I have never in my life heard voices that weren't real nor had hallucinations. I plead guilty to having gotten a little tipsy (not even drunk, really) on a couple glasses of Guinness on Halloween. I have never felt I had any communication with anyone in the spirit world. Maybe I wish I could, which is why I asked the question. I am sorry to say I don't feel the dead are any wiser than the living, and I don't place much stock in the wisdom of the living, either. However, what came out of this tipsy self-reflection is that I am going to step up my meditation practice and daily prayer life because those two help reduce anxiety, and I have a lot of anxiety these days. I am not doing so well. I will be seeing my pdoc before the end of the year. She might need to change my thyroid medication. My sister died two years ago and maybe I was missing her because she was a person who went all out on the holidays. Yeah, was probably sad and missing my big sis is all.