Finding God in a Bottle

Gerald Heard is the most influential religious thinker you’ve never heard of.

Without Heard, some of the major spiritual developments of 20th-century America -- the introduction of Eastern mysticism, the development of the human potential movement and the spiritual use of psychedelic drugs -- might never have happened. And at least one skeptical California newspaperman named Don Lattin might never have sobered up, stopped using, and found a measure of serenity and faith.