Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom
Howard Bloomis an American author. He was a publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince, Billy Joel, and Styx. In 1988 he became disabled with chronic fatigue syndrome. Since then, he has published three books on human evolution and group behavior, The Genius of the Beast, Global Brain, and The Lucifer Principle...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 June 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.
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People are supposed to read it, maybe learn a little bit, maybe have a chuckle, and then have an interesting conversation. If that's what we do, we've accomplished our purpose.
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You go to Indiana and you can't help but feel the pulse of the event everywhere.
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It still seems somewhat of a pure event, something that athletes are doing for the pure joy of sports and winning.
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Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.
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In the two million years during which we climbed from stone-tool-wielding Homo erectus with sloping brows to high-foreheaded Homo urbanis - man, the inventor of the city - we underwent 60 glaciations, 60 ice ages.
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How does a cosmos without a bearded, bathrobed God in the sky pull off all the things that a bearded, bathrobed guy in the sky was supposed to have pulled off? If there was no God who said 'Let there be light,' where did we get all that light?
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Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
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How does the cosmos create? That's not just any question, it's 'the' question. It's the God Problem.
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Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.
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New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.
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My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.
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9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.
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Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.