It may be unbelievable, but there are people among us who can speak different languages ​​without learning them. This ability occurs suddenly and without any obvious causes. The strangest thing is that many of them speak languages ​​that are dead and disappeared from the earth's surface centuries or even millennia ago.

This phenomenon is called xenoglossy - the ability to speak a "foreign language".

It is now becoming clear that xenoglossia is not uncommon. Today, there is no need to keep your abilities secret, people can talk about them openly. These cases often cause fear and anxiety, but are sometimes a source of amusement.

One day, the German couple quarreled. The man, a plumbing technician, by no means wanted to visit his mother-in-law and decided to ignore his wife's protests. He put a cotton ball in his ears and went to bed in peace. It might seem that this is the end of the exchange of views; offended woman and sleeping man.

The next day the man woke up and addressed his wife, but she did not understand a single word. He spoke in a completely unknown language and refused to speak German. This man never learned a foreign language, he did not finish high school and he was never even outside his town, Bottrop.

His wife, most upset, called the emergency service and the doctors stated that the man was speaking pure Russian. It was very strange that he understood the woman and could not understand why she did not understand him. He was not even able to realize he was speaking another language. As a result, the man had to start teaching again to speak German.

Probably the most famous case of xenoglossia occurred in 1931 in England. Thirteen-year-old Rosemary began to speak an unknown language, told those present that it was ancient Egyptian, and claimed that she was a dancer in one of the ancient Egyptian temples.

One of those present, Dr. F. Wood, a member of the British Psychological Society, wrote down several phrases that Rosemary spoke and passed them on to Egyptologists. The result was stunning, the girl really spoke ancient Egyptian, mastered grammar and used the phrases that occurred during the time of Amenhotep III.

Egyptologists decided to test the girl to see if there was any form of fraud. They originally assumed that the girl had memorized an ancient Egyptian dictionary that was published in the 19th century. It took them all day to prepare the questions, and Rosemary gave them the correct answers quickly and without apparent effort. Researchers have concluded that such knowledge cannot be obtained from a textbook alone.

Relatively often manifestations of xenoglossy are recorded in young children. However, begin to speak ancient language and adults can surprise by their abilities.

We still do not have an exact explanation, although it is known that this phenomenon has been occurring for at least 2000 years. This category also includes the biblical story of Jesus' disciples beginning to speak different languages ​​on the 50th day (the day of the Holy Trinity) after his resurrection and going in all directions to proclaim his teachings.

Researchers believe that xenoglossia is one of the manifestations of schizophrenia, a bifurcation of personality. According to them, one once learned a language or a dialect, then forgot about it, and then, at some point, the brain brought the information back to the surface.

However, most cases of xenoglossia have been reported in children. Can we really "suspect" pups of a split personality? Could young children have learned to learn several ancient languages ​​and forget them without the adults knowing?

The American psychiatrist Ian Stevenson has dealt with this issue in detail and has classified this phenomenon as a reincarnation phenomenon. He conducted a number of surveys, in which he thoroughly dealt with individual cases and thoroughly studied them.

Otherwise, different communities of believers look at xenoglossy. For Christians, these are bizarre, possessing man, and the solution is exorcism. And in the Middle Ages, devouring the devil, they burned at the border. Not every person who is brought up by the rules of a certain faith can "receive" the information that it is possible to speak and write the language of the Atlanteans, the ancient Egyptians, or even the Martians. Even such cases were.

It turns out that the ability to speak different languages, including the dead, can be acquired through expanded consciousness. According to witnesses, shamans are able to speak different languages ​​if necessary. This ability comes to them precisely in a state of altered consciousness (trance). They gain temporary knowledge and skills to perform a specific task. Then they forget everything.

There have also been cases where the media enters a state of trance and begins to speak in an unknown language or with altered voices. We will not get involved in the descriptions of stories with the media, but we will give an analogous case.

Mind loaded with unknown languages

Edgar Cayce, an American clairvoyant, demonstrated the ability to gain a temporary knowledge of any language through altered consciousness. He once received a letter in Italian. He did not know this language and never learned it. He entered a state of expanded consciousness, read the letter, and dictated the answer in Italian. The same story took place in the German correspondence, Cayce spoke in a trance without any problems in German.

If we take a closer look at cases of xenoglossia in adults, we can notice one pattern. These were often people who were engaged in spiritual exercises - meditations, sessions, breathing practices and other complementary activities. It is possible that during their exercises they reached a certain level of consciousness and gained their knowledge and skills from past lives…

But what about those who have never dealt with such things? Like many young children who have just begun to explore the world? There are many theories, but none of them really explain to us what and why is actually happening.

Xenoglossia is not an unknown phenomenon - much like telepathy. We know it exists, but no one can explain. The Church, science and skeptics have tried to clarify this phenomenon and have come to the conclusion that it may be the effect of genetic memory, telepathy or cryptocnesia (restoration of knowledge, even languages ​​acquired unconsciously or in childhood).

There have been many cases of xenoglossia in the past, but none of these hypotheses can fully explain them.

According to some historians, the first documented case of xenoglossia occurred in connection with the already mentioned story of the Twelve Apostles on the day of the Holy Trinity. For those who do not consider the Bible to be a credible source, there are other sources from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the present.

After hypnosis, a Pennsylvania woman began speaking Swedish. She never learned Swedish. When she was in a hypnotic trance, she spoke in a deeper voice, claiming to be Jensen Jacobi, a Swedish peasant who lived in the 17th century.

Dr. Ian Stevenson, former head of the psychiatric ward at the University of Virginia Clinic and author of Unteached Language: New Xenoglossia Research (Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy, 1984). According to Dr. Stevenson, the woman had never come in contact with or learned Swedish before and could only know her if she remembered her from a previous incarnation.

This is far from the only case of xenoglossia associated with past lives. In 1953, P. Pal, a professor at the Itachu University in West Bengal, discovered four-year-old Svarilata Misra, who knew ancient Bengali songs and dances without ever coming into contact with the culture. The Hindu girl claimed to have been a Bengali woman before and was taught to dance by her close friend.

Some cases of xenoglossia can be explained by cryptomnesia, but others cannot be applied.

One of the strangest events took place in 1977. Convicted Billy Mulligan of Ohio discovered two other personalities. One of them was named Abdul and spoke fluent Arabic, and the other was Rugen, who spoke Serbo-Croatian. According to prison doctors, Mulligan never left the United States, where he was born and raised.

Biologist Lyall Watson described the case of a ten-year-old Filipino boy, Indo Igaro, who, in a trance, began to speak Zulu, which he had never heard in his life.

Another event occurred due to an accident. Until 2007, the Czech speedway player Matěj Kůs spoke broken English. In September 2007, he suffered serious injuries when one of the competitors ran over his head. Doctors and other witnesses at the scene of the accident were surprised that Kůs began to speak pure English with a British accent. However, this ability "did not last", disappeared and Kůs continues to study English by conventional methods.

Some scientists believe that similar events may be based on genetic memory. Others assume that people are telepathically connected to the bearers of a given language. In any case, research and evidence do not support this hypothesis and lead us rather to Dr. Stevenson's theory.

This theory is also supported by the Australian psychologist Peter Ramster, author of The Search for Past Lives, who found that he could communicate with his student Cynthia Henderson in Old French. However, only if Cynthia was in a hypnotized state as soon as she came out of the trance did she have only beginner knowledge.

In an effort to find an explanation for xenoglossia, some scientists have leaned toward Dr. Stevenson's theory of past lives, in which a personality from the past comes to the fore after experiencing trauma or under the influence of hypnosis. And man is beginning to show knowledge that he could not acquire in today's life.

Dr. Stevenson himself was initially more than skeptical of cases related to regressive hypnosis. Over time, however, he became one of the most well-known experts in this field. Later, he began to focus mainly on young children.

He found that "little people" were able to remember much better incarnations and did not need hypnosis or traumatic experiences to tell about things from the distant past.

Dr. Stevenson carefully recorded the children's narratives of past lives and compared them with those of the deceased, whom the children claimed were their successors. He was even interested in physical features such as scars or birthmarks. All this data led Stevenson to conclude that this was evidence of the existence of past lives.

But even past lives cannot explain all cases of xenoglossia. In some of them, people spoke languages ​​that may have been from other planets. This may be related to what some call obsessions or, if they are "good" beings, to contacts with a higher life form.

The whole thing becomes even more interesting when people gain incredible skills, such as speaking or writing in the language of the inhabitants of Atlantis or Mars. Such a case was documented by the Swiss psychologist Théodor Flournoy in 1900, when he published the results of his work with the media, Hélène Smith (real name Catherine-Élise Müller). Hélène spoke Hindi, French, and the language she claimed was Martian.

In addition to stories that include the languages ​​of lost continents or other planets for which we have no comparisons for the time being, xenoglossy can also manifest itself in the form of dead languages ​​or rare dialects.

Although the manifestations of xenoglossia are very interesting, the reflections on the topic of where these abilities come from are equally fascinating. If the theories of Dr. Stevenson and other researchers who have found the courage to address this mystery are true, then it takes us into even more mysterious areas.

Does xenoglossia have its origin in past lives, or is it the action of beings from other dimensions? If they were beings from elsewhere, what were their motives? Do they just want to share their experiences with us or do they lead us to a better understanding of the world and the universe? All these questions remain open…