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>What do you base that on? I haven't stumbled upon anything like what people describe or draw(see pics ITT).
Schizophrenia and psychosis express themselves differently in indigenous populations; the hallucinations are often benevolent.
Further, obviously different ethnicities have different gut biomes, and 90% of serotonin (one of the, if not literally the, most important neurotransmitters in perception and learning) production happens in response to nutrition; however, obviously no society can consist of only schizo shamans, which is where the
>wise old
archetype comes in; consistent diet and exercise conditions the brain just as much as a psychedelic experience disrupts conditioning. In both cases the process is incomprehensible from the inside -- no one can reliably judge how their thinking changed from 20 years ago to now, because we cannot record thoughts and perception, only bodily expression; the inner world is always isolated, which means you categorically cannot say how much of what you perceive is hallucination you got used to and how much is genuine new stimuli. That's also why social isolation leads to hallucinations and delusional interpretation of perceived patterns.

In short, the brain first and foremost exists to communicate to other humans whether what you eat and do is subjectively good for you or not, and the purpose of communicating this is for the proliferation of the species, via genetics (if you survive strange food you might get to fuck) and memetics (if you tell cool stories they will get repeated), that's why Zen Buddhism is such a reliable shortcut to enlightenment.