This is a very good question. I have been hearing voices and suffering from schizophrenia (mostly tactile sensations- physical harms and torture) for 4 years and have been observing the phenomenon well. I am also a Vipassana meditator- trained to observe my mind. I have also read papers on schizophrenia to understand what other schizophrenics go through. Here is my experience and theory –

The answer is- No. Auditory hallucinations are actually not hallucinations but real voices being generated inside us due to connection with evil entities. Thoughts are different from these voices or so called hallucinations.

I see that the phenomenon of auditory hallucinations or voices is caused by connection with demonic entities clearly. Evil entities because of the continuous and enormous harms they do, they don’t stop at anything. In my observation the evil entities don’t have thought – thought is anyways a subtle and higher vibration. But they want to engage with us to harm us and feed on our energies so here is what they do. They send their feelings and intentions over (not verbalised yet) – these when connected to our mind in the voice/throat/thought generation space automatically generate a thought like vibration – the voice. This is how the mind works- our intention and feeling when verbalised generates a thought inside us. In this case we call it a voice because it’s source is external and it is clearly not our thought. But we hear it just like our thought except our mind can recognise it as coming from a source from outside (mostly true). Also these voices don’t have any continuity, they just get generated out of the blue (it will always be an odd disconnected thought as opposed to our own thoughts which has a continuity, also what the voices say one after another will also be completely disconnected) So it is an intrusion.

Now the evil entities can “select” a voice from our memory to speak to us- for example a relative’s voice or a TV actor’s voice. There are often multiple avatars in voices and most of them have a unique chosen voice. Sometimes the demonic entities connected to me speak to me in Amitabh Bachchan and Sharmila Tagore’s voice (Indian Bollywood actors- they chose it after seeing a movie I was watching and observing that I like them very much). It’s funny. They are always trying to find something that clicks with me, stays with me, is accepted by me so they can linger in my space for longer.

Sometimes they can choose our own voice to confuse me. When it’s in our own voice we can get confused and mistakenly think that this is our own thought. They would do this especially when they want to harm or deceive us- for example they would generate a thought within us in our own voice which is abusive- like “I want to kill my neighbor”. Now we will suddenly worry why an abusive thought like this entered our mind. What is happening to me? etc. Many people who complain of OCDs in thoughts and especially harmful obsessive thoughts are dealing with this. This is the demons’ work.

Many times our own thoughts are “selected” or “used” by these evil entities because they are often clueless about what to communicate. It’s like “re-use”. For example if you have the thought “I think the sun rises in the east” will get converted to- “We think the sun rises in the east” in a voice selected by them. Sometimes I’ll hear my own thought first immediately followed by the translation. Many times you will find a lot of your own theories, insights and thinkings being heard in another voice. They are just using your mental content so they don’t have to work too hard in conversing.

I have been observing these voices for past 4 years since they started in my mind and body space. I was living a very happy, successful and normal life before this with a lot of academic and career accomplishments (software and electronics engg), and a lot of happiness. I have also been a Vipassana meditation practitioner for 15+ years. Ever since this began things have turned upside down. My scientist and observer self does not miss out on any smallest nuance that falls in the category of “voices” or this demonic activity. I wish to solve this phenomenon forever. Just want to make others aware. Medical community is very far away from what the reality of schizophrenia is.

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