A Schizophrenic Woman Who Heard Voices of the Gods
Sally Cremer was 31 years old at the time of sampling. The sampling experience had been suggested to her by her psychiatrist, whom she had been seeing regularly for two and a half years.
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Directly Related Articles
A listing of many of the articles directly related to Julian Jaynes’s theory. See also the Indirectly Related Articles and Supporting Evidence categories.
Julian Jaynes: 1920-1997
Julian Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1990. After work at both Harvard and McGill Universities, he received his …
Read MoreLibrary of Science Interview with Julian Jaynes
In 1977, then a lecturer at Princeton University, shocked the scientific world with a revolutionary theory about the origin of consciousness. …
Read MoreVision, Madness, and Morality: Poetry and the Theory of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes’s recent speculative and iconoclastic book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, disturbs many of the …
Read MoreA Research Note on Becoming What We Do in Career Development
In context of the breakdown of the bicameral mind, evidence is noted suggesting that we lose courage to aspire to higher levels of occupational responsibility during late adolescence as we fail to decide how to use our study time.
Read MoreWhat Is It Like To Be Nonconscious? A Defense of Julian Jaynes
I respond to Ned Block’s claim that it is “ridiculous” to suppose that consciousness is a cultural construction based on language and learned in …
Read MoreRationality and Consciousness from a Genetic Perspective
Rationality and consciousness are strictly correlated. If one evolves, the other necessarily changes accordingly. Of all the possible modes of inquiry, …
Read MoreEvolution and Inspiration
The voices that have inspired poets have given just what Plato and Derrida have said they did, clear commands from the past, exemplary narratives. …
Read MoreEngogenous Hallucinations and Bicamerality
One of the most characteristic features of the bicameral mind is the presence of an audible voice. In “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of …
Read MoreThe Oracles and Their Cessation: A Tribute to Julian Jaynes
There is no mystery about why there is farming or industry, why there is instruction of the young, why there is architecture, medicine, or law. But the …
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