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 One of the most controversial books of the twentieth century, this work argues that ancient civilizations were governed by audiovisual hallucinations that were interpreted as divine guidance and commands. By around the first millennium BCE, due to growing social complexity, people had to culturally evolve a new mentality, i.e., consciousness. Jaynes, relying on archaeology, linguistics, religious studies, and neuropsychology, provides a theoretical framework that accounts for modern-day hallucinations, spirit possession, frenzied prophesy, hypnosis, and other anomalous psychological behavior. One of the most controversial books of the twentieth century, this work argues that ancient civilizations were governed by audiovisual hallucinations that were interpreted as divine guidance and commands. By around the first millennium BCE, due to growing social complexity, people had to culturally evolve a new mentality, i.e., consciousness. Jaynes, relying on archaeology, linguistics, religious studies, and neuropsychology, provides a theoretical framework that accounts for modern-day hallucinations, spirit possession, frenzied prophesy, hypnosis, and other anomalous psychological behavior.
  
-//Foreign translations of //The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind//:\\+Foreign translations of //The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind//:\\
  
-French: +French:  [[https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/ooc/fr/|La Naissance de la Conscience dans L’Effondrement de L’Esprit Bicaméral]] \\
  
 German: [[https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/ooc/de/|Der Ursprung des Bewusstseins durch den Zusammenbruch der Bikameralen Psyche]]\\ German: [[https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/ooc/de/|Der Ursprung des Bewusstseins durch den Zusammenbruch der Bikameralen Psyche]]\\
  
 +Italian: Il crollo della mente bicamerale e l’origine della coscienza\\
  
 +Spanish: [[https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/ooc/es/|El Origen de la Conciencia en la Ruptura de la Mente Bicameral]]
  
-Books directly related to Julian Jaynes's theories:+Books directly related to Julian Jaynes's theories:\\
  
 James Cohn, //[[https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Bible-Speculations-Evolution-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B00B5LWV82/?tag=julianjaynessociety-20/|The Minds of the Bible: Speculations on the Cultural Evolution of Human Consciousness]]// (Julian Jaynes Society, 2013).\\ James Cohn, //[[https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Bible-Speculations-Evolution-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B00B5LWV82/?tag=julianjaynessociety-20/|The Minds of the Bible: Speculations on the Cultural Evolution of Human Consciousness]]// (Julian Jaynes Society, 2013).\\
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