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Julian Jaynes Society June 2021 Newsletter
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Julian Jaynes Society June 2021 Newsletter

June 28, 2021 Marcel Kuijsten

We’re pleased to announce that the revised hardcover edition of The Julian Jaynes Collection was just released. We’re also excited to …

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The Presence of an Absent Father
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The Presence of an Absent Father

June 22, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh

While giving a talk some years ago at a conference about Julian Jaynes on Prince Edward Island in Canada, a member of the audience asked if I thought …

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Putting Julian Jaynes's Theory to the Test
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Putting Julian Jaynes’s Theory to the Test

June 1, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh

It is easy to forget that the Newtonian, Darwinian, and Einsteinian intellectual edifices were built over many years, painstakingly …

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Julian Jaynes Society May 2021 Newsletter
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Julian Jaynes Society May 2021 Newsletter

May 27, 2021 Marcel Kuijsten

We’re pleased to announce that the revised hardcover edition of The Julian Jaynes Collection was just released. We’re also excited to …

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Buddhism and Bicamerality
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Buddhism and Bicamerality

May 14, 2021 Contributor

In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes has painted a vivid picture of the collapse of archaic …

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Conscious Interiority Is a Constellation of Processes
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Conscious Interiority Is a Constellation of Processes

May 10, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh

Pretend you’re from another dimension and unfamiliar with cars, planes, trains, and ships. But you quickly notice what they share in common: …

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Q&A on Julian Jaynes's Theory
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Q&A on Julian Jaynes’s Theory with Marcel Kuijsten & Brian McVeigh

April 28, 2021 Contributor

Join us for an informal online question and answer session and discussion of Julian Jaynes’s theory with Marcel Kuijsten and Brian McVeigh …

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Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series
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The Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series

April 27, 2021 Contributor

Watch recent interviews on Julian Jaynes’s theory. The Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series explores a wide-range of topics related to …

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Julian Jaynes Society April 2021 Newsletter
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Julian Jaynes Society April 2021 Newsletter

April 22, 2021 Contributor

We have a lot of new material to tell you about, including a new hardcover edition of Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, the latest blog post …

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Conscious Interiority and the Language Trap
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Conscious Interiority and the Language Trap

April 20, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh

Cleaning up the mess surrounding the uses of “consciousness” is not an airy, abstruse, or esoteric subject, a topic only for absent-minded …

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