In his controversial 1976 book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist, argued that the brain activity of ancient people – those living roughly 3,500 years ago, prior to early evidence of consciousness such as logic, reason, and ethics – would have resembled that of modern schizophrenics. Jaynes maintained that, like schizophrenics, the ancients heard voices, summoned up visions, and lacked the sense of metaphor and individual identity that characterizes a more advanced mind. He said that some of these ancestral synaptic leftovers are buried deep in the modern brain, which would explain many of our present-day sensations of god or spirituality.
If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self-generation, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala or symbolic poem, for within its form and flow lives comprehensive information about various physical, social, psychological, and evolutionary contexts within which it was created. – Dr. Ken Dychtwald in The Holographic Paradigm
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If you’re not already familiar with it, I would suggest reading Michael Talbot’s “Holographic Universe.” I am nearly certain that this book contains that very same quote by Dr. Ken Dychtwald.
And in the subject of recommended books, this reminds me, I certainly need to get my hands on this book by Julian Jaynes! It’s come up over and over recently in conversation and web surfing.