Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.


Book III, Chapter 3, p. 374 - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

Julian Jaynes Quotes

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.