Recent Books I've been reading
by , 5th May 2008 at 05:05 PM (1249 Views)
I'm in the middle of Julian Jaynes "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind."
It's roughly a theory on how ancient man (up to about 5000 years ago) had brains split more or less in two. Their consciousness (right side) was an audible "voice" in their heads - as opposed to ours, which is a silent dialogue. Thus they were commanded by the voice of the "gods". And this is why most ancient beliefs/religions include the gods speaking and experiencing visions.
Since then, our minds have fused together, thus we don't hear the gods speak (as loud as we used to), and we don't see them either.
Fascinating stuff.










