"primal state" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a state of being that is basic and instinctive, or that is tied to a person's primal nature. For example, "He returned to his primal state, forgetting all of his worries."
Each loss is preceded by a passing yet devastating reduction to a primal state: grief, terror, hunger, rage.
Once you recover this primal state of being, D. H. tells us, you blissfully obliterate your mental and spiritual condition.
So that thing of melting it down and taking it back to that: it is the primal state, innit".
Finally, he seems to have arrived at some primal state of undifferentiated compassion and rage, in which none of the usual rules for dealing with fellow humans apply.
It is this primal state of music that gives the work its consistent sensuality, yet the intellectual realm is not at all diminished.
The rush of surfing is not just about the skill but is about getting back into the primal state; the ocean is the catalyst.
To create an adjoint to a time-varying primal like DES entails particular difficulties: Since the adjoint runs backwards in time, all primal states for the time period of interest have either to be stored or recomputed when running the adjoint.
Mr. del Toro takes an almost sensuous delight in weaving aural and visual textures of fear; water droplets and heartbeats echo in the stillness, and the camera replicates that primal childhood state of being poised between curiosity and dread.
The character of the Master was designed to be in vamp face permanently to highlight his age and make him appear more animalistic; make-up artist John Vulich based the Master's appearance on a bat, reasoning that the character has devolved to a more primal, demonic state over the years.
Try not to let the primal Altered States apeman inside of you take over.
Anytime I get too specific into the details of my own personal life, it becomes impossible for me to have any kind of perspective on whether or not someone else could really perceive what I'm trying to explain or feel at all, so I try to step back and write it much more narratively and try to focus on much more sort of primal emotional states, which connected a lot with the title of the EP.
