XPost: alt.mythology, talk.religion.misc, alt.religion   
   XPost: alt.folklore   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <5130B68F.1DF4@lycos.com>,   
    Timothy Sutter  wrote:   
      
   > David Dalton wrote:   
      
   > > And in my case if   
   > > my psychiatrist had been with me when I   
   > > had a blue rose vision and also saw the blue   
   > > rose he or she might treat me differently.   
   >   
   >   
   > who do you believe, your self or the psychiatrist?   
      
   Well, I know the vision was such that the rose   
   appeared in front of me as if it was really   
   there, not just in my mind's eye.  That is, it   
   appeared as if someone else who was there would   
   also have seen it.   But then it wouldn't have   
   counted as a vision.   And my past psychiatrist   
   didn't say what he thought of the vision, though   
   he said I had a tendency to magical thinking. I   
   have only met twice with my new psychiatrist and   
   mentioned the vision to him once and he said I   
   was psychotic.   I haven't given him the URL for   
   my Salmon on the Thorns web page yet, I want   
   to make the transition from lithium to Epival   
   first, and get to know him a bit better, and   
   tidy up the web page some.   
      
   As for two people at once hearing the same   
   voice in their heads, I haven't heard of   
   any cases like that.   If it did occur then   
   I think it should not be considered psychotic   
   but a true voice confirmed by comparison   
   between the two recipients.   
      
   The rumblings/etc that you mention may have   
   been volcanic activity or may have been   
   a thunderstorm.   
      
   I am not Christian, and I don't take the   
   bible literally.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
      "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)