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"Human beings need to be centered in the sacred domain" —Avatar Adi Da Samraj |
Sacred ArtThere is the sacred domain of life, and there is the secular (or public, or outer) domain of life. Human beings need to be centered in the sacred domain—the place of human intimacy, of true culture, of intimate cooperative community, the sphere of the primary culture of the arts and the intimate exercise of life. The necessary essence of art is love. Art depends on the ability of the viewer to feel love in relation to the process or object that is presented to him or her. If the work of art does not in some way or other generate this feeling—even if it is something as simple as a finely made pot—then it is not really art. It must evoke this participatory feeling. Sacred performance is enacted as worship, not as conventional entertainment. |
