For if consciousness is based on language, then it follows that it is of much more recent origin than has been heretofore supposed. Consciousness come after language! The implications of such a position are extremely serious.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

This 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.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.