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• If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

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  Powerful, Mind, Revolution

  Julian Jaynes (1990). “The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It is by metaphor that language grows.

  Julian Jaynes

  Language, Metaphor, Grows

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

  Julian Jaynes

  Civilization, Mind, Population

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

  Julian Jaynes

  Long, Catholic, Church

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book III, Chapter 6, p. 439), 1976.

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• The bicameral mind with its controlling gods was evolved as a final stage of the evolution of language. And in this development lies the origin of civilization.

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  Lying, Civilization, Mind

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

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  Moving, Learning, Knowledge

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

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  Force, Function, Idolatry

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.

  Julian Jaynes

  Essence, Justice, Consciousness

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.290, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

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  Memories, Mediums, Has Beens

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

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  Jealous, Mind, Breakdown

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.346, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

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  Men, Order, Hemisphere

  "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes, (Book I, Chapter 5, pp. 103-104), 1976.

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• The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

  Julian Jaynes

  Space, Mind, Psychological

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.365, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.

  Julian Jaynes

  Men, Needs, Research

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

  Julian Jaynes

  Self, Civilization, Understanding

  "LIFE" Magazine, December 1988.

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• Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

  Julian Jaynes

  Giving, Use, Coins

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We know to much to command ourselves very far.

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  Command, Knows

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• Include the knower in the known.

  Julian Jaynes

  Known

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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