I, too, have sensed a disturbance in the BlogoForce.
Bump
I was getting into my car yesterday and I watched a raven with grass in its beak, attempting to add to her collection by pecking at a large branch. She made several attempts, each of which caused her to lose more of the grass in her beak. She finally lost all the grass, was unable to lift the large branch, and then flew away empty beak.
The point is that this illustrated a universal truth, that sometimes when we try for too much, we lose the little bit that is assured.
TRUTH exists, and is speaking to us, but are we listening.
Probably true about my cat: his life used to be governed largely by the images of food and external sounds like refrigerator door opening or voices calling him.
Creation of art [examples of which are known from pre-Homeric times] presupposes the mastery of language and visual imagery at the levels attainable only through self-aware study. Ditto for large scale construction: it is not an instinctive act, like an anthill, or there would be pyramids everywhere.
Thanks for the post. It'll take me some time to digest the ideas it contains, but I do remember reading Jaynes book almost 30 years ago, & how impressive it was.
New age nuts always use the Bible to support their crazy ideas. But they will never support the Bible.