Tanya Luhrmann: When God Talks Back

Tanya Luhrmann, a psychological anthropologist, focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis. She has done ethnography on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women, and worked with people who hear voices in Chennai, Accra, California, and Chicago. When God Talks Back was the result of four years fieldwork, and concluded that the ability to hear God speaking to one was enabled in part by mental training.
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[@radhikaschwartz3499]

this is just the same as the Bhakti (devotional path in Hinduism.) they create a personal relationship with their chosen diety ie krishna, divine mother, Shiva etc and sing and dance and cook for their God and speak to them and live a life just for the service and pleasure of their chosen God or Goddess.

[@davidjohnzenocollins]

Hey, cameraman! Let me see what's up on the screen, would you?

[@GeezerBoy65]

All deities exist. Past, present, and future ones. They exist in people's heads, equally. Of course, yours is the only one that is veridical, that exists in the real universe as an independent entity. None of the others really exist outside of peoples' heads.

[@calliebriggs9021]

I hate what belief has done to me

[@mattharris247]

You are wrong, there is 100 percent proof that has been proven over and over again that God is real and is here today.

[@morsumbra9692]

Replace that name God with Poisiden and is your argument any different? Probably not.