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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (7584)	6/26/2001 10:11:05 AM
From: SGJ	Respond to of 28931

"From the vision quest for a spirit helper to the vision quest for God, they follow the same basic program of dissociating from the body and allowing the mind to hallucinate." Jaynes calls this the return to the bicameral mentality, as it acts to suspend the conscious, "I" and allows the right brain to flow unimpeded by the controlling left brain which houses the "conscious" thinking, "should/should not", "ego" to check it. It can be accessed today by drugs, ritual, physiological stresses, hypnosis, and schizophrenia. The Greek oracles were one early example of the phenomenon at the crack of consciousness. They were the attempt to recapture the "god voices" which are posited to be our ancestors authority pre 1000 BC .