Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
We invent mind-space inside our own heads as well as the heads of others ... we assume these 'spaces' without question. They… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. — 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
