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

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

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.

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

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.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.