Spiritism has an answer for everything - and it's often much more simple than we thought. "Speaking in Tongues" is defined as speaking in a language previously unknown to the speaker. How is this possible?
Some religious practices (such as Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians)
believe that speaking in tongues is a sacred language. With these
organizations, the vocalizing of a different language does not create sentences
that can be understood - it's a series of speech-like syllables without any
meaning. This method is referred to as Glossolalia. The speaker uses
accent, rhythm, intonation and cadence to break up the words into syllables that
are similar to the their native language.
Xenoglossy is the name used by spiritists. A person is able to speak or
write a language that he or she could not have acquired by natural means,
because a spirit is providing the language. We have experienced
this circumstance in many of our sessions. In Argentina, we had a Spanish
speaking medium with a spirit guide who spoke Portuguese. In some situations,
the medium will start speaking in tongues (for example, in French), but
because there isn't a translator available at the table, the spirit world
provides one. it would not be beneficial for a medium to deliver a message
communicated entirely in French to a table that only spoke English.
In The Mediums' Book, Kardec explains this further with Question
7:
"When
a spirit communicates through a medium, does he transmit his thoughts directly,
or does he use the incarnated spirit of the medium as his
intermediary?"
"The
medium's spirit acts as the interpreter of the communicating spirit, because he
is linked with the body, which, in such cases, plays the part of speaker, and
also because there must be a conductor between you and the discarnate spirits
who communicate with you, just as, for the transmission of a telegraphic
message, there must be a wire connecting the points of transmission and of
reception, and at the ends of the wire, an intelligent person who transmits, and
another who receives, the message conveyed by the electric
fluid."
In order for a spirit to truly express his
desired message through the medium, that spirit needs a medium with whom it
shares a fluid affinity, a strong moral affinity, and an intellectual
similarity, with respect to ideas, knowledge, and vocabulary. In our sessions,
the spirits of departed mothers are often transmitted by mediums who are
currently mothers in the material world. The spirit is more comfortable with
someone who is living what they once were in a particular reincarnation. In the
absence of a well-prepared "perfect match" medium, a spirit will use another
medium, despite that medium's limitations. The spirits first seek out and work
with the medium that is best able to accurately convey their message. We do the
same thing in our lives on earth when we look for friends who are similar to
ourselves.
Just as we seek out relationships with people who share our
interests, The spirits look for a medium with a similar moral nature of
the spirits thoughts and behaviors. A Spanish speaking spirit could sit through
a medium who does not speak Spanish, but the spirit would first seek out a
Spanish speaking medium, as there is already an affinity between the two. When there is no affinity between the
spirit and the medium, that medium becomes an unwilling
interpreter.
Briefly:
Xenoglassy is meaningful speech or writing in a language in which the
speaker/writer has no familiarity.
Glossolalia is a collection of meaningless sounds that resemble an
existing language.
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