Description
At the heart of this seminal book is Julian Jaynes’s still-controversial thesis that consciousness didn’t begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3000 years ago & is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually all aspects of psychology, history & religion.
Preface
Introduction
The mind of man
The consciousness of consciousness
Consciousness
The mind of Iliad
The bicameral mind
The double brain
The origin of civilization —
The witness of history
Gods, graves & idols
Literate bicameral theocracies
The causes of consciousness
A change of mind in Mesopotamia
The intellectual consciousness of Greece
The moral consciousness of the Khabiru
Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world
The quest for authorization
Of prophets and possession
Of poetry & music
Hypnosis
Schizophrenia
The auguries of science
Index
Preface
Introduction
The mind of man
The consciousness of consciousness
Consciousness
The mind of Iliad
The bicameral mind
The double brain
The origin of civilization —
The witness of history
Gods, graves & idols
Literate bicameral theocracies
The causes of consciousness
A change of mind in Mesopotamia
The intellectual consciousness of Greece
The moral consciousness of the Khabiru
Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world
The quest for authorization
Of prophets and possession
Of poetry & music
Hypnosis
Schizophrenia
The auguries of science
Index
