Based on an anthropological synthesis and verified academic research, this article documents the behavioral similarities observed in certain charismatic circles and revivalist churches—glossolalia, falling known as “resting in the Spirit,” trembling, uncontrollable laughter and shouting, convulsions, and sensations of heat—and draws parallels between them and analogous phenomena in other traditions. Kundalini awakening and *kriyas*, possession and mediumship, ecstasy associated with Sufi *dhikr*, as well as certain accounts of spontaneous spiritual awakening. The central argument is neither the theological identity of these experiences nor their materialist reduction. The body can escape voluntary control under ritual induction, suggestion, emotional contagion, and altered states of consciousness, without this alone proving a divine *or* demonic origin. A Protestant interpretation grounded in discernment (1 John 4; 1 Corinthians 12–14; the fruits of the Spirit; order in the congregation) is proposed in light of the risks of manipulation when the uncontrollable is expected, monetized, or held up as proof of a leader’s authority. The article explicitly rejects the conflation of classical institutionalized Pentecostalism, the Charismatic Renewal, phenomena such as the Toronto Blessing, and the New Prophetic Churches, as well as the confusion between kundalini in classical Indian traditions and its contemporary New Age-style interpretation.