We Are the Children of the Stars (29 page)

But what if those words are truly “divine” (truthful) writings straight from “headquarters”?

Certainly all religious people, if they are sincere in wanting to understand the truths buried in the scriptures, should deeply ponder those words and wonder if not only science but all theology has been preaching a false doctrine about the origin of humanity. Preachers and scientists have been woefully wrong before. Are they once again abysmally wrong, or blind to the truth? If so, it is indeed a “cardinal sin” any way you look at it.

To return to the subject of genius in men, we find another hybridization clue in science's study of the human brain's structure.

The cerebrum, or upper portion of Man's brain, is huge in proportion to the rest of the “primitive” cerebellum inherited from our animal ancestry. And surrounding the cerebrum is the accordion-pleated cortex, an “envelope” that produces all thoughts and abstract ideas. As recent authorities put it:

The cortex is not only the seat of intelligence, it is also, and perhaps more significantly, the association center of Man's brain. . . . Among animals, many patterns of action are nearly automatic, performed by instinct or through previous conditioning. In Man, for the most part, these patterns are performed consciously. . . . This use of the brain results in what is known as reasoned behavior, a mental phenomenon that only Man is capable of because only he has the large cortex that is necessary in order to achieve it.
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Now, it is not only a popular notion but a scientific fact that we humans only use a
part
of our full brainpower. Some say we use one-tenth and leave nine-tenths fallow. Others say one-third and two-thirds. But in any case, the full or even nearly full use of the brain probably results in what we call genius.

But if the
average
human brain is already an overendowment, as we have seen, then what can we call genius but a super-overendowment! The laws of natural selection are here so utterly violated that no evolutionist can possibly deny it.

The next pregnant question is: Where did that enormous cerebrum cortex, which gives us overendowment piled on overendowment, come from?

If it cannot conceivably be a product of earthly Evolution, it must have come from a nonearthly source in outer space.

Surely anyone reading this can add that obvious two and two and get the simple and inexorable answer: that our magnificent thinking apparatus came from another world. That our great
cortex was biogenetically bestowed on Hybrid Man by his Starman colonizers.

We are almost tempted to say,
We rest our case.
But we won't because our case is far from through! There is more, much more, to add to the circumstantial proof of our Hybrid Theory in the rest of this book.

Genius may in another way be an indication that Man is a Hybrid. For in the mystery of genius, why is it that we cannot produce it whenever we choose? We can breed cats with no tails, dogs as big as small horses, and rabbits that weigh ninety pounds. We cannot, however, breed geniuses in our own, our very own, human race!

It has been tried. Time after time, in ancient times as well as modern, men and women of surpassing intellect have married in high expectation, only to find that their children were either quite ordinary or quite intelligent – but not geniuses.

This points out quite plainly that human breeding, in relation to its mental attributes, does
not follow the Mendelian laws
that are a corollary of natural selection.

We can predict or anticipate blue eyes, color blindness, and perhaps light or dark hair – but not where and when genius will appear in which children. This indicates the genius-gene is not Evolution-born, where it would operate in a “normal” manner in the human race, but is instead an alien gene that randomly pushes to the surface at odd and unpredictable times.

One of the authors, Max H. Flindt, has come up with his own special outlook on this matter of the quality of the human mind.

We have seen, he says, that each person is a mixture of physical and mental traits, a mixture whose complexities we have so far not seen clearly. But we can suspect that there is an
order
in these complexities.

That is, just as a list of chemical elements can be arranged in an extremely useful table (Periodic Table of the Elements, as per Mendeleev), we may be able to place each person living today in a “niche” or “category,” both physically and mentally, to make up a grand Periodic Table of Human Beings.

And further, just as we combine two elements from their precise table of properties to form a predicted compound, might we not similarly use our Periodic Table of Human Beings so that a couple, male and female, could produce offspring who are guaranteed geniuses in advance?

A breathtaking thought! But don't smile. Some modern geneticists are boldly stating that in time, we will be able to manipulate the genes in wholesale fashion to produce any desired “find” of humans with the precision of an automated baking machine turning out pies. They shy clear, quite naturally, from stating
what
kind of “planned humans” would be best to turn out, but surely no one would object to producing an increased number of pure geniuses.

Looking at how one Einstein completely overturned science for the better, within the past half-century, we can almost visualize how much a dozen Einsteins – per year! – would advance civilization.

And yet, perhaps there is a warning in this. The genius we specifically aim for should be in the fields of the humanities, not science-technology. It almost seems as if the starmen slipped a bit and infused too much of the technology gene into us, and not enough of the social gene.

That is, we need true leaders toward a better world, statesmen of far vision, social geniuses, human-relationship experts, philosophical masterminds, peace-promoters – every kind of humanitarian mind.

The human race has overbalanced the scales and rushed too far ahead into an automated and mechanistic “paradise” that is growing into a spiritual hell, because people are at odds with one another and lack sympathetic communication.

Can the Periodic Table of Human Beings, used with judicious wisdom, miraculously bring forth on this world men of Christlike genius, who will use ten-tenths of their awesome minds to guide the human race away from possible cataclysm?

And if we are indeed a Hybrid colony of the unseen starmen, who may still be our silent watchdogs today (see last chapter), are
they striving as best they can to somehow promote biogenetic science on Earth and thus open up the path for us to better the world by producing better minds?

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ROM THE SUBLIME to the unsublime. In fact, from the greatness of the genius mind to the tragic state of a mind that is ill. That is our next foray into the mental mysteries of humanity as a whole.

It is quite possible that one disorder of Man's mind – schizophrenia – may be key evidence that Man is a Hybrid. Schizophrenia literally means “split mind.”
Split mind?

What is there about the human intellect that could cause an investigator or physician to label any mental illness as having “split” the mind? Actually, the medical term schizophrenia describes quite appropriately what does happen to its victim. He splits, mentally, and gives evidence of being only partly a rational human being, as far as his mind is concerned, and becomes a personality of dual nature.

Further, as we shall soon see, there are some schizophrenics who give evidence of the behavior patterns of prehistoric Man in short, ape-man. Just as genius is a possible evidence of the superintelligent outer-space ancestors of Man, schizophrenia is a striking parallel evidence of Man's earthbound ancestral forms.

A schizophrenic may simply be showing that he is part Starman and part Hominid.
Thus, the very symptoms of schizophrenia are credible evidence that Man is a Hybrid.

Why? Simply because animals who are products of straight Evolution never show evidence of schizophrenia whatsoever (as established by animal psychologists in many unique experiments).

Approximately 0.85 percent of the United States population is affected, at some time or other in their lives, by this cerebral malady. This means that about one out of 130 citizens becomes a victim.

It has been estimated that before the new tranquilizers were introduced in America, more than 45 percent of all mental-hospital patients were long-term schizophrenics. In a recent year, it was calculated that more than 250,000 people in the United States were under treatment for this unfortunate affliction.
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Schizophrenia is not only the single most common mental illness, it is also the most puzzling. What actually causes schizophrenia is one of the major mysteries of medicine.
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Many theories are current about the origin of the disease and it has been said, not entirely in jest, that there are as many theories about schizophrenia as there are psychiatrists.

But, as yet, no single theory has received the unqualified endorsement of even 50 percent of the practicing psychiatrists. And the symptoms of this psychosis were first described long before 1900. Obviously, therefore, although tranquilizers are doing wonders as an alleviating treatment for schizophrenia, we still lack a clear picture as to the real reason why people get this mind disease.

Through the years, some very unusual things have been discovered about schizophrenia.

For instance, it has been found that many victims of this disease have some very peculiar body hair patterns.
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More specifically, men who are prone to this disease display feminine bodyhair patterns, and women victims often display the converse.

Schizophrenic patients oftentimes show evidence of small hearts and other slight but noticeable physical abnormalities.
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Yet no one has been able to prove to the satisfaction of the general psychiatric profession that physical changes occur in the
brains
of schizophrenics.

There is one other bit of evidence regarding the victims of this disease – some advanced patients, hopeless victims beyond the reach of medical help, display thinking patterns that resemble exactly those displayed by animals.

This is how it is described (paraphrased, not verbatim):

A patient who has not spoken for years wants to have her hair combed. She will run her fingers through her hair (which she would not do if it were combed), and the attendant will correctly interpret her wish and comb her hair. This is called an “as if” action, and characterizes the thinking of lower animal forms. Dogs, for instance, upon looking at a piece of meat, will lick their chops
as if
they had already eaten a piece of the meat. Similarly, a mental patient will make flat, circular, sweeping motions with her hands while looking at a wrinkled rug – obviously making motions that she could make only if the rug were perfectly smooth on the floor, and expressing, by this means, her wish that someone would smooth out the rug. Similarly, animals, apes included, will make motions that can be made only
after some prized goal is obtained
, and thereby express the wish that the goal were obtained. This “as if” thinking is seen so often in schizophrenia that I believe it is atavistic and represents regression to some prehistoric thought-processes.

We shall see later how that phase “prehistoric thought-processes” hits closer to the mark than they know!

We are now ready to formulate a theory – a theory that may explain why schizophrenics get this disease. Let us grant that mankind, unknown to himself, is a Hybrid – partly of Earth origin and partly of outer-space origin. It may be possible that a certain small fraction of our population is, in a sense,
imperfectly
hybridized.

That is to say, these individuals may not be perfectly “homogenized” in their two diverse biological heritages from earthly Hominid and alien Starman.

Does this also help to explain the mystery of the microcephalic idiot who may have the small head and brain of our early Hominid ancestors? And does it explain the fact that some schizophrenics have abnormal body-hair patterns related to ancient furry coats? And, finally, is their mental apparatus as scrambled and awry as their small hearts and otherwise defective physiques? This applies only to those schizophrenics who have physical defects but would also apply in general to the majority of schizophrenics who are physically normal but mentally abnormal.