 "The Journal of Pan African Studies (Online)")
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An Essay on God as the Bicameral Mind: Implications for Africological Research
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Abstract
This article proposes that Molefi Asante's articulation that God is the Bicameral Mind, as written in Afrocentricity: Theory of Social Change, is the basis of an Afrocentric philosophical approach that is more universe-centered than location or subject/agent theories, which many Asantean Africologists use to create discourse within our discipline. Given that the major rational for an Afrocentric philosophy is the Bicameral Mind, we begin this essay by reviewing the relationshi...
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Julian Jaynes, 77 Author, Princeton professor
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