Mind Invasion: The Reality of Voices and the Delusion of Psychiatry

By Fred Sicher

Voice-hearing as a subterranean chamber of horrors by real predators victimizing innocent targets rather than delusion and mental illness as misunderstood by mainstream science and medicine. A riveting narrative which unmasks centuries of misunderstanding and ignorance by our most highly educated professionals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483555928

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Introduction

God damn these voices in my head! wrote Kip Kinkel, 15, in his suicide note the evening after he shot and killed both his parents and before he killed two students and wounded 25 the next day at his high school. Later he told court psychiatrists, "I didn’t want to….I had no other choice!" as the voices insisted repeatedly he do the killings and made a deal with him they would leave him alone once he had done what they demanded. Crazy or a victim himself?

Modern science and medicine insist all singularly heard voices are internally generated and delusional and a primary symptom of mental illness. However, this book demonstrates the experience can be a form of predatory assault and victimization by seriously troubled individuals who are the real mentally ill rather than their victims.

Far-fetched as this seems in modern civilization in the 21st century, there is a long history of subterranean predatory individuals and groups who operate remotely terrorizing victims, which has nothing to do with fanciful government conspiracy theories involving torture. If you scan the internet you can see subcultures which have survived for centuries such as the Temple of Set, Church of Satan, Goths, Vampyre Codex, Frankist Movement and dozens of other groups who thrive on the concept of evil and control of others. Occasionally, unable to stop from boasting of their skills, they surface in the most unlikely places….as on a breakfast TV show in Italy..Uno Mattino.. when Maddalena Stradivari, 23, a philosophy student and member of Spiriti Liberi (Free Spirits), one of 50 or so Satanic sects bluntly stated: We did some very evil things to people from a distance. We made some people feel physically ill and got them as far as having to be taken to the hospital. They got epileptic fits, which were impossible cases to explain because they were people who never had fits before.(6)

Many books have been written about the voice hearing phenomenon both by those who have experienced it and by the scientific and medical community which has, for centuries, attempted to treat it. All of these proceed from the assumption it is a delusional experience and, except for the relatively new Intervoice Movement(58), a primary symptom of psychosis and mental illness.

In terms of human history, this assumption is relatively new. For thousands of years many indigenous societies believed hearing voices was a connection with the unseen spirit world and those gifted with this experience were honored as shamans and holy men. Later, as Western civilization developed, it was seen as a connection with the gods. So Socrates spoke openly about the divine voice he was privileged to hear, and a 13 year old girl named Joan of Arc led armies because she claimed she heard the voice of God.

It was only later on, after the Middle Ages, the underlying assumption that voice hearers were experiencing a disease rather than a unique gift began to take hold in the medical field. This rather dramatic shift corresponded to the rapid development of technology and analytical thinking that aberrations of any kind from consensus reality should be fixed rather than acknowledged or celebrated. Thus, stigma was born and voice hearing was condemned as the province of lunatics and maniacs, a huge departure from earlier societal beliefs.

It is important to note that the medical community’s conclusion that voice hearing is a disease was never based on any scientific information or data related to any disease but solely on a deduction. This analytical deduction is now incorporated into the Diagnostic and Symptoms Manual (DSM), psychiatry’s bible of diagnostics, which is the basis for training in psychiatry, clinical psychology and social work therapies. The deduction is simple. It is that voice hearing is all internally generated and imaginary because, since no one else can hear the voices….and this is the key factor….there is no other explanation! Thus, we are left with a manufactured explanation of delusion solely because there is no other explanation!

Requiring an explanation has never been a basis for scientific progress. Aspirin and gravity work but we don’t know why. Semmelweiss demonstrated hand washing saved lives long before a theory of infectious disease was described. Science has never required an explanation to demonstrate a fact. Thus, we are suggesting here it is psychiatry that is delusional to conclude all voice hearing is imaginary only because there is no other explanation.

This book supplies hard demonstrated facts that singularly heard voices (i) can be externally sourced rather than internally generated, (ii) can be recorded and heard by a third party, (iii) involve real remote interconnections between real people and (iv) are only one part of a total whole body experience. These facts supported in part by peer-reviewed scientific data and in part by personal experience are no less significant for lack of an explanation or theoretical framework. Explanations can come later and cannot be cause to dismiss solid facts.

There are, however, two plausible theories that provide a possible framework for the facts, but at this stage they are suppositions and discussed as speculation at the end of this book(see Adendum). Elements of quantum physics, specifically nonlocality and quantum entanglement, as well as the recent discovery of DC bioelectromagnetic fields present in all living things, may provide an understanding of the exact mechanism involved in voice hearing.

Challenging limited establishment thinking on this subject is an acknowledged uphill battle which will be resisted at every turn by skeptics defending entrenched mainstream thinking. For this reason, the format of this book is unusual.

While the author’s personal 24 year experience as a voice hearer is the basis for for much of the book, there is substantial hard evidence and a large body of replicated scientific findings which are also relevant. Therefore, the book is divided into two major sections presenting experience and facts on (1) the reality of voices and (2) the delusion of psychiatry. Within the first section six hard facts are presented alternated with the author’s personal experience to demonstrate not only that voices can be from real people but that remote interconnections can be forged which affect the whole body not just voice hearing. The second section presents five additional hard facts that are consequences for psychiatry which cannot be ignored. So in total eleven hard facts are presented as the backbone of this book which mainstream science, medicine and law enforcement must acknowledge lead toward an alternate view of voice hearing diametrically opposed to current interpretations and therapies.

The author’s experience is, of course, not alone. There are many thousands of voice hearers who believe their heard voices are from real not imaginary sources and involve physical effects as well as voices. A sample of a half dozen other victims’ stories are capsulized in the Appendix as illustrations of this.

The book is not meant to be confrontational or strident. Therapists working in this field are dedicated professionals devoting their careers to helping those in deep emotional and mental distress, and their sincere efforts are acknowledged. However, medical knowledge is always evolving, sometimes painfully slowly, and the new facts presented here represent a very significant change in perspective toward the voice hearing phenomenon.

The acceptance that voice hearing may be the result of remote victimization and assault affects not only therapists and law enforcement but, unfortunately, all of us. Too often, we learn of school shootings (387 since 1992 in the U.S.)(2), mall, office and theater rampages in which it is learned later the shooter was hearing voices, teen and adult suicides of those trying to escape the voices, mothers in post-partum psychosis hearing voices who murder their children (187 annually in the U.S.), a large portion of U.S. hospital beds occupied by mentally ill(3) most of whom are hearing voices. More recently, episodes like the murder of Chris Kyle (American Sniper) and Chad Littlefield by Eddie Ray Routh who it turns out had been hospitalized for hearing voices.

All crazies or victims?….since any of these things can touch any of our lives at any time, it is an important difference. We puzzle over why these senseless things happen.

As Eddie Ray said in his confession, It was either me or them!, indicating he believed at the time his targets were adversaries. The question is not what he believed at the time of the shooting but who made him believe it? We dismiss all of it as mental illness! We cannot see inside their heads to understand what went wrong, so we rely on the psychiatrists and they throw out words like psychosis, schizophrenia, and insanity but these really tell us nothing. When everything is stripped away the principle symptoms still are hearing voices and bizarre hallucinations.

But the question remains: Whose voices? And exactly what are the bizarre hallucinations and who produced them? Were these subterranean horrors always based on self-created delusions and hallucinations or were real live predators involved…not ghosts or demons or the devil…but real people next door, down the street, scattered throughout your community and city….seriously disturbed people leading double lives as normal people and simultaneously as shadow terrorists, and if so, how could this be possible?

To grasp the enormity of the suffering this situation involves, consider that epidemiological studies reveal 4-10% of the population (depending on ethnicity, age group and locale) are voice hearers(1) while only 1% report this to therapists. This is a huge difference of 300-400 million people globally who, because of the terrible stigma of mental illness now associated with this experience, keep it to themselves.

This translates to millions