Recently got started on chapter six, The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru (known in later times as
Hebrew). I find this chapter particularly interesting in it's focus on the Old Testament.
The main point of the chapter is of course to examine the bicameral nature of the people who lived during various millenniums BC, and the development of consciousness as the old bicameral hierarchies collapsed due to complexity.
However, there were a few points mentioned which I would like to highlight here, as I find them to coincide with certain implications of the videos posted in
this thread. Those points are:
The Elohim. Usually incorrectly translated in the singular as God. 'Elohim' is a plural form; it can be used collectively taking a singular verb, or as a regular plural taking a plural verb. It comes from the root of 'to be powerful', and better translations of 'elohim' might be the great ones, the prominent ones, the majesties, the judges, the mighty ones, etc. From the point of view of the present theory, it is clear that elohim is a general term referring to the voice-visions of the bicameral mind.
At the particular time in history that we pick up the story as the Pentateuch has put it together, there are only a few remaining elohim in contrast to the large number that probably previously existed (think ancient Greeks). The most important is the one recognized as Yahweh, which can be translated as He-who-is. Evidently one particular group of the Khabiru, as the prophetic subjective age was approaching, was following only the voice of He-who-is. Other elohim are occasionally mentioned throughout the older parts of the Old Testament, the most important of which is Ba'al, usually translated as the Owner.
Paradise Lost. A further observation could be made upon the story of the Fall and how it is possible to look upon it as a myth of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. The Hebrew arum, meaning crafty or deceitful, surely a conscious subjective word, is only used three or four times throughout the entire Old Testament. It is here used to describe the source of temptation. The ability to deceive, we remember, is one of the hallmarks of consciousness. The serpent promises that "you shall be like the elohim themselves, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5), qualities that only subjective conscious man is capable of. And when these first humans had
eaten from the tree of knowledge*, suddenly "the eyes of them both were opened," their analog eyes in their metaphored mind-space, "and they knew that they were naked" (Genesis 3:7), or had autoscopic visions and were narratizing, seeing themselves as others see them. And so is their sorrow "greatly multiplied" (Genesis 3:16) and they are cast from the Garden where He-who-is could be seen and talked with like another man.
*It may be important to note here what was meant by "the tree of knowledge", a topic discussed in the Pharmacratic Inquisition and other videos on the subject, available in
this thread. Here is a short commercial-like
video on the very same topic.
Also: That idols were common in the period is shown by the casual reference to what must have been a life-sized "image" that, with the help of some goat hair, is made to resemble David in bed (I Samuel 19:13). The casual presence of such an idol in David's house
may point to some common hallucinogenic practice of the time that has been suppressed from the text.
Interesting implications, very interesting.