just an athletic contest. The power of the Olympic movement comes from the celebration of the best of humanity, the best in all of us."
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