A personal tribute to the British researcher Stan Gooch

[danDNA]

i would like to use this post to draw attention to a friend of mine, the British psychologist and paranormal researcher Stan Gooch. Although this is a long post please go with it, it would mean a lot to me.

I first became aware of Stan a few years ago when i saw the video What Happened on the Moon? made by Aulis publishing, who also happed to publish one of Stan's books Cities of Dreams. I subsequently ordered this books and was astounded at the information it contained. Stan Gooch is unique in that he is a qualified Psychologist, but he is also an experienced medium. having experience in both the scientific world and the paranormal he writes from a different viewpoint to say Uri Gellar, or Carl Sagan.

Stan's basic theory is that previous to our own civilisation Neanderthal man and his relatives had created a massively influential and complex culture, some of which we have inherited by way of our domination and invasion of their society. Many remnants of this previous culture can be seen in our religions, our mythology and even our politics, basically it's influence has spread throughout our own culture. His meticulous research has been overlooked by many other researchers who continue to attribute many of our inherited traditions to 'aliens' or whoever when really there is a good deal of proof that the unexplainable attributes of man can be accredited to a previous civilisation to our own, one which lasted at the least 100,000 years.

a large part of Stan Gooch's work also concentrated on the paranormal, and in fact, his book The Paranormal was one of his best sellers. in the large his books have not sold very well though, due to circumstance or bad luck, or a galactic conspiracy. The Paranormal deals with the mysterious, supernatural, and subjective universe that can be proven to exist beyond our own, a universe that stretches as far within as the objective one does without. Much earlier in his career he proposed that a part of the brain 'the cerebellum' was responsible for dreams, paranormal activity and our shadow side, which, much like CG Jung,he named the 'Self' (the other, conscious, logical mind he termed 'Ego'). his reasons for pinpointing the cerebellum are many, but in a nutshell he posited that Neanderthal man had a much larger cerebellum than we do today, and so therefore their life was one spent much more in that other universe than ours. Neanderthal (this term is not quite correct, it should relate to all paleoanthropic beings - excepting Homo Sapiens - that roamed the Earth previous to us, Homo Sapien Sapiens) had a religion that was, over hundreds of thousands of years, connected to the Moon, and for this reason females ruled their society, due to their interaction with the Moon through menstruation.
Both women and the Moon have a cycle that is roughly the same, perhaps a reason for our equating women and the Moon even today. so at a certain time of the month (the word month is derived from moonth) all the females of the group would bleed along with the Moon, thus linking them symbolically with the movements of the Universe. when one of them fell pregnant the tribe would notice the belly swelled and the blood stopped, then at some time a new life popped out. thus women were also symbolically seen as the creators, along with their heavenly counterpart, the Moon.
The moment when men took over, so to speak, is chronicled throughout our mythologies, in stories such as Zeus bearing children from his head (men of course cannot bear children), the slaying of the serpent in many myths(the serpent is a symbol of the Moon) and the Biblical story of the Sons of Gods coming upon the Daughters of the Earth. In essence what happened was Homo Sapiens - our predecessors - raped and subjugated Neanderthal, and the resulting offspring is us, all of us. so inside our heads we are drawn to moon worship, and all that is attached to it(it is a dark, murky underworld of ghosts, werewolves, vampires, and sex), but we also have the crossed instinct to worship the heritage of Homo Sapiens - who, like the majority of us, are drawn to sun worship.

it is obviously hard to summarise a life's work here but my main reason for this post was to try to draw some awareness to Stan Gooch's work, and his current plight. He is living in near dereliction in a rented caravan in Swansea, Wales, with no hope on the horizon. I have set up a website for him http://www.stangooch.gotaw.co.ukas his depression leaves him with no wish to interact with the 21st century, and i am also involved in a musical project http://www.gotaw.co.ukwhich Stan contributes to, but i am not trying to get web traffic, i am trying to introduce as many intelligent people as possible to his work before it is too late for Stan to receive some recognition. We have also been contacted by Lisa at C"C to get Stan to appear but he said he just cant face doing anything, he has basically given up on life, after 30 years of research he is absolutely exhausted.

i am currently trying to put together a documentary about his work also, so anyone with experience who would like to help please get in touch.

[MV/Liberace!]

greetings from morocco, dan.  if you'd like, i suggest putting together something a bit more formal on this subject in the "wares" section.  just a suggestion for added impact.

[danDNA]

ok, great idea michael, ill do that. have a good time in Morocco!

[EvB]

ok, great idea michael, ill do that. have a good time in Morocco!

He's with his wife (whom he's missed) and extended family in a colorful and unique place, how can he help but have a good time?

Rock On MV!

And thanks for not forgetting us while you are traveling.