We don’t know if you have encountered it; however, some people report hearing voices and receiving messages from the ‘spirit world’. Some people think that these people have special abilities, others say they are crazy. Although delusions and delusions can be signs of mental illnesses, there will also be people who look very healthy when you look at those who hear such voices.
Well, if the only reason for these voices is not neuropsychiatric or psychological problems like schizophrenia, what are the other reasons? What’s the difference between “healthy and unhealthy”? Scientists have been trying to understand them for a long time. A study published this year makes it possible to make this distinction.
Positive delusions that begin early are called “spiritual experience”
The state of hearing voices and seeing things without an external stimulus, called ‘clairvoyant’ and ‘clear hearing’ in the spiritual perspective, is one of the biggest concerns of anthropologists working on religious and spiritual experiences and scientists working on pathological hallucinations. Scientists are trying to figure out why some people attribute their delusions to spiritual experiences, while others suffer from these delusions and are diagnosed with schizophrenia.
According to a study that yielded results earlier this year; The tendency to learn during tasks, abnormal auditory experiences in childhood, and the tendency to auditory hallucinations are mostly seen in ‘psychics’ and ‘sorcerers’ who define themselves as ‘communicating with the spirit world’. Psychologist Peter Moseley explains the difference between these people and the ‘mentally ill’: “The unusual sounds that spiritualist people report hearing are often positive and begin to appear in childhood. That’s why the person gets used to these sounds and knows how to ‘control’ them. Understanding what’s causing the eavesdropping phenomenon can also help address uncontrollable and irritating noises. ”
Moseley and his Durham University colleague Adam Powell conducted a survey comparing the general population who don’t hear unusual sounds to “psychics” who say they hear them. While 44.6% of those who describe themselves as psychics stated that they hear voices every day, 79% stated that these voices are a part of their daily lives. While the majority of 65 psychics stated that these voices came from within themselves, 31.7% of them stated that the voices also came from outside.
Participants also stated that they were not “spiritual people” from the beginning; After he started to hear these voices, he said that they finally understood it like this while trying to find out the reason. In other words, the sounds were random and it was later claimed that they came from beings such as “spirits, spirits, ghosts”. Research will continue to find out the source of these voices, which now appear in childhood. The next research will study the effects of beliefs, religious teachings and stories on the development of these sounds.
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