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Cross Cultural Glossolalia: Babeling

Cross Cultural Glossolalia: Babeling | Science News | Scoop.it

Glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” is known primarily from charismatic Christian churches. In that setting it has been studied extensively with some remarkable findings. In Tower of Linguistic Babel, I examined one of those studies and noted some curious features of “tongues” or glossas

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Designer Drugs Fry Brain Like Ecstasy | Designer Drugs & Brain Chemistry | Methylone and Mephedrone | | LiveScience

Designer Drugs Fry Brain Like Ecstasy | Designer Drugs & Brain Chemistry | Methylone and Mephedrone | | LiveScience | Science News | Scoop.it
Quasi-legal, designer drugs called "bath salts" or "plant food" act on the brain the same way the illegal MDMA drug "ecstasy" does, new research suggests.
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Individual ecstasies: the revelatory experience conference

Individual ecstasies: the revelatory experience conference | Science News | Scoop.it

It’s been put together by Quinton Deeley from our research group at the Institute of Psychiatry and brings together cognitive neuroscientists, anthropologists, religious studies scholars, psychologists and psychiatrists to discuss different ways of understanding ‘revelatory experiences’.

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