Vegetarian gourmet meals will be prepared by Anata. In our modern world, music and dance are called entertainment. These arts have been processed in the mills of the industrial revolution and mechanized, systemized, corporatized, shrink wrapped, and marketed. The music loving public, in the mean time, has fewer and fewer opportunities to participate or interact with performers. Modern technology has played a major role in this process.
Television is perhaps the most obvious manifestation of the trend.
But performers for the past five hundred years of western history have become more and more specialized and removed from the public. All these trends have helped us to forget that art and creativity are, at root, spiritual exercises that humankind developed eons ago to reflect on the mystery and magic of creation. In every era there have been artists and mystics who explore the link between the creative and the spiritual. These are the fools of god and they move through music and dance to spiritual growth. We live in a time of unprecedented opportunities for learning the lessons taught by other cultures and times.