Gerald was the man who introduced
Bill to Aldous Huxley. I suspect that Gene
Exman (the religious editor over at Harper
that Bill visited with the first 2 chapters
of the Big Book)introduced Bill to Gerald.
Anyway, Bill (and Lois) first visited Heard on
a trip to California in 1941. Heard had been
practicing yoga and earnestly studying the
Scriptures of many of the world's great
religions. Heard wrote many books on the
subject of God, religion and also UFO's (a
subject that Bill was very interested in and
would talk to Heard about at lengths). One of
Heard's books even made it into Dr. Bob's
library ” "A Preface to Prayer."
Tom Powers often said that Heard was one of
Bill's sponsors. Heard was particularly
influenced by Sri Ramakrishna and Heard
donated his Monastery, Trabucco Canyon, to
the Vedanta Society of Southern California,
to be run by Swami Prabhavananda.
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