Genius of The Beast: Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom discusses his new book "The Genius Of The Beast A Radical Revision of Capitalism"
The Genius of the Beast by Howard Bloom Is global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving questions raised by the Great Crash of 2009. A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism.
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- 2010 Howard Bloom, National Space Society Board of Governors
- 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
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Teachers Interdisciplinary Science
"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
PLAY
One of my personal favorites happens to be:
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,
- was 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