**Paul is simply exagerating when he says, “If I could speak in a tongue of angels...”**
If I may, here’s what may be your personal interpretation of 1Cor. 13:1:
“Though I speak with the tongues of men, OR IF I COULD SPEAK IN THE TONGUES of angels....”.
I prefer the actual wording in the KJV: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels...”.
No comma after ‘men’.
Here’s Paul showing his approval of unknown tongues from God; given for the individual’s edification. “He that speaketh in an UNKNOWN”(I repeat, UNKNOWN) tongue speaketh NOT”(I repeat, NOT)”unto men, BUT unto GOD: for NO man understandeth him: HOWBEIT in the SPIRIT he SPEAKETH MYSTERIES.” 1Cor. 14:2
**And, incidentally, I have heard of an example of tongues in the biblical manner described.**
Glad you agree with that experience!
**But, the glossalalia induced by repetitious chanting while praying, claiming to be driven by the Holy Spirit is one more of those practices which makes one question whether these really are believers or if they are just “experience junkies”.**
The fakers are ‘tares’ (not that those souls can’t be corrected and converted). And just like ‘tares’, can be any number of weeds in the wheat field. Each species having it’s own identity, but managing to be amongst the wheat. Some are dreadfully obvious, like the ‘ragweed’ (big show, can’t miss them); some, not quite so obvious, like ‘barnyard grass’ and ‘foxtail’ (unpretentious, yet not belonging there). God sez he’ll sort them all out at harvest.
You may wish to take a course in Greek and hermeneutics.
The gifts are NOT for the edification of the individual. They are for the edification of the church.
Read 1 Corinthians 14 for proper exercising of the gifts.