The arts and spirit weave together, and since humanity's earliest days artistic expression has offered an entrance into a deeper layer of existence. 

 

In their diverse expressions the arts live in our worldly senses and yet they can invoke a feeling for a mystery beyond the senses. In this lies their potential to unite us with a larger whole beyond all that divides us.

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But how? Could there be a spirit of art, some universal arts impulse? If so why do we have the motivation to create such a diversity of art forms that include music, visual arts, drama, dance, architecture and the creative word? And what is going on in our experience of them?

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My name is Helen Martineau. I'm an author and explorer of spirituality with a wide experience of the nature of artistic expression.

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My aim has been to back up the proposition that there is an imaginative, inspirational and intuitive world, a metaphysical space within our human consciousness available to every artist in any field. 

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And for each one of us as witnesses to artistic outcomes through our hearing, sight and touch, and through our subtle senses such as taste, smell and bodily responses we can be moved on a deep soul level.

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Inherent in this is the understanding that the spiritual dimension, inaccessible to ordinary sense consciousness, is as real as anything physical.

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The value of the arts is that they create a bridge between the two worlds, and give us a genuine feeling for things beyond everyday consciousness, things that could not be conveyed in any other way than by symbols in images, sounds, shapes and movements.

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This is the meaning of the arts today. Through the wonderful diversity of artistic creativity it is possible to enter this rich spiritual realm, which lives within us. 

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This site is dedicated to the journey and is companion to my book Prodigal Daughters: a New Vision of Spirituality and the Inner Histories of the Arts. 

 

 

     

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