Felicitas Goodman

Felicitas D. Goodman (January 30, 1914 – March 30, 2005) was a Hungarian-born American linguist and anthropologist.

She was a highly regarded expert in linguistics and anthropology and researched and explored Ecstatic Trance Postures for many years.

She studied the phenomenon of speaking in tongues in Pentecostal congregations in Mexico.

She is the author Speaking in Tongues and Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences.

After the publishing of Where the Spirits Ride the Wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences, Goodman's following grew, primarily in the US and Germany, among New Age and Neoshaman practitioners as well as scholars in her field.