--- In [email protected], "danfriedman2002" wrote: > > Currently I'm reading "Culture and Consciousness", > published by Associated University Press London in 2002. > > Briefly, the thesis is : art and literature are said to have suggestive power > to shift awareness from the qualia or content of the mind toward a state of > nonconceptuality, which constitutes the ontological ground of true > intersubjectivity (the process of relating to the other. 0 > Succently: "People are different, but nonseparate."
Interesting. I would never have described it as "nonconceptuality," but I have noticed how art brings me into present alertness, which is just like falling back on the self in siddhis practice. That's how I can tell the difference between art and entertainment. Art elicits a state of wakeful alertness, if you will, which though I tend to ignore it, is pleasant to visit on occasion. Entertainment feeds my ego, a voracious beast that requires continual sustenance.
