Empathy as the Basis of Delusion, and Yage as a Potential Treatment

By Brendan Bombaci

This brief theory paper is suggestive of a plant-based medicinal method to help bipolar and schizophrenic sufferers of untreatable psychoses. The argument is founded on scientific research in psychology, psychopharmacology, origins of religion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 2, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365088667

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Empathy as the Basis of Delusion, and Yage as a Potential Treatment

Empathy as the Basis of Delusion, and Yagé as a Potential Treatment

By Brendan Bombaci

Copyright Brendan Bombaci 2016

Lulu Press

ISBN: 978-1-365-08866-7

Introduction

As indicated by the behaviors of mammals in contrast to non-mammalian animals, neocortex size evidently relates to capacities of empathy and organization.  Dunbar’s Social Brain Hypothesis notes that, in primates, bigger neocortices are correlated to humanlike friendship relations rather than solely mating or hierarchy relations seen in other animals; and, Dunbar's Number rationally relates sizes of neocortices to those of social networks (Dunbar 2009, Dunbar 1992).  This may be due to the fact that more memories can be stored about individuals, allowing for more individuals to be well known.  For humans, the theory holds that we can each relate well to nearly 150 other humans (Gonçalves, Perra, and Vespigniani 2011; Hernando et