“Gerald Heard, as Huxley’s spiritual mentor, must be acknowledged as true grandfather of the New Age.”
Charles E. Vernoff

“Gerald’s The Five Ages of Man is where he can be seen as the savant, the repository of the most encompassing cosmology of his generation.”
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

“Gerald Heard is that rare being — a learned man who makes his mental home on the vacant spaces between the pigeon-holes.”
Aldous Huxley

"Mr. Heard’s controversial books are brilliantly and provocatively written.”
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

“Gerald Heard was unrivaled as a catalyst for the propagation of Vedanta, largely because he sparked the interest of people who would, in turn, reach millions of others."
Philip Goldberg

“Heard is the only man I ever listen to on the wireless. He makes human life come alive.”
H. G. Wells

“I can truly say he broadened my vision of religion and spirituality.”
Dave Brubeck

“In Gerald Heard I experienced what I would call the aura of sanctity.”
Dr. (Hon.) Rhea A. White

“His mastery in the fields of anthropology and psychology makes for fresh and creative interpretations of history... to establish more firmly the realities of religious faith.”
The New Christianity

“Heard’s work... was one of the ideological sources of the human potential movement and was also instrumental in the spreading of Vedanta in the Western hemisphere.”
Georg Feuerstein

“Gerald Heard is a scientist, seer, and a saint. The combination is impressive. Mr. Heard speaks with precision and clearness on profound themes.”
John Haynes Holmes

“When you attend one of his lectures you do not feel that you are listening to a prepared address, but to the most natural, brilliant and stimulating conversation.”
W. Somerset Maugham

“Considering the whole panorama of human life, historic, anthropologic and archeologic, Mr. Heard may well be the best informed  man alive.”
William H. Sheldon

“Heard’s book [Pain, Sex and Time] converted me from the scientific worldview... to the vaster world of the mystics.”
Professor Huston Smith

“He feels deeply the spiritually poverty-stricken state of our modern world, and our need of a rebirth of personal religion.”
Willard L. Sperry