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On Vision and Being Human. Exploring the Menstrual, Neurological and Symbolic Origins of Religious Experience

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Bruce Rimell
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Inspired by Chris Knight's and Camilla Power's theory of human cultural and symbolic origins, Bruce Rimell will offer a dramatic presentation of these ideas in an artistic language of colour and visual form.

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An Intensive Study of Mythology

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