[Fis] Emotional Contagion?

[Howard Bloom]

kate, your question about emotional contagion and what we can call "the cloud effect" is a good one.
about this statement, with which i deeply agree:

science is remiss if it fails to interrogate the nature and power of “faith”, given our embodied capacities for anomalous or “spiritual" experiences

i'm an atheist.  when science first grabbed hold of my soul when i was ten years old, its aspiration to me seemed to be omniscience.
spiritual experiences are real.  they may not be manifestations of god, especially to folks like me to whom there is no god.  so what the hell are they?  where do they come from? how did they evolve?  what do they mean?  what do they tell us about the nature of the cosmos that has birthed them?
in my fieldwork in mass behavior, working with people like michael jackson and prince for 20 years, i saw collective ecstasies, what emil durkheim called "collective effervescence,"  ecstatic experiences at work in audiences all over north america.
in fact, one of the jobs of my entertainers was to reliably evoke these transcendent experiences.  and in building the careers of people like Prince, it was my job to help deliver these ecstasies.  they are real.
if science can't address the question of these experiences, it abandons the aspiration to omniscience.  and it's not science. 
with warmth and oomph--howard

    On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 07:49:34 PM EDT, Katherine Peil <ktpeil at outlook.com> wrote:   

  Hello All,The discussion about “nothing" or “something" being exchanged between speakers and listeners prompts this question: What about the phenomenon of "emotional contagion”? Do Mike Levin’s revelation about bioelectricity bear upon the concept of “subtle energy”?Also, science is remiss if it fails to interrogate the nature and power of “faith”, given our embodied capacities for anomalous or “spiritual" experiences. Pre-emptive pejoratives are not good science, but they abound.Kate Kauffman_______________________________________________
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