Abstract
Content analysis and subsequent profile analysis of 120 letters received in response to an appeal published in Australian newspapers for views on the experience of glossolalia yielded six distinct groups. Group I (N = 29) involved non-crisis experiences, glossolalia in private, belief in the experience as confirming baptism in the Spirit; Group II (N = 14) involved crisis experience, experienced glossolalia in a group setting and held a belief that the experience was an optional extra; Group III (N = 27) gave an objective, non-fluent, non-emotional description of the experience; Group IV (N = 10) reported a crisis experience; were evenly divided between group and private manifestations, believed in its necessity, ineffability, were fluent and emotional. The remaining groups comprised letters from non-glossolalics. It is concluded that the experience of glossolalia is not unitary, and that it does not necessarily involve an altered state of consciousness.
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