New Video Lecture Series by Dr. Pierre Grimes on Platonic Philosophy

Dr. Pierre Grimes recorded over 100 video lectures in the 1990's for the series Wisdom Literature in the Platonic Tradition, the DVDs of which are available from Opening Mind Associates.  Many of these lectures are available in full or in part at Opening Mind's YouTube channel or can be found by doing a YouTube search for "Pierre Grimes".  I have been thoroughly enjoying these, and watching them feels like sitting in on Pierre's classes.  I especially dig his treatment of Proclus as well as the dialogues of Plato.  I feel that having this resource available has made these Platonic texts more accessible and helpful for guiding one through the forest of primary sources.  Also highly recommended are the short series of interviews Coffee with Pierre.

Plato's Republic

I happened to be searching for more information on Pierre himself and came across a whole new video series on Platonic Philosophy over at academyofplatonicstudies.com.  It looks like they are doing a weekly session and then posting the material as they go along.  The video quality has improved a great deal from the 1990's videos.  The best thing is that they are all available for full download, and run usually 60-90 minutes.  Topics have covered much of the best from Plato, Plotinus, and Proclus, and it will be exciting to check back regularly and follow along on a weekly basis.  Especially valuable to me are the lecture cycles on the Timaeus, Parmenides, and Proclus' Commentary on the Parmenides.  I'm sure I will find all of them wonderful as I start digging in to the Platonic corpus in time.  It is a blessing that we have free access to such immense wisdom teachings on the internet today.  Thank you so much Pierre and blessings to you!

Here's a link to the videos: http://academyofplatonicstudies.com/video

Dr. Pierre Grimes

Here's a bit of background and description of Pierre from http://openingmind.com/bground.htm :

"Pierre Grimes is the founder of the Philosophical Midiwifery movement, which is an adaptation of Socratic midwifery, and is a mode of philosophical counseling. The Pierre Grimes in the flesh! name Philosophical Midiwifery comes from Plato's dialogue, the Theaetetus. In that dialogue, Socrates refers to his art as midwifery because he assists in the delivery of men who are pregnant with either true ideas or with false beliefs. Socrates calls it an art because it is the application of a knowledge that benefits the subject. It is a purely rational method of pursuing questions, a dialectic, that uncovers false beliefs, traces them to their origins, and through understanding their roots and influence on one's life deflates their influence."

Pierre Grimes is the author of several books on his teachings of Philosophical Midwifery.  Please see the Amazon links below if you would like to obtain these.