Stan Gooch - WHEN NEANDERTHAL WOMEN RULED THE EARTH
I begin with the fact that, as a hybrid cross between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon (which some sections of academia are again starting to deny), we have inherited two very different sets of basic instincts - a situation frequently found when widely separated species of animals are experimentally crossed. I suggest that both our personal and social problems arise from this, including the division of the political world into left and right wings. However, this is but one example of the permanent duality of our universe at every level. Incidentally, positive/negative, female/male, matter/anti-matter, cerebellum/cerebrum. (Neanderthal had a much larger cerebellum than Cro-Magnon, and women have larger cerebella than men, and so on.)
Stan Gooch gave up a career as a professional psychologist to pursue his ideas about the nature and origin of consciousness. Literary Review has called him "one of the most formidable and consistent thinkers alive today" and his ideas about the cultural legacy of the Neanderthals and their lasting impact on the psyche of Cro-Magnon man are set out in a series of books, including The Paranormal, Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom, The Double Helix of the Mind, and Cities of Dreams. (Recently, archaeologists confirmed his 1989 prediction that Neanderthal man was red-haired).