The extent to which man has been able to manipulate the memories of himself and others has allowed him to progress as he has. Lies or twisting of memories are an evolutionary effort to push man beyond his base capabilities to reach an amicable outcome.

Though animals can deceive to a capacity as well, humans had to specialize to survive. The experimentation of this led to the the concepts of crafting and the exploration of new ideas. The differentiation between what is real and not is whether we collectively believe it, and the supernatural is a result of this. We push ourselves to find answers in seemingly unreasonable places and we find lying to friends in a general sense is frowned upon, though not to an enemy.

I also think the root of the mechanism by which we twist reality is located at the source of our brain cells composing memory. I think that the data stored by those cells may be telling in the disparity between what we perceive and what is physically happening, and that what we perceive as the super natural are our efforts to produce an addition language or means of communication through hallucination.