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Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and the Bicameral Mind
In the early 1820s, a 14-year-old boy walked into the woods of Western New York and experienced a vivid manifestation of lights and voices. This experience led directly to the dictation of the Book of Mormon and the establishment of a global rel...
The Old Testament depicts a God who commands from the outside — a violent, external presence dictating every human action. But in the New Testament, this character changes, becoming an internal source of compassion and quiet grace. For centuries, theologians have attempted to reconcile this contradiction, usin...
The story of Abraham and Isaac is a cornerstone of monotheism. God commands a father to sacrifice his only son, and the father obeys without a single word of protest. For millennia, this has been taught as the definitive model of unwavering religious faith. But we have to consider the possibility t...
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 st...
In 1976, Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes published a thesis arguing that human consciousness is a recently learned process. Before its development, he claimed, our ancestors operated under a bicameral or two-chambered mentality, where stress-induced auditory hallucinations directed their behavi...