We’ve added a new section to my website, that archives the weekly profiles and interview excerpts with great minds and creative friends that David Jay Brown has been sharing with us here on my Facebook page, such as Jean Houston:
Carolyn and I have admired the work of researcher, philosopher, and author Jean Houston, who was one of the principal founders of — and has been a leading voice in — the Human Potential Movement. She is the author of 26 books and is noted for her interdisciplinary perspective that combines extensive knowledge of history, culture, cutting-edge science, spirituality, and human development. Her philosophy, strategies, and perspective are valued by heads of state and government officials in countries throughout the world.
Jean Houston was born in 1937 in New York City. Her father was a comedy writer who developed material for stage, television, and movies, as well as for comedians, such as Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, and George Burns. Due to her dad’s career, as a child, Houston moved around a lot, and she attended 29 different schools before the age of twelve.
In 1958, Houston graduated from Barnard College in New York City with a Bachelor’s degree. She subsequently earned two doctorates: a Ph.D. in psychology from Union Graduate School in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Ph.D. in religion from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Sarasota, Florida. Houston has also been the recipient of a number of honorary doctorates over the years.
In the early 1960s, Houston became one of the first researchers to study the effects of psychedelic drugs in a government-sanctioned research project. In 1963, British writer Aldous Huxley, whom I wrote a profile about a while back, requested to meet with her about her research, and their meeting had an important influence on her work, she told me when I interviewed her. In her research studies, she also became acquainted with writer and researcher Robert Masters, and they became romantically involved. In 1965, Houston and Masters married and became a powerful team.
To read the complete profile of Jean Houston see link in comments.
“I have always wanted to be a detective. As a young child in New York City, I was determined to uncover the secrets of the mummies at the Museum of Natural History.” – economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin.
In her first year at Cornell, Goldin was inspired by Alfred Kahn, who delighted in using economics to uncover hidden truths and abandoned her microscope. “I moved my detective work to libraries, dusty archives, and, much later, large electronic data sets,” she said.
Goldin is best known for uncovering key drivers of gender differences in the labour market, for which she received the 2023 prize in economic sciences.
Learn more about Claudia Goldin’s work: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2023/goldin/biographical/
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