The Shi ‘Corpse/Personator’ Ceremony in Early China
After a corpse had decayed, a bicameral individual might still have heard voices from a shi ‘corpse; effigy’ (perhaps a muzhu ‘wooden spirit tablet’). …
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JJS Publications
A complete listing of articles published in Julian Jaynes Society books.
Souls, Gods, Kings, and Mountains: Julian Jaynes’s Theory of the Bicameral Mind in Tibet, Part One
The relevance of Julian Jaynes’s theory of the bicameral mind to the history of religion in Tibet may not be immediately apparent to either readers of …
Read MoreA Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psychê: Jaynes’s Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness
Jaynes notes that in Book I, Aristotle discussed and rejected each of the previous attempts to define psyche, including those by Democritus, Anaxagoras, Plato, and Heraclitus
Read MoreListening for Ancient Voices: Julian Jaynes’s Theory of the Bicameral Mind in Tibet, Part Two
It is likely that readers of this essay unfamiliar with Jaynes will have mentally rebelled against some of the conclusions drawn in Part One, if for no …
Read MoreThe Interpretation of Dreams, The Origin of Consciousness, and the Birth of Tragedy
Discusses Julian Jaynes’s hypothesis that the subjective consciousness developed as late as the first millennium B.C.; before then, men and women were …
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