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For me as a therapsit, either B or L, depending upon the individual. I would say that the important variable is the level of suffering, and it's very likely a continuum, not an either-or. Despite the many people who seem to gain from hearing voices, the majority of my clients are suffering deeply and benefit from looking at it as an illness that can be dealt with. That said, I do have some clients whose voices start out as abusive and become supportive or at least non-disruptive.

I believe my voices are: B - a part of myself K - God I don't believe saints and prophets were schizophrenic. I believe that God is omnipresent and did not stop talking to people once the Bible/Koran and other holy books were written. I have had 2 distinct experiences with the voice of God. One is a constant, calming conversation. The other, a thundering revelation. I talk to a voice that is akin to someone whispering in my right ear. I cannot remember a time when it was not there. I consider it the voice of God. Calm, still, small. IT is always there but I have to pay attention. We talk. This voice often tells me things that I, Niki, cannot know. You could call it psychic intuition, but it is more than just that. It is very specific and very accurate. It gives me directions when I am lost. It gives me insights into other's issues/character. As a child, It told me how to save someone's life and kept me calm. Sometimes people ask me questions and this voice gives me answers. It sometimes directs me to say stuff to certain people. I feel really stupid but I say it anyway. Often these words mean nothing to me...but the people sure do. This psychic voice is not mine. Once I heard the voice of GOD differently. It came as an answer to a personal question. It thundered and I found myself drenched in tears. It was an ecstatic experience. I was comforted and challenged by the answer. It clarified all questions. It was not interactive. My voices are not due to some illness. There is no paranoia. To label all voices as brain dysfunction by those who don't hear voices stigmatizes the hearers and pushes it in under the rug. I personally consider it a gift.

I think that the voices I hear are other people that hear voices themselves. In other words, "People that hear voices, hear each other's voice's and do not know it." I've done some research, and found anomolous communication - I suggest you try looking that up in a medical dictionary. My spelling may be a little off. That's exactly what I think my voices are - basically all of us have extra sensory perception - just it's more intense with some of us. I find that medication does help in lowering thier volume level, but who wants to take meds? not me. I find that if I simply don't think about it - it simply just stays as a constant ringing in my ears. Now I can barely hear them, and only if I try to concentrate on what they're saying. They always seem to be there, but there's no point to trying to listen to them. I agree with Niki, I personally consider it as a gift as well. I noticed that I have the ability to really be able to read someone - even before speaking to them. Call it psychic ability or whatever you want - but I experience that all the time with different people. I notice that when the voices were loud and intense - that ability to "psychically connect" with someone is much greater. It really appears to be mind blowing at times. I get a feeling about a person - or better yet, some obscure subject matter comes to mind (not from the voices, but from my own thoughts) - and it always seems to happen that the obscure subject is usually something that the other person is greatly interested in - and we go and talk about whatever came up for hours. I can't accept the fact that the medical industry defines voices as simply "auditory hallucinations" - I even hear the direction from wich the voices come from (regardless of what direction I am facing, they are consistent in their direction of the source). For instance, a women's voice, call her voice #1, will always be heard coming from South East of me. And if I travel 5 hours south of home, her voice change's direction respectfully, e.g. the source then comes from North East. I also believe some of the voices in my realm are also spirits - not many, but some.

My mother was paranoid schizophrenic, but not violent. Her sister, also schizophrenic, would, from time to time, climb a tree with a rifle and shoot at neighbors. So I decided that I would not heed voices that told me 1) who needed killing, or 2) that I was "He whose name is hallowed." Really there is no reason I can think of to heed every voice, embodied or disembodied. That said, there are two different types of "voices" I hear. One is simple telepathy, hearing another's thoughts. This happened to me infrequently until I met my Sufi teacher, with whom telepathy was a normal mode of discourse. Anyone who reads the book "The Conscious Universe" will realize there is indisputable scientific evidence for Psi powers. There's even evidence pointing to the fact that the reason most of us don't experience telepathy is that it's just below the threshold of conscious awareness. Once you learn that not every thought that passes through your mind is your own, you begin to experience telepathy. For instance, I was writing an assignment down on the board just before lunch when I started thinking of Chinese food. This seemed strange as I had had a big breakfast and was not hungry. I turned around and said, "Okay, who is thinking about Chinese food?" A female student in the front row raised her hand. A second type is a voice from another dimension. I shared an apartment in San Francisco with a ghost who woke me one morning by whispering my name in my left ear. Another morning I woke up to a voice that said, "You are from another dimension, you are not from here." The so-called paranormal is normal for me because it is neither more nor less important to me than any other type of experience.

E People I used to know, as a punishment for talking about them they have come to get me in the only way they can

I HAVE BEENED DIALED INTO A SPLIT DEMENSION OR WHO THE HELL OR HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT FOR SOME TIME NOW,I HAVE SEEN AND HEARD OTHERS IN CONVERSATION,I AM NOT NUUUUUUUTS 43 AND LIVED A LIFE THAT I WOULD LIVE AGAIN,ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE A LONG RUN,RETIRED,MAKING EVERY PENCE ON MY OWN ......IT IS REAL WE ARE TOO NEW INTO THESE UNIVERSES ,WE ARE JUST LITTLE HUMAN BEINGS JUSTIFIENG OUR EXISTENCE,MEDICAL PROOF THRU'OUR OWN DEMESTICATION V.S LIGHT YEARS OF CREATIONS,C'MON...........AND I KOW MY SPELLING STINKS.................ACCEPTANCE OF WHY IT IS NOT OF WHY IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE..........MATEO'

as far as my experience in concerned I would say A; B; and J. does anybody know the result of this poll? I would be very interested in knowing other people answers on it. thanks

A and J. I have been hearing voices for over 10 years. The first was my mother after she died. The others have been very wise and helpful and I call them spirit guides. Although I am not really sure what they are, I have on occasion asked for outside 'proof' of their existence and they have managed to show me that they exist by making events occur exactly as I had asked them (no...not to win lotto!). They were simple things that affected no one else but me. 'Divine intervention'? Whatever the voices are, they have the ability to do more than simply 'talk'.

I believe my voices were the manifestation of temporal lobe epilepsy which is considered to be a medical condition but NOT mental illness. The voices came on during an 11 day introduction to a doctoral program. They made it difficult to do my doctoral work. It took a year to get a good diagnosis, but one I had it, I consulted the scientific literature to see if a diet was available. Indeed, fasting and very high fat diets have been used to treat 'seizures' for millenia. Being in the field, I was able to calculate a very precise (to the gram) set of recipes for an 80% fat diet. The voices disappeared within four days. The diet is very dire. Basically, the body is starving in a state of severe ketosis. Children can stay on the diet for two years after which a great number never experience a seizure again. I was only able to stay with it for a few months because the side-effects are severe. However, that was enough to stop the voices and allow me to resume my studies. The frequent supervision of a supportive trained health care professional is essential to trying this diet. Extreme discipline is required to measure absolutely every gram of food. A deviation can trigger a seizure. Now, I eat an unrefined vegan diet which keeps my thinking very stable and highly productive. If I feel like the voices are creeping back, I increase the oil in my food for a day or so. I feel like I have unusually good intuition. I am often on target in developing approaches to people. I have a great deal of creativity in my field of research in refined food addiction. In fact, if a reader would like to gainexperience with controlling the volume and intensity of the voices through diet, eliminating refined foods and seeing what's left would be one approach. Joan Ifland joan@sugarsandflours.com

There is a lot of research about nutrition and hearing voices. The Orthomolecular approach has many advocates and has helped lots of people. It is definately well worth looking into. Vtamin B5, and zinc are often recommended. getting the body into balance. If the body is out of balance it can effect the mind. Regards Adrienne

A friend who claimed not to hear voices once commented to me upon my revealing to him that I heard voices and that i was wondering whether it might be God. That I should consider that it might just be some "white boys with some Hi-Tech equipment." Thirty years later I have ascertained that some of them are.

A friend who claimed not to hear voices once commented to me upon my revealing to him that I heard voices and that i was wondering whether it might be God. That I should consider that it might just be some "white boys with some Hi-Tech equipment." Thirty years later I have ascertained that some of them are. I recall that once after listening to some rather loud music a comment was made that" they had to listen to listen to me on headphones".

B and E. Mainly B

I truly believe the positive voices i hear are that of the Spirit world...the deceased...as i have evidence of this. I also believe in Spirit guides...I work with mine. Finally, I know I am telepathic, as I have personal friends who also possess this gift and we have shared face to face about our telepathic conversations. I consider it to be a gift. Also, without medication I come into darker, more persecuting voices which are managed with the meds.

I have been hearing voices for the past two weeks. This is my first experience hearing them, in response to the poll, I believe that it is several answers (b, e, l).

1. Occultism - 'black magick', made by other real and living people. F B-L

I can't actually recall when I first began "hearing voices". Mine are primarily that a voice sounds "out loud" to me, as if someone was within hearing distance for me; i.e., as if in the same or connecting room, and actually spoke to me, to the point where I answer back and then go to look for the person/voice who spoke, only to find no one is there. This happens to me mostly at night, before or as going to sleep, but also when I'm awake and doing something. In this particular method, it's never been bad, just startling, even after all these years, it 'catches me off guard', but never been really "scared". It used to be my Mother mostly, just calling me, but now not so much anymore (she died 15 years ago). Most recently, it was my daughter, with whom I have a strong bond (not stifling), but she wasn't there when I heard her call out. Sometimes I can faintly hear my son, but not very often (he left this world 6 years ago at age 20). Sometimes I cannot "identify" the voice at all and it's mostly just "one at a time". For me, it's strange, but somehow not "connective" for me at the same time, that I was "diagnosed" with schizophrenia at age 19, but never quite took to that, although I was diagnosed with Major Clinical Depression and Panic/Anxiety Disorder at age 40 after an apparent "mental breakdown" (I am now 52). My mother had shock treatments back in the 40's and 50's and I think she was probably severely depressed, possibly even bi-polar or something along those lines, now I look back on it, how I grew up and how her mental illness affected me. So, after I was diagnosed at 19, I basically blew it off and subsequently just "went wild" for quite a long time, but finally decided for myself I wasn't schizoid after having gotten attracted to and involved with one sort of addict after another and then found out about family dysfunction and got into that (self-help/recovery), as well as having tried several "religious" organizations/movements, but found the recovery worked best for me at the end, till now, enough to where I could "gain control of myself" enough to not feel "crazy" and to believe that whatever "ailments/illnesses/diseases", etc. that I might have, that I can now function well enough to feel fairly peaceful, calm, less stressed, etc., with the help of support from a partner which makes my situation easier for me (since "going out and dealing with people at jobs" was always EXTREMELY challenging for me), and now I see I am in much better shape staying quiet and gardening, cooking, writing, doing DIY, painting, studying about myself, etc. So, does this mean I have "found myself" or "been cured or healed"... well, maybe a bit of all of it, because I think from YEARS of experience, it can be explained in terms of whatever PERSONAL experiences an individual may have had and how that individual is able to interpret it or believe it to be, etc. For me, the main thing is that I am able to live a calm life and not feel torn and pulled inside which is very draining and distracting and hard to be productive or even to be able to get along with people, etc. Not meaning I don't like people, but that I can't tolerate a lot of noise, commotion, aggressiveness, pressure, or even certain types of things such as sarcasm, or even rudeness/impoliteness/inconsideration/unthoughtfullness, etc. (however, that mainly increased after the death of my son, I became very unable to tolerate any "garbage" from people or situations that seemed very ridiculous to me compared to how I felt, which I knew was a very deep grief and how it was affecting me). As far as where do I think the voices come from? For me, it would probably be some of A, B, E, maybe F, J, used to I would've included L, but I don't think of myself as schizophrenic because I don't think I have strong enough symptoms to be classified, I think I was diagnosed with that 33 years ago because there were less "mental definitions" back then than there are now. And because I sorted on my own that a lot of my behaviours, thoughts, etc. were due to the way I was dysfunctionally brought up in a pretty extreme environment which caused a lot of my "mental state".

I came across this website by doing a search on spiritual aspects of hearing voices. I'm writing a play on the subject. I do not hear voices, although during earlier years 15-20 I went through a phase of drifting off to sleep and just before becoming unconscious I would hear a distinct voice (unknown to me) from somewhere inside my head calling my name. I think that's a fairly common experience. I'm enjoying exploring this website and appreciate all the perspectives and articles offered. I had NO IDEA there were so many individuals hearing voices. My thoughts on the above options would be primarily B, E, J, L in that order. Although frankly I believe any of the options are possible.

i truly do not know that the voices don't come from different places and different planes. i always hear voices when i do evp recordings, so there's no question that these voices are there. some respond to direct questions and some don't seem to relate at all to the present time or situation. does energy (which is what voices are) get trapped in certain places and absorbed somehow, only to reemerge years and years later???? is what i'm hearing fragments of conversations that took place long ago? i myself have alot of questions about what i'm hearing. when people tell me i'm fabricating noise, their denial surprises me. anyone who is honest would admit that what i'm hearing is without a doubt someone speaking, man, women and children. but who they are and why i'm hearing them is the greatest mystery.

G it is very interesting how many different thoughts people have on what voices are. i had no idea that so many people heard voices and that most of them that heard voices sound perfectly normal and not mad at all. i would like to go to the convention but know i can't afford to go so far away. and it is a shame that one of the countries is not the USA. it is very good to know that there are doctors that know that not all people that hear voices are mad or crazy. i went on a site and asked people if they thought a person was crazy or gifted if they heard voices all but one person said crazy. thank you for this site and good luck and God bless you. i am very grateful for the one person that gave this site for research instead of saying crazy.

I would have to say F. For me my voices are a representation of the negativity I encountered throughout my childhood. When I removed myself from the negativity the first voice appeared. The more people that encourage me and are generally positive towards me the more the voices grow, hence the reason I have 10/11 now. Because of the stress of growing up in such an environment, I have these voices to remind me that I am basically a piece of shit. That and other stressful situations I have encountered.

B-E-H In May it will be one year since hearing voices began. At first it was denial, then a feeling of possesion, or governmental/big pharma tests. These 3 voices convinced me my every move was being watched, commented on my daily duldrums continuously. Rapidly it grew to mental toture; name calling, sick subject shout outs, threats etc. I was maintaining as best as I coulduntil the sleep deprivation hit. Literally shouted awake nearly evry time I was able to drift, days and days of screetches, humms, buzzes, yelling, whispers. I awake at dawn nearly everyday, no matter what timE I get to bed. In all these months these 3 voices "repented" and have become aides to me. 2 actually follow thoughts, 1 asks the others what I'm saying and thinking. A 4th enetered and is very hostile and abusive. I have started to use unprescribed sleeping aids. I can function, but only with minimal sleep, which is all I get anymore. I have resisted seeking mental health professional, as I have always felt they are predisposed to view cases as text subjects. In the beginning months, I barbarically ripped my toenail off because 1 voic directed me to do it ( a daemon was living under it, and all would end if I did.) I chopped my hair short as a coping instead of hitting my head, etc. Many of my fears an deep seated pains have resurfaced, I'm trying to deal with all of these things at once. With no medical insurance, it's a slow process. I did fast, increase prayer tremendously, research as much as time allows. One thing to mention is that I convulsed in the first couple of months, a few times very intensly. I have not convulsed in months and now attribute it to anxiety. My voices total 4, 3 positive, 1 negative. I do not see this as a gift from God, I believe God is not a God of chaos, and my experience has been chaotic. These days I have become a pendulum between believing it is old emotional wounds nagging for a proper healing or a blessing of conscioussness elevated specifically for me on this path God has chosen for me.

Well, I have theorized everything from A to L, with the exception of H. Sometimes I just surrender in a sense and accept that I may never know. Its simply intelligence at play and knowing for sure who speaks doesnt matter. Since I like to qualify my information that is not so easy to swallow. The sense of interference they bring often enough has caused me to roar, cry, curse and plead for them to shut up. Ive gone to shrinks who tell me Im not crazy but when asked what the hell it really is the answer is "We dont know, our knowledge of the phenomenon is very crude...In the meantime try these drugs. " Since Im primarily auditory it does help if I work on developing my visual skills. Photography for example. It brings me out of myself and more into the present moment. I have found that when I am wholly focused in the moment the voices rarely come in. But if I space out and start to wander inner space they come up. Learning to stay grounded, to stay with my breath and bless the little assholes also helps. They may be any or all of the above but they have terrible manners... from a human point of view. Maybe its evolution simply trying to create a better human being. Obviously it can be extremely confusing, irrational as hell and very frustrating for anyone going through it. Good luck, sincerely, to all of you working through this crazy damn stuff. Its not always easy. Thanks for the opportunity to express these thoughts...I rarely bring this up to most of my friends.

????? it's been 3 years for me ???? i've given up on trying to understand if it helps anybody else ?? write it down when it's at it's worst we all think it but really how many can say they did what it tought me was every word stems and is directly based on me or my life or my friends, family, ect. so as far as phycic ability's it's a sham really all beilieving in it will do is give this ........???????? annouace a strong hold and more of your energy i feel strongly that my voice sick ness or honting is powerd directly from the attention and energy i give it what ever the source is? i've been experimenting with a few plans of action but all seem to fail i've come to the conclution that the only true way to releive your self from this hell is to forget about it accept defeet you won't know you can't know if you could i wouldn't be typing this rate now and ever moment of your life that you give to this shit is being stolen from you ! don't talk back don't be couriuse don't let what ever is said to you affect you if your going to waste your time and energy into this shit then invest it into your self... any body who wrote a letter in responce is guessing and in doing so empowering the very thing that we are all despatly trying to rid owrselves from i'd also like to say it's nice knowing that i'm not alone!!!!!!!!!!!!! in three years that is all i can say to help hope it does what it does for me.... ? by doing this it empowers me gives me the steiring wheel.. sum times for a week some times for months but at least i can get a break from it every once and awhile???:) a very smart man once told me the voices in your head will lie...................... and really what a smart way to uptain negitive energy?? just my oppinion? good luck and if you have anything to say back i'd love to hear it?... read it... good luck to you all we need it!

Hello fellow voice hearers, i have been hearing voices for the past seven years at first they were nice and reasureing and then around feb 2003 they started to become nasty and derogative i can only think of three trauma's that have happened to me and i believe that i can hear peoples thoughts.

J. For 13 years, with no negativity. Various personas, all male. I know it's not me because a bracelet was once described as a 'wrist chain' and a Medicine Wheel was explained to me, as I had never heard the term. Do I feel more spiritual? No. I have gone in the opposite direction and become more pragmatic. I talk to them but do not depend on them directly for advice or guidance.

I believe; J - Spirit Guides and Helpers (and wanting co-operation for the Spirit Guides & Helpers out there on other dimension to receive beneficial helps to). I had male voice come to me after went to Spiritual Church in 1986. I was advised I had healing gift! Went away because contact went wrong and I had 3 week session in ps hospital. I was vulnerable and did not at that time realise about the power of prayers. Same main male voice came back in 1997 after I attended Christian Church, Alpha Course. Again I had three week session in ps hospital. However, contact asked me to pray for sensible beneficial s on behalf of those in contact as well as persons here on this dimension. Initially I had some dreadful hard going times when there appeared to be a lot of deception. However, I prayed for truth - and for several years now the main voice contact as directed beneficials in many ways and often likes to be of help & to direct helps to me and others. It has varied, however, it probably would with a friend here too - if all the time - such as the contact I have. I regularly attend a Christian Church - hoping and praying that the Christian Churches will become accepting in sensible ways of persons who have beneficial co-operations from contacts. And that sensible constructive blessings will be, become & improve, upgrade being realities. Hoping and Praying adverse deceptions & spiritual warfare will be corrected in sensible ways and for ongoing sensible, beneficial consequences. I do think that the reasons persons get voices must vary - evidence shows many differences. Praying for ongoing sensible protections of honourable goods/rights & for sensible beneficial s & beneficiallies to be being / & to be going to be realities. Thanking Dear 'God' & 'Helpers' (incl. in Heaven & on Earth) Amen

Mostly B with a little bit of C, sometimes, they'll tell me things that don't really make sense from a modern perspective, but if you think about things as they were in the past, I can sort of see where they're coming from. Also, occasionally, a little J or K. On two separate, recent occasions they've predicted upcoming deaths of people I don't really know well with accurate time frames. Both were older, one was in her 90's and another maybe her 80's and both had recently been hospitalized. But, and this is important, they were both doing well and expected to recover. Not only that, the time frame was very accurate. the first would die in a month, which she did, and the second would die within the week, and she did. It was rather stressful for me, and it was the closest I've come in a long time to being afraid of my voices, but it also helped. They enabled me to distance myself beforehand so that when they died, I was prepared and able to support those who were closer to them than I was.