Felicitas Goodman

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Felicitas D. Goodman (1914-2005) Hungarian linguist and anthropologist. She was a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology and researched and explored ritual body postures for many years. She studied the phenomenon of "speaking in tongues" in Pentecostal congregations in Mexico. She is the author of such well-received books as Speaking in Tongues and Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. Her work has been published mostly in the United States and Germany.

1 Biography
2 Glossolalia
3 Spirit Possession
4 Trance and Ritual Body Postures
5 The Cuyamungue Institute
6 References

[edit] Biography

Dr. Goodman was born Felicitas Danels in Budapest, Hungary in 1914, the first of two children. Her parents immigrated to Hungary from Germany and spoke German at home. She attened college in Germany where she met her husband, Glen Goodman, an American from Ohio. Felicitas immigrated to Columbus, Ohio with Glen and her first three children after the Second World War, their fourth child was born a few years later. After her children were grown, Felicitas Goodman returned to school and earned a Master’s degree in linguistics and a doctorate in psychological anthropology at Ohio State University. Until her retirement in 1979, she taught at Denison University.

In 1978 Dr. Goodman founded The Cuyamungue Institute in and area known as Cuyamungue, New Mexico to continue her research into altered states of consciousness and to hold workshops. After the publishing of Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences Dr. Goodman’s following grew, primarily in the US and Germany, among “New Age” and “Neo-Shaman” practitioners as well and scholors in her field. Before her death in 2005, Dr Goodman had published over 40 scientific and popular articles and more then seven books.