Yeah, no thanks. Having one born again sister is just plenty for me.
Holy cow! Neither I nor anyone I know has had anything remotely as intense as what you experienced! We could make a movie out of your story.
Thank you for your response and the context. My grandmother spoke in tounges at church and at home, especially if she became frustrated, to give the perception that the holy spirit was giving her patience. As I said before, my exposure was a relatively young age, and it sounded the same sounds repeated whenever I heard it.
Interestingly, my brother at about the age of 7, went forward during their church’s altar call and supposedly prayed in tounges for a little bit. Because of that, my grandmother always claimed that my brother was saved-born again, but I was not, even though I was baptized in our own traditional protestant church at age 8. She passed away about 25 years ago, after a lifetime giving away most of her and my grandfather’s savings to any number of televangelists over 20-30 years.
Interesting. I had always been puzzled about this because I thought maybe people were faking it, but their speed and pace was so fast that I though it couldn’t have been faked because if someone were faking, they sort of have to do it slowly in order to figure out what next lip sounds to make next. Never experienced this myself but now I see it’s possible for it to not be real tongues but yet be involuntary as well.
Here’s an article I found about it.
“The part of the brain that normally makes them feel in control has been essentially shut down.” Another notable change was increased activity in the parietal region–the part of the brain that “takes sensory information and tries to create a sense of self and how you relate to the rest of the world,” Newberg says.
Interestingly, it says the brain patterns are the opposite of those achieved while meditating.