I've only "heard" voices that I knew were "that" kind of voice twice. I've written many times about these two occasions. It wasn't "voices". There was only one voice each time. The first time i "heard" it, it said "Stop using the I Ching." The second time I "heard" this voice it told me to "Stop eating bananas." Both times I was doing what it told me to stop doing to excess.
In regard to using the I Ching I was totally obsessed. I sometime consulted the oracle to find out if I should make a telephone call or watch the news on TV. I was outta control. I knew what the voice meant when it told me to stop consulting the Yellow Book.
I never thought about the color "yellow" being prominent in both occasions. Bananas are yellow. It was easy for an obsessive personality like mine to get hooked on anything. Much less banana sandwiches. I would buy a small stalk of bananas, a loaf of white sandwich bread, a jar of Duke's mayonnaise, and a gallon of cheap burgundy, and I was good with the food thing for a week. I wouldn't eat anything else but banana sandwiches for a month or more. It was too easy. i guess that was a little excessive, and called for divine intervention.
Stopping, and then keeping my stopping still was fairly easy with the bananas. I may have been getting a little tired of banana sandwiches without being told to. Stopping my use of the I Ching as an oracle and book of wisdom was one of the most difficult habits I've ever had to break in my life.
I'm writing about "voices" because I read an article that included Jung's views on what a vocation is. Whenever I've heard or read the term "vocation" I usually think about a job or career. Certainly no more than that. I didn't associate it with voices at all until i read the Jung opinion and researched the root words for vocal.
I didn't realize that vocation started with the first three letters of vocal. I didn't associate what I'd heard spelled out as "a calling" as indicating a person responding to a voice they heard in their own subjective world. I figured a person who heard voices were probably just as crazy as me.
I'm not really all that crazy. Just daring. I'm the kind of person who will take a dare. I'll put my life on the line. It's a wonder I haven't lost it. The reason is that I am ready to explain why I took the dare before I take it. That's not as daring as it might seem to those who find it impossible to defend their own experience with God.
I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
