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Hearing voices during spiritual awakening is perfectly normal, in fact, it’s an important part of the journey. This post explains where the voices are coming from and how to distinguish between them.
Why do we hear voices during spiritual awakening?
We hear voices during spiritual awakening because we’re creating a channel between our conscious mind and our higher self in the upper dimensions.
Our higher self and our guides use this channel to communicate with us so they can steer us through the awakening process and help us succeed in our soul purpose.
As we become more ‘psychic’ throughout the spiritual awakening journey, we may also telepathically pick up communication in the wider enviroment.
(Read this blog post to learn how to find your soul purpose.)
Often the voices we hear are coming from within our own ‘system’
During awakening, you’re hearing several voices but they all sound like you – it can be confusing!
It’s because there’s no language in the higher dimensions, so when your guides, higher self, or other entities want to talk to you, they borrow your voice.
Often the voices are coming from within our own system via the mind.
The mind of the human avatar has 4 separate compartments.
We think of ourselves as an ‘I’ but in fact we’re a ‘We’.
Here’s how it works:
- The unconscious mind is the Ego
- The subconscious mind is the body
- The conscious mind is the soul
- The superconscious mind is your higher self.
All of these parts of the mind have their own agendas and they will try to communicate with your entire system, to influence your behaviour
These are often the voices you’re hearing during spiritual awakening.
Here’s how you can tell which part of your mind is speaking
If you’re hearing voices during spiritual awakening, there is a fail-safe way to know which part of your mind is speaking.
They appear in different areas of your head.
If you hadn’t noticed this before, listen carefully next time and you’ll see it immediately.
If you’re in early awakening – before the spiritual Dark Night of the Soul – then the voices from each part of your mind resonate in this way:
If your subconscious or Ego is talking, you’ll hear it in the lower part of your head, below the eyes.
If your conscious mind is talking, you’ll hear it right at the front of your head, where the pineal gland is located, on your forehead.
And if your superconscious mind is talking, in the earlier stages of awakening, you’ll hear at the crown and upper back of your head.
In the later stages of awakening, this changes
This changes later in awakening, after the spiritual dark night of the soul.
That’s because you’re in the process of doing some important things:
Firstly, you’re shedding your Ego and subduing your subconscious;
Secondly you’re progressively integrating with your higher self.
So when you’re in the sixth stage of awakening – advanced learning – you’ll notice you receive little to no communication from the Ego and subconscious.
Your ‘monkey-mind’ switches off.
And communication from your superconscious (or higher self) moves nearer and nearer to the front of your head.
Eventually this voice will appear in the same place as the conscious mind, right where the pineal gland is situated.
Because you’re integrated – you’re one and the same.
Your guides will also use this same channel, and you’ll observe the same thing with voices coming from this source during spiritual awakening.
The voices of your guides move progressively forward to the front of your head.
What do the voices of your higher self and guides sound like?
As I mentioned, tonally, they sound like your own voice, which can make it difficult to trust what you’re hearing in the early stages of awakening
You wonder if it’s something you’ve just made up.
It isn’t! It’s interdimensional communication
The tell-tale sign is that the way your guides and higher self talk is different.
They are very succinct, even abrupt at times
They’ll use one or two words, whereas the subconscious and Ego tend to use ‘stream of consciousness‘.
So if you’re hearing short, direct, sentences at the crown, upper back, or upper front of your head, then that is either your higher self or a guide
As you progress through awakening, you might also find you can hear them talking to each other.
(Read this blog post for the signs your higher self is talking to you.)
You hear voices more frequently as you progress through the spiritual awakening journey
Verbal communication increases throughout the awakening journey as a natural consequence of integration with your higher self.
So in early awakening, you might hardly ever hear voices at all, instead you receive images.
Later on, you may hear voices but only in meditation.
Later still, you may hear voices all the time, whether you’re meditating or not.
This partly depends on your innate psychic ability: if you’re clairaudient you’ll pick up voices more easily.
However, the only time you can be really sure you’re only hearing your higher self or guides is when you’re meditating.
That’s because meditation is ‘sacred’ and no-one can interfere with your ‘scheduled’ conversations.
So if you need guidance, always ask for it in a formal meditation session.
It doesn’t mean you won’t get it other times, it just means you can be sure of the source when you’re meditating.
Why do I hear voices more clearly some times than others?
You might also be wondering why sometimes you can hear the voices really clearly and other times you can’t.
If you’ve been closely following a spiritual routine, then interdimensional communication will be louder and clearer.
Similarly, if you attain a deep level of trance, it will be louder and clearer.
If you’re finding the voices are getting distant or distorted, you can usually get clarity back by doing a couple of short, extra meditation sessions.
Voices from external sources
If you’re clairaudient, than it’s possible to pick up all sorts of disembodied voices in your environment.
These will usually still sound like your own voice.
You’re picking up general airwave chatter coming from other dimensions, or you might be intercepting other human thoughts telepathically.
You may also find that, outside of meditation, you have voices which sound like your guides, but they’re giving you poor guidance.
This could be because you’re being misdirected by someone on the opposing team in the ‘Game of Life’, who’s trying to disrupt your mission.
(Watch the video below to learn about the Game of Life.)
Or it could mean you’re going through the ‘judgement’ learning module of awakening, during which your guides misdirect you, so you learn to fall back on your own resources.
So, what is the voice in your head during spiritual awakening?
It’s either from your lower consciousness or higher consciousness, or you’re picking up external signals.
The more you meditate and spend time with your guides and higher self, the more you’ll be able to distinguish between them.
I hope this article has explained why you’re hearing voices during your spiritual awakening.
I’d love to hear about your own experiences of communicating with your guides, so please tell me about it in the comments below.
I found this article helpful because I successfully turned my pineal gland on and began to spiral into a frenzy of talking which led to a wrong diagnosis of schizophrenia. I’ve known for quite some time that the diagnosis was incorrect, and was wondering if any scientific knowledge exists as to what exactly the pineal gland does to the mind.
Thank you for the article it’s a weight lifted off my mind.
hi Darren, thanks for sharing. ‘Modern’ science has yet to catch up with the reality of how the mind works, but the Council tell me that the pineal gland is a transmitter and a receiver. So it transmits your thoughts into the universe (manifestation) and receives messages from the higher dimensions. It’s great that you’ve activated it. If you meditate regularly you will find the communication comes through with increasing clarity.
It’s really helpful for me. I’m still not clear whether the experiences I gone through in last 3-4 months it’s by my spirit guides or external signals. Hope I’ll get that clarity so. I was catching others thoughts as well. It was continuous sounds that was coming! Much better now with journalling. But little scared, what if it’s get repeated!
Please make some more guidance posts.
Thank you!
Hi Sudipta, thank you for your comment. If you’re in the earlier stages of awakening, then probably you’re getting both.
This video will tell you more about the stages of awakening: https://youtu.be/Dat6PgiKr1g
Try not to be scared, it will only hold you back. This is a really exciting time for you and your guides are looking after you every step of the way.
Please let me know which subjects which you specifically need guidance on and I’m sure I can create some posts
Thank you for this helpful information, but I have a question about interference and being misled off my journey path. Now that I know I’m not crazy, I’m worried. This journey began, I think, ten years ago. I’ve seen satan himself 3 times in female form, and I’ve seen a demon. The voices i hear are telling me I’m going to die; they have my family; I will not wake up and stay here. Is all this normal? It has caused me health problems, anxiety, self-medicating, and extreme worries when I hear the voices of my kids screaming and crying when I know they live in Utah with their dad. Is all this normal, or am I cursed? Is this evil attacking me? or am I crazy? Thank you
I don’t want to get in trouble with the good forces or the universe I just want the negativity to stop because it’s making me lose focus and not work on myself
Hi there, I’m sorry to hear you’re having a tough time. It sounds as though you’re under psychic attack – please don’t worry, it’s not as bad as it sounds and you can get out of it with a little focus. They can only use what you give them so if you refuse to be scared, they have far less power. This video will give you more information: https://youtu.be/w3dqP4n_pgg
Dear Sophia
Thank you for the words, I was running on the beach with my doggo. Suddenly, a loud voice said ” Demon!” Three times…
Stopped me in my tracks…
It echoed in my brain 🧠. I immediately stopped and got in my car and drove home.
I am going through a crazy time at work. I felt this was a warning to be vigilant. I have been praying all morning 🙏
Thank you for making me see that this is a voice of love and protection ❤️ nothing to freak out about.
I am going through huge transformations right now. My guides are with me….
Peace 🕊️✌️🕊️
Thank you for sharing 🙏 You could also try using some affirmations for protection (‘I am completely safe from harm’, say 3 times) as well as the prayer
It was interesting piece of text. But… what if evil speaks louder than our highconsciousness? You know, you talk with your highconsciousness, you get answers and these answers don`t work. You ask is she lied to you and she answers yes. Then you ask if it wants to harm you and still get confirmation. When you ask highconsciousness directly she cannot respond or responds but you get more clear and loud answer from “other thing”. This “other thing” is not your highconsciousness, subconsciousness and Akasha`s chronicles. So it is someone else. Highconsciousness is not able to over shout this “something” or stop it. It would be good to have more info about cleansing rituals. It is easy to “invite” some unwanted guests during auto-writting, pendulum and other forms of communication.
Hi, thanks for your comment. You sound as though you’re describing being under spiritual attack and yes, it’s true that typically our guides and higher self are blocked from communicating with us when this is going on. This is a different kind of issue altogether, as I’m sure you know. I’m actually planning a video about types of attack and how to deal with them, so that will be on my youtube channel soon: https://www.youtube.com/@sophiapersephoneawakening/videos
I stumbled on this website because I’m looking for healing. I’m not sure what stage I’m on or if I’m done. I know I past the judgement part bec7se I heard thr, asking if I did “this” and “that” My hard part is the negative portions. For Two years my awakening and testing went on. Is there anything om the healing of mind? How to heal from frighten8ng walkthroughs? I was shown both realms.
Hi, I’m sorry to hear you’ve been having a tough time. Yes, there are ways to heal. The mind is very flexible and responds well to re-programming, if you know the right techniques. If you’re interested in booking an awakening coaching session, I can help with this. You can find more information here: https://sophiapersephone.com/awakening-coaching/
I live by myself in my home but when I’m asleep I can hear people talking even my mother and she passed away last year. I hear conversation but I don’t understand them I even hear a tv sometimes. I know I have some gifts and I’m learning how to use them but not like I would like to my gifts are I can feel a spirit in homes I have premonitions and I have a little bit of empath also
I really don’t have anyone to help me develop my gifts more thank you
Hi, it’s great that you’re discovering your gifts, congratulations. I can recommend this book to help you develop further: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Awakening-Psychic-Powers-Edgar-Guides/dp/0312958684