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SCHEDULE
Monday, January 23
Introduction
 Requirements
DISCUSSION
Eternity  Immortality Infinity Time Afterlife Otherworld Underworld Water Heaven Nirvana Reincarnation Prehistoric Art Art in Ancient Egypt Art in Ancient Greece
Lascaux (video) Tombs of Ancient Egypt (video) Delphi (video)
Monday, January 30
Eternity
DISCUSSION
Eternity Human consciousness Altered states of consciousness Perception Reality Intoxication Bacchus Oxygen deficiency Sleep deprivation Fasting Ecstasy Trance Psychoactive drugs Ayahuasca Psilocybin Mescalin LSD Hallucination Sensory Deprivation Vision Mental vortex Near-death experiences Out-of-body experiences Soul flight Astral projection Visionaries Temporal lobe epilepsy Inspired visions Seers Clairvoyance Divination Oracles Plato's Cave Mysticism Meditation Religion Divine encounters Sacred places
PREHISTORY
Monday, February 6
Art and Eternity in Prehistoric Europe
DISCUSSION
Caves Rocks Earth Stars Universe Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Monday, February 13
Caves
DISCUSSION
Caves Rocks Animals Shamanism Human activities in deep caves Sound (hearing) Music (Paleolithic flute) Dance Vision (photoreceptors) Darkness ( scotopic vision) Seeing in the dark (electromagnetic spectrum) Seeing blue (Gladstone) Bicameral mind Upper Paleolithic burial practices Paleolithic religion
Lascaux (paintings) Chauvet Altamira Cave as labyrinth (video) Sympathetic magic The Sorcerer
Monday, February 20
Megaliths
DISCUSSION
Megaliths Standing stones Stone circles Henges Ley lines Earth mysteries Shamanism Alignments Sacred Engineering Stonehenge Stonehenge (Witcombe) Archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge (Witcombe) Newgrange Avebury Callanish Ring of Brodgar Sounds in the Stone Age
Monday, February 27
REPORTS
Caitlin Brewer Grace Culley Sara Lange Scotia Marshall Jessie Meager Sydney Williams
Monday, March 6
SPRING BREAK
ANCIENT EGYPT
Monday, March 13
Art and Eternity in Ancient Egypt
DISCUSSION
Pyramid Texts Book of the Dead Osiris Underworld Duat Death and the Afterlife (video)
Monday, March 20
Tombs
DISCUSSION
Mastabas Pyramids Valley of the Kings Valley of the Queens Tomb of Tutankhamun
Monday, March 27
Temples
DISCUSSION
(Temple) Egyptian Temple Karnak Luxor Temple Abu Simbel Funerary temple Valley temple Mortuary temple (Memorial temple) Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III (Excavations 1, Excavations 2) Great Hypostyle Hall Naos
Monday, April 3
REPORTS
Caitlin Brewer Grace Culley Sara Lange Scotia Marshall Jessie Meager Sydney Williams
ANCIENT GREECE
Monday, April 10
Art and Eternity in Ancient Greece
DISCUSSION
Oracle of Delphi Dodona Mystery cults Immortality Hades Religion
Monday, April 17
Caves & Temples
DISCUSSION
Sacred Caves Greek Temples Acropolis of Athens Cella Sacrifice Worship Divination Sibyls Nymph Nympholepsy Apollo Hermes
Monday, April 24
Sculpture
DISCUSSION
Astrological Ages Minoan Art Mycenaean Greece Polytheism Late Bronze Age collapse Dorian Invasion Indo-European migrations (Kurgan hypothesis) Ancient Greek Religion Xoanon Ancient Greek sculpture Votive statues Greek Hero cult Ancient Greek literature Memorials Gaia (Gaia hypothesis)
Monday, May 1
REPORTS
Caitlin Brewer Grace Culley Sara Lange Scotia Marshall Jessie Meager Sydney Williams
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