WALTER STARCKE

Walter Starcke’s extraordinary life reads like fiction, but it’s true! On his quest for life’s ultimate answers and with his uncanny ability to perpetually reinvent himself, he has donned the role of modern mystic, Broadway producer, successful business entrepreneur, powerful keynote speaker and author of six best-selling books, It’s All God, The Third Appearance, The Double Thread, The Ultimate Revolution, The Gospel of Relativity, and Homesick for Heaven.

In his career on Broadway, Starcke co-produced I AM A CAMERA which led to the musical CABARET, and resulted in his being one of the youngest producers to have received the NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS AWARD. He also served as Assistant Director on the original production of Roger and Hammerstein’s THE KING AND I. Starcke’s friends in his theater days ranged from such literary giants as Noel Coward, Cole Porter, and his own peer group of friends – Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Marlon Brando, and Paul Newman, who Starcke discovered and introduced to Paul’s first agent.

His business successes include the establishment of the OLD ISLAND RESTORATION FOUNDATION in Key West Florida, which was greatly responsible for Key West’s popularity, and for this he received the KEY WEST INDUSTRIALIST OF THE YEAR award in 1962. In 1974, Starcke returned to his native Texas and purchased a 367-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country, which he transformed into an internationally successful corporate retreat center for Fortune 500 companies.

At the INTERNATIONAL NEW THOUGHT ALLIANCE conference in 2001, Starcke was awarded its MYSTICAL CENTURY award. Starcke holds a Doctor of Divinity degree from Emerson Theological Institute, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Unity School at Unity Village Missouri.

After serving as a Naval Officer in the Second World War, Starcke’s all consuming fire to find universal truths lead him to travel the world a half dozen times to study the major world religions. This trek took him from Lama Govinda’s ashram at the border of Tibet to the Vedanta monastery in Southern California, with Swami Prabhavananda, in the days that Aldus Huxley and Christopher Sherwood were there. As Starcke says, “they were setting the patterns in the late forties for the explosion of interest in the mystical and metaphysical movement that is taking place today.”

His mentor and most influential teacher was the Christian mystic and author of THE INFINITE WAY, Joel S. Goldsmith - an association that began in 1946 and lasted until Goldsmith’s death eighteen years later. Starcke traveled extensively with Goldsmith, who introduced him from the platform at his first talk in New York and in London, and asked Starcke to lead many of his meditations.

After over 40 years of silence, Starcke reveals the private side of Joel Goldsmith and the sometimes tumultuous and often inspiring experiences included in their eighteen year relationship in his latest book release, Joel Goldsmith and I: The Inside Story of a Relationship with a Modern Mystic. As Alan Cohen commented on the book, “A rare, compelling, and penetrating view into one of the great metaphysicians of our time, through the eyes of another master teacher, Walter Starcke. The portrait of Goldsmith the genius as well as the person, inspires me to walk in absolute faith. This book will stand on many shelves as a classic teaching.”

At the young age of 86, Starcke continues to amaze and inspire with his teachings that close the gap between our divinity and our humanity. He lectures nationwide, and offers seminars and intensives in select cities.

For more information on Starcke’s books, tapes and lecture dates contact the GUADALUPE PRESS, P.O. Box 865, Boerne, Texas, 78006 or call 830-537-4655.
www.walterstarcke.com