The Neanderthal Legacy

ANTHROPOLOGY / ANCIENT HISTORY In The Neanderthal Legacy, eminent psychologist and paranormal researcher Stan Gooch brings together the wide-ranging investigative strands of his lifetime of study of the human brain. One of the world's leading experts on the influence of the Neanderthals on the cultural and biological development of humanity, Gooch contends that the Neanderthals' enlarged cerebellum was a source of deep connection with the psychic and dream worlds, which remains extant in modern humans in paranormal phenomena that conventional science cannot explain. Gooch offers scientific evidence of the crossbreeding between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons that is responsible for the dichotomous nature of our feelings, thoughts, impressions, beliefs, and even our cultural mores and politics. The hybrid vigor produced by this mating has gifted modern humans with abilities and sensibilities that the scientific establishment and conventional educational system entirely ignore. Gooch calls for recognition and acceptance of the dominance of our genetic makeup in determining all our behaviors and traits. Only by embracing this understanding of our essential nature will we be able to achieve any degree of peace and unity in the face of the diametrically opposed instincts of our genetic heritage. STAN GOOCH began his career as a highly regarded psychological researcher who studied the evolution and history of the brain in his books Total Man and Personality and Evolution. His research on paranormal influences and Neanderthal culture appear in his books The Dream Culture of the Neanderthals, The Origins of Psychic Phenomena, The Double Helix of the Mind, Cities of Dreams, and The Secret Life of Humans. He lives in Wales.