About the Author: Walter Starcke
Walter Starcke's extraordinary life reads like fiction. In 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.
As playwright Tennessee Williams wrote of Starcke's unique approach, "With simple and deeply personal eloquence, Walter Starcke explores for us a way out of and above the finally fatal world of materialism."
In his career on Broadway, Starcke co-produced I Am a Camera, which became the musical Cabaret, and resulted in his being one of the youngest producers to have received the New York Drama Critic's Best Play Award. Starcke also collaborated with the playwright director, John Van Druten on his play Bell Book and Candle, which Van Druten dedicated to him, and served as his 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 current popularity. There, Starcke began KEY WEST HANDPRINT FABRICS, which became a national success with outlets across the country and gave birth to the Lily Pulitzer designs. For this, Starcke received the Key West Industrialist of the Year Award in 1962. In 1974, he returned to his native Texas and purchased a 367-acre ranch in the Texas Hill Country, which Starcke transformed into an internationally successful corporate retreat center for Fortune 500 companies.
For many years Starcke and his wife, Eron, lived on the Guadalupe River Ranch where they were co-managers and loved the hands on activite. Starcke also started another silk screen business on the ranch, which Eron not only ran, but became a successful designer. Guadaluep Hand Prints became a nationally know custom business with Walter's marketing abilities.
Starcke's life was about Trusting the Process and this he successeed in in all areas of his life. The real focus of his life was always his spiritual growth. Starcke's all consuming fire to find universal truths lead him to circle 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. As Joel knew himself, they was much more to reveal and share, which Starcke continued to do through his life.
At the INTERNATIONAL NEW THOUGHT ALLIANCE conference in 2001, Starcke was awarded its Mystical Century Award. He holds a Doctor of Divinity degree from Emerson Theological Institute, and was on the Board of Directors for Unity School at Unity Village Missouri.
Before his death, he and Eron compeleted his last book, The Star Keys.
Walter's books and articles are avaiable on his website: walterstarcke.com.
Starcke indeed closed the gap between our Divine and our Humanity by giving us the Star Keys to make this Process a real possibility of us all.
In his best-selling classic, It's All God, modern mystic, Walter Starcke bridges the gap between our humanity and Divinity, as well as our traditional limited perspectives and our emerging Cosmic Consciousness.
With the insight of a biblical scholar, Starcke clarifies the foundational Truths of our Judeo-Christian tradition, as he takes humanity's spiritual roots forward into the light of the new state of human consciousness that is emerging today. His masterful knowledge of Scriptures unlocks the truths laid out in both the Old and New Testament not found in other metapshyical books. Starcke calls us to no longer separate God from our humanity and the world. With this awareness we understand that the teachings of Jesus have not been fully realized until now as humanity begins the new cycle of the Age of the Gods.
The awareness that It's All God is a requirement for living fully in this new Age of the Gods, which is this Golden Cycle we have just begun.
Starcke wrote that, "we have been given all the pieces, each necessary, none missing, and if we want to complete the picture it is up to us to stop excluding those parts of ourselves and of our feelings that we have thought did not belong in the picture. If God is truly the only Power and Presence, then every piece, no matter how seemingly negative, insignificant, or inappropriate, has a purpose. Instead of discarding those aspects of ourselves that seem faulty or unworthy, when we stop judging them and see what they are telling us, we can find a right place for those energies and then we can complete the puzzle."
In Part One his in-depth knowledge takes us from the traditional approach through the Gnostics, to clear in-sights on the teachings of Jesus and Paul. Uniquely Starcke relates these teachings to modern Quantum Physics and the evolution of Consciousness. Starcke is not only a Biblical scholar, but also well versed in the workings of consciousness, perceptions, and reality. Part One also includes Starcke's marvelous mystical insights and meditations.
In Part Two of It's All God, Starcke gives us the "how to's" of practical mysticism to apply Divine Truth to our daily lives. No matter where a reader is on the path, he will find the steps to greater awareness and the clarification of the puzzle humanity has been working on for countless lifetimes. "We are all on the right path at the right time. The time is Now." These how to's are not superficial, they require that we come to understand our True Self and live the Truth of our Being.
In part three Starcke takes us beyond our customary perspective into the realms of Higher Consciousness. These take us clearly into the new cycle, The Age of the Gods.
The realization that It's All God is the key to spiritual healing, true transformative forgiveness, and the daily expression of our Divine humanity. It is a book whose time has come. We are now ready as never before to delve into it's insights and live it's Truths. It's All God is required reading for many ministerial programs and should now be require reading for us all to live fully during this new cycle far beyond 2012. Starcke was not only ahead of his time, but a master for all Ages with tools for the rest of our journey in awareness as we live fully as Divine Humans.
