Category Archives: The Self
Before and After Human Consciousness, or The Voice of God vs. Auditory Hallucinations
Psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920 – 1997) asserted that humans were not fully conscious until around 4,000 or 3,000 years ago, the time when the two hemispheres of the cerebrum of our brain (left and right, physically connected by the Corpus Callosum) were unified … Continue reading
Posted in Archetypes, Consciousness, consciousness, Psychology, self, The Self
Tagged Carl G. Jung, Julian Jaynes, Marcel Kuijsten, Richard Sorabji
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Knowledge: An Oration
“Knowledge itself is unknowable.” —from Plato’s dialogue The Theaetetus “All men naturally reach out for knowledge.” —Aristotle “Knowledge itself is power.” —Roger Bacon I. Today I will tell you a story about how we traveled through time, discovering and collecting … Continue reading
Posted in Consciousness, History, The Self
Tagged ancient, collapse of civilization, Hominids, Homo sapiens, knowledge, Nature, the gods
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The Pavellas Perspective 