https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/chriscollins78/activity/ Activity feed for Christopher Collins. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:10:06 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 71d93a5c746208b40d35afd75054c2e8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637424/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:26:23 +0000 The early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]

]]> 0 49953ac2a814a3e23f021da2a2ed2dd8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637423/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:55 +0000 The early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]

]]> 0 0bd1456e61d4a467cde97a77b49ed4e8 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637422/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:54 +0000 The early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]

]]> 0 02dddef587f81a16c96418c5eba6c6bd https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637421/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:53 +0000 The early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae6bdf39387fb65b1e745cd2febebcca https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637420/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:25 +0000 Early medieval literate culture, dominated by Christian monks and clerics, was focused on interpreting biblical texts and correlating them with a theological system devised in patristic times and late antiquity. Central to biblical exegesis was the fourfold method that distinguished the literal (or historical) sense of Old Testament narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 679e34a818f10a47d9ebe9c8bf049b8f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637419/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:23 +0000 Early medieval literate culture, dominated by Christian monks and clerics, was focused on interpreting biblical texts and correlating them with a theological system devised in patristic times and late antiquity. Central to biblical exegesis was the fourfold method that distinguished the literal (or historical) sense of Old Testament narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 84c674ff469aac65ebb821fe2ed9fe15 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637418/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 16:25:22 +0000 Early medieval literate culture, dominated by Christian monks and clerics, was focused on interpreting biblical texts and correlating them with a theological system devised in patristic times and late antiquity. Central to biblical exegesis was the fourfold method that distinguished the literal (or historical) sense of Old Testament narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 6712d9bdd012c8589432ff35e6c0b3b7 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637390/ Sat, 06 Apr 2019 16:33:57 +0000 The early Church regarded dreams as potential messages from God, private revelations that appear as visions while the soul is undistracted by bodily sensations. Sleep, with its accompanying dreams, was also believed to be the temporary state of the disembodied soul as it awaits the resurrection of its body at the Last Judgment. Not only did…[Read more]

]]> 0 854c1242ed4ef0a110fabea40d70f025 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637385/ Sat, 06 Apr 2019 15:18:12 +0000 Early medieval literate culture, dominated by Christian monks and clerics, was focused on interpreting biblical texts and correlating them with a theological system devised in patristic times and late antiquity. Central to biblical exegesis was the fourfold method that distinguished the literal (or historical) sense of Old Testament narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4687ccb39fdd2b5ab8320bb19cabc9e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637157/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:26:17 +0000 [Abstract. This paper begins by examining some of the claims of Dual-Process Theory (also known as Dual-System Theory), in particular its opposition of rapid, intuitive, automatic thought processes to those that are relatively slow, analytic, and consciously controlled. The former traits we share with our primate cousins and with other mammals,…[Read more]

]]> 0 038a79a8b69933b9ec75d4732668e02b https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637156/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:25:50 +0000 [Abstract. This paper begins by examining some of the claims of Dual-Process Theory (also known as Dual-System Theory), in particular its opposition of rapid, intuitive, automatic thought processes to those that are relatively slow, analytic, and consciously controlled. The former traits we share with our primate cousins and with other mammals,…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdb09d97bcf2890ef6e45c58d3108306 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637154/ Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:25:23 +0000 As a verbal artifact, a poem draws upon a number of nonverbal structures in the brain. Even before the emergence of language, certain behaviors had to have been in place, e.g. an increased ca- pacity to bind perceptual data and process them as single events (episodes) and the ability to reproduce perceived actions (mime- sis). These two…[Read more]

]]> 0 22fe6d47d64e51e043f59943fe20350d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637092/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 17:40:22 +0000 [Abstract. This paper begins by examining some of the claims of Dual-Process Theory (also known as Dual-System Theory), in particular its opposition of rapid, intuitive, automatic thought processes to those that are relatively slow, analytic, and consciously controlled. The former traits we share with our primate cousins and with other mammals,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4a9d8230234fdcef08b785ee30e298ab https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1637076/ Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:18:10 +0000 As a verbal artifact, a poem draws upon a number of nonverbal structures in the brain. Even before the emergence of language, certain behaviors had to have been in place, e.g. an increased ca- pacity to bind perceptual data and process them as single events (episodes) and the ability to reproduce perceived actions (mime- sis). These two…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9eac76743c9b535dc514eb83f9a01c6 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631531/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:37:50 +0000 The essay below is a draft of the introductory chapter to a book tentatively titled “Psychopoetics: Religion, Poetry, and the Evolution of the Western Self.” This project is intended as the third volume in a series that I began with Paleopoetics (2013) and followed with Neopoetics (2016), both of which were published by Columbia University Pre…[Read more]

]]> 0 b711732239ad71fecb52e885ee4328a0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630921/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:26:08 +0000 The essay below is a draft of the introductory chapter to a book tentatively titled “Psychopoetics: Religion, Poetry, and the Evolution of the Western Self.” This project is intended as the third volume in a series that I began with Paleopoetics (2013) and followed with Neopoetics (2016), both of which were published by Columbia University Pre…[Read more]

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