The boundary between art and religion is entirely artificial

The prophetic capacities of art is utterly incontestable

1. Art is empirical as an alternative truth to scientific empiricism
2. Art is compensatory - draws attention to that which is neglected
3. Art is prophetic, revealing, patterning
4. Art is instinctual, Art precedes culture, art is in permanent tension with culture

Art expresses symbols (belonging to the imaginal, open to interpretation, allowing for the mystery, art moves you through feeling, asks you to change your life, opens what is ‘possible’), Artifice express signs (locking in meaning, the known, artifice makes you move through thought)

Open art experiences and meditative, imaginative thought are being squeezed out by the Attention Economy

Martin heidegger quote from the Memorial Address… from the book discourse on thinking: “the growing thoughtlessness of our time must then spring from some process that knaws at the very marrow of man today. Man today is in flight from thinking”

“Calculative thinking vs …..

Calculative thinking (vs contemplative) quote from Heidegger. Calculative is passive thinking

Meditative thinking is participative… attending to, such as things reveal themselves

Book “Meditations on the Tarot” Valentin Thornberg, example of the type of meditative thinking…

Moving from “ I think” to “It (the collective unconscious) thinks no longer to think alone but rather together with the anonymous Choir of thinkers above below yesterday and tomorrow”