There are phenomenon that can’t be explained, only rationalized under the “had to happen to someone” theory. If someone can believe in a magic man in the sky that controls our fate, I can believe in the power of the human mind.

And if the voices were just a product of her condition, so what? She got the help she needed. Even if that’s not “supernatural”, it’s still kind of miraculous. Wouldn’t you rather know something’s wrong in your head — no matter how the information came to you– and live, than not find out about it and die?

When I’m sleep…I sometimes hear someone knocking at the door or I hear the doorbell (which I don’t have) or someone using a door knocker. I usually get up to go answer the door, peer through the peep hole, only to see no one is there…and no one else in the house has heard anyone knock. It happens when people are here or not. Great….now I need a brain scan.

If only the voices told her their names…

I’m reminded of Grant Morrison, the comics writer. He wrote a story about a man who was tortured, and his torturers convinced him face was being eaten away by some weird virus. Not long after, Morrison really got some weird virus that was eating his face away. I think that it’s the same thing - on some subliminal message, he knew something was wrong, there was a virus attacking his face. So, that idea bubbled up in his fiction, the same way you can have a nightmare about getting sick a few days before you get the flu. It’s not actually a prophetic dream. Your body is letting you know, “Hey, you’re coming down with the flu,” but you haven’t figured it out yet, on the waking level.

The body and mind are fascinating and mysterious enough, without needing to look for supernatural stuff.

Man has sudden urge not to get on plane, stays on the ground, plane lands safely = man doesn’t tell anybody.

Same thing, unless the story is entirely made up. Sometimes, people convince themselves that things happen. It’s kinda creepy to think there are intelligent beings floating around, peering into our brains. Why don’t they speak to the millions of other people who get sick, like children, before it’s too late to save them?

This is case of monkeys and typewriters. If she’s relly hearing voices, then her delusion simply matched up with her disease.

The only thing it was definitely not is mental illness. Schizophrenia doesn’t go away, and it’s certainly not comparable to angels.

The very fact a person has voices in their head is a symptom enough of a neurological anomaly that needs to be investigated. Do we have figures on how many people seek medical attention on the advice of phantom voices, dreams or mysterious experiences every year, without the advice bearing fruit? I’d venture to say it’s a significant number. When one happens to coincide with an actual medical case, people are quick to point it out as a miracle without considering the multiple ‘non-events’ which led nowhere.

Athon

Miracles are far more real and commonplace than skeptics like andrew could comprehend (or would want to, since it proves them wrong.) Petwhac? I think not. How statistically probable was it for this woman to be able to correctly diagnose a condition a doctor would likely have missed?

Petwhac (Population of Events That Would Have Appeared Coincidental). This is defined as all those events that may be considered to be a ‘coincidence’ if studied casually, but are both possible and statistically probable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unweaving_the_rainbow#Petwhac