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Alan N. West

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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...