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Howard Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain.
Bloom has been called the next Stephen Hawking by Gear Magazine and the Darwin, Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Sigmund Freud of the 21st Century by Britain's Channel4 TV. Christopher Boehm, the director of the Jane Goodall Research Institute says, “Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he’s doing every minute of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution.” And The New Yorker says, “For those who worry that our ingenuity has upset nature's equilibrium, Bloom has a message that is both reassuring and sobering. ‘We are nature incarnate,’ he writes. ‘We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the future not to turn.’”
One would expect that a man who has attracted these quotes would be staid and bland. Bloom is just the opposite. To achieve his research goals, Bloom went on a 20-year Voyage of the Beagle into what he calls “the Galapagos Islands of mass emotion”, acting as a career advisor to Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bette Midler, Bob Marley, David Byrne, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, Kiss, Aerosmith, Queen, and AC/DC. He tested his hypotheses in the lab of the real world, helping Sony establish its first software beachhead in the United States and helping Disney launch the three films that made it a vibrant, modern company in the late 20th Century. The result is an extraordinary insight into the everything from today’s headlines to the emotions affecting you as you read this page.
Bloom is a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate Psychology Department at New York University, the author of two books-- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History (“mesmerizing”—The Washington Post) and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century (“wonderful!”—Georgie Anne Geyer). He is Founder of the International Paleopsychology Project; a founding board member of the Epic of Evolution Society; a founding council member of The Darwin Project and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, and the International Society of Human Ethology.
Says Holland’s Marcel Roele, science advisor to the Dutch TV series Het Gevoel Van Der Poel, which did an hour-long special starring Bloom and based on his book Global Brain—“Howard Bloom is probably the only person alive today who can make original and insightful comments on current political developments in the US, Far East or Middle East with the benefit of knowledge of the evolution of the universe in the past 13 billion years. It’s as if Bloom were an immortal observer from a different universe.”
Concludes author Joseph Chilton Pierce, "I am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what Howard Bloom has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom's on the planet.”
