Thoraiya DyerToo much talking means you're possessed. By what?
November 3rd 2006 17:02
Glossolalia explained
It has been a while since I last opened the pages of the Holy Book. Not that I'm a devout person, but the Bible is one of the many places where we are permitted to get a very colorful glimpse of the past outside of our regular history notes. And speaking of the past, does anyone of you recall the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues"?
Or better yet, did anyone of you actually spoke in tongues?
Just what does happen when you start talking gibberish in the middle of a sublime religious activity? To be honest, I'd almost seen this phenomenon through the eyes of a Christian woman and her group, who liked to hold Bible sessions in the wee hours of dawn. It did sound creepy, but they're not members of any deviant cult and glossolalia is a phenomenon they find normal. Outsiders believe they're being possessed.
True to this, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered from radiological brain imaging studies that people who speak in tongues are "possessed" by something that is not themselves. The frontal lobe of the brain had less activity and the language areas go haywire, because the tongue-speakers don't have control over them.
On the one hand, that explains why Howard Stern creeps people out.
News source:
Health Am
It has been a while since I last opened the pages of the Holy Book. Not that I'm a devout person, but the Bible is one of the many places where we are permitted to get a very colorful glimpse of the past outside of our regular history notes. And speaking of the past, does anyone of you recall the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues"?
Or better yet, did anyone of you actually spoke in tongues?
Just what does happen when you start talking gibberish in the middle of a sublime religious activity? To be honest, I'd almost seen this phenomenon through the eyes of a Christian woman and her group, who liked to hold Bible sessions in the wee hours of dawn. It did sound creepy, but they're not members of any deviant cult and glossolalia is a phenomenon they find normal. Outsiders believe they're being possessed.
True to this, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered from radiological brain imaging studies that people who speak in tongues are "possessed" by something that is not themselves. The frontal lobe of the brain had less activity and the language areas go haywire, because the tongue-speakers don't have control over them.
On the one hand, that explains why Howard Stern creeps people out.
News source:
Health Am
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