1. bicameral - Adjective
2. bicameral - Adjective Satellite
Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPoetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. Julian Jaynes
The importance of writing in the breakdown of the bicameral voices is tremendously important. What had to be spoken is now silent and carved upon a stone to be taken in visually. Julian Jaynes
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. Julian Jaynes
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Julian Jaynes
Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Julian Jaynes
This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles. Julian Jaynes