At the Reddit forum for people with schizotypal personalities, a certain ambivalence is in the air. On the one hand, people speak of social isolation, strong levels of fear and anxiety and difficulties with everyday life. But they also speak of excitement and entertainment within their inner worlds. In other words, perceiving the world as magical is not only fearsome. In societies that value schizotypal and psychotic people for their special senses of perception and imagination, all of those people aren’t necessarily dysfunctional the way they are in present-day Western society. In modern society, people with pervasive hallucinations often struggle to hold down a job. In primitive societies, there are good reasons to believe that men with tendencies to hallucinate were the best positioned for the only specialized trade there was: That of a shaman. In Yanomamö society, there were no artisans who were provided for by others for their skilled work. However, Jungleman seems to have gotten paid for his services. …