Just another article equating spirituality with some sort of mental disorder.  The most obvious question:  what about people who are popular, happy and rational, who still see and believe?  What's the reason for that?

Also, do religious people fall into this category (not counting the extreme religious nut cases, of course)?

Oh, and if someone is happy and well-adjusted, just how do you induce a feeling of loneliness, for purposes of this experiment?  No matter how empathetic someone may be, unless they are living the life on a regular basis, they are not going to be able to really know what it is like.  You can, at best, only view it from a distance, and imagine how you would be in that situation, but that's a far cry from actually living it day in and day out.

     The article wasn't what I expected, but nothing these days really ever is. LOL  It was pretty much common sense, I thought.  You don't have any human contact so you create it.  Just what he did in "Castaway".  If anything it strengthens the thought that we all need someone to love us.

     Makes me wonder, with prisoners or mental institution patients....... we know contact with others is important so how can you justify leaving these people in isolation can make them better?  Wouldn't the isolation and group mentality make hallucinations worse for psych patients?

     Oh, just me yacking again. LOL