Just released!
The revised second edition of
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness

Read the book that reignited interest in Julian Jaynes’s theory worldwide, from Julian Jaynes Society Executive Director Marcel Kuijsten, now in the revised second edition. Available wherever books are sold!

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Incipient, Precomplex, Complex, and Latent Bicameral Mentality: Discontinuities and Continuities in Human Mentality
by Brian J. McVeigh

"What was very early prebicameral and bicameral mentality like? With what we now know about the breakdown of bipartite mentality and the transition to consciousness three millennia ago we can expand on some key issues. Jaynes only devoted a very brief account of the precursor to full-blown bicameral mentality, but we can at least hypothesize about what it was like. ..." Read more

For those attending the Science of Consciousness conference this April in Tucson, Arizona, be sure to watch Steven Wingate, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at South Dakota State University, present “Implications of Julian Jaynes’s Consciousness Theory for the Origins of Musical Expression” on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024.

For those attending the conference, we also recommend the lecture by Tanya Luhrmann, Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, during the plenary session, "Consciousness in Religion and Altered States." This will also be held on Wednesday April 24, from 2pm to 4:10pm.

Also, read a 9-page interview with Marcel Kuijsten on Jaynes's theory and watch Part 1 of the Jaynes Workshop presented at the Toward A Science of Consciousness Conference.

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