Ancient Texts Online:

• The Iliad
  

• The Odyssey
  

• World Wide Study Bible
  Jaynes suggests comparing the bicameral mentality found in Amos (~800 B.C.) with the subjective consciousness found in Ecclesiastes (~200 B.C.).

  For additional references to the Biblical evidence for the bicameral mind theory, please refer to Chapter II.6, The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru, in Jaynes' book.

Organizations:

• Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
  ASSC promotes research within cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines in the sciences and humanities, directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness.

• International Consciousness Research Laboratories
  International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) was established in 1990 as an informal, multi-disciplinary consortium of accomplished scholars, all of whom are committed to collaborative scholarly exploration of the role of consciousness in physical reality.

Journals:

• American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences

• Canadian Psychology

• Consciousness and Cognition

• European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

• Journal of Consciousness Studies

• The Journal of Mind and Behavior

University Programs and Classes on Consciousness:

• Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona
  Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona encourages the promotion of open, scientifically rigorous and sustained discussions of all phenomena related to the mind.

• North Seattle Community College
  Origin of Consciousness
  This class is a broad-based, but essentially non-technical look at Julian Jaynes controversy which still rages twenty years after this Princeton psychologist's original publication.

• Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
  Psychology Department: Advanced Seminar on Consciousness
  This experience will explore the notion of consciousness from a biological, psychological, philosophical, and historical perspective, using Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind as the primary text.

• Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
  Senior Seminar: Consciousness
  This seminar will be organized around Julian Jayness book The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. All students will be expected to achieve an understanding of this theory at a level commensurate with their senior psychology major status, and each will contribute to the others understanding of the theory by making a significant written oral presentation in one of the fields with which Jayness theory intersects. These fields include neurophysiology, learning, memory, narratization, mental illness, hypnosis, and some selected social psychology issues, especially the social psychology of religion and authority.

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