The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods. - 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.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

I am emphasizing individuals set apartfrom others as ill, because, according to our theory, we could say that before the second millennium B.C., everyone was schizophrenic.