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Howard Bloom “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.’” The New Yorker “I am speechless with admiration, overwhelmed by virtuosity.” Walter J. Freeman, M.D. Walter J. Freeman Neurophysiology Lab, UC Berkeley, author How Brains Make Up Their Mind Gear Magazine says, “Howard Bloom…may just be the new Stephen Hawking, only he’s not interested in science alone; he’s interested in the soul.” Britain’s Channel4 TV says, “Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller…he is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us.” Author Joseph Chilton Pierce says, “I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom's on the planet.” And Holland’s leading science writer, Marcel Roele says, “Howard Bloom is the only person I know with knowledge of and interest in the behavior of all organisms, processes in evolution that have been going on for billions of years, but also the most ephemeral cultural phenomena. Bloom's 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.” Christopher Boehm, director of the Jane Goodall Research Center, makes an even more unusual declaration: “Howard Bloom should be taking notes on what he does every hour of the day. He is single-handedly creating a scientific revolution.” Bloom has created two new fields: paleopsychology and mass behavior. His next goal is to establish a discipline 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—physics, mathematics, nucleocosmochronology, biology, psychology, geopolitics, the arts; the evolution of galaxies, bacteria, crustaceans, lizards, and Homo sapiens; and the emergence of human tribes, world history, religion, mysticism, rationality, war, hatred, delight, science, and technology. 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 got his start in science early. He dove into cosmology, theoretical physics, and microbiology at the age of ten, built his first Boolean algebra machine when he was twelve, crafted the concept for a Westinghouse-Science-Prize-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, did research on programmed learning at Rutgers University’s graduate school of education before his freshman year of college, has lectured at Wesleyan, NYU, and The University of Georgia, and is a visiting scholar in NYU’s Graduate Psychology Department. Bloom 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 the author of two critically-acclaimed books, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century. During 20 years of innovative fieldwork, Bloom tested his theories of mass emotion in the laboratory of reality. Bloom helped shape the careers of Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run DMC, Bob Marley, Kiss, Queen, ZZ Top, AC/DC, and Aerosmith, among others. Bloom wrote position papers for two winning political candidates, founded and ran the leading national anti-censorship group of the mid-1980s (Music in Action), 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. National Medal of Science winning biologist Lynn Margulis has called Bloom’s work, “a stunning commitment to scientific evidence.” Bloom’s fieldwork in mass behavior has made him an acknowledged expert on human nature, pre-biotic evolution, the evolution of sociality, music, film, politics, the press, and the corporate world. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Nightwatch, BBC-TV, Australia’s Lateline, England’s Disinfonation, and CNN. He and his scientific theories have been the subject of two television specials in Holland—one of which was three hours long. The French have said that Bloom is “the anti-Rousseau”, and that his work The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History is “the most important book since Darwin.” Howard Bloom’s approach to science is probably summed up best in his “Manifesto For Omnology.” “We are blessed with a richness of specializations,” he writes, “but cursed with a paucity of panoptic disciplines—categories of knowledge that concentrate on seeing the patterns that emerge when one views all the sciences at once. Hence we need a field dedicated to the panoramic, an academic base for the promiscuously curious, a discipline whose mandate is best summed up in a paraphrase of the poet Andrew Marvel: ‘Let us roll all our strength and all Our knowledge up into one ball, And tear our visions with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life.’” Please sign my guestbook! 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