Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century

Howard Bloom is the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project, executive editor of the New Paradigm book series, and a board member of the Epic of Evolution Society. He’s also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the European Sociobiological Society, and the Academy of Political Science. He has been featured in every edition of Who's Who in Science and Engineering since the publication’s inception. He is a visiting scholar at New York University. In 1995 Bloom founded an informal academic circle called “The Group Selection Squad,” whose efforts precipitated radical reevaluations of ncoDarwinist dogma within the scientific community. In 1997, he founded a new discipline, paleopsychology, whose participants have included physicists, psychologists, microbiologists, paleontologists, entomologists, neuroscientists, paleoneurologists, invertebrate zoologists, and systems theorists. The introduction to Bloom’s theories, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995), has undergone eleven printings and been the focus of considerable attention in the scientific community. Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson (coauthor of Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior) said Bloom “raced ahead of the timid scientific herd” with a “grand vision” that “we do strive as individuals, but we are also part of something larger than ourselves, with a complex physiology and mental life that we carry out but only dimly understand.” Added Elizabeth F. Loftus, past president of the American Psychological Society: Bloom has achieved “a revolutionary vision of the relationship between psychology and history. The Lucifer Principle will have a profound impact on our concepts of human nature. It is astonishing that a book of this importance could be such a pleasure to read.” Howard Bloom lives and works in New York City.