Re: Written glossolalia

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Grant wrote: 

>  Is the term we are looking for "automatic writing"?

	I don't think so.  Automatic writing, like the Course
in Miracles, OAHSPE, the Chaldean Oracles, Edgar Cayce,
etc. etc. are comprehensible English.  Glossalalia is
gibberish; one utterance of glossalalia may receive
several different interpretations, but this doesn't
bother people impressed by glossalalia.  So 
"written glossalalia" might be written gibberish that
looks like it means something but doesn't, written by
someone in an altered state of consciousness.  

	We also have African and African American "protective
writing".  In its New World manifestation, this is
probably nonsense symbols written on something as a
magic charm, and probably not written in an altered
state of consciousness.  For a discussion of this,
visit
http://champollion.nu/english/hampton/early.html

	Finally, we also have Helene Smith's "Martian", a
French-based creole/pidgin that she produced
unconsciously, under hypnosis.  James Hampton may have
been another example of this.  I ended up using the
term "idiolect", a private language, for this
phenomenon.

Dennis