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Richard Geldard is a
writer and lecturer living in New York City and the Hudson Valley. He is married
to the artist and writer Astrid Fitzgerald.
Before turning to writing he was an administrator and teacher at the secondary,
undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to his retirement, his graduate
appointments were to the faculties of the Holmes Institute for the Study of
Consciousness, the Pacifica Graduate Institute and the University of
Philosophical Research.
He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, The Bread Loaf School of English at
Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he earned his doctorate in
Dramatic Literature and Classics in 1972. He also studied at St. John's College,
Oxford.
Geldard is the author of twelve books, including studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson
and Greek philosophy and culture. His most recent book is a novella, The
Magdalene Gates, released in June, 2019.
Is it not imperative on us that we do something, if we only work on a treadmill?
And, indeed, some sort of revolving is necessary to produce a center and nucleus of being.
Henry David Thoreau, Letters to a Spiritual Seeker