Who knows, I might be a bunch of 9th century Samurai with Tourette's Syndrome. :-D
On 10/23/2011 05:16 PM, turquoiseb wrote: > What's the difference between someone with Tourette's > Syndrome and someone spouting gibberish like this while > practicing the TM-Sidhis? > > The Tourettes sufferers don't try to pretend that they're > all special and cosmic for doing it. > > > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 03:09 PM, authfriend wrote: >>> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"<curtisdeltablues@> >>> wrote: >>>> --- In [email protected], "authfriend"<jstein@> wrote: >>> <snip> >>>>> On one small WPA I took up at the facility in Lancaster, >>>>> Mass., one of the women kept vocalizing in what sounded >>>>> like a foreign language. Didn't seem to be just nonsense >>>>> syllables, it sounded very coherent, as if she was >>>>> communicating with somebody. >>>>> >>>>> On my way home, at the train station my attention was >>>>> suddenly caught by a conversation a group of Japanese >>>>> people were having because it sounded *exactly* like >>>>> the woman's vocalizations, same inflections, same >>>>> pronunciation of the syllables. The woman in the flying >>>>> hall was Caucasian and had told us at lunch that she >>>>> didn't know any foreign languages. She was barely >>>>> aware that she'd been making any noises. >>>>> >>>>> I don't know Japanese, so obviously I couldn't be sure >>>>> she'd actually been speaking it, but the similarity >>>>> to the sounds of the conversation of the folks at the >>>>> train station was eerie. >>>>> >>> <snip> >>>> No analysis of speaking in tongues has been show to be a real >>>> language, >>> Right, this didn't sound like any "speaking in tongues" >>> I've ever heard (on TV shows about groups that indulge >>> in it, I hasten to add; never heard it "live"). >>> >>>> I would be very surprised to hear that flying gibberish was. >>> It certainly astonished me when I heard the Japanese >>> people talking at the train station. >>> >>>> I heard a lot of it and there are parts of the brain that >>>> could generate a lot of seemingly coherent phrases that >>>> were not language. I heard some people doing it and it >>>> would improve over time, become more consistent and >>>> convincing. It is a skill that some comedians can reproduce >>>> very well sometimes. >>> Sure, she could have been lying about not being aware >>> of what she was doing when she'd actually been practicing >>> it, or that she spoke no foreign languages. I got the >>> impression she was quite sincere, though. >>> >>> I'm not insisting it was woo-woo, but you'd have to have >>> heard it (and then heard some Japanese) to know why it >>> was so striking. >> A number of Sidha's that I used to fly with including myself had these >> spontaneous Japanese sounding vocalizations. For some reason to me it >> sounded like a very old dialect. We sounded like a bunch of Samurai. :-D >> >> I wonder if anyone has ever recorded them and had a linguist determine >> if they were just sounds or actually language. >> > >
