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TEDxVienna

October 2016

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How darkness influences imagination

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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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."

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxVienna, an independent event.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Holley Moyes

Anthropological archeologist

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

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