Howard Bloom unveils his latest book, “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong.”
Howard Bloom is a visionary thinker known for synthesizing science, philosophy, and culture—about his latest book “The Case of the Sexual Cosmos” presents a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of biology, cosmology, desire, and the fundamental forces of creation. His work reframes sexuality not as a mere biological function, but as a cosmic principle that shapes evolution, cooperation, innovation, and existence itself.
COSMIC ORIGINS OF SEXUALITY
- You describe sexuality as a force that stretches across the entire cosmos. What does that mean—and how did you arrive at this idea?
- In your view, how is sexuality embedded in the very fabric of matter, energy, and evolution?
- How does your concept of the “sexual cosmos” challenge traditional Darwinian or mechanistic views of nature?
- Where does cooperation, attraction, and connection fit into the physics of this new cosmology?
- Is sex—at its core—about survival, or something deeper like emergence and creativity?
BIOLOGY, MEANING & EVOLUTION
- How do you define desire in evolutionary terms?
- You’ve written extensively about the Lucifer Principle and Global Brain—how does this new book build on those ideas?
- What role does pleasure, beauty, and attraction play in evolutionary biology—and how are they misunderstood?
- Do you believe biology is goal-oriented—or is it emergent, exploratory, even artistic in nature?
- How might your ideas influence how we think about gender, identity, and connection in a rapidly changing society?
CULTURE, COSMOS & STORYTELLING
- How have dominant cultural myths (religious, scientific, social) distorted our understanding of sexuality?
- What does “sexuality” mean beyond physical intimacy—in art, innovation, language, or even architecture?
- How can storytelling help society reclaim sexuality as a sacred, creative, and cosmic force?
- What cultures or philosophies, if any, have come closest to understanding the true depth of sexuality?
- Do you believe humanity is in the midst of a shift in how we understand attraction, connection, and identity?
THE BIGGER QUESTIONS
- If the cosmos is driven by desire, what is it desiring?
- What does your theory say about the future of human evolution and consciousness?
- How might these insights reshape how we educate, relate, and co-create as societies?
- Are we missing something essential in our scientific or spiritual frameworks by ignoring the role of eros in the universe?
- What happens to a civilization that forgets the sacred, cosmic purpose of sexuality?
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS & MESSAGES
- What inspired you to write this book now? Was there a catalytic moment?
- What kind of conversation are you hoping this book sparks—especially with younger generations?
- What has been the most surprising or liberating insight you’ve had while researching this book?
- If people take one idea from The Case of the Sexual Cosmos into their lives, what should it be?
- How do you personally experience the sexual cosmos in your work, your relationships, or your creativity?
How can scientifically more accurate perception of life and the Cosmos can provide us with healthier and more prosperous lives in balance with the natural world:
Since science is the constant pursuit of truth, and as new discoveries and innovations are continually being made and discovered, how can a radical new perception bring us closer to our ultimate potential?
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong is a book about why two of science’s most cherished assumptions are wrong and what sex has to do with it. not to mention, what sex tells us about the universe. and about your role in it.
It’s the story of greening a planet of disaster and strife.
It’s a tale of transformation. It’s the tale of the uplift of a toxic planet, a poison pill of stone. It’s the saga of how the first teaspoon of life and its children overcame 142 mass extinctions. It’s the story of the savagery of non-stop climate change. But it’s the story of more than a mere struggle for survival.
It’s the story of how life harnessed disaster. It’s the story of how life poisoned the atmosphere. Then how life invented a way to turn that poison into a power source: oxygen. It’s the story of how life wrenched, wounded, and ate its environment of stone to create something radically unnatural-nature.
And it’s the story of a battle for flamboyance, excess and splendor. It’s the story of a race for invention. A battle for self-upgrade. It’s the story of audacity. It’s the tale of how disrespectful macromolecules milked manna from Armageddon on this toxic ball of stone.
It’s the tale of how an upstart macromolecular team upped the GAL, the gross amount of life, the gross amount of living matter, on this planet. Not to mention the GAS. The gross amount of spirit. The gross amount of sentience. The gross amount of soul.
Presentation by Howard Bloom.
Howard Bloom has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller” by Britain’s Channel4 TV and “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine. Bloom is the author of seven books, including The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History and the new Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: A Search for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll. The Office of the Secretary of Defense threw a symposium on Bloom’s second book, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, and brought in representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department, DARPA, IBM, and MIT. The eleventh president of India, Dr. A.P.J. Kalam called Bloom’s third book, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, “a visionary creation.” And the Sheikh who runs Dubai named a racehorse—the Beast–after that same book. Bloom has published or lectured scholarly conferences in twelve different fields, from quantum physics and cosmology to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, information science, governance, and aerospace. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Knight Financial News Service, Cosmopolitan, The Village Voice, and the blog sites of Psychology Today and The Scientific American. In a full-page article in Business Insider, SpaceX’s Elon Musk praised one of Bloom space projects, the Two Billion Dollar Moon Prize. The Two Billion Dollar Moon Prize was also covered in Time, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, Fox News, and Politico. And Jeff Bezos tweeted a Bloom blog from the Scientific American calling for the establishment of a permanent transport infrastructure in space.
