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Great post. Two comments:
The popular saying “What would Jesus do?” suggests many devout Christians use Jesus precisely as a shoulder advisor—no doubt frequently & with intense seriousness. Hence they may well have useful insights into the technique.
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It’s important to be clear that the experience of “hearing the voices” actually happens, in many people. This is not a metaphor, and it is not hyperbole or exaggeration. I’m not saying that people tend to hallucinate actual sounds—that probably would be schizophrenia.
I read a book about Jaynes’ bicameral mind theory which mentioned research in the 1980s into shoulder advisers (in effect) of institutionalised paraplegics. It seems many paraplegics, who couldn’t move since birth, and I think couldn’t speak either, had frequent auditory hallucinations of a person, often known to them (eg a parent), who would regularly talk to them, providing commentary, advice, comfort or criticism. They would hear this as a seemingly real, external voice (but not visible). Similar I assume to schizophrenics hearing voices. The book gave this as evidence of remnants of the bicameral mind in modern humans.
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Great post. Two comments:
The popular saying “What would Jesus do?” suggests many devout Christians use Jesus precisely as a shoulder advisor—no doubt frequently & with intense seriousness. Hence they may well have useful insights into the technique.
Also:
I read a book about Jaynes’ bicameral mind theory which mentioned research in the 1980s into shoulder advisers (in effect) of institutionalised paraplegics. It seems many paraplegics, who couldn’t move since birth, and I think couldn’t speak either, had frequent auditory hallucinations of a person, often known to them (eg a parent), who would regularly talk to them, providing commentary, advice, comfort or criticism. They would hear this as a seemingly real, external voice (but not visible). Similar I assume to schizophrenics hearing voices. The book gave this as evidence of remnants of the bicameral mind in modern humans.
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Yeah, the bicameral mind stuff was definitely in my thoughts as I explored this concept explicitly over the past few years.