GOOCH 2

Example Exemplar Entities (E.E:E.)

GOOCH 4

Roots of Reality

Stormy Genious of Stan Gooch

(S.G.O.S.G.) 

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Finding out what:

Other Gooch AHAs:

What Darwian link?
Now most religion start by the Tree, the Nordic peoples known early ancestry for man back to Ask & Embla, the Ash and the Elm tree. Mr Gooch did ghost-write on elms, a peculiar tree indeed. Now they also had two trees back in Eden, the Tree of Good & Evil and the Tree of Life - 
Most - near all - able to read this have their way of saying these thruths: 'Only man kills for more than his stomach.' 'Only man pollutes nature' and this one 'Only man seems preoccupied with sex for pleasure' ... why ...

From 'The Neanderthal Question' pages 9-15

"An important result of the drop in average world temperatures was that everywhere rainfall lessened and forests began to shrink. These features already in the Miocene, accelerated further during the Pliocene. Grassland replaced forests in most parts of the world". ... 
"A general consequence of our primate ancestors move out of the trees, whic affects all their later descendants, was the adoption of an upright posture. An upright position, among other things, confers the benefit of leaving the hands, the forepaws, free for uses other than walking. The squirrel, the kangaroo and others have made essentially the same discovery".
"A further major, and this time unique, development in the behaviour of our ancestors at this point was, however, the evolution of sexual intercourse as a bonding mechanism. At first glance it would seem that sexual activity also has this function in a majority of animal species, but not so. Close examination of the ritual actions by means of which groups of animals remain together, either in pacs or male-female bonded pairs, shows that the bonding mechanisms are ritualized  acts of aggression and submission.  The repeated performance of symbolically aggressive acts, together with their counterpart, acts of symbollic submission, is instinctively satisfying to the animals concerned. These acts both encourage and permits them to stay in each other's presence. Man also employs such symbollic acts of aggression-submission. But as a major addition a new and different social cement is also used - sexual bonding". ...
"This undisputed and quite exceptional use of sexuality as a bonding processs has many, many implications for human evolution and development and is of course, not least, a major source a problems in present-day society". -  ...
"A point of very considerable importance is that the kinds of developments we have been briefly looking at were established long before the emergence of human speech and its counterpart, human understanding - the two achievements which finally place man in wholly special category as compared with other animals". ... 
"When one member of a species attacks another member - in defence of territory, in a dispute over a piece of food or a sexual partner, or whatever - the combat is rarely 'real', and still less often a fight to the death. In the course of such a battle the two fighters first of all show each other their weapons - teeth, claws, spiked tail and so forth. ... At this stage one or other combatants may well retire from the battle". ...
"All these actions are precisely pre-programmed. That is, they are present in the animal at birth and do not have to be learned".
"It is absolutely essential to realise that untill the development of speech and its counterpart, understanding, our own ancestors were also principally governd by precisely similar mechanisms". 
"These general climatic events – the reduction in rainfall, the disappearance of forests, the spread of grassland and desert – were possibly alone responsible for driving our ancestors down out of the trees and into the open. While it is pleasant to imagine them setting forth from the trees in the same spirit as Columbus set out for America, in all likelihood what actually happened was that the trees simply vanished around them. Simultaneously, traditional foods, at least, became in very short supply. Ape men who continued to survive drifted gradually south".
The Neanderthal Question, GB 1977, p 11
What would good Mr Gooch do with the theory that speech, understanding and their pool consciousness arose when those grass-roots in 'em plains he so amply place in man's development first brought the strong medicine of mushroom psychedelics into focus??? See Terence McKenna 'The archaic Revival' chapter 14 ISBN: 0-06-250613-7
And Mr Gooch did precise the concept of 'neotony' - how did primitive man get on terms with his fellow man?

 

 

"... what inhibitors or releasers - enable these males (temporarily) to overcome their natural antipathy to each other"

  (The Neanderthal Question p. 34 and then next page:)

".... young apes look more like us because we have managed to play one of nature's oldest tricks - that of preserving child-like characteristics into adult life. This process is called netony ... The process of neotony is central to any understanding of man's evolution, and in particular to my own views."