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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
83
To
hear
articulate
voices
where
there
are
none
is
extremely
common
in
madness,
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but
not
very
rare,
as
Mr.
Galton
shows,
among
the
sane.
When
the
voices
are
veracious,
give
unknown
information,
they
are
in
the
same
case
as
truthful
dreams.
I
offer
a
few
from
the
experience,
reported
to
me
by
himself,
of
a
man
of
learning
whom
I
shall
call
a
Benedictine
monk,
though
that
is
not
his
real
position
in
life.
THE
BENEDICTINE'S
VOICES
My
friend,
as
a
lad,
was
in
a
strait
between
the
choice
of
two
professions.
He
prayed
for
enlightenment,
and
soon
afterwards
heard
an
internal
voice,
advising
a
certain
course.
"Did
you
act
on
it?"
I
asked.
"No;
I
didn't.
I
considered
that
in
my
circumstances
it
did
not
demand
attention."
Later,
when
a
man
grown,
he
was
in
his
study
merely
idling
over
some
books
on
the
table,
when
he
heard
a
loud
voice
from
a
corner
of
the
room
assert
that
a
public
event
of
great
importance
would
occur
at
a
given
date.
It
did
occur.
About
the
same
time,
being
abroad,
he
was
in
great
anxiety
as
to
a
matter
involving
only
himself.
Of
this
he
never
spoke
to
any
one.
On
his
return
to
England
his
mother
said,
"You
were
very
wretched
about
so
and
so".
"How
on
earth
did
you
know?"
"I
heard
---'s
voice
telling
me."
Now
---
had
died
years
before,
in
childhood.
In
these
cases
the
Benedictine's
own
conjecture
and
his
mother's
affection
probably
divined
facts,
which
did
not
present
themselves
as
thoughts
in
the
ordinary
way,
but
took
the
form
of
unreal
voices.
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