walkawayarchie wrote: Wikipedia is for those who want to imagine themselves as being an anthropologist, without going through the years of training that it requires.


I am of Your opinion, 
but online in quick search of something
at least wikipedia gives links to literature
at bottom of each article.

One need not be anthropologist to read anthropologic articles.
It can be mere interest 
to learn new perspectives on a matter. 


What I found at Wiki - I posted it already here:


The term "primitive" which I mentioned in connection with glossolalia
does not degrade it, but shows that in civilizations with emphasis 
on intellectual development and education that practice 
does not find interested parties
- except some Pentes & Charismatics.

And in addition to that in rare cases stumbling in syllables
as losing control over the speech could be a sign of 
several neurologic and even psychiatric deseases.

Last - losing control over the speech can happen through intoxication
by alcohol, mushrooms and other drugs, which make people feel ecstatic.

Ecstatic feelings throughout the history of religions - plural! -
have been provoked by chanting, dancing, speaking long prayers
or repeating words, sleep deprivation, freezing, starving, causing pain 
for the purpose of falling in a trance 
or even more aiming at being pushed into an ecstasy experience;
needless to say that this is done ritually because spiritual ecstasy  
- to be lifted up "high" - can be a great experience.
The danger in those practices are psychical destabilisation
- which can increase to psychical disorder -
and psychical reliance on those kinds of feelings as "experiences".

That's it - I do not have more to say  about this stuff.


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