From the Book - First Mariner Books edition.
Introduction : the problem of consciousness
The mind of man. The consciousness of consciousness ; Consciousness ; The mind of Iliad ; The bicameral mind ; The double brain ; The origin of civilization
The witness of history. Gods, graves, and idols ; Literate bicameral theocracies ; The causes of consciousness ; A change of mind in Mesopotamia ; The intellectual consciousness of Greece ; The moral consciousness of the Khabiru
Vestiges of the bicameral mind in the modern world. The quest for authorization ; Of prophets and possession ; Of poetry and music ; Hypnosis ; Schizophrenia ; The auguries of science