The Psychology of Ancient Egypt with Brian J. McVeigh
2023-11-16 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for a 90-minute interview and Q&A session with Brian J. McVeigh on his latest book, The Psychology of Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing A Lost Mentality.
We will be delving into many aspects of ancient Egypt that are relevant to Julian Jaynes’s theory.
This online event will be held on Thursday, November 16th, 2023 at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
The hour-long interview will be followed by a 30 minute question and answer session with the event participants.
Free and open to the public (RSVP required).
JJS members can RSVP directly (see RSVP section below, must be logged in). Non-members can RSVP by sending us an Event RSVP message.
A Google Meet invitation with a link to join the event will be sent to all RSVPs.
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No webcam or microphone? No problem — you can type your questions in the chat. If you are unable to attend, you can still participate by sending us your question in advance and watching a video of the session later.

Brian J. McVeigh is an anthropologist, mental health counselor, and scholar of Jaynesian theory. His Ph.D. is from Princeton University, where he knew Julian Jaynes. He has published numerous books and articles on Jaynes’s theory.

Implications of Julian Jaynes’s Consciousness Theory for the Origins of Musical Expression
2024-04-24 17:00 - 19:00
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” at this year’s Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson, Arizona on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024.
His talk will be presented during the 5pm-7pm concurrent session “Social Implications for Understanding Consciousness” in Salon F.
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.
(Read Tanya Luhrmann’s wide-ranging interview on Julian Jaynes’s theory in our latest book, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind.)
Learn more about the conference here: https://consciousness.arizona.edu/
(Please note that this event is not associated with the Julian Jaynes Society.)

The Bicameral Mind at 50
2026-05-11 05:00 - 08:00
An in-person and online (by Zoom) free event at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study (HWK) in Delmenhorst, Germany
Monday, May 11, 2026
9:00 a.m. to noon Eastern Time (North America)
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Central European Time (Germany)
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Julian Jaynes’s 1976 bestseller The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Jaynes proposed that prior to about 1,200 years ago, humans lacked introspective consciousness, with the left cerebral hemisphere during times of stress interpreting thoughts from the right hemisphere as compulsory commands from the gods. Other related topics and authors will also be discussed.
The event will consist of a panel discussion with science-fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer, Brian J. McVeigh, and others.
Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87511842427?pwd=[REDACTED]
(Please note: This is not a JJS event and is open to all. RSVPs are not required for this event.)
