Speaking in Tongues

Glossolalia and xenoglossy are two closely related areas, with the significant difference that glossolalia means that someone is speaking in a nonsense language and xenoglossy a genuine foreign language. What makes this a subject for paranormalists is the claim that the practitioner does not know the language. A language may be spoken by a medium in a trance state, or by a worshipper in an evangelical church whose emotions have been whipped up into a state of ecstasy. Some unknown languages have been claimed to be angel tongues or the language of distant planets. Of course, such claims cannot be proven.

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