If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

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

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.