"Look at the ancient world globally, and you find a consistent, strange anomaly. Geographically isolated civilizations, separated by oceans and continents, all independently developed identical religious behaviors. They built massive mortuary architecture, they fed and clothed statues, and they organized their societies around the daily commands of invisible deities..."

Learn more by reading "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind," currently on sale for a limited time:

https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Consciousness-Bicameral-Mind-Interviews/dp/1737305534

https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/conversations-on-consciousness-and-the-bicameral-mind/

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