Ritual can include body movement and religion, and psychology can include dream study and mythology, and so on. In the very process of creation the artist engages in a personal and communal soul searching that is itself a spiritual path. For the artist the act of creation is often more important than the finished product, and it can reveal a great deal to the artist about his or her inner self. Additionally, for many societies art has a connection with what is considered sacred in life. It is used to express and reveal important aspects of the self, the community, and the world that cannot be communicated in any other way.
Every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist.
It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one. There are some truths that cannot be known or learned by the mind or the emotions, but only through the body. Indeed, our bodies have their own wisdom, and it is to our pleasure and happiness that we embrace it. So we have tai chi, massage, aikido, fasting, shiatsu, dance, nudism, individual and team sports, mountain climbing, and numerous other body-based paths. Vaughan Dreams can be valuable guides on most spiritual paths.