Zoe Wannamaker
Zoe Wannamaker, the successful English actress talked about her voice hearing on the radio programme “Desert Island Discs” (BBC, Radio 4), she said: It’s like a little person sitting on […]
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was born in 1874. Churchill was Prime Minister of Britain during the second world war, and is renowned for making magnificent speeches from embattled Britain in 1940 and […]
William Blake
William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake’s work is today considered seminal and significant […]
Teresa of Avila
1515 – 1582, Birthplace: Avila, Spain Teresa of Avila was a nun who reformed the order of the Carmelites, an ascetic who had mystical visions and communications from God. Charismatic […]
Socrates
Socrates’ reliance on what the Greeks called his “daemonic sign”, an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός) inner voice that Socrates heard only when he was about to make a mistake. It was this […]
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis wrote, “ During the days when I was living alone in a foreign city … I quite often heard my name suddenly called by […]
Saint Joan of Arc
It was at the age of thirteen and a half, in the summer of 1425, that Joan first became conscious her “voices” or her “counsel.” It was at first a […]
Robert Schumann
Robert Alexander Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. He was one of the most famous Romantic composers of the nineteenth century, as […]
Philip K Dick
Philip K Dick was an American science fiction writer, who died in 1982. Eight of his stories have been adapted into films to date, including “Blade Runner”, “Total Recall” and […]
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi, the man who almost single handedly achieved Indian independence from Britain, relied on an “inner voice” for guidance. Here Gandhi describes his experiences and beliefs about his voices: […]
Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum became the first person to circumnavigate the world single handed in 1898 aboard a boat called Spray. He claimed to have been aided by the ghost of Christopher […]
John Frusciante
John Frusciante from the Red Hot Chili Peppers: I had just so many mental problems. It wasn’t until I was 28 that my brain actually felt like a spacious place. […]
John Forbes Nash
On October 11, 1994, John Forbes Nash, Jr. won the Nobel Prize for pioneering work in game theory. Nash was 66 and, for most of his adult life he’d lived […]
Emmanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 – 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age of fifty-six he […]
Doris Stokes
The late Doris Stokes, the renowned English medium heard the voice of what she regarded as her spirit guide, the guide was called Ramonov, a Tibetan monk. At first she […]
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