Introduction

The Spiralling Journey is my performance journey of questioning societal and religious norms - what philosopher, theologian and ethicist Mary Daly conceived as the Spiralling Journey of Exorcism and Ecstacy.  I ended up terming this way of performing performance-ritual [1]

AND I KNEW NOTHING - Bicentennial, January 1988

Memories and Other Matters (1992)

Into the Dark (1993)

Dark Fire (1994)

For Eve (1995)

Fallen Totems (1997)

Leavetaking (1997)

Centre of the Storm: In Search of (1998-2000)


[1] Background in Performance-Ritual



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