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| Beyond the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind |
| 03.24.05 (9:35 pm) [edit] |
written with the guidance of Julian Jaynes
The breakdown of the bicameral mind represented not only a paradigm shift in terms of sentience, as it was the origin of what we now think of as consciousness—how’s that for a self-referential statement?—but in terms of our awareness of the omnipresent power around us. Our awareness of God, and of its profound qualities, flourished from the same wellspring of new understanding as our awareness of Self. The important thing to realize is that neither our awareness God or Self experienced a quantitative shift. We were just as steeped in God and our Selves as we are today. We were still made up of the same energy then that we are now. Thanks to Science for that clarification. The breakdown of the bicameral mind tipped the balance scales between God and Man, and brought us to the a high point from which we could for the first time appreciate the grandeur of the tip of the God iceberg which was submerged in the turbulant seas of our subconscious.
Long ago, before the paradigm shift—which is akin to saying before time as we know it—we were our omnipresent algae cousins, existing in defference to the currents of floating ice mountain, inconceivably immense from that point of view. Yet we thrived because we were in tune with its will. We enveloped the immensity of God in an embrace of harmonious coexistance, with our Other Selves and Nature. It was in this way that we were able to perceive God then. Our freedom from the boundaries of the ego left us open to all the forces on our former plane of existance. We did not Understand it then, in the perjoritive sense of the word, but we Knew it. We knew God then because we were one with the divine will. (Editor’s Note: Or at least we came with in an infinity of derivatives of the divine will from where we are today—you get the idea.) Now everything has changed although all of Nature remains the same. How is this possible?
Today, we perceive the world with our mind instead of the full harmony of our being before it exhibited even the neonatal features of Consciousness, as it is called. We are active in our persuit of Understanding rather than passive in the bliss of (unknowable?) Wisdom. The breakdown of the bicameral mind made us land-dwellers of consciousness, but from this vantage our waters look murky and forboding, and only the most daring will attempt to plumb the depths of our former home. But when they do, what a fruitful attempt it can be! Their perilous mission is eased by the reality of the matter. In reality, it’s not perilous at all. For our Self can never leave us, we can only misplace our awareness of it.
The very idea of God has been indelibly changed since the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Before that time, we sang no praises, but fervently invoked the Muse. God dwelled within us as an iceberg within its microecology, as an unquestioned authority. We lived our life according to the dictates of voices in our mind. Today, we have taken the reigns of the “voice in our head,” and those challenged by a spirited steed are called schizophrenics. Looking back on it now, perhaps the God of our age-old Mind might be called a hallucination, and I may agree with the understanding that a hallucination is a sensory perception which spontaneously springs into being, out of touch with its cause. But nothing occurs without cause, and the “commands” experienced were as surely God-made as the fabric of our existance, for God itself is tantamount to the sum total of all things in existance. All of the cosmos(es?) are sheltered in the myriad folds of the Most High’s Fractal Nature.
Such a working definition of God works especially well for our purposes because we remain algeal in our lack of awareness of the true girth and magnamity of the Eternal Giver. Nonetheless, our consciousness is enmeshed with that of God like our brains and our feelings, our hearts and our bones, our pains. Or like our survival is enmeshed with the survival of the oceans. The earth, the sky, and the stars are all in the same ether as we. Whatever awareness we have gained of the tip of the Iceberg has come from the same source as all Energy, past and future. Climbing the heights of consciousness—or plumbing the depths, depending on how one looks at it—is really just a willing return to the Garden, a renunciation of all the live/evil vestiges of the ego which leaves us naked and innocent of any karmic act, free to return to the womb of spiritual ancientce. (That algae is sitting mighty pretty compared to us) In a great irony, it is our free will which bears us on our journey to wash like waves over God’s shore.
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