Welcome to Other World. I'm your host, Jack Wagner.

This episode features a type of story that is pretty unique. It's from a woman named Ali. She grew up with

a relatively normal childhood, but life for her family was a little undone by 9-11. Her dad was a pilot,

so for obvious reasons, that day impacted him and his family in terms of just being rattled by it.

But additionally, he was laid off along with thousands of other commercial pilots in the wake of that event.

It was during that tumultuous time that Allie's parents started getting

involved in a new church, a church that had some fairly unconventional practices and beliefs,

and her family started going to this church multiple times a week.

This is something that Ali went along with to please her family,

but did not really believe in herself.

I think many people could relate to that experience, especially as a teenager.

One night, Allie attended a service at this church

that was very different than the usual.

It involved a guest speaker,

a traveling pastor who was in town

that could supposedly slay in the spirit.

This is something associated with certain Pentecostal and charismatic Christian circles,

and it involves a pastor praying over a person who then collapses to the floor,

sometimes speaking in tongues, crying uncontrollably, basically experiencing

religious ecstasy. I'm sure many of you have seen videos of something like this. It's kind

of something that you'd expect to see in one of those old-time tent revival style churches. During this unexpected service,

Ali did her best to go along with it, but when she ended up getting called to the front of the church

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