#109 Howard Bloom on Truth and Soul

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this episode, Howard Bloom asserts that truth and soul are the best ways to influence. Howard should know. He played an important role in the careers of legendary musicians like Michael Jackson, Prince, John Cougar Mellencamp, plus many, many others. His method for promoting artists included finding the gods within, secular shamanism, soul spelunking, and exploring the caves of your emotions. More recently, Howard founded the Howard Bloom Institute where he and his colleagues pursue an agenda of “omnology” (the aspiration to omniscience; an academic base for the promiscuously curious, a discipline that concentrates on seeing the patterns that emerge when one views all the sciences and the arts at once) and collaborate to continue the Western agenda into space.</span></p> <p><strong>Resources</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Cognitive Crucible Podcast Episodes Mentioned</span> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="2"><a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-18"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">#18 Tom Sear on Xenowar</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "http://howardbloom.institute"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Howard Bloom Institute</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Zheng He: Chinese fleet admiral</span></a></li> </ul> <p><a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-109"> <strong>Link to