The ancient Greeks heard voices. The Homeric epics are full of instances of people guided in their thoughts and actions by an internal voice which they respond to automatically. This suggests a people… not fully exercising what we would consider free will of rational judgement. As with most of us, there is a conversation going on in their heads, but it is not with themselves. Jaynes calls this distant mental landscape the «bicameral mind», and claims that, prior to the transition period of the Greeks, all ancient cultures were not fully conscious as we know it. In other words they possessed many Gods. Today we are suspicious of persons exhibiting such behaviors, forgetting that the term ‘hearing’ refers to a kind of ‘obedience’ (the Latin roots of the word are ob and audrie, of ‘to hear facing someone’)… (Bill Viola, The Sound of One Line Scanning). {+}