RITUAL ART

 






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Art is that part of us that allows us to create reality, embodying what we think, feel and desire as we experience it. Even when we sleep, we continue to create possibilities that we activate through our imagination. Parallel realities in which we also live and experience. A dream is ultimately a work of art considered in some cultures, something as real or more real than what we call our everyday reality. But if we are so powerful, why don't we get to have the life and the world we think we want? The answer is very simple: someone or something creates for you. So instead of being the subject, you become the object of your own scene. Your lack of presence is the key, because when you are absent, when you are not conscious, your beliefs decide for you.

Many myths affirm that, in different moments of the terrestrial past, there were other civilizations that knew how to use sounds, vibrations and representation as tools to produce or alter reality. There was a time when art was the sacred tool to incarnate the divine power on Earth and generate, affect or manage what we call life. I am referring to a time when the word art still symbolized the same thing as words like magic, alchemy or cha-manism. That was before art was reduced to simple disciplines related to specific actions and professions, being detached from everyday life. Its value was hidden and separated from the magical, the subtle, the alchemical and the initiatory. In reality, this is the origin of our internal rupture, where the masculine learned to subdue the feminine, when our left hemisphere was placed above an underdeveloped right hemisphere.

Precisely art is a tool of union, because besides being the language of the unconscious, it does not understand separation. That is because it is in contact with the right hemisphere. That is why it becomes sacred before its sacred use, before the creative will of the consciousness that generates, projects and manages it. It is important to clarify then, returning to the theme of the importance of being present in our lives, that it is not art as a tool in itself that has the will and the responsibility, but rather the state of pre-sence of the one who uses it, something that the first artists did, taking care to the extreme of their state of presence and consciousness to use art in favor of life, to create the reality that the collective needed. They created healthy art and that is why even today we still talk about craftsmanship when we refer to the most traditional artistic application.

In its origins, art was used to detonate cerebral, corporal or experiential states that would generate a transformation directed to inner growth. As if it were a power plant, art was used to generate access to amplified states of consciousness from which it was possible to resolve what was not possible in its usual state. Art was a means for daily reprogramming. There was a time when buildings were created based on the golden ratio, music that harmonized the inner flow or images that reminded us of our union with the spiritual world. Cultures that inherited all this knowledge still program walls, clothes and everyday objects with colors and sacred symbols. This is their way of speaking to the body, of reprogramming the subconscious mind. The shaman is both healer and artist, as he or she interacts with the unconscious worlds to generate the apparently impossible. Generally, artists at the level of shamans understand art in an integral way and use it through daily ritual to exert a therapeutic action on their community for the benefit of all.

Absorbed and educated by the power of the churches, kings and emperors, artists became mercenaries in the service of their lords. Far from the responsibility of the shaman, the artist was no longer free and generated an art that programmed the subconscious of the population for the benefit of the most powerful. Art was used, just as it is used today through advertising and the media, to suggest and program the needs, impulses, beliefs and desires of the bulk of the population. In spite of all this, artists rebelling against subjugation, as in the case of Leonardo da Vinci, left in their paintings and creations messages that, veiled thanks to their sublime beauty, passed through the influence and knowledge of their masters. An art capable of transmitting to the unconscious of the spectator the truth of the sacred nature of the human being beyond all manipulation.

The arrival of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries gave way to an increasingly overwhelming technology, allowing artists on the one hand to create an art increasingly directed towards themselves, while the system absorbed the true power of art to establish a real social engineering. First it was the Nazis and after the war, the intelligence agencies and officially, advertising, that normalized the acceptance of deception as part of our reality. I am referring to a system of sales and propaganda capable of inducing and convincing our subconscious of anything, passing above our own personal choice. That is the power of art. A power that we can use to our benefit if we understand how it acts on our emotions and thoughts.

Ritual Art promotes how to use art from its most sacred aspect, to help the human being to project himself in a healthy and balanced way. The key is to understand that for this integrative vision, the concept of art is something much bigger than what the official orthodoxy recognizes. From the understanding of the restorative value of art as a symbolic form of self-management, Ritual Art is a way that encourages the human being to recover the artistic use of ritual, taking it to the realm of the personal. An intrinsic value to our creative nature, which allows us to respond to any internal imbalance resulting from the dynamics and vital processes within our daily lives.

Capable of sustaining itself, of modifying the way in which it interprets and relates to life and the idea of what we call reality, every human being can recognize itself as an artistic and imaginative being with the possibility of applying art to resolve itself by integrating, from its own synthesis, the bases of what has always been a knowledge nourished by cultures and cosmovisions from all over the planet belonging to the priestly realm.

For our subconscious mind there is no difference between a real experience and a fiction represented in a metaphorical, symbolic or ritual form. It is about embracing artistic and imaginative experience as a powerful tool that drives us to paint and transform our life from the psychic to the corporal, from the emotional to the visceral, posing our own life as a metaphorical game, here our creative capacity allows us not only to manage and create the life experience that satisfies us, but also to resolve the beliefs that, transformed into apparently immovable laws within us, condition our perception of the world.

Undoubtedly, my research, supported by the way in which initiatory cultures all over the planet use art, shows that it is through the artistic experience that we can know, drain, order, manage, transfer and transform what from the subconscious prevents us from being ourselves, as well as learn to project ourselves in a healthy way in our lives. Art is not only the act of creating, but also the result of everything we express in whatever form. The simple fact of breathing already affects our internal and external universe. Art is therefore much more than a language. It is the essence of all forms of creation and communication, capable of transcending any limit or established program. It is the power of all divinity.

Regardless of whether it is a healthy or unhealthy art for not-us, this ability to cross limits is what makes art a powerful tool for transformation, which allows us the possibility, among many other things, to reprogram our harmful patterns if we know how to use it properly. Hundreds of unconscious thoughts and actions determine for us every day who we are and the way we perceive the world. Inherited or acquired programs throughout our life experience, many times generators of internal conflicts and powerful blockages that prevent us from being what our heart longs for. Through the artistic experience, taking art as a sacred form, we can learn to self-suggest ourselves, to reinvent ourselves until we provoke in ourselves, to be what our heart desires, we have been through profound transformations as far as we dare to dream. As you will see, the way we will deal with art here may be totally new to you. That is why I need you to open your mind to many things that perhaps the official world still does not recognize today. Aspects related to the true power of the human being and his creative capacity. But in reality, it is enough that you open your heart and dare to imagine what you came here to be and to live. I will only give you a few practical tools to ease the way. You do the magic.