We are greatly in need of specific research in this area of schizophrenic experience to help us understand Mesolithic man.
Julian JaynesThe language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.
Julian JaynesThis 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