In Reply to: Speaking intongues posted by Miguel on August 11, 2004 at 13:34:40:
I'm not sure how many people who say they get the gift of tongues actually get a heavenly language -- in or out of the Family. To Berg that was the whole point of it. You had to be speaking in the tongue of an ancient Bulgarian gypsy who possessed your mind and tongue.
I personally think if people actually get the gift, that it's the gift of the Holy Spirit in people and it's a thing between God and THEM. Why did every good thing have to be someone else doing it? Like if my daughter can sing exceptionally well, does that mean she's possessed by the spirit of my great-aunt Matilda who died twenty years ago? Sheesh! My guess is it's genetic and the genes for a good voice pass down through the family.
Otherwise an exceptionally smart horse who can learn circus tricks just "has" to be possessed by the spirit of a horse from 1920 who was the best hoop-jumping horse of all time. My thinking is that it's just in their genes. There don't have to be complicated, convoluted solutions to simple problems.
But back to what you said, Miguel, what if there's "real" tongues which are an actual language with grammar and syntax and adjectives and adverbs, and what if there's just the less exotic version of tongues that maybe means something and maybe doesn't, that could never be defined as a "language" but it's like you said somewhere, like repeating the rosary -- its main purpose is to get you in a meditative mood.