Re: Voynich research needs

[Dan Moonhawk Alford <dalford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Rene Zandbergen wrote:

> Is a document filled with glossolalia a hoax? 
> Is there any other example of glossolalia accompanied
> by a multitude of scientific drawings? Some of them
> involve realistic plant drawings. Others include non-
> existent plants though with details that can be seen
> in nature. The astro/zodiac pages clearly show 
> astronomical knowledge by the author too.

Folks, glossolalia is a complete dead end here. I could be wrong, tho I've
been around glossolalia most of my life, but I've never heard of written
glossolalia. We should say "glossolalic speaking" to be clear. Glossolalia
is a HUMAN ability, tho it may be used to praise the divine, which sends
emotional, not cognitive, content to the speech production centers, using
the same phonemic inventory and phonetic set of the daily language of the
glossolaliac.

I believe any writing of such a nature would have to be referred to as
"automatic writing," which is done in an altered state of consciousness,
and is thus seldom "neat," as we find in the VMs -- much less illustrated. 

warm regards, moonhawk

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