Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Possibly every three thousand years.

I'm going to draw a connection between what Jayne says about bicameralism, a conversation with a man in a bar, and a theory i have been coming to for the best part of since i've been reading.



BICAMERALISM

Julian Jaynes is a psychologist whom three dacades ago came out with the theory that man had two states of mind, (bicameralism) one which speaks, and the other which listens and obeys. It is explained that the persons in this age are somewhat like schizophrenics and that the voice's they here are hulicinations thought to be "gods".



Schizophrenics and Memory palaces

Schizophrenics are someone considerred to have a mental disorder which distorts they way in which they percieve. Oddly enough we could all be considered schizo's to the average person with our memory palaces; figments of our imagination's that have the possibility to store unlimited amounts of information. Right now My own has a punch of somber students with their heads down in frustration with our penicls frozen inches above the desk while a drunk professor stumbles about with a mug in his hands and green gills etched behind his ears while A certain students has a crooked mischevious smile acrossed his face with glazed eyes and a crooked hat pointing down acroos his left cheek. A giant Calendar flaps in my mind between March 17 and Febraury 20. If this is what my mind has placed in the palace right now, tell me what will happen when i begin placing theory's in them and letting them form into others. What will happen. From another perspective what happens when i begen writing novels and store chapters inside and let them go crazy, who's to say they won't loose control and form into odd things i have no explanation for? Right now I/we all have the beginning of a very real and yet not real world forming inside our memory. Keep this in mind.



THE MAN AT THE BAR

Last summer, towards the end of the heat, I went tubing down a river that I'm sure most of you have floated down in your day. I recreationalized for awhile in the things we do as kids and afterwards I joined the rest of my friends in a bar in Bozeman. So the story begins.



I walked into the bar with the wave from my friend to the bouncer at the door and slid towards the bar. Wet, Sunbaked, and in need of a drink we ordered a pitcher of the special and headed towards the pool table in the corner next to the bar tables against the far wall. I slid into a seat and lit a cigarette. Rolling it from finger to finger like a quarter, I notice the smoke roll up off the back of my hands and curl towards the ceiling. Thats when he arrived. The man with a fohawk and heavily pierced ears. He has the body of a drug addict. The all to skinny body for someone of his age. It would seem normal except he has not the overwhelming energy that overcomes those that can't help but digest everything automatically. The sunken cheeks, and the ever wandering eyes while he speaks with my three friends reminds me all to well of someone shorting out.

A laugh erupts amongst the gentleman and my male friend, while the womens voice seems stung. I shake it off as a crude joke fitting to a bar and my vision wanders off to one of the Huge Televisoins broadcasting bowling. A few bowls later and my friends stumble back into the bar probably from some car and the man makes a beeline for me. He sits next to me and says he's been having alot of coincidents happen in life lately. He slips slowly up to the stool next to me and lights a ciggarette. Oddly enough I'd been having somewhat of the samething happening in mine.


A falling back into faith will make this happen as I've realized time and time again. Having faith has the ability in me and quite a few others I've talked with to show oddly coincediantil events in your life that eventually wrap into bigger events. The man sitting next to me goes onto explain how he was fixing a house earlier and noticed from across the duplexes facing windows that the f woman showering was spilling water everywhere outside. He meant to tell her that her shower was leaking but was too late and only saw a bunch of people piling into a vehicle and leaving as he ran out shouting.

Now something that i should add on before we go any farther, something that i did not know from the start, is that this man is a Satanist.

The people he ran after just happenned to have been my friends and I leaving. One in three chance right? From here we go on to talk about how often coincidences do happen and slowly he slips in that we are all from mushroom spores.

Yes. mushroom spores. Taking no notice of it at the time he begins talking about how everything has spin. Everything that has not been man made is rounded, the way our body's work is all circular and curved. He talks of how all the planets are moving about in space, spinning, and how the table we are looking at is here, but not "here" at the same moment. Nothing will ever be the same. Nothing will ever be said the exact same no matter what. It is always in a different position, and a different place, or a different space. Now do not imagine placing your hand through the table or walking out in traffic because that is not what is meant. To grasp it fully you really need to look at the relativity of time/space.

Now i do not remember all of the talk, but the next instant where everything comes together is when he is talking about the progression of new thinkers constantly moving west. This is what the protestants did to escape the Roman Church, as well as all the other settlers coming over to escape the old ways of looking at things. He stressed the point that as new information, new ways of lookings at things, and the ability for widespread information, that people were beginning to adapt to situations rather quickly with their own point of view.

From their he sets off into how information is instantenous for humans nowadays, and that we can learn and store vast amounts of information so quickly. He began to tell me that how humanity works is that once in a long time, humanity hits a giant boom, and starts advancing at an outrageous pace.

Imagine somoeone snapping their fingers several times in a row.

He beleives he will be godlike, that what humanity has come up with is the ability to live for a thousand years. That the explosion in nutrition, as well as medical research has allowed humans to live far beyond what they used too, and that because of the internet, human evolution would begin exploding at an outrageous exponent. He talked about telekenisis, and telepathy and the way that we would be comparative to the Gods they talked of in the olden times.

he begins explaining how we are the spores of superhumans, the god and satan and angels we read about in the bible, and that slowly we are beginning to evole into them. He talked of Atlantis as if it was once the pinnacle of humanity,where we were the nearest to gods we had ever been and that it was crushed by the Superhumans because of their Jealousy. HE also sighted how the bible describes the people in genesis as living nearly a thousand years.

Something in jaynes bicamerilism made me want to write about this. Possibly you will come up with a few insights of your own, but as for now i cannot really make any vast connections without ranting continously.

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  2. What do you think of the new book on Jaynes' theory - Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness by Marcel Kuijsten (ed.)?

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