c/psychedelic-salon
Dive into the archives of psychedelic thought. Lorenzo Hagerty hosts essential conversations on entheogens, science, and the counterculture.
…that the nearness of these tryptamine hallucinogens to normal metabolites of brain chemistry, and the fragileness that people like McLuhan and Julian Janes have shown to be a part of the way we construct our world. In other words, that it's a delicate…
…right. He wrote a book called the breakdown. Is it called the breakdown of consciousness in the bicameral mind? This guy, Julian Janes, his idea was, and it's an interesting idea, the whole thing was somewhat frustrating because he wrote a very big book…
…so forth. And mirrors are very old, I think the sense of self. You know, some people want to argue that it's homeric. Julian Janes wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind. And he said that up until the…
…that the nearness of these tryptamine hallucinogens to normal metabolites of brain chemistry and the fragileness that people like McLuhan and Julian Janes have shown to be a part of the way we construct our world. In other words, that it's a delicate…
…I believe the poster says, Plato says time is the moving image of eternity. Because we talked about that last time. Julian Janes, who was a psychologist at Princeton, talked about what he called the origin of consciousness in the bicameral mind. And he…
…like an auditory hallucination before, I guess, our consciousness really developed. And we, you know, we were thinking human beings. Yeah. Julian Janes. It didn't win him too many friends, but he wrote a big book and had this theory that this thing, which…