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  Xenoglossy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In responsive xenoglossy the persons are able to converse in the unlearned language.
A famous case of recitative xenoglossy in past-life recall is that of a Hindu girl, Swarnlata Mishra, born in 1948.
One of the earliest xenoglossy incidents was recorded in 1862 by Prince Galtizin, a mesmerist who magnetized an uneducated German woman who knew no French in her waking state.
www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/x/xenoglossy.html   (605 words)

  
 Association for Asia Research- Introduction to Books on Studies of Reincarnation in the West:
The term, "xenoglossy" refers to the capability of using a foreign language without the common practice of study.
In the study of reincarnation, some children recalled that they had lived in a different country, and were able to recall the foreign language that was used in their previous lives to different degrees.
Xenoglossy: A Review and Report of a Case, in which he recorded an American called Jensen who remembered living in Switzerland, and was able to speak Swiss when under hypnosis.
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 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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 Abebooks Search Results - Xenoglossy
Xenoglossy is speaking or writing in languages totally unknown to the medium.
It is known to students of psychic research throughout the world as "The Rosemary Case." This case has provided the best evidence at the time that shows that individuality, identity and memory survive the death of the physical body and persist for thousands of years in the subconscious.
Including a final chapter that looks at alternative explanations for 'responsive xenoglossy', the author concludes that 'authentic instances of speaking a language that has not been learned normally.suggest that another personality (perhaps one of a previous life) had learned the language.
www.abebooks.co.uk /search/sortby/3/kn/Xenoglossy   (1546 words)

  
 UK xenoglossy Websites
The Supernatural World :: Glossary - R S T U V W X Y Z Xenoglossy The alleged writing or speaking in a language that is unknown to the individual speaking or writing it.
Laura - French..."Mama, they are my friends." Speaking in a language unknown by normal means to the speaker, is called "xenoglossy" and, especially in children, forms one of the strongest evidences for reincarnation.
Sometimes cryptomnesia is used as an explanation for apparently paranormal experiences such as xenoglossy or past-life memories.
www.splut.co.uk /sub/x/xenoglossy.html   (671 words)

  
 Past Forward Rule: Evidence of Past Lives in Everyday Life
Extreme forms of past life manifestations in children are the phenomena of "child prodigies" (children who are born with extremely advanced expertize) and "idiot savants" (children who can perform complex mathematical or scientific calculations but are lacking in very basic social skills).
Xenoglossy is someone's "ability to speak or write in a language that has not been learned".
Cases of xenoglossy are the hardest to explain - other than in the context of past lives - where the individual involved "spontaneously" can write in languages long extinct and known only to a handful of research scholars.
www.healpastlives.com /future/rule/ruevplif.htm   (1942 words)

  
 CGR Community - Gifts
Xenoglossy would be ok now-- I just haven't heard of a case of say and english speaker suddenly speaking french or spanish--- I would love to have this gift.
The main reason we don't see it is their is very little need for it - we have the gospel and either preachers or intrpreters available in almost every language.
On the day of pentecost their were at best a few thousand believers that mostly spoke greek or aramaic and the need for xenoglossy was greater.
www.christianguitar.org /forums/printthread.php?t=111788   (753 words)

  
 Xenoglossy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
During this phase, not only did the subject (a native of Maharashtra in western India) speak Bengali, but she also showed a remarkable knowledge of obscure details about life in Bengal, such as fooodstuffs and social customs, which appeared to be completely beyond her scanty normal knowledge of Bengal.
Therefore, authentic instances of speaking a language that has not been learned normally (responsive xenoglossy) suggest that another personality (perhaps one of a previous life) had learned the language.
Cases of responsive xenoglossy thus add to the evidence concerning the survival of human personality after death.
www.afterlife101.com /Xenoglossy.html   (676 words)

  
 VICTOR ZAMMIT -- The Book - 22. Xenoglossy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One of the most amazing psychic phenomena, which religionists, skeptics and atheists have continuously and deliberately ignored is xenoglossy - the ability to speak or write a foreign language a person never learned.
After all other explanations have been investigated - such as fraud, genetic memory, telepathy and cryptomnesia (the remembering of a foreign language learned earlier), xenoglossy is taken as evidence of either memories of a language learned in a past life or of communication with a discarnate entity— a spirit person.
In addition to fraud and cryptomnesia, two other 'explanations' sometimes given by skeptics for xenoglossy are 'telepathy' or 'genetic memory'.
www.victorzammit.com /book/chapter22.html   (1389 words)

  
 Dr. Cook's reply to comments on her review of Parapsychology and Thanatology. - The Journal of Parapsychology - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Responses to the reactions to the review of the Parapsychology Foundation's (PF) conference on Thanatology and Parapsychology from six of the eight contributors are presented.
It is contended that the Sharada case is not an adequate basis to conclude that truly fluent responsive xenoglossy occur in 'survival-related cases' only.
A different approach to xenoglossy cases is suggested by recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate patterns of brain activity associated with the use of language in bilinguals, and especially differences in those patterns as a function of when the second language was learned (Kim, Relkin, Lee, & Hirsch, 1977).
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 Past Forward: Karma News
Because the phenomenon of Xenoglossy is perhaps the most interesting and compelling of all the reincarnation phenomenon.
The official definition of Xenoglossy is a person's ability to speak or write in a foreign language they never learned.
Xenoglossy frequently comes "out of the mouths of babes" because in their formative years children are not quite detached from their old identities and not quite established in their new one.
www.healpastlives.com /aboutus/zinepub/knoct03.htm   (4456 words)

  
 Linguist online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There is even a technical term for it (XENOGLOSSY - the ability to speak in an unknown and unlearned foreign language) and it happens frequently enough for xenoglossy to be a well-studied part of parapsychology.
Swarnalat Mishra was born in India in 1948.
Each case is meticulously documented, transcripts of the spoken language are included, and every effort had been made to check out the circumstantial evidence contained in them, and to identify the geographical and historical references.
home.clara.net /patriciatreasure/linguist_4_2001/xeno.htm   (336 words)

  
 Pathways of the Soul - Xenoglossy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The ability to communicate in unknown languages could open up the possibility of past life existence, where one connects to a language known and used during the course of a past life, or it could indicate that a link with a discarnate, or the energy of a discarnate, for instance, is taking place.
Quite a fascinating topic, I find — to the point that I wonder if anyone of you here have happened upon the occurance of xenoglossy, either by witnessing the ability of another, or by first hand experience.
I haven't witnessed such incidents personally but have heard accounts of sages in India who are able to communicate with visitors from around the world in their own language.
www.path-ways.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3023   (472 words)

  
 Xenoglossy
Xenoglossy: the easy way to learn a language
Swarnalat believed that she had been a Bengali woman in a previous incarnation.
This is one of four case studies taken from Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy, and Xenoglossy: a Review and Report of a Case by Ian Stevenson discussed by Paul Meara in TL 40,4.
www.meta-religion.com /Linguistics/Glossolalia/xenoglossy.htm   (359 words)

  
 Science's View
He has done specialised research into xenoglossy (s
and his book “Xenoglossy” is one of the leading scientific studies in this area.
In this book he documents a study he made of a 37-year-old American woman.
www.mikepettigrew.com /afterlife/html/science_s_view1.html   (303 words)

  
 oct03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In that Stephen's Greek was spoken through a channel, it is called "xenoglossy".
In the book now to be mentioned, amongst many phenomena, there are other examples of xenoglossy.
Once again we are challenged to decide whether we are dealing with fact.
homepages.ihug.co.nz /~thegroundoffaith/issues/2004-06   (1370 words)

  
 xenoglossy
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Xenoglossy is the alleged speaking or writing in a language entirely unknown to the speaker.
"xenoglossy," by Dr. Sarah Gray Thomason in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996).
skepdic.com /xenoglossy.html   (56 words)

  
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Weird Words: Xenoglossy /'zEn@(U)glQsi/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- The ability to speak a language without having learned it.
This sounds like a really neat trick if you can manage it.
www.worldwidewords.org /backissues/wbi050528.txt   (1369 words)

  
 Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Amazon.ca: Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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 Language Lessons: Is Xenoglossy Evidence of the Afterlife?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Language Lessons: Is Xenoglossy Evidence of the Afterlife?
Xenoglossy however, or the (alleged) faculty of speaking a language one has never learned, is exactly that.
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 UNLEARNED LANGUAGE: NEW STUDIES IN XENOGLOSSY - STEVENSON, IAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
UNLEARNED LANGUAGE: NEW STUDIES IN XENOGLOSSY - STEVENSON, IAN
Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press 1984, First Edition.
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 Find in a Library: Unlearned language : new studies in xenoglossy
Find in a Library: Unlearned language : new studies in xenoglossy
Publisher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1984.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
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 Xenoglossy
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Xenoglossy : is the ability to speak or write in a language that has not been learned and appears to be fabricated and non meaningful.
This type of speech can be associated with a trance state or certain schizophrenic syndromes.
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