of inventing phenomena to explain things that our science has not yet conquered. We can not admit that "we just don't know" so we create cover stories. Evidence shows that it goes way back in our history, perhaps even preceding our species.
We have given supernatural powers to rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, old white men with long beards that live somewhere in or above the clouds, and the list goes on and on.
As you mentioned, the brain is real; we can open it up and play with it, cut out rotten parts, manipulate it with drugs, but we really don't know how it works. The "mind" is just another invention to explain what we don't understand. If there was a mind, who is to say that it exists in the brain, why not the heart, the liver, or the rectum; all very important organs? 
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