Stages of Mystical Development in the Primordial Content of the Gospels and Acts
Empirical Studies of the Arts 1993 Alan N. West 4 citations
Computerized content analysis of a narrative text can reveal shifts in the author's state of awareness. The Regressive Imagery Dictionary [1] is a well-validated content-analytic measure of primordial thought, which is a primitive, global, nontemporal mode of consciousness in which logic and disbelief are suspended. In narratives, increased primordial content seems to be associated with altered...