“What Really Caused the Voices in Joan of Arc’s Head?”

Oddly, I’m perfectly open to considering the possibility that St. Joan’s voices were real.  Plainly, though, some folks aren’t.  Nobody in this article, for example, seems even to recognize it as an option:

http://www.livescience.com/55597-joan-of-arc-voices-epilepsy.html

I thoroughly enjoyed the docudrama on Joan of Arc that was produced a few years back by BYUtv.  And the BYU Theater Department staged an original play before that in which the voices were taken very seriously.  I thought it one of the most compelling and memorable pieces of student theater that I’ve ever seen.

And I’m not the only person who’s been fascinated by her.  Mark Twain, famously a cynical agnostic, considered his little known book about her perhaps the best thing he’d ever written.

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