How darkness influences imagination

Name: How darkness influences imagination
Uploaded: 2019-06-03T18:55:07Z
Duration: 16 min 50 s
Description: Are our thoughts different in the dark? Archaeologist Holley Moyes studies the ritual cave sites of the ancient Mayans and how darkness influences mythology and human thinking. In this evocative talk, she describes how humans have always sought darkness to transcend the ordinary and "find the divine within ourselves."

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TEDxVienna

• October 2016

Are our thoughts different in the dark? Archaeologist Holley Moyes studies the ritual cave sites of the ancient Mayans and how darkness influences mythology and human thinking. In this evocative talk, she describes how humans have always sought darkness to transcend the ordinary and "find the divine within ourselves."

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Holley Moyes

Anthropological archeologist

Holley Moyes is an anthropological archeologist and an assistant professor at the University of California Merced.

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