Marcel Kuijsten - Julian Jaynes and the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Self Portraits As Other People
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What Are Bicameral Dreams?
In the ancient past a voice or a vision would communicate these types of things to the person and sometimes in a waking hallucination but often in dreams they had what we might call bicameral dreams. It's very interesting because it immediately makes me think also of Tesla, Nikola Tesla who would oftentimes receive the blueprint for his inventions in a flash like he would kind of fall in like similar to I guess epileptics will often before they have a seizure or a shopping mall attack. The example of Tesla is a great example of how this process continues even today These stunning insights that come to us non-consciously that emerged into our consciousness would have simply taken the form of a hallucinatory
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