I love this sort of stuff.
I read a book a couple of years back called Inside the Neolithic Mind. They made a point of emphasizing that early human understanding of the world included many unseen entities and forces, with mystical explanations for any and every event. The authors maintain that a triple-realm cosmology, with a sky realm, a middle realm (earth) and an underworld is universal in early human thinking, Possibly this is old enough in our hard-wiring to go back to when protohuman primate species began to walk upright, and our heads became identified with the sky realm, celestial, and heavenly, concerns, while our guts and torsos started to remind us of fertile mother earth, and the lower realms became identified with death, waste, sorrow and loss.

I have Epilepsy, and I've had episodes of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. It's not a pleasant experience, since it can induce full-sensory hallucinations of hell, or occasionally heaven that are culturally mediated. It's believed that some religious ecstatics may have had TLE, such as Theresa of Avila. I went the opposite direction, I know my brain can glitch and fool me, so I look for external confirmation of my experiences.

Perhaps some are not reading the entire article and misunderstanding my post. Evolutionary psychology explains why people around the world create gods, it was an evolutionary advantage, which I believe is now detremental

Very interesting.

Back when I still got PMS, the furniture would deliberately get in my way, doors would stick on purpose, and objects on the floor try to trip me, so I had to yell angrily at them.

I can believe that. Just look at how often people name cars or boats and how we see faces in all sorts of places - trees, buildings, toast!

Certainly aligns with the data. I suspect this is correct. Humans have a very active HADD. I know that I often think I see people I know only to realize later I was simply imposing my projection of what I "might" see. Also, I have noticed that while hiking in the dark, I become frightened and start to imagine all kinds of terrible things that might happen to me. But if I walk exactly the same path in the bright of day, I'm at ease and even joyful. These are apparently built in protection mechanisms.

Far better to see a few false ghosts and fairies rather than to be eaten by the tiger lurking in the dark that you didn't notice.

I don’t believe in any god … nor do I feel cognitively lacking.. Are Atheists in that lengthy piece I sometimes talk to my little truck ..or thank my navigator.. though smile in the process.

It seems a lack of awareness or understanding of reality would lead humans to formulate mystic answers to puzzling situations. We are inquisitive, perhaps thee trait leading to our current dominance, and when frustrated, needing ‘an answer’ in order to move ahead ..may simply make them up. In a time of fewer and fewer mysteries, perhaps all regions of our brain may move on to more productive thoughts

Huh?