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--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > 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. > >> > > > > >
