The "other" psychology of Julian Jaynes, ancient languages, sacred visions, and forgotten mentalities, Brian J. McVeigh
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The "other" psychology of Julian Jaynes, ancient languages, sacred visions, and forgotten mentalities, Brian J. McVeigh
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-256) and index
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non fiction
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The "other" psychology of Julian Jaynes
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bibliography
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Brian J. McVeigh
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ancient languages, sacred visions, and forgotten mentalities
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In his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jaynes argued that until the late second millennium people possessed a different psychology: a "two-chambered" (bicameral) neurocultural arrangement in which a commanding "god" guided, admonished, and ordered about a listening "mortal" via voices, visions, and visitations. Out of the cauldron of civilizational collapse and chaos, an adaptive self-reflexive consciousness emerged better suited to the pressures of larger, more complex sociopolitical systems
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