hearing an inner voice

Kay has a very nice blog at Neosnoia. I visit there often and have been following a couple of posts about hearing a Voice inside of us. It ties in very nicely with a comment recently left on my blog by Speck. Kay said:

A few days ago I decided to “put it all out there” regarding my experience with The Voice while I was praying. The experience was mind-blowing, and I haven’t been the same since.

Her posts are titled Who Am I and On the Altar. Maybe you have had similar experiences that you could share with this fellow traveler. I am sure she would be delighted to hear from you.

speck speaks: on thought

In a post comment I said, “You have caused me to pause and consider the origin of thought. I once meditated deeply and looked for the origin of thought within me. I looked in all the unlikely places first - legs, arms, abdomen, stomach, heart, etc. Then I looked in my head and brain. In none of those places did I find thought. It was coming in from somewhere beyond the body. “

Speck, an anonymous but always provocative, insightful and thoughtful commenter, posted this response:

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When you realized there was no identifiable origin of thought within you, did you not see that that itself is a thought, and there is no “I” inside? The thoughts follow one another without any effort on our part. If I was to say to you “Come up with a thought” you would see that you actually witness a stream of thoughts, you “pick” one of them, and say, “I will think of this”….lol. So much for creating a thought. But you might argue, well I had the thought of picking that individual thought…but did you really? Or was that just another thought coming from nowhere?