"Modern psychiatry treats hearing voices as a rare, severe symptom of a broken mind, associating it almost exclusively with conditions like schizophrenia. In this framework, an unbidden voice is proof of a biological malfunction. However, today, hundreds of recent studies have documented auditory hallucinations across a wide spectrum of perfectly healthy populations. These are people with no history of mental illness, who nonetheless report hearing voices with the same clarity as an external speaker. ..."

Learn more by reading "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind," currently on sale for a limited time:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737305534/

https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/conversations-on-consciousness-and-the-bicameral-mind/

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