http://nakedpastor.com/archives/550 david hayward is an artist trapped inside an pastor's body Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/550#comment-3290 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:15:04 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/550#comment-3290 I quickly composed the picture of a brain on a cross. Just came to my mind. Interesting stuff on glossalalia. More to come! I quickly composed the picture of a brain on a cross. Just came to my mind. Interesting stuff on glossalalia. More to come!

]]> http://nakedpastor.com/archives/550#comment-3287 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:58:11 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/550#comment-3287 Your photo intrigues me. Is that a brain nailed to the cross? If so, it seems a good place to start an intellectual enquiry. I also like the statement "Atheists have belief systems, too". I keep saying that, and I haven't yet met an atheist that believes me. I will be interested to read more about research in this field. On a related subject, I recently stumbled across a blog entry on glossolalia - not among Christians but among linguists (my scene, 'cos I'm a translator). Apparently, one neurologist found that when people speak in tongues, the section of the brain that normally exercises control functions seems to become largely inactive. Another researcher came to a slightly different conclusion - it seems that the speech sounds made when speaking in tongues hardly ever deviate from the sounds that we normally use in the languages that we speak naturally, which would suggest that perhaps we do exercise some degree of control after all. Fascinating stuff. But even being a linguist myself, I am unable to speak in tongues and analyse the output at the same time. It's like a two way switch - either one or the other, they just don't mix. Your photo intrigues me. Is that a brain nailed to the cross? If so, it seems a good place to start an intellectual enquiry.
I also like the statement “Atheists have belief systems, too”. I keep saying that, and I haven’t yet met an atheist that believes me.
I will be interested to read more about research in this field.
On a related subject, I recently stumbled across a blog entry on glossolalia - not among Christians but among linguists (my scene, ‘cos I’m a translator). Apparently, one neurologist found that when people speak in tongues, the section of the brain that normally exercises control functions seems to become largely inactive. Another researcher came to a slightly different conclusion - it seems that the speech sounds made when speaking in tongues hardly ever deviate from the sounds that we normally use in the languages that we speak naturally, which would suggest that perhaps we do exercise some degree of control after all.
Fascinating stuff. But even being a linguist myself, I am unable to speak in tongues and analyse the output at the same time. It’s like a two way switch - either one or the other, they just don’t mix.

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