The fact that multiple spiritual traditions have both feared our inner voice and noted its value speaks to the ambivalent attitudes to our internal conversations that still persist today. They called it “deluded thought.” And yet many of these very same ancient cultures believed that their inner voice was a source of wisdom, a belief that undergirds several millennia-old practices like silent prayer and meditation. Around the same time, in the East, Chinese Buddhists theorized about the turbulent mental weather that could cloud one’s emotional landscape.
Some even considered these voices demonic. Early Christian mystics were thoroughly annoyed by the voice in their head always intruding on their silent contemplation. Humanity has grappled with the phenomenon of the inner voice since the dawn of civilization.
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