Art

The relationship of art with mysticism is very very interesting.

All *forms* of art seems to have some kind of parallel in spiritual-psychic experiences.

Written poetry <-> auto-writing

Oral poetry, dance, theatre <-> channelling

Painting -> records of astral experiences / visions

Music / dance <-> traditional methods of entering trance state

Modern society "rationalized" the art form for so called purely human aesthetic tastes (which if you stare at it long enough you might convince yourself that it's almost spiritual in nature), but even if totally severed from spiritual traditions, it seems that (or at least I hypothesize that), when one pours sufficient emotion and "energy" into a piece of artwork, those energies are in fact imbued in the work, and can serve as a medium for communication between spirits, even if the human cannot directly see them through reductionist means. Also note that great art is by definition created directly from a person's "life" in the form of attentive time, and that provides the source of magical power for things to manifest.

Fortunately, I cannot in fact "see" those energies, but the secondary effects can often be noticed. One vector that I do notice it happening is how intentions can be carried by words even if the words themselves don't necessarily reflect those meanings. People assume they can "lie" but somehow their intentions often "leak". It can often be explained through reductionist means, but sometimes the effect is greater than expected from a reductionist reading.

That said, it might take some time to compile a list of "evidence" sufficient to convince myself that the hypothesized mechanisms are really as stated.