WHO IS HOWARD BLOOM?
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- been in the press since 1969
- written for the _Washington Post_, Knight Ridder, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Omni Magazine,
- been featured in the _New York Daily News_
- interviewed on, shows like _Good Morning America_
- been called a walking encyclopedia in print by _New York Magazine_
- had over 300 articles in print
- began writing career as a sideline to science,
- writing and editing for other scientists,
- edited a national magazine, elevating its circulation 211% in two years.
- according to a master's thesis on journalism on file at Texas A&M University, a thesis written by the East Coast Editor of Rolling Stone, founded a magazine genre
- won two National Academy of Poets prizes for another magazine
- edited, art-directed, etc.
- there are at least 22 pages on the Bloom-created craft of "perceptual engineering" in textbooks on the care and feeding of the press.
- Founder of the International Paleopsychology Project;
- Member:
- New York Academy of Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Psychological Society
- Academy of Political Science
- Human Behavior and Evolution Society
- European Sociobiological Society
- Board member: Epic of Evolution Society
International Paleopsychology Project
705 President Street - Brooklyn, NY 11215
phone 718 622 2278 - fax 718 398 2551
e-mail howard@paleopsych.org
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"The mind is the conversion of molecules of matter into spiritual photons of enlightement And into spiritual pheromones of communication -- Van Philpot
THE EXTENDED BRAIN
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 -- the idea that what we think of as "the brain" actually
extends far beyond the gray matter in our cerebrum. First, it's pretty
obvious that the brain is a mechanism in a broader meshwork within the
body. To function it tunes into such things as the hpa (hypothalamic/pituitary
axis) which plugs it in to the adrenal cortex down in the lower back
and to the gonads, even lower in most of us. The brain also plugs in
to the vagal nervous system, whose center is also well below the ribcage,
to the oxytocinergic system, distributed throughout the body, and is
influenced by such networks as the clocks located virtually everywhere
within us and the proprioceptive centers all over the body, those receptors
which tell us what position our face is in (facial
expression influences mood and vice versa), what sort of gestures our
fingers our making, what innner and outer cues our postural muscles
are giving off, etc.
-- Howard
Big Bang Tango - See Tango Masters Incarnate 9 minute flash presentation that explains the cosmos by uncovering the cosmic rules beneath biology’s mask.
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(7.20.2002) Global Brain I - Dr. J. talks with former rock promoter and respected scientific Renaissance man Howard Bloom about the intertwining themes of science, culture and art in his life.
(7.27.2002)
Global Brain II - Dr. J. talks with former rock promoter and respected scientific Renaissance man Howard Bloom about his book
Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st
Century. Bloom argues that the networking of global culture, accelerated
by telecommunications, is creating a form of superhuman intelligence.
Coast to Coast
Frederick Erickson, a socio-linguistic micro-analyst at Interaction Lab, Grad School of Ed, U of Pennsylvania, studies Rhythmic sychrony. (Psych Today, 11/87, pp. 37-8) 36b [has observed similar phenomena]
A researcher filmed children romping in a school playground at lunch hour each seemed to be "doing his own thing."
- BUT careful study showed that the group was moving in synchrony to a silent rhythm.
- One Little Girl, who seemed to be moving around more than the rest,
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what the author of Beyond Culture calls "the
[unconscious] director, the CR orchestrator" eventually, the researchers
found a tune that fit the rhythm. When they played it and rolled the
film, the two fit perfectly
-- for all of the film's four and a half minutes. - But there was no music playing in that playground, says the author, "Without knowing it, they were all moving to a beat they generated themselves." music and rhythm are part of what draw us into the larger body of the superorganism. 31b
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