Gerald Heard

Gerald Heard
Born	Henry FitzGerald Heard (1889-10-06)6 October 1889 London, England
Died	14 August 1971(1971-08-14) (aged 81) Santa Monica, California
Other names	Henry FitzGerald Heard
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Occupations	Science writer historian philosopher novelist
Partner	Christopher Wood
Website	geraldheard.com

Henry FitzGerald Heard^[1] (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-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.