My friend Nathalie said something interesting tonight at dinner. She said that religious language is very efficient. It bypasses the frontal lobe and goes directly to the limbic system. It creates affect without trying very hard. It's efficient language. I wonder then what the relationship between art and religion is. Perhaps other people have wondered this and there is a whole discourse for which I have a blind spot. But tonight marked the first time I'd ever really parked my awareness on the question. It seems that art is related to religion in their desire for short-cutting preconceptions to create emotional insight or affect. Art can be very efficient communication. I suppose when people talk about the sublime and sublimation are referring to that efficiency of state change.
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