The Brain Revolution and Brain/Mind Bulletin
Ferguson soon developed an enduring interest in what came to be known as the "human potential" movement, and particularly the latest research on the potential of the human brain, with its implications for learning, creativity and wellness.
This inspired her to write The Brain Revolution: The Frontiers of Mind Research (Taplinger, 1973), a successful and broadly hailed popular summary of these discoveries. Two years later Ferguson launched Brain/Mind Bulletin, a newsletter that served as an ongoing forum for her interest in cutting-edge scientific ideas. At its peak in the 1980s the publication had a worldwide base of some 10,000 subscribers, ranging from academics and intellectuals to schoolteachers and storekeepers, and helped to popularize the ideas of such notables as Prigogine, neuroscientists Karl Pribram and Candace Pert, physicists Fritjof Capra and David Bohm, psychologist Jean Houston and many others.
| The Aquarian Conspiracy | |
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book cover |
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| Author(s) | Marilyn Ferguson |
| Cover artist | John Brogna |
| Publisher | Jeremy P. Tarcher |
| Publication date | 1980 |
| ISBN | 0-87477-191-9 |
| OCLC Number | 299846396 |
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