We Are the Children of the Stars

by Otto O. Binder

  Schizophrenic patients oftentimes show evidence of small hearts and other slight but noticeable physical abnormalities.4 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.

  The questions above enable us to begin to make some sense out of the confusing picture. It is easy to suppose that these people may have a defective integration between the “beast” (Hominid) and the genius (Starman) in their brain as an inherent aspect from hybridization in prehistoric times.

  This explanation seems to make sense, for it is well known that schizophrenics are often very intelligent and can function well in life, providing they are not placed in positions of excessive strain or responsibility that may make them “split” mentally.

  To many people, the above possible explanation for the origin of schizophrenia may seem to be of little use to humankind. But if the theory is correct, we can see immediately that some fascinating possibilities open up for the possible biochemical treatment of schizophrenia; second, for a new approach in the psychiatric treatment of this disease; and, above all, for “relief from stigma” that is typified by the epithet “kook.”

  Someone more proficient in this area than the authors may be able to formulate a radically new and successful course of therapy based on the above premise. It could possibly result in a “miracle” treatment, with a good chance of recovery for many schizophrenics now regarded as hopeless cases, if it is understood by the doctor that the patient has a mind “split” between his Hominid and his Starman heritages.

  Still more significant, as possible proof of the Hybrid theory, is that very recent medical research strongly indicates how schizophrenia may be inherited through genes, rather than being the result of bad environment and emotional traumas.6 A roundup of opinion among researchers states that “with respect to the mode of genetic transmission (through the generations), some investigators advocated a single-gene theory involving dominance. . . . Some have advocated a theory of recessiveness . . . others a double-gene mechanism.”

  Isn't that a clear gene-linkage with the past hybridization of mankind?

  That would go back to where Starman instilled his “brilliance gene” into the humanoid bloodline, which already of course held the “dimwitted gene” of low Hominid intelligence. And today, still carrying those two genes, some unfortunate humans are alternately governed by both of them to display their dichotomy in mentality.

  Thus, we see that the “schizophrenia genes” of the medical researchers may well be the twin genes of beasthood and brainhood, acting in our Hybrid brain cells since ancient times to turn modern victims quite literally into “split personalities.” Like anthropology and its missing link, medical and psychological science has found schizophrenia a “hot potato” that leaves them nonplussed. Nobody can be left “nonplussed” by the clear-cut Jekyll-Hyde gene explanation under our Hybrid theory.

  Want to know if your birthday falls on a Sunday, in the year 1992? Charles and George (last name withheld) can tell you in a split second – and be right. Yet the two young brothers have been in a California institute for the mentally retarded since age nine. They are low-IQ idiots in all average mental activities except one – they are mathematical prodigies.

  They are called “idiot geniuses” by psychiatrists, and that brings us to a new category of mental phenomena displayed by the human mind.

  How can a person be both an idiot and a genius?

  Actually, they are not true geniuses except in one sole direction – the weird ability they have for using instant mental calculations of the most complex kind, while yet being unable to add two and two! Their cranial “talent” works only along one narrow groove.

  Here's what they can do:

  Tell instantly when any given date in any year ahead for twenty centuries will fall on a Sunday.

  Snap out without hesitation that February 15, 2002, will be on a Friday, and that August 28, 1951, was a Saturday.

  Tell you the birth date of any famous man in history and how old he would be if still alive today after many centuries.

  Recall almost any day in their own lives and state whether it was cloudy, rainy, or sunny. They never miss.

  Baffled scientists call them “walking calculators.” But the amazing paradox is that the pair can neither add nor subtract, multiply nor divide any ordinary sums in arithmetic! You can stick them on adding one apple to one pear – but not on what dates Monday will fall on for all the years from today to A.D. 3000.

  When asked how they do it, the two childlike men will give a lopsided drooling smile and say, “It's in my head.” And psychiatrists admit that they have no better or more scientific answer to this near-incredible mental warp that crops up at rare times in human births and brains.

  But we, the authors of this book, think we have an answer. And one that is a major backup for our Hybrid Man theory.

  We call it the Theory of Simultaneous Regression. It proves once again that the concept of Man being a hybrid and a colony can be used – without strain – to solve many strange and baffling mysteries in human life.

  One related aspect to the idiot-genius riddle is the strange fact that extremely ugly people have frequently proven to be of surpassing intelligence – so intelligent that their names are graven forever in human history.

  Socrates was such an individual. He was a frog-faced, repulsive character whose greatest delight in life was a good intellectual argument.

  When the “normal” Theory of Evolution is examined, it can be seen that by deduction, the most intelligent people should be the least apelike and, therefo
re, the most handsome of individuals. In fact, many fine intellectuals who were handsome and pleasing in appearance have drifted across the pages of history. Hollywood provides many excellent examples of high intelligence combined with extraordinary good looks.

  But how can we equate this with the jarring note of the occasional ugly duckling in history who towered above his contemporaries in sheer intellect?

  Among the ugly ducklings were men like Abraham Lincoln, Irwin S. Cobb, and Socrates as outstanding examples. These were men who were so ugly that they were actually objects of curiosity, while their contributions to mankind's wisdom, letters, laws, and sciences have been so great that their names will always command respect and honor.

  Furthermore, it is difficult to equate intelligence with gigantic stature. But Lincoln was a giant for his day.7 France's De Gaulle was also an enormous man of great height,8 who, at an age when most other men had been retired for ten years or more, was pulling France up to powerful heights in the world community of nations.

  He and the others seem not to fit Shakespeare's immortal lines: “Surely the good Lord would not put his most precious jewels into a tower four stories high.”

  Is it possible to devise a theory to explain these “apemen” and “giants” who, despite their physical freakishness have high IQs and enormous capacity for synthesis, organization, and creativity?

  In our opinion, these strange geniuses can only be explained by starting with the assumption that Man is a Hybrid who occasionally has “throwbacks” or regressive types occurring in his progeny.

  And, on rare occasions, humans produce a kind of individual that may be called a “simultaneous regression type.” That is, they are both mental and physical throw-backs at the same time. It admirably explains Lincoln being superintelligent, ugly, and of enormous physical stature. He could most definitely have been a product of regression, for his mind was closer to that of our outerspace ancestors, and at the same time, his body was closer to the giant apes of the past.9

  His case is a very vivid reminder of a previously quoted verse in Genesis: “There were giants in the earth in those days; . . . the same became mighty men of old, men of renown.” Then there are the words of the famous anthropologist, Weidenrich: “I believe that giants are ranged somewhere in the human line – in the prehistory of Man.”

  If it is assumed that this argument provides a logical explanation for the ugly-geniuses and giant-geniuses who have so enriched the intellectual heritage of mankind, then we can at the same time reiterate that such “mixed” geniuses are arguments in favor of Man's being a Hybrid.

  For, if Man is the product of normal or conventional Evolution, a regressive type of individual would never, never have high intelligence.

  Evolution simply cannot work “backwards” that way.

  It is the assumption that intelligence superior to modern Man's is ranged somewhere in Man's past that permits us to explain the ugly genius and the mental giant (both ways) of history. At the same time, it permits us to view with equanimity the current concept that the unusually intelligent people who are also handsome, superior types are but normal products of an exceptional advance in the evolutionary development of mankind.

  It is the exceptions that prove the rule – the Hybrid Man theory.

  This fledgling theory of simultaneous regression also permits that previous perplexing mystery of mankind to be explained – the idiot-geniuses.

  It is important first to delve deeper into the unbelievable abilities of these idiot-geniuses, so that we see how impossible it is for that fantastic mental performance to come out of classic Evolution. A few lines from a textbook on psychology will be examined and this will lead us back to our idiot-genius enigma.

  Arithmetical prodigies have been found among the ranks of the feebleminded. . . . A favorite feat is to determine the number of minutes a person has lived, from a knowledge of his age or date of birth (without paper and pencil). Multiplication of three place numbers, naming square roots and cube roots of four place numbers have also been executed within a few seconds.10

  Seconds! If any of you have ever worked out cube roots of four-place numbers, with pencil and paper, you know how laborious and time-consuming such calculations are.

  And again:11

  Henry Mondeaux, the untutored son of a poor woodcutter, is a famous example of remarkable arithmetic ability in an otherwise dull person. In his childhood, he received no instruction, but was sent to tend sheep at the age of 12. . . . He worked out for his own use many special devices and aids to computations. After long exercise at these calculations, he offered to tell people the number of seconds in their ages. At this time a schoolmaster became interested in him and offered to instruct him. Unfortunately the boy had a very poor memory for names and addresses and he spent nearly a month searching the city before he was able to locate his benefactor. . . . He demonstrated his ability to solve [the following]:

  “There is a fountain containing an unknown quantity of water; around it stand people with vessels capable of containing a certain unknown quantity. They draw at the following rate: the first takes 100 quarts and 1/13 of the remainder; the second takes 200 quarts and 1/13 of the remainder; the third takes 300 quarts and 1/13 of the remainder and so on until the fountain is emptied.”

  Mondeaux gave the correct answer to this question in a few seconds.

  Here again is the strange mixture of incredible ability in one line of human endeavor coupled with quite the opposite in other areas, namely, idiot-like or apelike mental processes combined with “calculating genius.” And/or with physical anomalies.

  As Socrates, gifted beyond belief in philosophy, was froglike in appearance, so Mondeaux, the “lightning calculator,” took almost a month to find his benefactor – a schoolteacher – in the city!

  Again, the theory of simultaneous regression, easily supportable by findings from genetics, can explain Henri Mondeaux.

  To be explicit, his incredible mathematical ability would be a product of regression to this ability in Man's outer-space ancestors, while his lack of intelligence in all other areas was a parallel regression to the level of intelligence of Man's apelike ancestors.

  Many other mysteries of mankind can be understood and interpreted through this theory of simultaneous regression. It is actually a corollary of the main theory that Man is a Hybrid – a mental phenomenon that does not take us by surprise but, indeed, is expected if modern Man's mind is a “melting pot” of two minds, earthly and nonearthly.

  Hence, we claim – quite reasonably, we think – that idiotgeniuses, ugly-geniuses, giant-geniuses, and all such weird physical/mental anomalies are a direct consequence and proof of the Hybrid Man theory.

  It is not only some forms of mental illness, genius, and idiocy, combined with certain unusual physical characteristics, that are strange aspects of the human psyche. Beyond those are still further wonders of the human mentality on an even higher and more inexplicable plane.

  First of these is the possibility that racial memory exists within us all, deeply buried and seldom, if ever, seeing the light of conscious memory in most individuals.

  So little research has been done in this area – mostly by reason of biologists refusing to take the subject seriously because it smacks of “mysticism” – that there is little to present here. Nevertheless, it may be that many so-called cases of “reincarnation” believed in by various occult groups and Eastern philosophies are really manifestations of racial memory from ancient times, carried within the person's memory bank in his brain.

  The visions of a “former life” may merely be the sudden dredging up of those fragmentary and fleeting memories that could not have happened in his own life – but could have happened to his ancestors and been passed along to him unknowingly as an evanescent memory.

  Some cases of supposed reincarnation have been investigated so thoroughly that there can be little doubt that the person has had “extranormal” access to a body of facts and events that occurr
ed before his time, sometimes centuries ago.

  If such cases are authentic, they seem to bolster the validity of paranormal phenomena, ESP, parapsychology, and all those elusive fields of mental mysteries that science is helpless to deal with. And that scientists usually sweep under the carpet for not fitting into current theory of “things as they are.”

  Or things as the hard-nosed scientist thinks they are.

  No, we are not mounting a defense of psychic phenomena. Rather, we are going to take certain inexplicable experiences called “paranormal” and lop off the “para,” switching them from the realm of the unexplainable and “unscientific” into the area of rational acceptability. In short, we will give a nonoccult explanation for reincarnation in its various exotic forms, and certain types of “retrocognition” (seeing in the past) if they occur before the percipient was born.

  In short, we are postulating that memories of past lives, vivid visions of past disasters many years before the “clairvoyant” person lived, and even the “inspiration” for great new ideas or scientific discoveries may come from racial memory.

  Memory that we inherited from the starmen, mind you, when they injected their memory-genes into the gene pool of the entire human-race-to-be of early times.

  A best-selling archeologist in both Germany and America embellishes this basic idea in his own way but to the same end.12 He believes that brilliant scientific discoveries are culled from an all-embracing pool of “age-old knowledge.” He also calls it “cosmic memory,” which was brought to us by what the ancients called the “gods” who descended from heaven and taught primitive mankind many great wonders of civilization.

  But this knowledge became lost through time and mischance and the march of many “dark ages” until “At certain fortunate moments the barriers separating us from the primitive memory fall. Then the driving forces brought to light again [in certain human minds by the stored-up knowledge from the starmen] became active in us.”

  The result is a Galileo inventing the telescope and advancing astronomy in one great leap, a Newton discovering or rediscovering the laws of gravity, an Einstein formulating the brain-bending concept of Relativity.