![]() ![]() After working in other roles, he lectured from 1926 to 1929 for Oxford University's extramural studies programme. He studied history and theology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with honours in history. He grew to be an earnest, disciplined, resolute young man. The son of an Anglo-Irish clergyman, Heard was born in London. ![]() 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 in the 1950s and 1960s, including author Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He wrote many articles and over 35 books. Henry FitzGerald Heard (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-born American historian, science writer, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. ![]()
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