Does anyone else

[Why Syzygy]

speak with tongues? I'm hesitant to bring this up.

I don't do the religion deal any more, but was batpized in the Spirit.
And rebirthing.

And have a gift of a language I don't understand.

I do it during intense sex, if I should get so fortunate.
And when I need to relax and fall asleep.

It is quite beautiful. Jus asking, does anyone else do this?

[I Have A Dream]

1. No, I don't. However, it sounds like a wonderful gift.

I'd be happy to have it myself. :)

[stellanoir]

2. wows

That's wild.

No I don't but I'm notorious for dancing with slinkies.

I'd love to hear how various lovers may have reacted to this occurance.

Or as someone once said to me of my more outrageous behaviors, "it smokes out the light weights."

Still it's got to be better than speaking about electronic voting machines during intimacy.

But hey. . .that info is totally proprietary. LOL

[SouthernBelle82]

4. Oh my gosh

do you really start speaking about electronic voting machine's??? Weird. I'm still a virgin so I can't share any stories sadly. Heh heh. To the original poster: have you ever thought possibly you knew this language in another life and that's why you know it? Do you remember or have remembered any past lives? I personally don't believe that you get a language and can speak in tongues just from baptism. Perhaps it's more about something you remember and just have happen. Like your higher self. I hope I'm not being confusing.

[stellanoir]

5. No I don't.

That was a joke because all my friends were making fun of me for obsessing about electronic voting machines for so long.

But I really do dance with a slinky periodically.

Your not being confused. This is probably some karmic stuff.

There's all sorts of peculiar stuff that goes on with the part of the neural cortex that controls language.

One lady in Scotland had a mini stroke and came out of it with a different accent.

I talked with a friend who is a doctor about it. He said , "maybe I should have a stroke and start to improve my German dialect." He was joking of course.

[cassiepriam]

7. I am not touchng this with a ten foot pole

Sexual activity involving slinkies and electronic voting machines????

Ouch.......

But as long as the partner in question is not a repug, go for it. :)

[stellanoir]

8. LOL

No. I dance in a playful non erotic way with slinkies and have for years. It's really an amazing percussive and visual device and is more of a great and funny gimmick than anything else. It vaguely resembles self replicating coils of DNA. So I always joke. . ."I'm replicating again." I can't believe I fessed up to it on this forum. Too funny really.

The thing about electronic voting machines was a total joke because my friends thought I talked about them too much. It was an exageration totally. I never really did that.

But folks suspected I might have.

[cassiepriam]

9. Stella I think you have a much more interesting life than I do.

None of my friends speculate about my sex life.
Ever. :(

And I would never have thought of dancing with a slinky,
but I can imagine they do make a nice auditory and visual
dance prop.

Please feel free to keep on confessing.
I cannot even imagine what else you do when not
looking at charts. :)

[stellanoir]

11. Nor can I

aside from writing spiritual stuff on GD, and reveling in my cyber friends support. :)

[Why Syzygy]

17. about the only

music I can handle lately are chants. Fortunate that I have quite a few.

The slinkie deal. humm.. don't they always break?

[Why Syzygy]

16. No .

I used to go to a Pentecostal church, and even though that scene was not okay with me, phonies .. I got the Spirit. It started out as I just had to trust. And was having a problem marriage. Which has been over since 1980. But I was singing in another dialect in the shower at that point.
It doesn't seem to have any reason.

It has some odd clicking sounds at times. I've only let one other person hear this. But it just comes to me. It is really about trust. That's about it.

When I have done it during sex, the other party didn't seem to realize I was speaking in tongues.

It is very soothing. Just wish someone else knew what this is.
My ex-bf claims to know something about Spirit. He thinks it was because I did re-birthing in the 80's.

The Pentecostals teach something about this. Some of them get up in public and start talking, then someone else interprets. I have never had anyone interpret mine. But I don't do it in public.

It does sound divine though. Please understand. I am not affiliated with any religion or sect. I'm a loner. I can't help it if I picked up this gift. It sounds Medertaranian. Gestures included. But if I ever ran into anyone who could understand it? I would be awed. It sounds like music. Sometimes intense, other times like a lullaby.

I think it is a way to short circuit my over active imagination.

[SouthernBelle82]

3. No sorry

I am however now taking a class on Spanish. ;) I can sorta speak that. Ha ha. But I know that's not what you meant of course. I can understand weird languages but I can't speak them. Very strange I know. I can usually get a general idea of what someone is saying. It's like I get this feeling of what they're speaking. I'm not sure how to describe it.

[Vadem]

10. I have the same ability to understand or get the gist of ....

a conversation in languages I don't speak, like you. One year my late husband and I were traveling in Costa Rica; we had rented a car and were driving all over the country. We got lost, at one point, and we pulled into a gas station to ask for directions to where we wanted to go. My husband spoke fluent Spanish, as he was a Latin American Studies specialist. The gas station man gave a long and detailed list of directions; my husband got back in the car and said, OMG, now what did he tell me to do? I said he told you to go five or ten kilometers to the fork in the road and turn right. My husband looked at me with his mouth hanging open and said that is exactly what he said to me! He was amazed, and so was I! That was only one instance in which I was able to discern a conversation in a language I didn't speak.



:shrug:

[Why Syzygy]

18. that is what this is like

exactly.

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. I have known people

who have long since left the church who admit that they continue to speak in tongues during prayer and meditation. I've never thought to ask them if they also speak in tongues during sex. It wouldn't surprise me though as I have seen them rather spontaneously employ their gift. Happened once when the car we were riding in was almost broadsided by a big truck that ran a red light. The person in question was seated closest to what easily could have been the point of impact. They would have gotten an up close and personal view of the grill and headlights bearing down on us. They spoke some gibberish as the events unfolded. A few moments later they breathlessly and quietly observed, "That was a big truck." That comment was followed by complete silence until we reached our destination - at which time that person initiated a clearly understood prayer of gratitude for our safe arrival. Something similar involving a different person happened during a bad tornado that touched down nearby.

[davsand]

12. I think I'd be SCREAMING in just about any language I could muster.

Possibly even screaming profanities if I saw a truck bearing down on me! The same thing goes for a local tornado.

Yikes!


Laura

[Coyote_Bandit]

14. So far as I know these folks were unacquainted

One lived here only briefly before joining the armed forces and relocating. And that was before the other moved here.

At the time of the incidents in question, each indicated that they considered speaking in tongues to be the purest method of communicating. Spirit communicating to Spirit without interference from the mind. Issues of control and conscious thought were removed. Both also indicated that they found the practice consistently restorative and only sometimes prophetic or ecstatic.

The incident with the truck freaked me out. Still does. I have no rational explanation that enables me to understand why our little car was not broadsided by that monster truck. The tongues were just a footnote.

[Why Syzygy]

20. That's what it feels like to me.

pure Spirit. I have no selection on the sounds. They often sound rather freaky to me. But, hey I'm not choosing. I don't know who they are talking to. It comes to me when I surrender.

Sometimes it is only a phrase or two, and other times it just goes on and on and on.

I love your story about the car factor. I've been in some close calls. One, someone had a blow out on the freeway. What I thought was a stupid 18 wheeler had just come on the enter ramp with no mind to traffic behind. I had to brake and wait for him, but if not, I would have been broadsided by the woman who had a blow out and was thrown back and forth over the freeway about four times. Fortunately no one was hurt. It was a busy traffic day. She finally was able to maneuver over to the left curb. She was also very fortunate that day.

[Why Syzygy]

19. great affirmation..

thank you.

I am just led into speaking this way sometimes. And part of it is I have to hear.
I hve no idea what it is about.

It can go on for quite awhile. The book of Corentihans in the Bible . says though I speak with the tounge of angels, without love I'm a brass cymbal.

So I guess I'm speaking with angels. I am really glad we are speaking.

[crikkett]

13. not surprised - ecstacy is ecstacy after all

I'm not surprised that you can speak in tongues during intense sex. (And hey, good for you!)

I mean, ecstasy is ecstasy, something like a dissolution of ego. You know, you lose yourself and it feels great. In my mind the only difference between religious ecstasy and a really great lay is whether or not clothes are on and if others are watching. At least that's what I have observed, and experienced personally.

So it follows that if you can speak in tongues in church then you can do it any other time you're in the groove (so to speak).

As for the idea of speaking in tongues to begin with, I suppose it's a learned skill. I mean, my husband communicates best through his guitar and he has a talent and propensity for it, but he had to be exposed to guitar and then practice until it became a language for him.

I also wonder if speaking in tongues is something that is possible for anyone, or perhaps a few with a propensity for it, given the right circumstances. I further believe that an ecstatic brain is capable of more than a sober one. A friend of mine can communicate telepathically but only in certain circumstances which I would say border on ecstasy.

I wonder if speaking in tongues is rare because many people are too inhibited to lose composure in front of others, and so not so many others are exposed to it.

Here's a q: do you understand what you say? When I was young my church did lots of stuff but no speaking in tongues (not that they'd mind). I read there were people who could talk and people who could understand.

Thanks for the post. It made me think.

[lildreamer316]

15. Husband and I speak telepathically a lot..

..which as I type leads me to think that's what happened in the Costa Rica story above, maybe.
He'll say something, and before I get a chance to reply, he will reply to my unspoken thought. Or, we will say the same thing at the same time, or some such ("I was JUST going to say that!") I would have expected that with my ex of 8 years (+5 before that of being friends), but I've only been with DH for 6 years, which is a short time for me (I have a thing for loooong relationships).

Just a weird side note-liltoddler tends to have his own language, and has only condescended to learn some of our words and numbers in the last months. I firmly believe he is either speaking an "ecstatic" language like all of you were talking about, or maybe the language from his last incarnation (If he's not my ex or my dad reincarnated, which I'm not sure of yet). It sure would be interesting to know. I know many children do this, I wonder if anyone has really studied it with an open mind?

[cassiepriam]

22. Dr. Ian Stevenson has studied children and reincarnation

extensively. He is a physician who has used the scientific
method and has published extensively in books and medical
journals.

In countries where it is not discouraged, it is not unusual for
children to speak a foreign language that they have no way of
knowing.

BTW my husband has almost given up trying to surprise me with gifts. He will try to surprise me with something unique and most times, without him knowing it, I have purchased exactly the same item. It is uncanny. The sales receipts are marked with the same date.

[Why Syzygy]

25. wow!

That has happened to me. Must be same brain link. Like the story of the Magi.
I had not been married to this guy in quite some many years, but was staying at his house.
When I went to the grocery store I got the bread he liked and without me knowing he was shopping then too and brought home the bread I like. Neither of us asked each other to do that. But I dig whole wheat bread. I didn't even know he knew that.

One christmas (I hate to say #2 husband), we wanted to open a present early. I had purchased a hot air popcorn popper, which remained under the tree. But what I opened, was . ta da . an identical hot air popper. I said you're gonna have to return that. He was confused. That box over there is the same thing!

What have you gotten? I'm thinking cloisonne'.

[cassiepriam]

26. It already happened.

I was thinking of a new coat for Christmas. But didn't say anything to hubby at all about it. Was thinking it was too much money, and with a child I usually put her first and don't buy big items for myself.

Then out of the blue, hubby says I think you need a new coat. Let's go look at them this weekend. Weird.
(we did, but I didn't find anything I liked).

Yes definitely cloisonné in your case :)

[Why Syzygy]

27. eek...

I find men are impossible to shop with. Except the grocery store.

I find it a little odd that men usually buy me clothes for presents. I'm so glad there is an exchange service, because there is no way I'm wearing those pants with a green stripe down the leg.
The only person who could ever buy me clothes was my ex-mil.

I took the green stripe pants back and got a winter coat. Great deal.
Someone else gave me all kinds of sports wear. Now I do still wear some of the shorts he got me.
But I got a watch in exchange for the hooded thing? I needed a watch a lot more than something else to clog my closet. I hope I never insult them. It's like this, see the great watch/coat you got me, which I will wear everyday and think of you. I realized the other night that the only jewelry I wear, very simple stuff, I'm not flashy, have been gifts. I can't wear the gold dolphin necklace very often. Too heavy around my neck, even though it isn't bling. A very simple gold band that belonged to my grandmother. And sometimes a gorgeous pearl bracelet my son brought from a foreign country. He has brought me gifts from many places.

I sure hope you get a coat. Your daughter would want you to have one.
ps . the coat I found is a little oversized. End of season. But does have a hood and keeps out the chill. Most of the year around here, no coat is needed. I'm a sweater person.

btw . my mother bought me a lot more trinkets than I really needed as a child. I was a bit more practical.

I really want you to have a coat!

[cassiepriam]

29. Thanks!

I am lucky, my husband picks out very nice gifts
and even clothes for me that I love. He has a knack for it.

I will keep looking for a coat, I am hard to fit and have specific likes and dislikes so it may take awhile, but I will find one!

Yes, I had not realized it but most of the jewelry I have he bought for me. I wear it a lot, hate to have nice things hidden away.

[Why Syzygy]

21. Crikk ..

my only regret in this is that I just don't get intense sex as much as I used to.

It is absolutey dissolution of ego.

I really enjoyed your post. When I'm in the groove I am not about to engage my brain! I just blather. bedt dit duh . Don't make me think.

I need a whole lot more of that. Guess I've got to dial up the angels and ask, where is it?

I don't understand in words. I get the feeling.

I think more people should try this.

But I lay on ex-bf chest one night and let him hear. It didn't seem to make an impact on him. But now I think maybe he was waiting to hear that again. He never asked. It would have been better than some of the English we spoke.

It is not a control thing at all. It takes surrender.

[stellanoir]

23. hey votesomemore

Saw this and thought of you. . .

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2006/11/117806_election.html

LOL

[Why Syzygy]

24. Well that really is a hoot!

I can't think of anyone who would accuse me of being emotionally stable.
That's what they like about me ;)

But if someone says one more time "alpha males" I think I will puke.
My ex-bf claimed to be "alpha male" to his dog! Like how great of an achievement is that? An innocent animal? I'm not very impressed.

Hey, Stellanoir .. have you seen GD lately? People are talking about prayers and mystical powers.
I think you started something :D

[Why Syzygy]

28. Here is one example >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2711402

[stellanoir]

30. I went and posted over there

Let them piss over that. LOL

[Why Syzygy]

32. Stell Star.

Your style cannot be beat. I know if we got in the same room together, we could not stop laughing.
And who is going to piss on that? eh? I have an infectuous giggle or something. I don't konw a single person who has not commented on . I don't know it buys any currency .. but it feels good.

You are a challenge. I like that.

[jokerman93]

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