Science is the distraction
Why Art should be given more attention than anything else
I’ll start with this. Writing this wasn’t part of my life’s plan. As detailed and strategic as I love to be, the six hours I spent drafting this was not part of any plan I had. Simply put, this article is likely to bore people looking for comical excitement. At some point, you’ll almost lose the central idea, but then I want to hear your comments.
Is my line of thought wrong? Was I myopic in the ideas I portrayed? What thoughts did the article evoke in you?
Art is an expression of the soul. It is an outpour of energy from the echelons of our consciousness.
From the easily discernible arts, like singing, painting, poetry or dancing, to the vaguely complex arts like medicine and philosophy, we find that the human soul contains a rhythmic kind of energy that can be dissipated to the physical world through these media.
This is simply to say that art is any medium through which the soul connects with the physical.
Whether it is brain’s neurons being integrated to form a deep level wave conformation or something beyond the scope of physical biology, we are no strangers to the perceivable levels of supernatural wonders which our minds tap into periodically.
Let’s start with your dreams.
While most people may not have experienced the voodoo level subconscious activity, you definitely have had a dream at least a dozen times before. Some have even claimed to experience up to four recoverable dreams in a single night. This, and many other phenomena, show us that there are energy levels that ignite to form our subconscious. These energies are near impossible to manipulate in their raw form, but when we channel them through art, they give life to our expressions.
It is a flawed debate that life lies in the human blood. Indeed, you might say that fuel is necessary to make an engine run; but without the spark of an ignition switch, consciousness will never hold.
Truly, this may sound like some philosophy class with sprinkles of neurobiology, but this concept holds promises of intensifying our understanding of how the world we see connects with the world we do not see.
So, art is the physical expression of the soul’s content.
Since the beginning of time; language, communication and understanding have always been parts of the pillars of co-existence. You see, before individuals can cohabit successfully, there must exist some level of understanding between them.
The first step usually is the establishment of trust.
This is the part where each party comes to agree that its cohabitant is not a threat to its survival. It is a basic survival instinct. The cohabiting individuals will require communication to be able to prove to the other party that they are not a threat.
It is essential to show that you do not pose any threat especially because you do not know the capacity of the other party. Hence, showing them that you ‘come in peace’, may be the best way to protect yourself on first contact. This goes on to explain why the extent of fear and respect you have for someone reaches its peak and thereafter begins to drop, when you find out the limit of their capacity.
It also explains why people who have a surmountable number of enemies do not speak loosely nor joke with their secrets. They understand that the more the enemy knows about them; the more vulnerable they become in the face of such adversary.
So, primarily, the communication (both verbal and non-verbal) between the consciousness of people creates trust and the other bonds that may come subsequently.
Now, the question is, how deeply does communication go in the complex web of biodiversity, human existence and the levels of consciousness? More so, why is it so important?
Life, as we know it, ends when a person stops breathing. Their goals, pursuits, portfolio and commitments become as a log in an ocean. Comparatively distinct, depending on close you are to it, but all the same, intangible.
However, art claims that there is a possibility of a consciousness after life, in a place called the Afterlife. A never-ending consciousness that beckons to man even while on earth.
See, though science and nature cannot significantly attest to the possibility of life after physical death, that does not disprove its existence. We have explained nearly every phenomena scientifically and with base philosophical support, but we cannot answer with solid proof what happens to a man’s consciousness after his death. What stops me from saying that the brain is only a container and not the originator of a person’s consciousness?
The ability of science to justify hypotheses from proper investigation through experimental designs is why we trust their proofs. It’s why we trust them with our lives in medicine and with our physical commodification in engineering. But I am of the opinion that art and not science has the answers we need most.
Art talks about trusting your senses, about divinity, about connecting with a part of you that is neither physical nor alien. Tapping into your subconscious to reach something beyond physical. Art is not science. It is not logic. It not systems and principles, laws and commandments. That is why it suits perfectly for the explanations of those things that are not of any physical order.
Love is art. Sex is art. Music is art. Prayer is art. War is art. They all begin with an ignited spark of energy from our souls. Passion, lust, admiration, worship, anger, rage. All these are energies that come from our soul only to be manifested through physical activities.
Death occurs when the soul is permanently separated from the body. This is like the rocket science level of art, but it is art.
There is so much we can learn when we lay aside logic and practicality. Embracing divinity and art. Only then will we ever truly understand the world we have so long inhabited.
In conclusion, this philosophical analysis may prove relevant in a body of knowledge vaster than the brilliance of time. The human soul, its consciousness. The intangible exchanges between the forms in which man exists (the exchanges which I earlier described as soul energy).
All of these things are tangential to the significant limitations of viewing humans solely from the scope of the microscope. The void which corroborates the reason why science still has little relevant statements about the demonstration of certain religious manifestations. The equipment necessary to see what we ought to see haven’t been invented. And since the scientific methods do not thrive on speculation as it does on evidence-based practice and investigations, our knowledge will remain bound within this minute detour in timelessness.
