ABSTRACT
Mental health professionals would long to find other like-minded individuals with whom they could share their experiences. If mental health professionals happen to be a non-voice hearer, it can be challenging to understand what it is like to experience voices, visions, and paranoia. As mental health professionals begin to delve into extreme state experiences with people, it can bring up some very deep philosophical and existential questions, in both mental health professionals and the individuals with whom they work. If mental health professionals feel called to facilitate groups for those who have voices and visions, it will be important to realize that human experiences fall on a continuum. If mental health professionals are courageous enough to explore the extremes of human perception, they can make a profound difference in the lives of many individuals. And if mental health professionals are willing to be open to examining their own assumptions, they may even attain some profound breakthroughs in their own life.
