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Hearing voices: repressed asset or dangerous nonsense?
| When philosophy, religion and genetics advocate for so-called schizophrenics | ||
| ... previously the familiar divinatory voice of the daimon always spoke to me quite frequently and opposed me even in very small things if I was about to do something I should not rightly do. And now there has happened to me that which might be considered and is generally thought to be the greatest of evils. But the divine sign opposed me neither when I left my home in the morning, nor when I was coming up here to the court, nor when I was about to say anything. And yet on other occasions it stopped me many times in the middle of speaking, but now, in this matter, it has opposed me in neither my deeds nor my words. What, then, do I suppose to be the cause of this? I will tell you. That which has happened to me seems to me to be good, and those of us do not conceive rightly who think that death is an evil. That which, to me, is a clear proof of this has occurred. For the familiar sign would surely have opposed me if I had not been about to do something good. (Plato, The Apology 31-32. Translation © 2005 by Robert K. Clark.) | ||
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Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones. I say to you that in heaven Their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. Matthew. 18.10 |
The adopted-away and Icelandic studies, and the studies on the spectrum of disordered mental function within families from normality, to schizotypy to borderline personality, to manic depression, psychopathy and alcoholism, or to schizophrenia and mental retardation, suggest that the biochemical mutations which produced these disorders (initially) introduced into the human race a whole series of skills and behaviour patterns which are characteristic of the last hundred thousand years (the "Big bang" phase of Humanity's evolution) but not of the two to three million years before that (the long period of stagnation that preceded). Among these attributes present in some members of such families are: 1. A tendency to hear voices and a tendency to be intensely interested in religion. ... Other people, without the creativity to imagine these things themselves, may have had the brain capacity to learn and partially understand them from others ... D. F. HORROBIN (1998) Schizophrenia: the illness that made us human Medical Hypotheses 50, 269-288 |
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