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Read Stan Gooch and the Ancient Mariners [email protected] Stan Gooch and the Ancient Mariners 1 Contents A séance in Coventry............................................................................................................................2 A chat in Berlin.....................................................................................................................................2 Low-brow science................................................................................................................................3 High-brow warfare...............................................................................................................................3 Gooch’s claims.....................................................................................................................................4 Hybrids.............................................................................................................................................4 The paternity of Jesus.................................................................................................................5 The paternity of changelings.......................................................................................................6 The paternity of fledglings..........................................................................................................7 Polarities..........................................................................................................................................8 Sun-moon....................................................................................................................................8 Psychosis-neurosis......................................................................................................................9 Logic-intuition............................................................................................................................9 Science-religion........................................................................................................................10 Awake-dreaming.......................................................................................................................10 Adult-child................................................................................................................................11 Day-night..................................................................................................................................12 God-devil..................................................................................................................................12 Male-female..............................................................................................................................12 Yang-yin....................................................................................................................................13 Fascism-communism................................................................................................................13 Pale-dark...................................................................................................................................13 Lance-cup..................................................................................................................................14 Gooch’s neanderthal...........................................................................................................................14 The domain of the kelp-otter..............................................................................................................15 The mien of the zodiac...................................................................................................................15 The skirt of Tangou........................................................................................................................17 A Basque gravestone......................................................................................................................18 The mien of an oriental..................................................................................................................18 The shape of a nommo...................................................................................................................19 The shape of a hut..........................................................................................................................20 The shape of a vagina....................................................................................................................20 The mien of a shuttle.....................................................................................................................20 The domain of the beaver...................................................................................................................21 The exodus..........................................................................................................................................22 The doges’ science..............................................................................................................................25 The births of composers.................................................................................................................26 The sun and inner planets..........................................................................................................26 The moon and outer planets......................................................................................................27 Effect sizes................................................................................................................................28 Auxiliaries.................................................................................................................................28 A slight discrepancy..................................................................................................................28 A technical detail.......................................................................................................................28 The basic polarity...............................................................................................................................29 The magi’s demise..............................................................................................................................30 The magi’s legacy...............................................................................................................................33 A séance on Guernsey........................................................................................................................35 [email protected] Stan Gooch and the Ancient Mariners 2 A séance in Coventry Stan Gooch ‘was ‘born in 1932 of working-class parents in the slums of south London in a house condemned as unfit for habitation’1 but he went on to gain a degree in modern languages at King’s College and to teach at a school in Coventry, so the rest should have been plain sailing. Instead, he went back to university and studied psychology, which he then applied to humans in the stone age, so what made him change direction? Why did he go to a séance and heed a clairvoyant saying: There’s a young man here in air-force uniform killed in the last war. Can you place him? … He is with a group of other young fellows, laughing and joking. At first he was very bitter about his death, but he is happy now.2 Many young men were killed in the war and few were happy about it, but during another séance, those present became aware of an ape-like creature, resembling a caveman, crouched, trembling, in the corner of the room. Gooch came to suspect that he had seen a neanderthal.3 This seems to be far-fetched, but if ghosts look as real as the living and are seen by several people, why take them less seriously? My nocturnal left-handed mother often saw ghosts, so I asked her how to make out a ghost as such, but she said there was no direct way and gave an example. Soon after getting married, she had fallen ill and stayed in hospital for awhile. One day a young man in army uniform came to see her on what he said was his birthday. He also mentioned his name and chatted with her for twenty minutes or so before leaving. She appreciated the gesture and took him to be one of her husband’s friends, but her husband was likewise baffled so asked his mother about him. A friend of hers had a son with the same name, so she went to see her. It turned out that the soldier had come on the young man’s birthday but that the young man had died in the war. Stan Gooch was drawn to the paleolithic by an archaic man and I by archaic science. A chat in Berlin During the cold war I had tea in Berlin with the Indian consul, who had once gone with his wife to an astrologer while recovering from minor surgery. The astrologer said that his wife had the same ailment, though she was feeling well at the time, then a few days later, she had to be rushed to hospital and be given the same operation. This seemed to be more than guesswork, so it called for an explanation. May our cells be able to sense the rising and setting of planets though atmospherics and use them as timers and regulators? Years later I devised a simple model and tried it out, and the results were statistically significant, but if astrology had begun as science, who had the scientists been, and what society had afforded them the facilities? 1 Stan Gooch, Biography. www.brentlogan.net 2 Gooch S. The Neanderthal Legacy. Simon & Schuster,
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