You make a potent observation here.    The basic form of perception is hallucination.  All that we perceive is being recognized now as not direct observation, but interpretive hallucination.   All human perception is an aproximation, not a direct experience.     Our senses are triggered by signals and we interpret those signals into our perception of reality.    We do not see/hear reality as it is... we transduce our aproximations of reality from signals through the conditioning of our perceptual process.   Generally it seem when someone's confessed interpretations of the signals of life do not jive harmoniously with their native culture, (particularly when it makes the majority nervous or frightened), we seperate them and isolate them and treat them, to make ourselves feel better.
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