Jay Michael Barrie

Jay Michael Barrie (1912-2001) served as Gerald Heard's personal secretary, business manager and editor, associated with Heard from their meeting in December 1944 until Heard's death in August 1971.

Primary Sources

The present work consolidates excerpts from "Some Reminiscences of Gerald Heard" by Jay Michael Barrie, published in Parapsychology Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, May-June 1972, Copyright 1972 Parapsychology Foundation, Inc., along with the “Introduction” to the 1975 edition of Training for the Life of the Spirit by Jay Michael Barrie, published by East Ridge Press, Copyright 1975 The Barrie Family Trust. Excerpts from "Some Reminiscences of Gerald Heard" by Jay Michael Barrie used by kind permission of the Parapsychology Foundation, Inc.

Supplementary information—primarily from the Heard Family genealogy prepared by Stawell St. Leger Heard, Gerald Heard publicity materials, and from testimony by Jay Michael Barrie—and textual revisions and emendations by John Roger Barrie, Copyright 2002 The Barrie Family Trust.

Many thanks to Stawell Heard Jr. and to Marvin Barrett for reading and offering their indispensable comments on the entire text. Equal thanks to Stawell St. Leger Heard who read and commented upon the section on Gerald Heard’s genealogy; to Dr. Rhodri Hayward of the University College, London, who read and commented upon the section on Gerald Heard’s 1920s to 1930s activities; and to Kate Targett, formerly of the Plunkett Foundation, who read and commented upon the section on Sir Horace Plunkett. Their valuable suggestions enormously benefited the text.