Theists who speak with God

[Whateverist]

I've read the internal voices of schizophrenia are loud and insistent, more like shouting. But lots of people engage internal voices including most fiction writers. I really think religious people who hear god's voice are being receptive in the same way a novelist is when they channel one of their characters. The difference is that the religious have simply been brought up to expect to hear such guidance and to attribute the voice to god.