The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind The original English version of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Contents Introduction: The Problem of Consciousness 1.1. The Consciousness of Consciousness 1.2. Consciousness 1.3. The Mind of the Iliad 1.4. The Bicameral Mind 1.5. The Double Brain 1.6. The Origin of Civilization 2.1. Gods, Graves, and Idols 2.2. Literate Bicameral Theocracies 2.3. The Causes of Consciousness 2.4. A Change of Mind in Mesopotamia 2.5. The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece 2.6. The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru 3.1. The Quest for Authorization 3.2. Of Prophets and Possession 3.3. Of Poetry and Music 3.4. Hypnosis 3.5. Schizophrenia 3.6. The Auguries of Science Afterword