The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.

• Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
• Consciousness Explained
• The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
• An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research
• The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Memory of Nature
• The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
• Images: A Reader
• Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
• The Act of Creation
• The Origins and History of Consciousness (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)