> On Aug 8, 2:21 am, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:

>> On Aug 7, 5:27 pm, KingOfTheApes yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> It is said that the in the old times God spoke to the prophets and
>>> made them write the Bible, etc. How should I interpret when new
>>> messages come into my mind, God is talking to me or am I going crazy?
>>> And if I am, how do we know the old prophets weren't crazy too?

>>
>> Research indicates that hearing voices isn't all that rare; that many
>> cope well with it, belying its association with madness; and that so
>> many parts of the brain are involved in audition that finding those
>> responsible for hearing voices may be impossible. Smith proceeds from
>> present-day science to the nineteenth-century labeling of hearing
>> voices as hallucinatory, and then to famous cases of it, most of them
>> preceding but one during its pathologization. Socrates (Smith posits
>> that the voices the philosopher heard affected his sentencing to
>> death), Joan of Arc, and a German jurist who largely recovered from
>> schizophrenic voice hearing are the three figures about whom Smith
>> writes so intelligently and absorbingly that one wishes he had covered
>> others he notes, especially William Blake, as fully. One also wants to
>> read more of him, on any subject he chooses.
>>
>> Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity
>> by Daniel B.
>> Smithhttp://www.amazon.com/Muses-Madmen-Prophets-Hearing-Borders/dp/014311..
>> .
>>

>>> I guess only "God knows" the answer to these questions, so to speak...

>>
>> What would counter the theory that you are suffering from auditory
>> hallucinations, which are actually pretty common.
>>
>> Auditory hallucinations, particularly of one or more talking voices,
>> are particularly associated with psychotic disorders such as
>> schizophrenia, and hold special significance in diagnosing these
>> conditions, although many people not suffering from diagnosable mental
>> illness may sometimes hear voices as well. The Hearing Voices Movement
>> is a support and advocacy group for people who hallucinate voices, but
>> do not otherwise show signs of mental illness or impairment. Other
>> types of auditory hallucinations include musical hallucinations, where
>> people will hear music playing in their mind, usually songs they are
>> familiar with. One reason this can be caused is by lesions on the
>> brain stem, occurring most often from strokes, but also tumors,
>> encephalitis, or abscesses. Other reasons include hearing loss and
>> epileptic activity. Recent reports have also mentioned that it is also
>> possible to get musical hallucinations from listening to music for
>> long periods of time.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinationhttp://www.healthyplace.com/Commun
>> ities/Thought_Disorders/schizo/arti...
>>
>>
>>

>>> NOTE: I will be posting some of these questions as they have been
>>> whispered into my ear in the following days.

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> Our President hears voices, doen't he?