Reflections On The Dawn Of Consciousness
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Reflections On The Dawn Of Consciousness
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Author : Marcel Kuijsten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Reflections On The Dawn Of Consciousness written by Marcel Kuijsten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Consciousness categories.
Gods Voices And The Bicameral Mind
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Author : Marcel Kuijsten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-04-08
Gods Voices And The Bicameral Mind written by Marcel Kuijsten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-08 with categories.
Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin's theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes's ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin of gods and religion, the nature of mental illness, and the future potential of consciousness. The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes's ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history.Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes's theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic inspiration, the significance of hearing voices in both the ancient and modern world, the development of consciousness in children, vestiges of bicameralism and the transition to consciousness in early Tibet, the relationship of consciousness and metaphorical language, and how Jaynes's ideas compare to those of other thinkers.
Conversations On Consciousness And The Bicameral Mind
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Author : Marcel Kuijsten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-08-22
Conversations On Consciousness And The Bicameral Mind written by Marcel Kuijsten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Psychology categories.
Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind explains, extends, clarifies, and presents the latest evidence for Julian Jaynes's theory in a series of highly engaging interviews with leading thinkers on the theory.
Gods Voices And The Bicameral Mind
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Author : Marcel Kuijsten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-05
Gods Voices And The Bicameral Mind written by Marcel Kuijsten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-05 with Psychology categories.
Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin's theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes's ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin of gods and religion, the nature of mental illness, and the future potential of consciousness. The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes's ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history. Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes's theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic inspiration, the significance of hearing voices in both the ancient and modern world, the development of consciousness in children, vestiges of bicameralism and the transition to consciousness in early Tibet, the relationship of consciousness and metaphorical language, and how Jaynes's ideas compare to those of other thinkers.
How Religion Evolved
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Author : Brian McVeigh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
How Religion Evolved written by Brian McVeigh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with Religion categories.
Why did many religious leaders—Moses, Old Testament prophets, Zoroaster—claim they heard divine voices? Why do ancient civilizations exhibit key similarities, e.g., the "living dead" (treating the dead as if they were still alive); "speaking idols" (care and feeding of effigies); monumental mortuary architecture and "houses of gods" (pyramids, ziggurats, temples)? How do we explain strange behaviour such as spirit possession, speaking in tongues, channelling, hypnosis, and schizophrenic hallucinations? Are these lingering vestiges of an older mentality? Brian J. McVeigh answers these riddles by updating "bicameralism." First proposed by the psychologist Julian Jaynes, this theory postulates that an earlier mentality existed: a "human" (the brain's left hemisphere) heard voices of "gods" or "ancestors" (the brain's right hemisphere). Therefore, ancient religious texts reporting divine voices were recounting of audio-visual hallucinations—a method of social control when early populations expanded. As growing political economic complexity destabilized god-governed states in the late second millennium BCE, divine voices became inadequate. Eventually, humans had to culturally acquire new cognitive skills (modern religions) to accommodate increasing social pressures: selves replaced the gods and history witnessed an "inward turn." This psychological interiorization of spiritual experience laid the foundations for the world's great religions and philosophies that arose in India, China, Greece, and the Middle East in the middle of the first millennium BCE.
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
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Author : Julian Jaynes
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2000-08-15
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-15 with Psychology categories.
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch 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. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry
The Sower And The Seed
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Author : Alan Mulhern
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-03-21
The Sower And The Seed written by Alan Mulhern and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-21 with Psychology categories.
The Sower and the Seed explores the origins of consciousness from a mytho-psychological angle. The concept of immanence, a vast intelligence within the evolutionary process, provides the underlying philosophy of the book, presented as a creative-destructive spirit that manifests higher orders of complexity (such as life, intelligence, self-consciousness) and then dissolves them. The book explores the human psyche as immersed in nature and the realm of the Great Mother, showing how the themes of fertility and power, applicable to all life forms, saturate the history of humanity - most evidently in the period stretching from 40,000 years ago up to modern civilizations. The book examines in particular the transition to patriarchal religious consciousness, in which a violent separation from the world of nature took place.
Consciousness
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Author : Giuseppe Trautteur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Consciousness written by Giuseppe Trautteur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Computers categories.
Philip K Dick
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Author : David Sandner
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-03-11
Philip K Dick written by David Sandner and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Philip K. Dick was a visionary writer of science fiction. His works speak to contemporary fears of being continually watched by technology, and the paranoia of modern life in which we watch ourselves and lose our sense of identity. Since his death in 1982, Dick's writing remain frighteningly relevant to 21st century audiences. Dick spent his life in near poverty and it was only after his death that he gained popular and critical recognition. In this new collection of essays, interviews, and talks, Philip K Dick is rediscovered. Concentrating both on recent critical studies and on reassessing his legacy in light of his new status as a "major American author," these essays explore, just what happened culturally and critically to precipitate his extraordinary rise in reputation. The essays look for his traces in the places he lived, in the SF community he came from, and in his influence on contemporary American literature and culture, and beyond.
Holistic Consciousness
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Author : Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta
language : en
Publisher: The Phiroz Mehta Trust
Release Date : 1989
Holistic Consciousness written by Phirozshah Dorabji Mehta and has been published by The Phiroz Mehta Trust this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Health & Fitness categories.
Explains the human predicament in all its facets. An essential reading for anyone seriously concerned with holistic consciousness.