The Mystery of Mental Illness

Why are mental illnesses a mystery? Because they are caused by psychotic genes which also have huge intellectual benefits. I have written two books on the subject, The Unreasonable Silence of the World (Opus 1) and Culture: The Great Escape (Opus 2). Opus 1 deals with the cognitive revolution and proposes that over a relatively short period of time - 150,000 years ago to the European settlement 60,000 years ago, an influx of psychotic genes into the human genome occurred which launched the human imagination. This new mental facility was responsible for the formation of mythologies that primarily, by establishing an alternative to reality, was also responsible for the survival of Homo sapiens as the only hominid to do so from the contemporary hominid population. The two-edged sword implication is due to the fact that the psychotic influx can be too generous, resulting in some people having too many in their genome - consequence, mental illnesses like schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis. Genetic research has established that all human genomes contain psychotic genes and that the distribution follows the statistical form of the bell curve.

Opus 2 analyzes modern cultural systems in the light of the alternative reality established much earlier.

The mystery is whether psychotic illnesses are only medical diseases or whether they are part of the human condition. The blog supports the latter view.

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