Evidence for Bicameral Mentality in Ancient Tibet
Todd Gibson interviewed by Marcel Kuijsten and Brian J. McVeigh, in Marcel Kuijsten (ed.), Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind (Julian Jaynes Society, 2022).
Summary: Todd Gibson interviewed by Marcel Kuijsten and Brian J. McVeigh on the evidence for bicameral mentality and the transition to consciousness in anicent Tibet, and connections between Jaynes’s conception of consciousness and Buddhism.
Excerpt: Marcel Kuijsten: How did you first become interested in studying Tibetology?
Todd Gibson: I worked in Forestry as a young man, and had the good luck to be sent to Nepal for a two-year stint there; my interest in the Himalayan region and Inner Asia in general started then. When it became difficult to find forestry work, I went to graduate school at Indiana University to begin a new career in that area. Tibet and Inner Asia are much better understood than formerly, but there is still plenty of unexplored territory for scholars. …