Gerald Heard
Henry FitzGerald Heard (1889 - 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was an English-born American historian, science writer and broadcaster, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books.
Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s.
Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people from the 1940s through the 1960s, including Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s.
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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
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2000
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The Burning Glass: The Life of Naomi Mitchison
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1997
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You May Well Ask: A Memoir, 1920 - 1940
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1979
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Between the Pigeonholes: Gerald Heard, 1889 - 1971
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2008
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Gerald Heard: The Perennial Philosopher: Writings on Religion and Spirituality
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