The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates
May 24, 2012
- Author:
- Howard Bloom
- Publisher:
- Prometheus Books (8/24/2012)
Amazon | God’s war crimes, Aristotle’s sneaky tricks, Galileos creationism, Newton’s intelligent design, entropys errors, Einstein’s pajamas, John Conway’s game of loneliness, Information Theory’s blind spot, Stephen Wolfram’s New Kind Of Science, and six monkeys at six typewriters getting it wrong. What do these have to do with the birth of a universe and with your need for meaning? Everything, as you’re about to see.
“Enthralling. Astonishing. Written with the panache of the Great Blondin turning somersaults on the rope above Niagara. Profound, extraordinarily eclectic, and crazy. The most exciting cliffhanger of a book I can remember reading.” James Burke, creator and host of seven BBC TV series, including Connections
“I have just come out from the giddy ride through things of the mind and mathematics that is The God Problem. Bloom takes us on a magic carpet ride of ideas about: well, about everything. And it turns out that everything we knew about everything is probably wrong. The God Problem is an intellectual cave of wonders made more wonderful by the tales of the lives of the people behind the ideas. Don’t start this book late at night, for it will banish sleep.” Robin Fox, Rutgers University, author of The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind, former director of research for the H. F. Guggenheim Foundation
“Bloom, with his ‘heresies,’ penetrates the very foundations of rationality and deconstructs Western consensus reality. The God Problem is the next paradigm. It doesn’t take you down the proverbial “rabbit hole”— it will take you to a place from which you will never re-emerge, a brand new universe in the same skin as the one you now unknowingly inhabit.” Heinz Insu Fenkl, director of ISIS: The Interstitial Studies Institute at SUNY, New Paltz; a Barnes and Noble “Great New Writer” and Pen/Hemingway finalist.
Publication Date: August 24, 2012
Comments (7)
by ChuckW
An infinite number of monkeys with typewriters could have written this book and been just as right.
by Mr.X
An infinite number of monkeys with typewriters could have written anything.
by Peter
Sounds very interesting. When will there be a Kindle version available?
by Alastair Carnegie
Does that mean Paul Erdos, Airdish Pal’s “SF” (Supreme Fascist) is taking a vacation? … Who will be His/Her Understudy while S/He is gone! The word GOD should be G.O.D. standing for Generator, Operator and Destoyer. It is generally understood that you can’t download the contents of a supercomputer onto a domestic home computer, but you can link the latter to the former, and that operation may be very useful. Another definition of the Godhead defines the quality of absolute self-sufficiency. “aham–I am; adih–the origin; ca–also; madhyam–middle; ca–also; bhutanam—of all living entities; antah–end; eva–certainly; ca–and. (Gita 10:20)… If it lives? then it is of the substance of Godhead. in the vedic tradition a plenary ‘expansion’. Gita 6; verses7&8 are also both instructive of the nature of quasi-intelligent living entities who have only a superficial comprehension of reality. The ‘job’ of creating infinite material universes is, according to vedic philosophy, delegated to the co-existent first expansion of the Godhead.
The Vedas are full of surprises, It is claimed that correct rendition of the Gayatry Mantra sung into the ear of a lady who is at the correct period of her menstrual cycle, will fertilize her ovum. Vivishvan the Sun God, is related in Hindu Mythology (Srimad Bhagavatam) to have implanted his seed into Queen Kunti by this method. The mantra is unique in that it does give very clear geometric instructions to form a pattern, similar to some Islamic patters, that neatly outlines the human form in perfect proportion. If we photocopy this pattern, that can be found in Prof. Keith Kritchlow’s 1976 book “Islamic Patterns” we can emphasize specific lines. With multiple photocopies we see a figure in seated lotus postue, next the figure standing, the arms can be seen in eight configurations inscribing a full circle, and finally the figure perambulates towards the viewer. This is the introduction to Gayatry Mantra, and is explaned at length and in word for word detail by one of India’s most celebrated Vedic and Sanskrit Scholars. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Slila Prabhupada also describes former terrestrial civilizations that genetically modified plants to give birth to humans. This was in the 1960′s. He also describes Vedic Mantras that open up space portals to enable near instantaneous travel to distant planets.
I don’t think this book, however excellent it is, will stand the remotest chance of undermining Vedic Cosmology. The ‘religious’ imagery and mythology, with giants and terrible monsters, demons defeated by young boy heroes, who are desperately in love with a beautiful girl, who likes to play hide and seek, etc. is intended to make the topic appealing to the younger generation. Appologies to your readers if this comment offends or bores!
by RFW
FABULOUS. Howard Bloom is one of the most forward thinking humans on the planet. I hugely look forward to reading his latest work.
by andmar74
This is garbage.
by Marcos Marin
Hopefully, otherwise they are getting pretty close to stealing my ideas and actually getting somewhere =)