After the breakdown of the bicameral mind and the dawn of consciousness, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism "received their imprint from the teaching of a great religious reformer, who, according to believers, brought a direct divine relevation."

These religious reformers promoted ...

Only if you strictly equate knowledge with facts.

I'd be interested to know what in particular you mean by "irrational" and what you mean by "degrees of consciousness." I get the sense you're talking about "wisdom" more than "consciousness in a Jaynesian sense." Am I wrong?

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It's sort of a cutesily written book but the basic ideas are interesting. This is the Hofstadter of Godel Escher Bach fame...

hi mr moderator :)

I'm actually reading this book right now as part of an exchange program with a consciousness-studies friend -- i recommended OC to him and he recommended The User Illusion to me. funny too -- I was reading amazon reviews of the latter and saw your post about it. Good review.

The ...

Well, I happily live in San Francisco, which is sort of a hotbed of all things alternative. I do think I'm going to go the riskier route, getting my degree from a non-mainstream school in a non-mainstream subject. Yes it will be harder, but I think I would be far too frustrated having to study stuff ...

Wow. Thanks so much for your thoughtful response. You mentioned JFK in addition to Saybrook. What about CIIS? I'm in the Bay Area; John Limber recommended I look at the UC Berkeley Linguistics grad school programs.

Any others with advice?

Oh, as for Watts and Jaynes; I do think there are ...

Hello,

I'm interested pursuing a graduate degree in Consciousness Studies; and I'm particularly interested in exploring and continuing the work of Julian Jaynes and Alan Watts (I wonder if they ever knew each other....)

I don't know whether it's better to go the Cognitive Sciences route or the ...