Book of The Century

Stan Gooch (1980). The Double Helix of The Mind: the secrets of mental evolution and advance. Wildwood House, Ltd. London. This book published in 1980 provides a different perspective on Mind and Consciousness and notes "the bilateral structure of organisms (both of plants and animals)"-"Our two main brains, the cerebellum and the cerebrum, are also each divided into two symmetrical hemispheres." as the foundational structure of mental evolution. (p.19), Stan Gooch has dedicated this book to James W. Prescott, a "fellow explorer of the cerebellum". "My own deep convictions is that an acceptance of the universal position which my book describes-or -rather, which the events of the universe describe-offers an end once and for all to the tragic differences and struggles of our past. All of these seem to have been fatal attempts to explain the whole in terms of the parts, instead of the parts in terms of the whole. This second perspective is what this book hopes to show you." (Introduction).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Commentary

 

"Finally, in America Dr. James W. Prescott, Dr. William Greenough and others are currently investigating the physiological consequences that result from rearing infant monkeys without the youngsters concerned being able to touch or be touched by their mothers. As has long been known such deprived monkeys, when adult, exhibit grossly disturbed psychological behaviour. They cannot perform sex or courtship acts, or have any normal social relations with other monkeys; on the contrary, they are driven away by normal monkeys. Physiological examination of the disturbed monkeys now shows sever malformation of the cerebellum, while, as far as can be observed, the cerebrum is wholly normal.*

The implications of this work, currently in press, are marvelously supportive of the view of the cerebellum I have put forward in this and other books. The link between emotion and cerebellum, for instance, is now totally clear. On the more esoteric side, we note that both in humans and animals it is between mother and offspring that telepathic communication spontaneously occurs most frequently.

Not only are the right questions now stirring in the minds of orthodox scientists, but the hard evidence for the role of the cerebellum is now also being produced. I will ask just one more question of my own, One of the functions of the cerebellum, is widely agreed, is to deal with physical balance. Is there a connection between physical balance and mental balance? Yes, I think so." (pp. 230-231).

*First reported in Britain in Horizon, BBC TV, 5 November 1979, producer Stephen Rose.