| | Language Log: Stupid Dead People Communication Tricks |
 | | The idea is that you get hypnotized and age-regressed not just to childhood but beyond, back to one or several earlier lives, and then you provide evidence of the super-successful age regression by speaking the languages of those earlier lives, languages that you have had no opportunity to learn in your nonhypnotic life. |
 | | This is xenoglossy, which is defined by its most prominent proponent, Professor Ian Stevenson, as "speaking a real language entirely unknown [to the speaker] in his ordinary state" ("Xenoglossy: A review and report of a case", in the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1974, p. |
 | | He succeeds in showing that his two main American subjects had no systematic exposure to German or Swedish in their unhypnotized state; where he fails is in his efforts to demonstrate that they speak the languages at all. |
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