He said the voice in his head is satisfying to follow. He said that it
knows things only life can know and orchestrate. I said he should maybe
begin
noticing what he ascribes to that voice in his head. I said that it's
really nothing more than mere static from what's tantamount to an
AM/FM radio playing in the background ... and
that it's in another room. More than that, I said it's
on full automatic.
I said that I really didn't ascribe any more value to it than that.
He said he'd
love
to explore more of what that voice ("noise" is more like it, actually)
in his head that he hears and follows, really is. I said in all
likelihood it's just a voice in his head, and that there's nothing more
to it than that. More than that, I said if he looks closely, he may see
it will do anything to avoid being exposed ie found out to
be no more than just a voice in his head (like the emperor with no
clothes). It really is nothing more than a radio playing in the
background
on full automatic
with no
mystical
or
magical
qualities he should
listen,
to guide him as if it's some kind of medium or hot voice from
God.
He said the voice in his head, is
his thinking.
I said the voice in his head, may actually not be
his thinking.
Rather, I said whatever it's saying may not even be what
he's
thinking,
and in particular, it may not even be he who's
thinkingit. Instead it may be that it is
thinkinghim. He said that
listening
what it's saying, is what
thinking
for himself really is. I said to
think
for himself, he has to differentiate between who he is, and what that
voice in his head is saying (whatever it's saying) ie to
not make that voice in his head and whatever it's saying
significant,
no more than he would make his nose or
an earsignificant.
I said that for me, the voice in my head is not some kind of
messenger which is coming from somewhere
beyond with special bulletins for me. It's just a voice
(a "noise" is more like it) in my head. That's what it is, and that's
all it is, and I can
listen
it and take what it's saying, or not. Either way, whether I choose to
follow it or not, it's still nothing more than just a voice in my head,
carrying with it as little
significance
as any other body part that makes noise.
He said that it must come from somewhere ... and that it must mean
something. I said pursuing that angle may simply be adding
significance
to it. What's more likely I said, is that the voice in his head is just
built into the machinery of being human ie that it comes with the
package of being human, and like a nose or
an ear,
he's born with it that way, and there's nothing
significant
about any of them at all (it's making things
significant
which is what we do best).
He said he wonders what the voice in his head is for, what its purpose
is if it's not
his thinking,
and if it's not some
mystical,
magical,
mysterious
guide to follow. I said its purpose may simply be to ensure he
survives, like providing a siren for a klaxon alarm system. To regard
it as the voice of
God
speaking to him, is naïve at best, and grossly ignorant at worst.
Equating it to "the inner voice of conscience" diminishes it if its
automaticity
isn't distinguished first. Not distinguishing its
automaticity
first, will ensure conscience and differentiating between right and
wrong, will be beyond what we can take
responsibility
for.