The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History Free Audiobook Download by Howard Bloom

The Lucifer Principle is a bold new study of history as an ever-expanding series of revolutions, each one adding to the last and making possible the next. In this enthralling book, bestselling author Howard Bloom demonstrates how history unfolds according to a simple but fundamental law that goes by the name of The Lucifer Principle.

The book begins with a brief history of the idea of Lucifer and theodicy, examining how this idea has been used to assign guilt, blame, and responsibility for past events. The author then moves on to examine what he believes is the underlying cause of all our ills, which he calls "the Lucifer Principle." This principle argues that our natural impulse is to seek answers for life's problems in order to survive as well as possible. When there are no easy answers, human beings will embrace myths and stories that offer a shortcut around the process of learning from trial and error. The author goes on to discuss how some groups are better able to take advantage of these mental shortcuts than others.

In this book, Howard Bloom explains how the forces of history are controlled by a few powerful individuals. The book shows how these changes have been made in our society and how they control everything from politics to religion. In this audiobook download, Malcolm Hillgartner narrates the story of how we've made such changes in our society through religion, myths, dreams and greed.

This book starts with the idea that all of civilization is inherently based on self-deception. That our ideas about progress are wrong, because progress is always based on a lie. The author believes that Lucifer, or Satan, has been guiding history since ancient times, and this book looks at how we might find the truth and free ourselves from his grasp.

The Lucifer Principle is a fascinating exploration of how history and sociology are guided by the forces of power and materialism. Howard Bloom argues that as humans strive to achieve more and become more powerful, they also become "more restless, demanding, voracious, immoderate." This results in excesses of wealth, power, and consumption that inevitably start to tear parts of society apart.

In "The Lucifer Principle," Howard Bloom lays out a bold contention: civilizations die in a very predictable way. As populations explode, their crucial resource-energy-becomes scarce. The first to go are the wealthiest and most powerful of the population, those who can afford to live beyond the essentials-and who, by this point, are already insulated from the consequences of their own lifestyle by power, luxury, and security. Believing themselves safer than ever with their wealth intact and their laborers at work, these so-called elites begin to raise new generations that find themselves in greater and greater competition for a shrinking pool of resources with each passing year. Some of these children eventually rise up against the elites in what Bloom calls an "uprising." And