Books by Richard G. Geldard on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Early Greek Thought

	THE MAGDALENE GATES A Novella Richard G. Geldard “This is the book my soul has been thirsting for. Ever since I encountered the fragmented, mysterious and luminous Gospel of Mary, I have yearned for those missing pages to turn up. In The Magdalene Gates, esoteric scholar Richard G. Geldard masterfully fills in the blanks, weaving his own potent understanding of Mary Magdalene’s wisdom teachings with a gripping mystery and a moving love story. The result is a novel I couldn’t put down, and which has somehow fundamentally changed me. Highly recommended.” - Mirabai Starr, Author of Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Mercy of the Women Mystics and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation Description and ordering information
	AN EXAMINED LIFE In Search of the Ground of Being Richard G. Geldard When Socrates famously said that the unexamined life was not worth having, his declaration begged the question what, then, was an examined life? And when his student Plato described the prisoners in the cave living an unexamined life, philosophy began to speak of a life lived consciously and reflectively rather than mechanically and habitually. This book is part personal description of an examined life and part challenge to the reader to develop the means to awaken to a life lived consciously and reflectively. It was Henry Thoreau who set a high standard for the examined life when he wrote, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." That is the challenge, and the gifts to come are the rewards from the effort. "Richard Geldard’s personal quest for a meaningful life has taken him all the way from the PreSocratics to Gurdjieff and back again, but the life-line tying it all together has for many years been the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Geldard is a serious philosophical reader of Emerson, and he is a gifted teacher and writer and thinker able to reach any good modern reader willing to give it a shot. Geldard’s deeply moving and unflinchingly personal account puts him in that small circle of important philosophical Emersonians that includes Stanley Cavell and George Kateb. This is a lovely book." -- Robert D. Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire
	THE SOUL'S JOURNEY A History of Human Being Richard G. Geldard The challenge for a task of a subtle nature like the nature of the soul is that in our recent culture, aside from a variety of religious doctrines holding fast to traditional definitions, we encounter the absence of soul from serious consideration, replaced by our intense interest in the nature of consciousness. This shift effectively removes an expansive vision of human existence beyond our present lives into the vagaries of a consciousness centered in the mind. In the wisdom traditions, however, consciousness studies include a concern for the soul in order to reaffirm the traditional presence of such an entity in human life and nature. If consciousness and soul are taken together, human nature then possesses a fullness of articulation that recognizes the rich experiences of many lives. The soul exists in the records of cultures of nearly every period, language, belief and experience.
New from Larson Publications	EMERSON AND UNIVERSAL MIND Richard G. Geldard Larson Publications 2013 "A brilliant, forceful, cogent, eloquent and personal brief for the essential validity of the great Neoplatonic doctrine of ideas, and a wholly believable effort to place Emerson firmly in that tradition." -- Robert D. Richardson, Author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire Emerson and Universal Mind is a commentary based on what Emerson called the central goal of his writing life: articulating clearly the nature and purpose of the human mind. Late in life, in 1871 at age sixty-eight, he was invited by Harvard University to give a series of lectures to a select group of graduate students. He called these lectures the "Natural History of Intellect" and much of the content was published after his death under that title. Read more and order
New York Journal of Books Review	EMERSON AND THE DREAM OF AMERICA Finding Our Way to a New and Exceptional Age Richard G. Geldard Larson Publications 2010 America is a country in transition, with vital issues confronting us. In such times as these, we need voices that rise above ideology and give us wisdom grounded in experience. Emerson's is such a voice. He is one of our founding thinkers and he had a vision for America that can still inspire us. "Spend an hour with Richard Geldard and he will lead you to the inner sanctum and hand you over to the Master. Emersonianism is the American religion. It is not a church or a cult; it is a spiritual discipline, a Way. It teaches the infinitude of the private person, of each private person, of you yourself with your laptop and cellphone. Emerson was a great teacher in his day, but Richard Geldard can get him to you now." – Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire Read more and order
	Anaxagoras and Universal Mind: The Birth of Philosophy in Classical Greece Richard Geldard Ralph Waldo Emerson Books, 2008 Geldard's volume on Anaxagoras is the third and final volume in his immensely successful account of Pre-Socratic thought. His first two volumes brought Heraclitus and Parmenides vividly alive for a twenty-first century audience. This is an important book, superbly written in accessible language. It makes philosophy as lively and timely as today's newspaper, and, unlike the newspaper, it will be relevant tomorrow. – Robert Richardson Read more and order
	Parmenides and The Way of Truth Translation and Commentary by Richard Geldard Monkfish Book Publishing Company - 2007 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. – Amazon Reader Review Read More and Order
	The Essential Transcendentalists Edited and Introduced by Richard G. Geldard Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin 2005 This anthology of Core Writings by the New England Transcendentalists provides a unique overview of these landmark figures as spiritual thinkers. As Richard G. Geldard -- one of today's leading scholars of Emerson -- illustrates in The Essential Transcendentalists, transcendentalism amounts to a school of practical spiritual thought that aims to guide the individual toward inner development. Read More and Order
	The Spiritual Teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard G. Geldard Introduction by Robert Richardson Lindisfarne Books - 2001 "We scarcely know what we have in Emerson-- an American teacher who made the world's wisdom his own and converted it into a code for experiencing life fully yet decently. Richard G. Geldard has written a magnificent book through which Emerson's teaching becomes again an instigator." - ROGER LIPSEY, author of An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art. Read More and Order
	Remembering Heraclitus RICHARD G. GELDARD Lindisfarne Books - 2000 This book has British and Greek Editions 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. Read More and Order
	God in Concord Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite RICHARD G. GELDARD Larson Publications -1998 God in Concord traces Emerson's private journey to the intersection of the seeking mind with the realm of the Infinite. Emerson undertook this journey without the benefit of tradition. That is, rather than depend on sacred texts, the great books, or the received traditions of his day, he struck out on his own. Each day was an opportunity. Each encounter was a revelation. And insofar as the day was filled with perceptions, it was fruitful. Read More and Order
	The Travelers Key to Ancient Greece A Guide to Sacred Places RICHARD GELDARD QUEST BOOKS - 2001 This book has British, Italian and Czech Editions This book is an excellent starting point for anyone remotely interested in the ancient Greeks - not merely the most famous ones of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. Here interweave myth, mystery, knowledge, mysticism (Pythagorean and Orphic introductions), plus excellent explanations of attributes and psychological aspects related to the gods. – Amazon Reader Review Read More and Order
	The Vision of Emerson *Introduced and edited by Richard Geldard* THE SPIRIT OF PHILOSOPHY SERIES Published by Vega, London This book has Japanese and Russian Editions Ralph Waldo Emerson's vision of the infinitude of the private individual has served as the bedrock of America's deepest cultural values for more than 150 years. Nothing, Emerson taught, is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. This inspiring volume takes the reader directly to the depths of Emerson's uniquely American approach to the perennial issues of human nature, revealing him him as both a literary giant and philosopher par excellence. Read More and Order

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Awakening to the Infinite

The Travelers Key to Ancient Greece

A Guide to Sacred Places