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	Bicameralism (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In psychology, bicameralism refers to a controversial theory asserting that the human brain once assumed a state known as a bicameral mind in which cognitive functions are divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking" and a second part that listens and obeys.
		The bicameral state produces the feeling of the mind sub-ordinated, due to the receiving of orders that cannot be ignored.
		Jaynes believes that the bicameral mental commands were at some point believed to be issued by "gods"—so often recorded in ancient myths, legends and historical accounts—were in fact emanating from individuals' own minds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bicameral_mind (1009 words)

	Neotech III -- Controlling Bicameral Minds of People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The bicameral mind is a human mind functioning in a particular, unconscious mode or manner...in the manner intended by nature.
		While the bicameral mind[ 1 ] exists in all people, it can be controlled or dominated by a special mode of consciousness developed not through mother nature but volitionally by each individual being.
		The hypnotized mind is urged to obey the voice of the hypnotist; the bicameral mind is compelled to obey the "voices" of "authority" or gods.
	www.neo-tech.com /neotech/discovery/nt3.html (5594 words)

	reviewbicameral
		The Oxford American Dictionary defines 'bicameral' as "having two legislative (or law making) chambers." Hence a bicameral mind refers to a split in the role of directing the organism.
		The Bicameral period is correlative to the emerging of the ego into consciousness.
		The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a fascinating and informative text approachable by the layman as well as the specialist.
	www.geocities.com /desmontes93/reviewbicameral.html (718 words)

	Senato Magistrale
		But the automatic bicameral mind became inadequate to handle the mounting problems as societies became more complex.
		That bicameral mentality lures people into searching for "sure-thing" guidance from "higher authorities", rather than using their own consciousness for making decisions and determining their actions.
		The principle of advantageously controlling the bicameral minds of others applies not only to poker but to all competitive situations involving two or more people.
	www.psicopolis.com /senato/neotech.htm (5560 words)

	Chapter 4
		Dualism: Both mind and matter have independent existence and consciousness is a reflection of the mind on the body.
		He believes mind or spirit is separate and distinct from the physical machine called the brain.
		Mind is postulated to exist independently of the physical brain.
	www.magicalmiracles.com /Chapter4.htm (1287 words)

	GreatNewStory.com - The Self by Julia Tyack
		The Bicameral people were a peaceful, tribal clan who obeyed their ‘king’ or ‘chief’ and who hallucinated his voice of command.
		The bicameral mind was a form of social control which allowed man-kind to move from small hunter-gatherer groups to large agricultural communities and finally resulted in the origin of civilization.
		In the bicameral area, the bicameral mind was the social control (not law).
	greatnewstory.com /web/read/36.html (2166 words)

	The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
		The purpose of this chapter is to show the relationship between the bicameral mind and society and to speculate that the bicameral mind was a form of social control.
		If one examines the civilization of the bicameral mind one would find a large house in the center of town that was the home of a hallucinated god or king, often with a table that people could put their offerings upon.
		When the bicameral mind began to break down the voices of the gods began to subside and a number of rituals were undertaken in an attempt to get them to speak again.
	members.aol.com /chris5264/jaynes.html (12924 words)

	Heirarchies Tribal and Solar, by Gene Poole
		The bicameral mind, as a gambit for species survival, worked so perfectly, that the human population increased to the point that tribal warfare became not only incessant, but deadly.
		Chief among the residual aspects of the bicameral mind, is the persistent arising of the spirit of the alpha-male primate tribal chief, or as HE is otherwise know, 'God'.
		Now arises the bicameral mind, to spare the individual the fatal effects of individuality (ignorance) and share the collective (tribal) wisdom; the group survives, but the price for survival is to live always in hierarchy under the eye and hand of the Top Monkey/Alpha-Male/Tribal Chief or as we know him now...
	www.nonduality.com /gene14.htm (2746 words)

	jaynes_bicameral_mind
		Before the “invention” of consciousness, the human brain was organized in a bicameral fashion: the right hemisphere (the synthetic, poetic, “god-brain”) used to transmit hallucinatory verbal instructions to the left hemisphere (the analytical, rational, “man-brain”), especially in unusual or stressful situations.
		This kind of “bicameral mind” is to be observed not only in the most ancient literature but also in the contemporary cases of throwbacks to bicamerality, such as hypnosis and schizophrenia, since verbal hallucinations (VHs) can be regarded as a remnant of this early mentality.
		Brooks DHM (1995) The unity of the mind.
	www.bibliomanie.it /jaynes_bicameral_mind.htm (2473 words)

	wAw : 0f
		In his models to be bicameral is to be in common or constant contact with a supersentience, and when one refers to gods, angels, or messengers — it is this supersentience which is being referred to.
		Jaynes portrays the connective aspect of the bicameral mind as a psychoemotional communications network which was uniquely implemented across a variety of cultures, while sharing a general and obvious template of organization and function.
		The bicameral model is compelling for many reasons ranging from its complex musings on authorization and the origins of what we mean by consciousness to its incredibly insightful graphing of the changes in semantic spatialization over the course of the composition of the Illiad.
	www.organelle.org /organelle/waw/waw0f.html (4847 words)

	Jaynz Bicameral Mind
		Since, to me, our minds are like software, this might mean that we clone words from the more familiar thought that is already entered into our internal symbol table, to make a new entry into that symbol table.
		The only possible way in which there could be a bicameral civilization would be that of a rigid hierarchy, with lesser men hallucinating the voices of authorities over them, and those authorities hallucinating yet higher ones, and so on to the kings and their peers hallucinating gods.
		During the eras of the bicameral mind, we may suppose that the stress threshold for hallucinations was much, much lower than in either normal people or schizophrenics today.
	www.snowcrest.net /soza/easyjayn.htm (4073 words)

	Neo-Tech III -- Controlling Bicameral Minds of People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Neo-Tech I-V provides the knowledge needed for identifying the bicameral elements of any statement or action by anyone or any group (e.g., church, government, media, politician, priest, businessman, doctor, friend, parent, spouse, self).
		And hopefully, by the year 2000, the discoveries of Neo-Tech and Neothink will have eliminated all vestiges of the bicameral mentality -- all vestiges of mysticism and external "authority".
		Thus, if civilization is prospering by the year 2000, Jaynes's discovery along with the discoveries of Neo-Tech and Neothink will have contributed to that prosperity by ending the symbiotic, mystical relationships of bicameral mentalities with authoritarian societies (which now hold nuclear weapons).
	www.neo-tech.com /discovery_xz/nt3.html (5594 words)

	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	Pop Occulture: Cults and the Bicameral Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		And he says that in one hemisphere of their mind, the people "heard" the voice of their god-king, as though they had a miniature of him inside them.
		Especially if you start dabbling in the idea that the natural state of the human mind is roughly akin to what we now might call schizophrenia, or multiple personality disorder.
		This author contends that cults are basically a throw-back to an archaic state of the mind.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2004/08/cults-and-bicameral-mind.html (990 words)

	The Relationship of the Bicameral Mind and the Paranormal
		To paraphrase Jaynes, a main reason that bicamerality ever appeared was as a means of social control wherein there emerged a leader, who was charismatic, adept with magic, and possessed the skills necessary to convey his private hallucinations.
		The relationship between Kurtz's theory of the paranormal and Jaynes's theory of the bicameral mind has been demonstrated here as the theory of religion since the "breakdown," for it is that relationship that is most exciting.
		Our mind space is an invaluable construct of our consciousness: "We [can] imagine 'ourselves' 'doing' this or that, and thus 'make' decisions on the basis of imagined 'outcomes' that would be impossible if we did not have an imagined 'self' behaving in an imagined 'world'"(BB; 63).
	www.trincoll.edu /zines/papers/1996/bicameral.html (3218 words)

	Citizens Forum December 1999 Article
		Throughout the ages, bicameral societies and civilizations have established themselves as powers and “authorities”, the nature of which developed without any notion of what it meant to be fully conscious as human beings...that is, except for a “power elite” - a culturally selected group initiated into the “rites of gnosis”, or consciousness.
		The bicameral mind, as described by the Honorable Professor Julian Jaynes (who also wrote the book on this subject), is a stage of growth and development to which all humans are subjects.
		According to Dr. Jaynes, a breakdown of the bicameral mind occurs when pressures from the environment impinge upon the human organism, forcing it to meet the challenge or default to it; i.e., "fight or flight".
	www.nationmakers.com /December.htm (767 words)

	Total Recall. How to regain missing memories and lost time without hypnosis through clearing and kinesiology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		It is the physical 'switchboard' between the mind and the body.
		The bicameral mind was man's mind before he developed consciousness.
		It is the bicameral mind, the right side of the Wernicke's area, which we "hear" when we hear those little words of self-invalidation and sabotage.
	www.relfe.com /total_recall.html (2285 words)

	Bicameral Article
		That is what the human will is. For Noam Chomsky, that was the innate mind and all of its the underlying structures because his experience and state of innocence was affected most by his father through the study of language and of politics with his uncle.
		Just as a fish is born in water, the fish does not recognize the water to be the very source of life--until it is placed in some condition, by chance or by fate--to exist without water.
		At that point, the fish is compelled to face his conscious condition--much like the bicameral mind--to use all the wits that are available to it to get back to the source of life--water.
	la.aznet.net /~cnoble/bicameralarticle.html (5273 words)

	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
		One is the "voices" heard by schizophrenic patients, which Jaynes interprets as a throwback to the bicameral mind of ancient times.
		The bicameral mind has begun to collapse into the modern unicameral mind of the self-willed, self-aware "I", and as a consequence the gods no longer speak to people, as they did in the days of old (223).
		It is not at all hard to guess that the loss of bicameral tranquility may have been accompanied by unprecedented linguistic disruption (irrespective of any causal relationship between the two.) The Tower of Babel story—which the nam-shubs strongly resemble—may have happened at a time when bicamerality was breaking down.
	deoxy.org /alephnull/jaynes.htm (827 words)

	Perspective of Mind: Julian Jaynes
		Pursuing the bicameral mind, Jaynes focuses on the corpus callosum, the major inter-connector between the brain's hemispheres.
		This bridge "collects from most of the temporal lobe cortex but particularly the middle gyrus of the temporal lobe in Wernicke's area." And it was this bridge that served as the means by which the "gods" who dwelled in one hemisphere of the human brain were able to give "directions" to the other hemisphere.
		The collapse of the bicameral mind came slowly, it was a slow erosive breakdown.
	www.bizcharts.com /stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious3.html (1124 words)

	Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: A Savoy Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In a compelling interpretation, Moses and other biblical protagonists are shown as examples of the bicameral mind in various stages of breaking down.
		In a highly readable presentation, he makes a fundamental distinction between “hare brain”; and “tortoise mind.” Hare brain with its faster thought-processing speed is analytical, calculating, self-conscious, and language-dependent (and given to “monkey chatter” in its worse moments).
		In a startling echo of Jaynes’ bicameral mind that heard the voices of gods, Claxton describes brain research that showed on the basis of brain electrical activity (EEG) the brain unconsciously initiates action one-third of a second before conscious intention, which in turn precedes action by one-fifth of a second.
	charlied.freeshell.org /claxton/brev0022.htm (607 words)

	Kinesiology Wernicke's Correction for Self Sabotage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The brain is a physical 'switchboard' between the mind and the body.
		The bicameral mind was man's mind before he developed self consciousness.
		I believe that it is possible and even likely that the man was a victim of mind control and the healer inadvertently removed the blocks to his memories, without first removing any booby traps.
	www.kinesiologist.us /wernickes_self_sabotage.html (2906 words)

	Julian Jaynes
		The book is very historically based, and he draws on much indirect evidence to support the bicameral hypothesis, and the subsequent breakdown.
		Almost equivalently I might ask whether what the right half of a bicameral mind, generating more abstract plans, doesn't necessarily involve this kind of narratization, and thus be conscious.
		This would leave the bicameral hypothesis as an interesting complication, but unfortunately mean that nothing had been contributed to the understanding of consciousness itself.
	imaginatorium.org /books/jaynes.htm (670 words)

	Left Brain : Right Brain
		Our conscious mind can only focus on data from one brain at a time.
		We can switch from one side to the other very quickly (with our corpus collosum intact) but that's not always the most efficient way to act and eventually ultimate authority to enter consciousness is delegated to one brain or the other.
		Creative writing courses often use this method to combat "writer's block." The logical left side is easily bored by lack of input and tends to "doze off" during such activities as meditation (repeating a mantra or word over and over) or in sensory deprivation environments.
	www.viewzone.com /bicam.html (1692 words)

	Amazon.com: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: Books: Julian Jaynes,Julian Jaynes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		And he sees idol worship and modern religious behavior as both signs of a longing for the lost certainty and simplicity of a world in which decisions didn't have to be made, and all were of one accord as to what the gods wanted done.
		It is pertinent that he calls the shift from bicameral (two houses) to modern consciousness a "breakdown." He sees the shift as happening in response to crises and threats in the environment, but he doesn't present it as necessarily positive, and certainly not as pleasant to those living in its shadow.
		As the mind (or brain) developed, this split healed (or this mind broke down?) and this knowing become a still small voice in many people, and in others a resounding silence.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618057072?v=glance (2839 words)

	Jung Talk - Jaynes' Bicameral Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		If there were not half a second in which to synchronize the inputs, we might experience a jitter in our perception of reality.
		The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, Princeton, 1976.
		All the nonlinguistic activity in the right brain was passed on to the left brain in the form of voices talking inside people’s heads.
	www.cgjungpage.org /talk/printthread.php?t=560&pp=40 (1650 words)

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