"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity.… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
