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Henry FitzGerald Heard〔( Official Website – Christened as Henry Fitz Gerald Heard )〕 (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known Americans, including Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the 1950s and 1960s. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s. == Early life == The son of an Anglo-Irish clergyman, Heard was born in London. 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''. Syracuse University Press, 1994. ISBN 0815626010, (pp. 231, 363).〕 In the 1920s and early 1930s, he acted as the personal secretary of Sir Horace Plunkett, founder of the cooperative movement, who spent his last years at Weybridge, England. Naomi Mitchison, 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 () who was shepherding him about fairly continually, apologized once for leaving a dinner party abruptly when H.P. was suddenly overwhelmed by exhaustion".〔Naomi Mitchison, "You may well ask", London, 1979, Part II, Chap. 12.〕 Heard studied history and theology at the University of Cambridge, 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. In 1929, he edited ''The Realist'', a short-lived monthly journal of scientific humanism (its sponsors included H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Julian Huxley, and Aldous Huxley). In 1927 Heard began lecturing for South Place Ethical Society. During this period he was Science Commentator for the BBC for five years.〔 From 1932 to 1942 he was a council member of the Society for Psychical Research. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerald Heard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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