Friday, November 10, 2006


And Speaking Of Tongues...
In this Tuesdays NY Times Science section there is an article on what happens to the brain when a person is speaking in tongues (parleint en le langues, in french). It is a fair look at the phenomenon that occurs in the brain during a session of tongue speaking. One of the authors of the study is a "born again" Christian who practices tongue speaking herself.

When I say fair, I mean that it was research to discover how the brain is affected, and they found that the frontal lobe was sort of "in neutral" during tongues. They also revealed that there is less mental illness among those who participate in tongues, and the positive changes in the brain were much, much different than other religion practices such as meditation.

The lead photo tends to steer the reader into thinking that speaking in tongues is mainly relegated to the pages of the National Geographic, with a woman wearing third world attire standing and praying inside a galvanized tin shack for a church. But read it for fun and to understand that we're not zombies and we do have some control while practicing our prayer of tongues.

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