Xenoglossy

Japanese: xenoglossis
Xenoglossy

...This prompted many mediums to appear all over the United States, and séances were actively held around these mediums. Phenomena observed and reported at séances included physical phenomena such as levitation, materialization through ectoplasm, and the sudden appearance of objects that were not there, as well as psychological phenomena such as xenoglossis, in which the medium speaks in a trance-like state in a language that he or she does not know, clairvoyance, and automatic writing and drawing. These phenomena soon attracted the interest of some of the leading scientists of the time, and in 1882 the Society for Psychical Research was founded in England for the purpose of scientific research, and full-scale research began. ...

From [Soul]

…Ian Stevenson of the University of Virginia in the United States has collected nearly 2,000 cases of reincarnation from around the world, mainly in Southeast Asia, and is conducting rigorous research on them. Some of the past-life memory cases include xenoglossis, a phenomenon in which people speak languages ​​they never learned. Near-death experiences are the commonly heard experiences of people who, just before they die, see a close relative who has already died. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "xenoglossis" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これが契機となり,全米各地に多数の霊媒が輩出し,そうした霊媒を中心に交(降)霊会が盛んに開催された。交霊会で観察報告される現象としては,物体浮揚,エクトプラズムによる物質化現象,その場になかったものが突然出現する〈物品引寄せ〉等の物理的現象と,霊媒がトランス状態で,知らないはずの言葉を話す〈異言xenoglossis〉や,透視,自動筆記・描画等の心理的現象とがある。こうした現象はやがて,当時の一部の指導的科学者の関心をかきたて,1882年にはその科学的研究を目的とした心霊研究協会がイギリスに設立され,本格的な研究が開始されるに至った。…

【霊魂】より

…アメリカ,バージニア大学のスティーブンソンIan Stevensonは,生れかわりを思わせる事例を,東南アジアを中心に世界各地から2000例近く収集し,それに厳密な検討を加えている。前世記憶例の中には,習ったはずのない言語を話す異言現象xenoglossisが見られるものもある。臨終時体験とは,巷間でよく聞かれる,人間が死ぬ間際に,すでに死亡している近親者を見るなどの体験である。…

※「xenoglossis」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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