I hear voices, or what I describe as the thoughts of others as they are not auditory of the supernatural variety. They claim teleportation and other natural abilities protected by the secret illuminati. I have seen fire ignite from thin air, and smoke three times. Also, I have had people react to my thoughts directly. The smoke and fire can be hallucinations, but the direct response to thoughts is to real to me.
Imagine a world, a fiction if you can...Imagine a world that is progressing from conventional communications [ analogue for want of a better word] to telepathic. Imagine that the world has been evolving this capacity for over 10,000 years and as yet due to inherent fears and paranoia has failed to manifest in a consistent, testable and useable fashion.
Imagine that we as humans know so little about HOW WE FUNCTION individually and socially...
Then have another think about things like hearing other living peoples voices, reaction to your thoughts etc. and especially the amount of fear out there that someone is going to find out their secrets.
It is primarily the fear factor that drives this dilemma IMO
something that comes to mind is:
"being non-normal is not the same as being abnormal..."
Most of the "normal" people I have talked to have all said that they hear their own voice inside their heads. They would never talk about it because of the fear associated with hearing voices. Yet hear them they do. 2 billion odd Catholics get on their knees every week to pray using their inner voice silently speaking to themselves and their God... They hear their prayers as they speak them inside their heads.
So the hearing of voices is not the actual issue IMO, it is being in proper control of that voice that may be.
One of the greatest fears is loosing control of your own voice [ both analogue and mental ]...and the it's the intense fear that drives the beast so to speak.
With out wishing to down play the significance of your relationship with your guide, I wanted to say as you already know there are many people who have had similar and are having similar experiences. IT is no stretch of the imagination to realize that a friendship of this type is all well and good IF and I mean IF that "friend holds the integrity of your ID and freewill to be sacred.Swavey, if you are still following this:
I have a "voice" that I can communicate with... though it's less of a voice and, in my own personal opinion, more of a guardian spirit. He has a distinct personality and character and those around me are able to tell when he asserts himself over my own psyche, something he has only done without permission in situations of extreme peril in which grievous bodily harm could come to me or mine. He has stopped me several times from losing myself to a sort of mad frenzy I used to enter whenever I would get into a physical fight, at one point wresting control from me to prevent me from crushing the windpipe of one of my high-school tormentors. The most interesting part of him, though, is that it is a two way communication. I can communicate with him while fully awake. He is aware of what is going on when I am in control, and vice versa, though the few times he has wrested control of I have, essentially, blacked out. Whenever I have given control over willingly (mostly as experiments to see just what was going on after the first time he asserted himself) I am able to see and hear what it going on... my senses of taste, smell, and touch are there, but dulled.
It is... interesting, to say the least. Given that he has kept me safe or provided guidance in several situations I was unsure as to how to act/react, I can only call him my guardian... though through talking with him, he is no angel.
Interesting!*nods* That's one thing that has kept me feeling safe in all this - with the rare exception/situation when I was in significant peril, I have never felt pressured to turn over control of myself to him. It has always been a very open communication and always a very... dare I say pleasant feeling? Like knowing you are utterly safe.
He is aware of what is happening to me when he is not actively in control in so much as he has full access to my senses, but he cannot (or perhaps more appropriately, does not) delve into my memories directly. As far as him feeling trapped in my body, no, he is able to come and go as he pleases... it is odd, the sensation of him leaving is like that of a slight static tingle across the back of my neck stretching up to the middle of my skull. What is fascinating is that, while I was in the hospital recently for a simple procedure that went wrong (and very nearly very, very wrong), my wife stated nothing unusual showed up on any of the monitoring equipment that was hooked up besides a momentary spike in my heartrate, but after I had regained consciousness I got a quick reassurance that everything was in fact okay... considering i had gone under anesthesia for what should have been a 30 minute procedure and woke up almost a day and a half later... needless to say I was a bit disoriented (also, damn, the night terrors that stuff caused were brutal!)
oh dear! have you done any research into what the doctors think about this sort of outcome? 30minutes into approx. 36hours... gosh! [with no history of neg. anesthesia reactions I bet]considering i had gone under anesthesia for what should have been a 30 minute procedure and woke up almost a day and a half later... needless to say I was a bit disoriented (also, damn, the night terrors that stuff caused were brutal!)
A terrible experience no doubt..OH, it wasn't the anesthesia that was the problem... I have a condition known as Eosinophilic Esophagitis, in which the white blood cells in my throat cause it to inflame and constrict. As a result, I had a bit of food get stuck and the impacted. I went to the hospital (it has happened before, generally they can either use medicine to induce vomiting or, if that doesn't work, use a scope to push the blockage thru) and instead of calling the on-call GI team (as it was about 9pm) they decided to have me wait, unable to swallow so much as my own spit, until the GI team came back in at 7am. This made the situation worse as my throat continued to get more inflamed and constricted. When the GI team came in, put me under, and attempted to remove the blockage, they were unable to do so with a small flexible scope, so they decided to use a rigid scope. This ended up tearing and perforating my esophagus.
I ended up being transferred to another hospital with better equipment. There they removed the blockage and assessed the damage to my esophagus. I ended up spending a week in the hospital (not allowed to eat or drink anything for half of that time) while my esophagus healed...
What has me riled up is the total failure to follow protocol the first hospital had... and the fact that after I was transferred, my wife was told, point blank, that if the area they thought had torn in my throat was in fact perforated the entire way through, there was a good chance if I went into surgery it would end poorly... apparently esophageal tears/punctures are difficult and dangerous to try to repair, but I was given roughly 50/50 odds if I had had to go into surgery. Thankfully the tear didn't go the entire way thru the esophagus and there were only a few pinprick sized perforations which were able to heal on their own... but yeah... I'm weighing the options of filing for malpractice given just how much the first hospital messed up...
Indirectly yes.Per chance are you referring to the practice of Ujjayi Pranayama in which you partially obstruct the opening of the throat with your Epiglottis to give your breathing "voice"?