Marcel Kuijsten - The Julian Jaynes Society

Today we talk w/Marcel Kuijsten founder of the Julian Jaynes Society, about his Newsest book. Marcel’s newest book is focused on advancing, promoting, and fostering discussion of the life, work, and theories of Julian Jaynes (1920-1997), specifically his theory of the origin of consciousness and a previous mentality called the bicameral mind, and its modern-day implications.


Marcel Kuijsten
is Founder and Executive Director of the Julian Jaynes Society. He is editor of three books on Jaynes’s theory: Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, The Julian Jaynes Collection, and Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness. He is co-editor (with Brian McVeigh) of and regular contributor to The Jaynesian, the newsletter of the Julian Jaynes Society. He co-chaired and helped organize (with Rabbi James Cohn) The Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies, where he was also a speaker. He had also spoken on Jaynes’s theory at the Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness at the University of Prince Edward Island and the Science of Consciousness conference in Tucson, Arizona. Interviews with Marcel Kuijsten on Jaynes’s theory have appeared on the BBC, the Evolution Institute/This View of Life podcast, Red Ice Radio, Astraea Magazine & podcast, among others, and in the book Blood Rites by Jimmy Lee Shreeve and New Therapistmagazine.


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Marcel Kuijsten - The Julian Jaynes Society
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