An open letter to Psychic News from Stan Gooch

My book The Paranormal has now been republished on the internet by Crow Street Press in America. This edition has a new Introduction describing what happened on a Granada TV afternoon chat show. On that show I was asked if I could project an image telepathically into the minds of the viewers. I said yes, I could and the show host then asked me to do so, and I did. The switch- boards in Manchester and Liverpool were jammed for the rest of the day by viewers who had seen the image I projected. (But, as much, I received no publicity whatsoever for this 'Uri Geller' achievement.)
Here now are two 'coincidences' for your readers to reflect on. I was born on the 13th of June. As it just so happens, the number 13 figures centrally in my books and theories, since it is the main number of the ancient Moon religion. The reason for this circumstance is (a) because there are 13 full moons or 13 new moons in each alternate year. And (b) because every 28 days the Moon returns to the same point in the sky where first observed; and 28x13=364- the 'year and a day' of ancient legends. The two oldest stone zodiacs (one in North America and one in Israel) are 13-zodiacs, not 12-zodiacs. And all founding groups throughout the whole world and all history number 13 (for example, Christ and the twelve disciples). Also in response to the moon women menstruate/ ovulate 13 times a year; and even under modern living conditions the average length of the menstrual cycle is 28 days.

The second 'coincidence' is that my birth sign is Gemini, the twins - and duality figures equally centrally in my work. One of my claims is that we are a hybrid species, a cross between the two early species of man, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon. When widely separated species of animal are crossed in the laboratory the offspring frequently possesses two opposing sets of instincts, with which it continually struggles to come to terms. We ourselves have inherited two opposing sets of instincts from our two very different ancestors (hence our many metaphors; the divided self, the two souls within one beast, the head wanting one thing and the heart wanting another, and so on) and these are the source of our social problems- our universal split into left-wing and right-wing politics, our desire for one true everlasting love on the one hand (pair bonding) and our general promiscuity on the other, and so on.

A second major duality concerns our two major brains, the cerebrum and the cerebellum. (we should first mention here that Roger Sperry's 'split-brain' theory for which he received the Nobel Prize, and which concerned the left and right hemispheres of the cerebrum, was officially dumped by the scientific establishment in 1999, as fundamentally flawed. (I of course have said from day one that the theory was fundamentally flawed - and I was the only person in the world to do so - in my book The Double Helix of the Mind, and in a number of articles and reviews.)

My own claim is that the cerebellum (the 'lesser' brain at the back of our heads- which however in term of surface area or cortex is actually three-quarters the size of the apparently much larger cerebrum, and is also more complexly structured) is the source of dreaming, of mediumship, telepathy, clairvoyance, pre-cognition, psychic healing, religious belief, sleep-walking, multiple personality and much else besides (As it first so happens women have a larger cerebellum than men, and women dream more than men, more women are mediums than men, women hypnotise more easily than men, and so on and on.)
What is never mentioned by scientists - although this is a proven fact is that a distant ancestor of ours, a reptile-like creature, had two pairs of eyes - one pair placed on top of the head and connected to the cerebellum, the other pair placed in the front and connected to the cerebrum. Initially the cerebellum was the more dominant brain. But in the course of time the cerebrum gradually assumed the driving position. The two eyes on top of the head fused together and sank down into the head to form the pineal gland. Quite incredibly, the ancient Hindu's, who had no idea of our evolutionary history, called the pineal gland 'the third eye' of mysticism. Clearly ancient mystics were fully aware of the psychic powers of the cerebellum, and its psychic vision. So in conclusion- and the main point of this article- a plea to psychics and those who want the full truth concerning our human existence and our universe: start a campaign to get the cerebellum recognized and accepted for what it is. Demand to know why the cerebellum and its many powers are totally excluded from university psychology textbooks. (Typically textbooks contain 10 pages on the cerebellum out of a total of 752; 8 pages out of a total of 517; 15 out of Grossman's massive 932 paged Textbook of Physiological Psychology).

I promise that the cerebellum will defeat our myopic and literally half-brained scientists.

Stan Gooch 17/08/05