"I Have Met God, and He Lives in Brooklyn
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“I have met God, and he lives in Brooklyn. Or how the arch skeptic, dark lord of Disinformation becomes convinced, and tries to convince you the reader, that Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller and how he is going to change the way we see ourselves and everything around us.” Richard Metzger, Disinfo.com and Channel 4 TV, Britain ______ “I have always admired your ideas” Helen Fisher 3-1-2012 ________ “I hope your new edition is going well. I sent those few corrections and observations, but probably did not stress properly my intense admiration for your erudition and wisdom. The scope is vast and perhaps only you could handle it that way. Your chilling analyis of Islam is sobering.” Robin Fox, founder of the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University, advisory board member, Social Issues Research Center, editor, Biosocial Anthropology, editor, Neonate Cognition, author of Encounter with Anthropology; The Red Lamp of Incest: An Enquiry into the Origins of Mind and Society; The Violent Imagination; The Search For Society, co-author of The Imperial Animal and of Kinship and Marriage (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 50) ________ “Howard Bloom is a Nobel-level thinker. I take him very seriously.” Robert D. Steele is the author of ON INTELLIGENCE: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World (AFCEA International Press, 2000), and the founder and CEO of OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS Inc. (OSS), at www.oss.net. He and his company are featured in The Year in Computers (2000), he has been twice named to the Microtimes 100 list of “industry leaders and unsung heroes who…helped create the future”, and is featured in the chapter on “The Future of the Spy” in Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s WAR AND ANTI-WAR: Survival at the Dawn of the 21st Century, among other publications. Over the past decade he has managed 15 international conferences training over 5,000 intelligence professionals in the practice of open source intelligence (OSINT), and consulted to 18 governments on the open source contribution to all-source intelligence reform. He has written widely in the areas of information strategy, open source intelligence, and asymmetric warfare including information warfare. He was a founder and partner in the creation of the original information warfare conference, InfoWarCon, with Winn Schwartau, author of Information Warfare: Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway. In the course of a twenty-five year national security career, Mr. Steele has served as a Marine Corps infantry officer and service-level plans officer; fulfilled clandestine, covert action, and technical collection duties; been responsible for programming funds for overhead reconnaissance capabilities, contributed to strategic signals intelligence operations, managed an offensive counterintelligence program, initiated an advanced information technology project; and been the senior civilian responsible for founding a new national intelligence production facility. From Pierre Jovanovic, French publisher of The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century—9/11/01—the day the World Trade Center was attacked and destroyed. “Howard You were incredibly right You were howfully right I do not know what to tell you except that the unbelievable intelligence in your brain, in the worst of your time, came up like the most incredible force I have ever seen in my career. To tell you the truth I have the sensation to have sign the new Sigmund Freud. All this is so strange that I really think about the strange path of my destiny crossing yours. I was calling up all my reporter contacts to tell them that we are going to publish the most astonishing book and, above all, the most smartest book ever written about the danger of Islam and that they NEED ABSOLUTELY to help me by first reading it themselves. When I saw what happened, I could not believe it Pierre” ________ Re HB on Disinfonation, Channel 4 Britain, 2/3/2000--The ratings for the show were outstanding: 500,000 plus viewers and a 16 >share, compared to the normal 11 share for that time slot. >Richard Metzger _______________________________ "I have met god, and he lives in Brooklyn. Howard Bloom is the Albert Einstein, Buckminster Fuller, and Krishnamurti of the 21st century." Richard Metzger, Editor, Disinformation "The book is wonderful, Howard! I'm amazed at your knowledge and the scope of your reach.The 'mass mind' idea is wonderous. I have to admit that I don’t really understand a lot of it—but I understand enough to know that you’re a smart and immensely creative fellow." Georgie Anne Geyer, nationally syndicated foreign affairs columnist, United Press Syndicate, Annenberg Senior Fellow, North Western University, author of Guerilla Prince: The Untold Story of Fidel Castro and No More, The Death of Citizenship in America and frequent guest on TV shows like PBS' Washington Week In Review. _______________________________ “The Pope of President Street.” Don Beck, author, Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership, and Change ________ From: Hubert Davis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:43 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Buzz Aldrin Subject: Solar Power Feng: Buzz asked me to work with you supporting Howard Bloom. Please tell me what is needed and when. Best, Hu “The Most Amazing Interdisciplinary Thinker On The Planet.” Karen Ellis, founder, Educational CyberPlayGround ________ Howard Bloom is so prolific (and on such a wide variety of subjects: education, popular culture, politics, history and biology - sorry, I forgot cosmology ) that hiring him is a cost- cutting exercise (they can sack 4 others).. Marcel Roele, Morton Hill Media ________ make sure it's onwards and upwards from here - you have a role to play in history. Marcel Roele 5/26/2004 ________ Howard, in the '70s, celebrities went to feel good doctors for 'Super vitamin' shots; b complex or something. The celebs usually felt euphoric and exhilirated for days. Our chat yesterday made me feel the same way. As usual, a wonderful chat.. Jon Beaupre/KPFK, Los Angeles _______________________________ Le Jardin des Livres 243 Bis Boulevard Pereire Paris 75017 France Tel: 01 44 09 08 78 Fax: 01 44 09 03 63 http://www.lejardindeslivres.com/, 4/10/01 sortie SEPTEMBRE 2001: Le Principe de Lucifer Le livre le plus important écrit ces 15 dernières années, c'est l'avis de la critique et surtout de la communauté scientifique américaine à propos du livre de Howard Bloom qui bouleverse toutes les idés reçues que le genre humain se fait de lui-même. Certains journalistes n'ont pas hésité à dire que "Le Principe de Lucifer, une exploration des forces qui gouvernent l'histoire" est aussi important que l'origine des espèces de Darwin. Du Washington Post en passant par le Boston Globe, la critique américaine est unanime à mettre en avant le génie de Howard Bloom, confirmée en cela par des universitaires, dont Leon Uris, de Stanford aux USA à Oxford en Angleterre. Un livre fascinant, exceptionnel, unique, d'une culture ecyclopédique sans égal, sertie d'une logique implacable. PERSONNE ne peut sortir intellectuellement indemne après cette lecture dramatique. Une première qui sortira en librairie en Septembre 2001. _______________________________ [email protected] (K.Ellis) “you just blow me away! so happy to know you, so lucky.” best, karen _______________________________ Alex Elder, author of Trading For a Living, to Paul Solmon/WGBH Subj: Date: 10/3/00 12:21:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] (Financial Trading, Inc.) CC: [email protected] Dear Paul, About a year ago you flew down from Boston on a rainy day and climbed up to my lair to interview me on psychology of day-trading (that day you also interviewed a guy who was trading from his cab - where is he today?) Since I do not own a TV, I am deprived of watching your other interviews, but today I am writing to introduce a brilliant friend who wrote several important books and has a much better stage presence than yours truly (he had several documentaries made about him by the Europeans). I am sure that Howard Bloom's publicist will tell you more about him - I just wanted to put in a word that the guy is a) for real, b) with brilliant ideas, c) more fun than a pair of mongooses Have fun and shoot a great interview Alex Elder author, Trading for a Living _______________________________ Subj: thank you Date: 8/13/00 6:02:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: [email protected] (Riane Eisler) To: [email protected] (HOWARD BLOOM) “I just got your book yesterday, and have started to read it -- you are an amazingly good writer, you use tremendous imagery and have a most fascinating mind!” Riane Eisler, author, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future and Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body _______________________________ From: "Richard W. Wrangham" <[email protected]> Subject: Global Brain Content-Length: 525 Thank you for sending Global Brain. I'm most impressed at Howard Bloom's range, knowledge and vision. Richard Wrangham, author, Demonic Males : Apes and the Origins of Human Violence _______________________________ From: [email protected] (David Cohen) To: [email protected] Howard Well I did it. I read (mostly, some skimming) "GB" and was bowled over by your incredible erudition, marvelous prose (my kind, I like to think), and (dare I say prophetic) vision. I am not all that comfortable with the metaphors of mass mind and global brain for bring meaning to the data base of interconnectivity (cross-sectionally and in time), which you explore so masterfully.