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Light Languages: New Age Glossolalia
While I was scrolling through TikTok the other day, perusing the ASMR hashtag for fun, I came across a video of a woman speaking in what she dubbed “Light Language” in the caption. When I heard it initially, I was genuinely confused. It sounded like a language, sure. The phonics and tones seemed to go…
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Can a Person be scriptualized?
The historian Richard Bushman opens his biography of Joseph Smith by recounting a scene in his mother, Lucy Mack Smith’s life – as she reacts to the death of her sons, Joseph and Hyrum, in 1844. Lucy Mack Smith writes, “I had for a long time braced every nerve, roused every energy of my soul,…
