“Favourite Celebrity Quotes no.734 – Brian Blessed” by id-iom is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Hearing voices: A simplified understanding
Did you know? Voice hearers often hear the voices of living, famous people?
Do you know? This is very understandable? If you understand schema theory?
Brian Blessed is a favourite voice of mine. As are a bunch of comedians, who always represent higher level, helicopter viewpoint ironies. Brian always makes me laugh. My version is the one that starred in Flash Gordon, of course!
I have an explanation as to how that happens, now. Much of this mystery, including my own concepts of these “divine beings” I’ve been speaking to, in my mind, has recently changed quite dramatically.
I think we underestimate, and misunderstand, the power of our own mind.
When, for example, during childhood, we end up dissociating part of our imagination, as I did. Then it is that imagination, that our voices; thought-forms of potentially complex sophistication, that have also been dissociated into that unconscious mind space of shadows, can use against us.
We have memory data in our mind, divided into compartmentalised schemas, to help us understand it in isolation. This ability is in itself, a key part of our ability that uses one’s metacognitive abilities in order to predict and cope adaptively, with changes to our environment, and to make rational decisions based on what we understand.
One of my compartments, for example, holds all that I know about Brian Blessed. That information can be used to create a character, animated by those dissociated, thought-form based voices.
Do you see the implications? That the voices of our neighbours, friends, doctors, politicians, Jesus, you name it, may all be available for those thought forms to effectively pretend to be.
No telepathy is required for this, or special abilities, even the ability to manipulate that compartment is not of our doing, but our dissociated thought forms behest. Simply put, that the ability of that thought-form to get into that compartment, from the back door of the shadow mind, and animate those memories. Serves to make them appear to me as, in this case, a very entertaining version of Brian, that can be used as a vehicle for interaction between myself and my dissociated character aspect, who I am otherwise, potentially unknowingly, refusing to speak to.
Bare in mind, that in experience, my own act by accepting those characters at face value, as those voices presented to me, and working with that. I’ve been able to turn those voices into internal supports. This has has personally brought about that famous inversion of Internal Family Systems‘ Inner-Critic, back into that much required, Inner-Supporter, many, many times.
I’m therefore, not saying this to reinforce any thinking that all this is not real, or is entirely imaginary and of no intrinsic personal value. Only that this mechanism that allows for this to happen, may be a lot less magical than many think. And that for some of us, when it happens, it shows us an aspect of the part of us that we have lost control of.
I got back that control, because I loved hearing those voices and wanted to understand them, and make friends with them.
So it is not that I am claiming this is any bad thing, just that it offers an explanation that avoids too much magical thinking, and is therefore grounding.
It is also a prime example of my highly developed Human Symbolic Interface at work. It allowed me to speak to an aspect of myself that I was avoiding, and helped me find a way to accept my own Brian, back into my life!
Is that a cue for another of my stories? Anyone seen a very naughty boy?
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