Meditation and speaking in tongues: The surprising similarities between the two Life & Style Just now Listen

I like to call it ‘slipping upward’ because it feels like a lifting to me… Now consider this one: It feels like a constant invitation to let go of more control, and the more control I let go the more powerful an experience it is … The more I let go, the lighter I feel… Can you tell which is speaking in tongues and which is jhāna?

Seen this way, our analysis argues that jhāna and tongues might be culturally distinct tools acting on the same human mechanism – a spiral of attention, arousal and release that enables renewal.

At a certain point, practitioners report that their familiar sense of “doing” falls away as what we call the Attention–Arousal–Release Spiral develops and deepens.