"Howard Bloom may just be the new Stephen Hawking, only he's not interested in science alone; he's interested in the soul." Aaron Hicklin--Gear
Howard Bloom almost single-handedly carved out two new fields: paleopsychology, and mass behavior. His next goal is to establish a field he calls ?omnology? Bloom?s cross-disciplinary theories trace crowd patterns from the precipitation of the first protons in the Big Bang to future trends in the life of humankind. For Bloom, mass behavior, paleopsychology, and omnology are fields that encompass nearly everything man can know.
At the center of Bloom?s quest has been a scientific pursuit of what he calls ?the gods within, the personal passions, and the dark underbelly of individual and mass emotion.? Bloom crafted the concept for an award-winning computer at the age of thirteen, participated in research on the immune system at the world?s largest cancer research center (The Roswell Park Memorial Cancer Research Institute in Buffalo, NY) at sixteen, has done research on programmed learning at Rutgers University?s graduate school of education, and has lectured at Wesleyan, NYU, and The University of Georgia.
Testing his theories of mass emotion in the brutal lab of reality, Bloom helped shape the careers of Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, Run DMC, Bob Marley, Kiss, AC/DC, and Aerosmith, among others. Bloom wrote position papers for two winning political candidates, helped Sony establish its software beachhead in the US, helped turn Disney from an antique to a major player in the film world of the late 20th century, and helped guide Warner Brothers, CBS, and Paramount into new territory. From each of these experiences Bloom milked new scientific insights, insights that have given his scientific theories a remarkable depth.
Howard Bloom's first book, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into The Forces of History, was a shock to those who believe that the greed of genes turns us into selfish loners. But Bloom's second volume, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, will come as an even bigger surprise. Says Elizabeth Loftus, past president of the American Psychological Society: "Howard Bloom's Global Brain is filled with scientific firsts. It is the first book to make a strong, solidly backed, and theoretically original case that we do not live the lonely lives of selfish beings driven by selfish genes, but are parts of a larger whole. It is the first to propose that sociality was implicit in the start of the universe--the Big Bang. Global Brain is the first book to present strong evidence that evolutionary, biological, perceptual, and emotional mechanisms have made us parts of a social learning machine--a mass mind which includes all species of life, not just humankind. It is the first to take this idea out of the realm of mysticism and into the sphere of hard-nosed, data-derived reality. And it is one of the few books which carry off such grand visions with energy, excitement, and keen insight."
Howard Bloom's Books:
Lucifer Principle
