The best-available numbers on how schizophrenia strikes men vs women and different ethnic groups, with full tables and primary citations.
Global Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Incidence & Prevalence by Sex and Ethnicity
How Did a Self-Aware Mind Evolve?
Meditations on mind, myth, and evolution. Cast the scales from your eyes!
TL;DR
- Symbolic thought emerged ~50,000 years ago, yet the universal human symbol, “I,” or the ego appears globally entrenched only in the Holocene ~10 kya.
- According to Eve Theory of Consciousness, women invented serpent-venom initiation rituals that reliably taught subject-object separation, producing powerful gene-culture evolution towards understanding “I am’” at a young age.
- The memory of this awakening is preserved worldwide in creation myths (cf. Lucifer, Nüwa, Quetzalcoatl) and was transmitted globally via bullroarer mystery cults (cf. the rites of Dionysus or Australian Dreamtime).
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Pleiades And The Bullroarer Meme-Plex
How a naked-eye star cluster and a whirring plank became entangled in creation lore, initiation rites, and weather magic from Arnhem Land to Arizona.
Upper Paleolithic Gender Imbalance In Human Depictions
New counts show that roughly four out of five Ice-Age human images are female, overturning ideas that “Venus” figurines were an isolated fertility cult.
Campbell the Diffusionist: Boats, Not Brainwaves
Joseph Campbell’s own words show that he traced mythic parallels to trade-routes and sea-lanes, not Jungian Wi-Fi.
Joseph Cambpell, Champion of Cultural Diffusion
A source-by-source catalogue of every passage where Joseph Campbell attributes mythic parallels to real-world cultural diffusion rather than Jungian psychic unity.
The ‘Venom’ Motif in Serpent-Christ Traditions
Do Gnostic writers ever speak of Christ’s serpent as literally poisonous—or as an antidote? A source-by-source audit.
Awakening Eve: How Self-Knowledge Rewired the Human Mind
How a late Upper-Pleistocene spark of self awareness spread memetically, rewired our genome, and solved the Sapient Paradox.
X Chromosome and Higher-Order Cognition
How X-linked gene dosage, inactivation escape, and imprinting sculpt human brain development, intelligence, and social behavior.
Big Bangs of the Mind: 7 Theories About the Upper-Paleo Brain Upgrade
Guide to seven leading theories of the Upper Paleolithic cognitive revolution—what changed, when it happened, and why it sparked modern human behavior.
Phoenicians in the Americas: A Chronological Analysis of a Controversial Theory
A comprehensive historical analysis of claims that Phoenician sailors reached the Americas before Columbus, examining evidence and scholarly debate from classical antiquity to modern times.