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Henry FitzGerald Heard (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a
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,
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, public lecturer,
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, and
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. He wrote many articles and over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people in the 1950s and 1960s, including author
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,
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,
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, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of
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. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the
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since the 1960s.


Early life

The son of an
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clergyman, Heard was born in
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. He grew to be an earnest, disciplined, resolute young man. Heard studied history and theology at
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, graduating with honours in history. After working in other roles, he lectured from 1926 to 1929 for Oxford University's extramural studies programme. Heard took a strong interest in developments in the sciences and, in 1929, edited ''
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, and
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. In 1927 Heard began lecturing for the
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. During the 1930s he became the first science commentator for the
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. As a young man, he worked for the Agricultural Cooperative Movement in Ireland.Charles Chatfield, Ruzanna Iliukhina ''Peace/Mir: An Anthology of Historic Alternatives to War''.
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, 1994. , (pp. 231, 363). In the 1920s and early 1930s, he acted as the personal secretary of Sir
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, founder of the cooperative movement, who spent his last years at
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, who admired Plunkett and was a friend of Heard, wrote of that time: "H.P., as we all called him, was getting past his prime and often ill but struggling to go on with the work to which he was devoted. Gerald eardwho was shepherding him about fairly continually, apologized once for leaving a dinner party abruptly when H.P. was suddenly overwhelmed by exhaustion". In the mid-1920s, Heard began a romantic relationship with socialite Christopher Wood, the young heir to a large grocery fortune, with whom he lived in London; by around 1935, however, Heard had declared himself
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, through he continued to cohabit with Wood. Horace Plunkett owned real estate in the U.S. states of
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, and left some properties to Heard in his will.


Career

Heard first embarked as a book author in 1924, but ''The Ascent of Humanity'', published in 1929, marked his first foray into public acclaim, as it received the
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's
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. From 1930 to 1934, he served as a science and current-affairs commentator for the BBC. From 1932 to 1942, Heard was a council member of the
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. In 1931 Heard had initiated an informal research group to look into developing group-mindedness or group communications, which became known as
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because several of its members were engineers who afterwards were involved in the early development of
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.
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also participated actively in the group. After 1936, Heard broke with Mitchison over her outspoken support for the Republicans in the
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and her attempt, together with other members of the group, to run arms to Republican Spain. In his last letter to Mitchison, Heard expressed his sympathy for the victims of the war in Spain but compared the taking of sides in a war to "The relatives of a patient suffering from a deadly disease believing that he is curable by a
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(...) I am convinced that the way civilization is going is fatal, and the usual remedies only inflame the disease". Meanwhile, Heard played a minor part in the development of the
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. Heard became well known as an advocate for pacifism and argued for the transformation of behaviour through
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and "disciplined
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". In 1937 he emigrated to the United States to give some lectures at
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. Heard was accompanied by Aldous Huxley; Huxley's wife, Maria; and their son Matthew Huxley. In the United States, Heard's main activities were writing, lecturing, and the occasional radio or television appearance. He had developed an identity as an informed individual who recognised no intrinsic conflict among history, science, literature, and theology. Though he lectured at Duke, Heard turned down the offer of a post there and traveled west to settle in California. Heard was the first among a group of literati friends (several others of whom, including
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, were also British) to discover
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and
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. Heard became an initiate of Vedanta. Like that of his friend Aldous Huxley (another in the circle), the essence of Heard's mature outlook was that a human being can effectively pursue intentional evolution of consciousness. He maintained a regular discipline of meditation, along the lines of
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, for many years. He took interest in
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and was a member of the
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. Heard concluded that the impediment to be addressed was "the problem of letting in a free flow of comprehension beyond the everyday threshold of experience while keeping the mind clear." In 1942, he founded
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as a facility where
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studies and practices could be pursued. It was essentially a cooperative training center for the spiritual life.
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,
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, ''The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape''. Chronicle Books, 2006, (p. 154). Living as a freelance scholar, Heard had enjoyed security in America by way of what he had inherited from Horace Plunkett as well as his own family. He used some of his inherited resources toward this most ambitious of projects. The idealistic experiment required land, and Heard bought 300 acres in
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, in the
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. Heard was the guiding light and a helpful resident sage but, by nature, he was neither an organizer nor a manager. Felix Greene, a nephew of Christopher Isherwood, had filled those roles. Professionally, Greene ultimately pursued a career in
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and film-making, but at the founding of Trabuco, he had exercised some talent in the planning of
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and land-development. Soon after the very able Greene left the community and got married, the practical side of life at Trabuco College began to slide. Heard deeded the land and facilities to the
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, which still maintains the facility as a
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monastery and retreat.


Psychedelics

In 1954 Heard tried
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and, in 1955 tried
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. He felt that, used properly, these had strong potential to "enlarge Man's mind" by allowing a person to see beyond his ego. In August 1956,
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founder Bill Wilson first took LSD—under Heard's guidance and with the officiating presence of
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, a psychiatrist then with the California Veterans Administration Hospital. According to Wilson, the session allowed him to re-experience a spontaneous spiritual experience he had had years before, which had enabled him to overcome his own alcoholism. In the late 1950s, Heard also worked with psychiatrist Cohen to introduce others to LSD, including
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and
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. With experience, Heard arrived at a judicious view of the value of psychedelics, since at their best the insights and ecstasies they facilitate are temporary states. Religion writer Don Lattin wrote that Heard's view was "LSD might provide an experience of the great mysteries, but it offered no instant answers." Heard delivered a series of public lectures, as part of the Sequoia Seminars program, on the topics of history, sciences, and cultural issues, also going into his views on the metaphysical connection with higher realities or Divine realms. The program was offered in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Ben Lomond, California, not far from Stanford University. He mentioned the potential value of psychedelic substances (which were not yet banned or highly controlled at that time). Heard was responsible for introducing the then unknown
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to
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. Smith became one of the pre-eminent religious studies scholars in the United States. His book ''The World's Religions'' is a classic in the field, has sold over two million copies and is considered a particularly useful introduction to comparative religion. The meeting with Huxley led eventually to Smith's connection to
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.


Five Ages of Man

In 1963, what some consider to be Heard's ''magnum opus'', a book titled ''The Five Ages of Man'', was published. According to Heard, the prevalent developmental stage among humans in today's well-industrialized societies (especially in the West) should be regarded as the fourth: the "humanic stage" of the "total individual," who is ''mentally'' dominated, feeling him- or herself to be autonomous, ''separate'' from other persons. Heard writes (p. 226) this stage is characterised by "the basic humanic concept of a mankind that is completely self-seeking because it is completely individualized into separate physiques that can have direct knowledge of only their own private pain and pleasure, inferring but faintly the feelings of others. Such a race of ingenious animals, each able to see and to seek his own advantage, must be kept in combination with each other by appealing to their separate interests." In modern industrial societies, a person, especially if educated, has the opportunity to begin entering the "first maturity" of the humanic "total individual" in his or her mid teens. However, according to Heard, a fifth stage is in the process of emerging, a post-individual psychological phase of persons and therefore of culture. According to Heard, the second maturity can be one that lies beyond "personal success, economic mastery, and the psychophysical capacity to enjoy life" (p. 240) Heard termed this phase "Leptoid Man" (from the Greek word ''lepsis'': "to leap") because humans increasingly face the opportunity to "take a leap" into a considerably expanded consciousness, in which the various aspects of the psyche will be integrated, without any aspects being repressed or seeming foreign. A society that recognises this stage of development will honour and support individuals in a "second maturity" who wish to resolve their inner conflicts and dissolve their inner blockages and become the sages of the modern world. Further, instead of simply enjoying biological and psychological health, as Freud and other important psychiatric or psychological philosophers of the "total-individual" phase conceived, Leptoid man will not only have entered a meaningful "second maturity" recognised by his or her society, but can then become a human of developed spirituality, similar to the mystics of the past; and a person of wisdom. But collectively and culturally we are still in the transitional phase, not really recognising an identity beyond the super-individualistic fourth, "humanic" phase. Heard's views were cautionary about developments in society that were not balanced, about inappropriate aims of our use of technological power. He wrote: "we are aware of our precarious imbalance: of our persistent and ever-increasing production of power and our inadequacy of purpose; of our critical analytic ability and our creative paucity; of our triumphantly efficient technical education and our ineffective, irrelevant education for values, for meaning, for the training of the will, the lifting of the heart, and the illumination of the mind."


Death

Toward the end of his life, Heard was given a bit of financial assistance by
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and
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. Heard died on 14 August 1971 at his home in
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, of the effects of several earlier strokes he had, beginning in 1966. At his request there were no memorial services, and his body was donated to the Willed Body Program at
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.


Fiction

Heard wrote fiction under the name H.F. Heard. This included three detective novels about Mr. Mycroft (implied to be
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after his retirement).
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(editor).''Encyclopedia Mysteriosa'', MacMillan, 1994, (p. 159) Mr. Mycroft and his friend, Mr. Silchester, appeared in three novels: ''
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'', 1941 (televised in 1955 as ''Sting of Death'' and filmed, as ''
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'', 1967); ''Reply Paid;'' and ''The Notched Hairpin''. ''The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales'' and ''The Lost Cavern and Other Tales of the Fantastic'' are collections of stories that include both science fiction and ghost stories. Hugh Lamb has described ''The Great Fog'' and ''The Lost Cavern'' as "two splendid books of short stories".Hugh Lamb, "Heard, H.F." in Jack Sullivan (ed) (1986) ''
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'', Viking Press, 1986, (p. 199). ''The Black Fox'' is an occult thriller featuring
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. ''Doppelgangers'' is a
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, influenced by Huxley's ''
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'', set after the "Psychological Revolution."
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described ''Doppelgangers'' as "in style and imagination, the most exciting and provocative piece of science fiction since the heyday of
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." Francis M. Nevins, (editor), ''The Anthony Boucher Chronicles''. Ramble House. (pp. 416–17).


Bibliography

Non-fiction * 1924 ''Narcissus: An Anatomy of Clothes'' * 1929 ''The Ascent of Humanity'' * 1931 ''The Emergence of Man'' * 1931 ''Social Substance of Religion: An Essay of the Evolution of Religion'' * 1932 ''This Surprising World: A Journalist Looks at Science'' * 1934 ''These Hurrying Years: An Historical Outline 1900–1933'' * 1935 ''Science in the Making'' * 1935 ''The Source of Civilization'' * 1936 ''The Significance of the New Pacifism'' (Published in ''The New Pacifism'') * 1936 ''Exploring the Stratosphere'' * 1937 ''The Third Morality'' * 1937 ''Science Front, 1936'' * 1939 ''Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man'' * 1940 ''The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer'' * 1941-1942 ''Training for the Life of the Spirit'' * 1941 ''The Code of Christ: An Interpretation of the Beatitudes'' * 1941 ''Man The Master'' * 1942 ''A Dialogue in the Desert'' * 1944 ''The Recollection'' * 1944 ''A Preface to Prayer'' * 1945 ''The Gospel According to Gamaliel'' * 1946 ''The Eternal Gospel'' * 1948 ''Is God Evident?: An Essay Toward a Natural Theology'' * 1949 ''Prayers and Meditations: A Monthly Cycle Arranged for Daily Use'' (edited by Gerald Heard) * 1950 ''Is God in History?: An Inquiry into Human and Prehuman History in Terms of the Doctrine of Creation, Fall, and Redemption'' * 1950 ''Morals Since 1900'' * 1950 ''Is Another World Watching?: The Riddle of the Flying Saucers'' * 1952 ''Gabriel and the Creatures'' (UK edition entitled ''Wishing Well'') * 1955 ''The Human Venture'' * 1959 ''Training For a Life of Growth'' * 1964 ''The Five Ages of Man: The Psychology of Human History'' Fiction (published under H.F. Heard) * 1941 ''
A Taste for Honey ''A Taste for Honey'' is a 1941 mystery novel by H. F. Heard. Background ''A Taste for Honey'' was the first of three novels Heard wrote about a Mr. Mycroft, strongly implied to be an elderly Sherlock Holmes in retirement on the Sussex Downs. T ...
'' * 1942 ''Murder by Reflection'' * 1942 ''Reply Paid: A Mystery'' * 1944 ''The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales'' * 1947 ''Doppelgangers: An Episode of the Fourth, The Psychological, Revolution'' * 1947 '' The President of the United States, Detective'' * 1948 ''The Lost Cavern and Other Tales of the Fantastic'' * 1949 ''The Notched Hairpin: A Mycroft Mystery'' * 1950 ''The Black Fox: A Novel of the Seventies''


See also

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References

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External links

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Gerald Heard Official Biography
by Jay Michael Barrie at the Gerald Heard website *


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Gerald Heard Bibliography 1900–1978 (work in progress ... 50% complete)
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