“Voices and visions, as a part of spiritual experience, are encountered in the sacred texts, hagiographies, biographies, autobiographies and other texts associated with most, if not all, of the world’s major faith traditions. Such experiences are of variable perceptual force and, at least in some cases, are not strictly hallucinatory. Even if they are, this does not necessarily invalidate the value and significance of the experience. Voices and visions are thus often understood as being, in some sense, ‘revelatory’…”.
With metta