Re: Voynich research needs

[Adams Douglas <adamsd@xxxxxxx>]

Dan Moonhawk Alford wrote:
> 
> 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. 

  "The castle ARRRGH"
  "What?"
  "The castle ARRRGH"
  "What does that mean?"
  "He must have died while carving it."
  "Oh, come on. If he died he wouldn't write ARRRGH, he would just say it!"
  "Perhaps he was dictating."
                 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Sorry, couldn't resist. :)

Anyway, moonhawk, in your studies of glossolalia have you run into automatic
writing that is equivalent to spoken glossolalia or does the act of writing make
"automatic writing" fundamantally different in content and/or statistical
properties then spoken glossolalia?

-Adams

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