QUOTE : In a sense, bicameral humans were more transcendental and evolved than we are today, but they were too ethereal and vulnerable. They lacked individual agency and adaptivity. Today, we have plenty of that, but no collectivity and no ability to access the transcendent, which has created a crisis of meaning and an epidemic of anxiety and mental health issues amongst the masses. Only crazy people could imagine that empiricism and materialism, involving the total repudiation of the metaphysical and transcendent order, could be healthy for humanity.