CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BICAMERAL MIND: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING THINKERS ON JULIAN JAYNES’S THEORY EDITED BY MARCEL KUIJSTEN CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BICAMERAL MIND INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING THINKERS ON JULIAN JAYNES’S THEORY MARCEL KUIJSTEN How old is consciousness? What is the relationship of consciousness and language? What is the origin of god beliefs and religion? Why do people hear voices that command their behavior? These are just a few of the fascinating questions posed by Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes’s influential and controversial theory and discussed in this book. A. treasure trove of provocative ideas, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind explains, extends, clarifies, and presents the latest evidence for Jaynes’ theory in a series of highly engaging interviews with both voice-hearers and leading thinkers on the theory. Topics range from the origin and nature of consciousness; the history, neurology, and experie of hearing voices; sensed presences and imagined “others”; evidence for bicameral mentality in history, diverse cultures, and ancient texts; the nature of hypnosis, dreams, “spirit possession,” and free will; and much more. www. julianjaynes.orgCONTENTS Introduction: Julian Jaynes’ Four Hypotheses on the Origin of Mind, Marcel Kaajten 1. Julian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind, and the Origin of Consciousness, Marcel Kuijsten Hypothesis I Consciousness Based on Language 2. Consciousness and Language, Marcel Kuijsten 3. Julian Jaynes and the Features of Consciousness, Brian J. McVeigh 4, Metaphor and the Rhetorical Structuring of Consciousness, Ted Remington 5. The Development of Consciousness in Children, Bill Rowe 6. Julian Jaynes and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, Jan Slewtels Hypothesis I Bicameral Mentality 7. The Bicameral Mind Explained, Marcel Kaijsten 8, Vestiges of Bicameral Mentality, Brian J. MeVeigh 9, Hearing Voices, Sensed Presences, and Imagined “Others,” Tanya M. Luhrmann 10, Making Sense of Voices, Marius Rome, Sandra Escher & Dirk Corstens 11, Living with Voices, Michel Knols 12. A Vestige of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World, Elisabeth Bell Carroll 13, Authorizing Clinical Hypnosis: From Bicameral Mentality to Autonomy; Laurence I. Sugarman 14, Consciousness, Hypnosis, and Free Will, Edoardo Casiglia 15. Hypnosis, Bicameral Mentality, and the Theory of Mind, John E Kilstrom Hypothesis Il: Dating the Transition from Bicameral Mentality to Consciousness 16, Consciousness, Cave Art, and Dreams, Marcel Kaiten 17. The Bible as a Written Record of the Dawn of Consciousness, Rabbi James Cohn 18, Evidence for Bicameral Mentality in the Bible, Brian J. McVeigh 19, Evidence for Bicameral Mentality in Ancient Tibet, Todd Gibson 20. The Evolution of Mental Language in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Boban Dedovié Hypothesis IV: Jayness Neurological Mode for the Bicameral Mind 21, New Evidence for Jayness Neurological Model, Marcel Kuijsten 22, Auditory Hallucinations and the Right Hemisphere, is E.C, Sommer & Sanne Brederoo Epilogue Appendix: Additional Discussion Acknowledgments www. julianjaynes.orgALSO FROM THE JULIAN JAYNES SOCIETY GODS, VOICES, AND THE BICAMERAL MIND: THE THEORIES OF JULIAN JAYNES EDITED BY MARCEL KUIJSTEN Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view — inherited from Darwin's theory of evolution — is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate w of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes’ ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin of gods and religion, the nature of mental illness, and the future potential of consciousness. The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes’s ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes’s theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic inspiration, the significance of hearing voices in both the ancient and modern world, the development of consciousness in children, the transition to consciousness in early Tibet, the relationship of consciousness and metaphorical language, and how Jaynes’ ideas compare to those of other thinkers. Available internationally in Kindle, softcover, and a new hardcover collector's edition. www. julianjaynes.orgTHE JULIAN JAYNES COLLECTION EDITED BY MARCEL KUIJSTEN Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes’ revolutionary theo OLLECTION or the “modern mind” remains as relevant and thought-provoking as when it was first proposed on the origin of consciousness nt discoveries in neuroscience, Supported by r HAVA Jaynes’ ideas force us to rethink conventional views of human history and psychology, and have profound implications for many aspects of modern life. y Included in this volume are rare and never before PE seen articles, lectures, interviews, and in-depth sme SSN discussions that both clear up misconceptions as well as extend Jaynes’ theory into new areas such as the nature of the self, dreams, emotions, art, music, therapy, and the consequences and future of consciousness. Available internationally in Kindle, softcover, and a new hardcover collector's edition. www. julianjaynes.orgREFLECTIONS ON THE DAWN OF CONSCIOUSNESS: JULIAN JAYNES’S BICAMERAL MIND THEORY REVISITED EDITED BY MARCEL KUIJSTEN Why are gods and idols ubiquitous throughout the REFLECTIONS ancient world? What is the relationship of ON THE DAWN OF consciousness and language? How is it that oracles CONSCIOUSNESS, came to influence entire nations such as Greece? If i consciousness arose far back in human evolution, JULIAN JAYNES'S RA MIND THEORY REVISITED how can it so easily be altered in hypnosis and “pos: on”? Is modern schizophrenia a vestige of an earlier mentality? rs ‘These are just some of the difficult questions addressed by Julian Jaynes’ influential and controversial theory of the origin of subjective ROEL EC consciousness or the “modern mind.” This book includes an in-depth biography of Julian Jaynes, essays by Jaynes, and the discussion and analysis of Jaynes's theory from a variety of perspectives such as clinical psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, anthropology, linguistics, and ancient history. Available internationally in Kindle and softcover editions. www. julianjaynes.orgTHE MINDS OF THE BIBLE: SPECULATIONS ON THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS RABBI JAMES COHN ‘Two developments in the history of the Bible are deeply related, and not merely coincidental. One is the lamentation of the loss of the experience of hearing God's voice. The other is the rise of the language of introspection: an interiorized subjective dialogue with oneself. In our own time, we are acculturated from infancy on, to understand our mental life as a narratized interior mind-space in which we introspect in a ceaseless conversation with “ourselves.” Our ancestors, however, were acculturared to understand their mental life in terms of obedient responses to auditory prompts, which they projected outwards as the external voice of God. Although these “bicameral” people could think and act, they had no awareness of choices or of choosing — or of awareness itself In 1976, Julian Jaynes proposed thar that as recently as 3,000 years ago, human beings were non-introspective. Jaynes claimed that one could trace this cultural transformation over the course of a scant millennium by analyzing the literature of the Hebrew Scriptures (“Old Testament,” OT). This book tests Jaynes’s assertions by examining the OT text in Hebrew, as seen through the lens of the Documentary Hypothesis and modern critical historical scholarship. 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