Gerald heard biography
H. G. Wells, pioneering science-fiction writer
“Heard is the only man Uncontrollable ever listen to on dignity wireless. He makes human poised come alive.”
Aldous Huxley, prominent author
“Gerald Heard is that rare paper — a learned man who arranges his mental home on nobleness vacant spaces between the pigeon-holes.
He has looked into undiluted score of specialties and, magnet of what he has aberrant there, has constructed a complete picture of the world — a picture in which the well-nigh diverse elements of reality get their places and are denotative of in significant relationship.”
W. Somerset Author, famous playwright, novelist, and short-story writer
“Gerald Heard is a sparkling talker.
One of his happiest gifts is that when bolster attend one of his lectures you do not feel make certain you are listening to grand prepared address, but to representation most natural, brilliant and inspirational conversation.”
G. Lowes Dickinson, historian prep added to Cambridge Fellow
“If [the reader] derives from the book as luxurious interest and vision and Berserk have done myself he decision not regret any trouble soil may take in mastering primacy author's meaning.” (From Mr.
Dickinson's introduction to Gerald Heard’s The Ascent of Humanity.)
Christopher Isherwood, common novelist
“Gerald Heard is one snatch the very few who commode properly be called philosophers, grand man of brilliantly daring presumption and devoted practice.”
Professor Huston Sculptor, noted authority on the world's religions
“I determined that the whole [Pain, Sex and Time] esoteric so radically changed my depression of view, that I wouldn’t read anything else written hard him [Gerald Heard] until care for I received my degree, on the other hand once my PhD was disturb hand, I would read everything.”
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(Hon.) Rhea A. White, founder/director of The Exceptional Human Exposure Network
“By far the person dump has influenced me most evolution the former BBC science expert and practicing mystic, lecturer, additional spiritual advisor, Gerald Heard. ... It was not only queen ideas that influenced me however his very being, which was distinctly numinous and unlike anything I had previously experienced multiplicity have since.
... In Gerald Heard I experienced what Unrestrainable would call the aura flawless sanctity.”
Willard L. Sperry, former Monk, Harvard Divinity School
“Gerald Heard quite good a man of mature stylishness, of many contacts and fully awake understanding of the modern conjure up. He feels deeply the spiritually poverty-stricken state of our original world, and our need refreshing a rebirth of personal doctrine.
The simple directness of nomadic that he thinks and says stirs both the imagination ride the conscience of those effect whom he speaks.”
William H. Sheldon, American psychologist
“Considering the whole landscape of human life, historic, anthropologic and archeologic, Mr. Heard may well well be the best educated man alive.
He is of course one of the ablest personnel and one of the ascendant articulate speakers among English low people.”
Dave Brubeck, world-renowned jazz composer
“Gerald Heard had a brilliant accept … I can truly limitation that he broadened my far-sightedness of religion and spirituality.”
John Haynes Holmes, former minister of class Community Church of New York
“Gerald Heard is a scientist, drifting, and a saint.
The union is impressive. Mr. Heard speaks with precision and clearness vindication profound themes.”
The New Christianity
“To haunt thoughtful readers of this period, Gerald Heard's books give say publicly impression of a mind wellnigh uniquely profound, sensitive and contemporary among contemporary writers.
His flair in the fields of anthropology and psychology makes for develop and creative interpretations of history; and his remarkable equipment decline utilized in a way bear out establish more firmly the realities of religious faith.”
Ellery Queen
“Gerald Heard is the spiritual godfather decelerate this Western movement [i.e., rank Vedanta philosophy during the 1940s] ...
Mr. Heard’s controversial books are brilliantly and provocatively written.” (from the March 1947 channel of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
Georg Feuerstein, noted Indologist and Yoga authority
“Heard’s work — and forbidden published a number of wrapped up books — was one bequest the ideological sources of illustriousness human potential movement and was also instrumental in the pestiferous of Vedanta in the Colourfulness hemisphere.” (from Dr.
Feuerstein’s 2006 review of Heard’s book, Pain, Sex and Time)
Wikipedia
“His work was a forerunner of, and change on, the consciousness development irritability that has spread in position Western world since the 1960s.”
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder of integrity Jewish Renewal movement
“Gerald’s The Cardinal Ages of Man [is] vicinity he can be seen hoot the savant, the repository pointer the most encompassing cosmology go together with his generation.”
Charles E.
Vernoff, Old Professor of Religion at Businessman College, Iowa
“Gerald Heard — introduce Huxley's spiritual mentor — mildew be acknowledged as true oap of the New Age. Farcical believe Gerald's vision both preceded and transcended the attempted abstract revolution of the 1960’s.”
Philip Cartoonist, author of American Veda: Running away Emerson and the Beatles persecute Yoga and Meditation - Even so Indian Spirituality Changed the West
“Gerald Heard was unrivaled as exceptional catalyst for the propagation custom Vedanta, largely because he sparked the interest of people who would, in turn, reach lot of others.
His role fashionable accelerating the evolution of cognisance in the West was immense, thanks to his impact boxing match key movers and shakers count on the consciousness movement.”
William Stafford, Lyricist Laureate of Oregon
“Of Gerald Heard himself one trait was very noticeable … he was precisely cordial, unconcerned with passing accidents of existence, patient with party and things.”