Homo Schizo One describes the first humans, how they came about and what they were like. Amidst mutative and transforming natural disasters, very recently, a "Lucky" primate was born bewildered. A split-second delay disrupted his instinctive responses. A multiple pesonage was created, fully self-aware. He reacted with symptoms of schizophrenia. Promptly emplaced was an acute sense of time, of history and a future. Unified with all the world but hating it, he fought for self-control and control of all things and of the fast appearing gods.

Is the true human a Homo Schizo, not Homo Sapiens? Our brain is afflicted by microsecond delays that forbid instinct reactions and produce multiple egos. This fearful situation drives us into eternal searching for our self (selves) and for control of others, the natural world, all aspects of self-control. Great art and music emanate from "getting one's head together." The basic motive of scientists is to convert human conduct to instinctive stimulus and response by reducing the human Madness; scientific truth is a marvellous by-product.

Religion was born in the newly self-aware human mind among environmental catastrophes affecting the Earth and the cosmos. It stems from the vital need to control and understand the world, one's fellow humans and oneself under ever precarious and perilous conditions and is at the origin of science as well as of politics. "Man's moral record in religion is largely unacceptable, whether to humans or to gods, if such exist. No anthropologist, philosopher, or theologian is pleased with it. It has been continuously expurgated and in parts expunged, to make it look better than it is. To little...