The psychologist Julian Jaynes, for instance, has argued that these "external" voices and wills are relics of our ancient brain physiology; that they are, in fact, the very same gods heard by our ancestors.
As spirit souls, our substance is made of eternality (sat), knowledge (cit), and bliss (ananda), which is also the very same substance as God.
If we are to follow Anselm in ascribing to God every pure perfection, we have to affirm that we are ascribing to God the very same thing that we ascribe to creatures: God has it infinitely, creatures in a limited way.
In other words, the very same rationes ideales that God constitutes in Himself, by considering Himself variously imitable by creatures, can be considered in scientia pratica as the possible effects of His actions ("quaedam operabilia").
However, this suggestion conflicts with the claim in the very same text that it is God who directs our natural inclination toward particular objects prior to any free act on our part.
How can Christians claim to speak for God in condemning divinely sanctioned violence today when the Christian God did the very same thing in days of old?
Whether the tourists of Tunis regarded themselves as "cultured", it is the word "culture" itself which has attracted the destructive impulse of Isis, the very same Salafist hatred of foreign Gods that prompted the Taliban to blow up the ancient Buddhas of Bamian in Afghanistan in 2001.
And then I would go home and on the very same day, and there was this God that cradled me and comforted me and I played outside and I felt this God.
Indeed, the Bible's God, invisible and transcendent, provided an opening to the very same oceanic unseen of which Freud was a modern tribune.
The very same attitudes also tend to lead her to unreservedly commit herself to, and center her life on, the god to whom she is devoted.
