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Feb 12 10 5:42 AM
bea wrote:... the belief in God-given prophetic gifts ..., glossolalia and words of knowledge - ... are the main characteristics of pentes/charismaniacs.
Felicitas Goodman ..... compared what she found with recordings of non-Christian rituals from Africa, Borneo, Indonesia and Japan. She took into account both the segmental structure (such as sounds, syllables, phrases) and the supra-segmental elements (rhythm, accent, intonation), and concluded that there was no distinction between what was practiced by the Pentecostal Protestants and the followers of other religions.[9]
In 2006, the brains of a group of individuals were scanned while they were speaking in tongues. Activity in the language centers of the brain decreased, while activity in the emotional centers of the brain increased. Activity in the area of control decreased, which corresponds with the reported experience of loss of control. There were no changes in any language areas, suggesting that glossolalia is not associated with usual language function.[10][11][12] Other brain wave studies have also found that brain activity alters in glossolalia.[13]
From - Wikipedia on glossolalia > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossolalia
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