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"To my knowledge, no one has ever died as a result of hearing evil voices. But people have died as a result of brain tumors that, as a symptom, may cause them to hear voices or other sounds. To my knowledge, no one has ever died because of “negative energy” surrounding them. But people have died as a result of acting on what voices in their heads tell them to do."

People hear a voice in their head often when smoking changa or drinking ayahuasca. These voices often times give very helpful advice, and information about events the participant of the substance does not know, this is not temporary insanity. Many people hear voices with out a mental illness or ingestion of an entheogen and the voices give them advice and assistance, answer questions and help them solve problems. SOME people however that have paranoid thought disorders can hear voices that can make them dangerous. You are perpetuating a social stigma that all people who have mental illness are dangerous to themselves and others. That hearing voices i pathological when in actuality it is often part of various transpersonal experiences.

People in many belief systems other then yours do believe and do die from being around negative energy. We can look through out interviews with other cultures for weeks finding references to like cultural perspectives.

"If someone has stated that he has already taken action (moving to a new state on short notice) as the result of voices/sounds in his head, I don’t think that the most responsible thing to say to such a person is to take a salt-water bath. Sorry if that isn’t agreeable with your worldview, but I couldn’t in good conscience say such a thing."

the two people whos comments your refering to sound to me as if they are working from a very similar congitive system. Which you do not agree with or understand, or tolerate honestly judging from your responses. TO these folks they CAN say those things in a good conscience... you on the other hand could not because it doesnt fit into your belief system. Magical thinking is very common like this around the world. Go to a root workers or hoodoo forum and just read those posts for a while and you will see lots of references to golden orbs and soda baths with sea salt.
Here is an example...
[URL unfurl="true"]http://forum.luckymojo.com/baths-and-washes-f7.html[/URL]

You might not believe in these things but there are lots of people that do. And they are not MENTALLY ILL for their beliefs or their experiences.

<blockquote data-quote="Dorge" data-source="post: 3368264" data-attributes="member: 1328">&quot;To my knowledge, no one has ever died as a result of hearing evil voices. But people have died as a result of brain tumors that, as a symptom, may cause them to hear voices or other sounds. To my knowledge, no one has ever died because of “negative energy” surrounding them. But people have died as a result of acting on what voices in their heads tell them to do.&quot;People hear a voice in their head often when smoking changa or drinking ayahuasca. These voices often times give very helpful advice, and information about events the participant of the substance does not know, this is not temporary insanity. Many people hear voices with out a mental illness or ingestion of an entheogen and the voices give them advice and assistance, answer questions and help them solve problems.&nbsp; SOME people however that have paranoid thought disorders can hear voices that can make them dangerous. You are perpetuating a social stigma that all people who have mental illness are dangerous to themselves and others. That hearing voices i pathological when in actuality it is often part of various transpersonal experiences. People in many belief systems other then yours do believe and do die from being around negative energy. We can look through out interviews with other cultures for weeks finding references to like cultural perspectives. &quot;If someone has stated that he has already taken action (moving to a new state on short notice) as the result of voices/sounds in his head, I don’t think that the most responsible thing to say to such a person is to take a salt-water bath. Sorry if that isn’t agreeable with your worldview, but I couldn’t in good conscience say such a thing.&quot;the two people whos comments your refering to sound to me as if they are working from a very similar congitive system. Which you do not agree with or understand, or tolerate honestly judging from your responses. TO these folks they CAN say those things in a good conscience... you on the other hand could not because it doesnt fit into your belief system. Magical thinking is very common like this around the world. Go to a root workers or hoodoo forum and just read those posts for a while and you will see lots of references to golden orbs and soda baths with sea salt. Here is an example...[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]http://forum.luckymojo.com/baths-and-washes-f7.html[/URL]You might not believe in these things but there are lots of people that do. And they are not MENTALLY ILL for their beliefs or their experiences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dorge, post: 3368264, member: 1328"] "To my knowledge, no one has ever died as a result of hearing evil voices. But people have died as a result of brain tumors that, as a symptom, may cause them to hear voices or other sounds. To my knowledge, no one has ever died because of “negative energy” surrounding them. But people have died as a result of acting on what voices in their heads tell them to do." People hear a voice in their head often when smoking changa or drinking ayahuasca. These voices often times give very helpful advice, and information about events the participant of the substance does not know, this is not temporary insanity. Many people hear voices with out a mental illness or ingestion of an entheogen and the voices give them advice and assistance, answer questions and help them solve problems. SOME people however that have paranoid thought disorders can hear voices that can make them dangerous. You are perpetuating a social stigma that all people who have mental illness are dangerous to themselves and others. That hearing voices i pathological when in actuality it is often part of various transpersonal experiences. People in many belief systems other then yours do believe and do die from being around negative energy. We can look through out interviews with other cultures for weeks finding references to like cultural perspectives. "If someone has stated that he has already taken action (moving to a new state on short notice) as the result of voices/sounds in his head, I don’t think that the most responsible thing to say to such a person is to take a salt-water bath. Sorry if that isn’t agreeable with your worldview, but I couldn’t in good conscience say such a thing." the two people whos comments your refering to sound to me as if they are working from a very similar congitive system. Which you do not agree with or understand, or tolerate honestly judging from your responses. TO these folks they CAN say those things in a good conscience... you on the other hand could not because it doesnt fit into your belief system. Magical thinking is very common like this around the world. Go to a root workers or hoodoo forum and just read those posts for a while and you will see lots of references to golden orbs and soda baths with sea salt. Here is an example... [URL unfurl="true"]http://forum.luckymojo.com/baths-and-washes-f7.html[/URL] You might not believe in these things but there are lots of people that do. And they are not MENTALLY ILL for their beliefs or their experiences. [/QUOTE]