This brief theory article reveals a correlation between the particular auditory hallucinations experienced by Western sufferers of psychosis (generally negative as they are), and the consequences of associatively particular millennia-enduring cultural programming of religious idolatry and moral persecution as well as surveillance society; and it also brings to light the fact that such programming affects psychiatrically normal people in the same fashion, but subconsciously and terminably – a notion whose widespread dissemination could help to dramatically reduce the stigma of mental health problems.