{"id":35231,"date":"2012-10-22T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/distilled_spirits_traces_birth_of_new_age_spirituality\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:00:33","slug":"distilled_spirits_traces_birth_of_new_age_spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35231","title":{"rendered":"\u201d\u02dcDistilled Spirits\u2019 traces birth of New Age spirituality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Heard is the most influential religious thinker you\u2019ve never heard of.<\/p>\n<p>Without Heard, some of the major spiritual developments of 20th-century America &#8212; the introduction of Eastern mysticism, the development of the human potential movement and the spiritual use of psychedelic drugs &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>All bear the fingerprints of Heard, who has been called \u201cthe godfather of New Age\u201d\u009d &#8212; an Englishman born at the end of the Victorian era who migrated to California and died here in relative obscurity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/arts-and-media\/distilled-spirits-traces-birth-of-new-age-spirituality\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Heard is the most influential religious thinker you\u2019ve never heard of. Without Heard, some of the major spiritual developments of 20th-century America &#8212; the introduction of Eastern mysticism, the development of the human potential movement and the spiritual use<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35231\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,209,92,133,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-history","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}