Little Voices: A True Paranoid Schizophrenic Adventure

This is the author´s true story. In 1991, as a foreign student in California, the author studies for a computer science degree, excels academically, and gets along very well with his American friends. But later, five invisible voices call on him, whispering instructions for a prophetic message. The author then strives to find a rational explanation for this phenomenon, attempting to authenticate it with coded illustrations. But, he is eventually confined in an American psychiatric hospital, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. And after discovering the scientific community´s viewpoint--that all Biblical prophets are mentally ill--the author rethinks all his beliefs, including his faith in God. He inevitably returns to the Philippines, where he meets a beautiful girl, who becomes his best friend. Surprisingly, in 1999, he discovers an authenticating key for his message, within an ancient writing system of an indigenous tribe, located in the girl´s native province. Unknown to the author previously, their writing is remarkably similar to the codes he drew six years earlier... "I thought it was very informative and it will be very helpful to students to be exposed to it." Dr. James E. Mitchell, M.D. President and Scientific Director Neuropsychiatric Research Institute Read a Lewis-Carrol-type excerpt from part of a narrative letter, written by the author to his brother in 1993, during a hebephrenic episode. Note: the term "resident alien" in the excerpt means "green card holder" or legal-staying foreigner.… (more)