“Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.”

—  Julian Jaynes, book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book III, Chapter 1, p. 337
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

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