Brian:
What would your doctor say if you mentioned at a consultation that you regularly had conversations with God, and God tells you to do things?
The essential criterion in the diagnosis of any disorder is whether the behavior is functional or dysfunctional.
The experience of conversation with a being who is not demonstrably present is subjective and irrational. This is a given. The thing to find out is whether the experience enables or impairs a person's ability to function in the real world.
The doctor will want to know what God tells you to do.
Is God telling you to smoothe things over with your best friend after that argument you had last week? To take more notice of people you usually overlook and listen to them? To consider doing some volunteer work in the Peace Corps? To finish your coffee and get to your next appointment?
Or is God telling you that U2 songs contain secret codes planted by the Jews to facilitate their takeover of the UN? That a purple rhinoceras living in your toilet plans to do you some mischief next time you go to the loo? That you can get in on the ground floor of something big if you join Amway?
It's the quality, not the conversation.
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