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Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 1
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Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 1

January 19, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh

Jaynesian psychology can be distilled down to two major claims. First, until about three millennia ago individual behavior was governed

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Dirk Corstens at the Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness
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September/October Member Area Updates

October 30, 2020 Contributor

We’ve added a large amount of new content to the Julian Jaynes Society Member Area recently, including new audio of a lecture by Julian Jaynes, new video of a lecture by Julian Jaynes, …

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Julian Jaynes Society October 2020 Newsletter
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Julian Jaynes Society October 2020 Newsletter

October 22, 2020 Contributor

Just a quick update on the latest Julian Jaynes Society projects and other related news, including a new Spanish edition of Julian Jaynes’s …

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His Dark Materials & The Bicameral Mind

October 22, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten

It’s been said that Philip Pullman, who wrote “His Dark Materials,” drew inspiration from Julian Jaynes, with the characters’ spirit-animals

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Julian Jaynes Society August 2020 Newsletter
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Julian Jaynes Society August 2020 Newsletter

August 22, 2020 Contributor

We have lots of new things to tell you about, including a new website, a new Member Area and blog, a new edition of …

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Everything Everything
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A New Album Influenced by Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory

May 14, 2020 Contributor

Three years on since the release of ‘A Fever Dream’, Everything Everything have confirmed that their fifth album will be dropping on 21st

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The Mesopotamian god Ninurta
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The Natural Origin of the Supernatural

April 28, 2020 Contributor

How the Theory of Mind shaped our relationships with Nature and each other by Ted Wade …. We know that

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Boas’s Constructors
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Boas’s Constructors: The Project to Remove the Stranglehold on ‘Culture’

March 6, 2020 Contributor

By John Kendall Hawkins “‎The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.” – Friedrich

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Julian Jaynes’s 100th Birthday

February 27, 2020 Contributor

Today marks Julian Jaynes’s 100th birthday! In celebration, we’ve launched the completely redesigned Julian Jaynes Society website! The new site

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Ten Questions Critics Fail to Answer About Julian Jaynes’s Theory

October 28, 2019 Marcel Kuijsten

Critics of Jaynes’s theory generally attempt to show that Jaynes was wrong on one or two very specific points, and

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