In his book, Sacred and the Profane Beauty: the holy in art, Van der Liew writes,
"There was a period - and for the so-called primitive peoples this period still exists - when art and religion stood so close to each other that they could almost be equated. Song was prayer; drama was divine performance; dance was cult. Every act of primitive man is, by its very nature, a magical act.”
This incredibly interesting statement gives us an awesome concept of sacred living. A culture where the everyday contains the divine within itself because the act of participating in reality is a sacred experience. This is something that today may be hard to grasp and is all the more interesting for it. Generally speaking people spend a great deal of time away from the present moment. People think that because 'then' happened, now isn't. They find it easy to ignore the ongoing sublime that is occurring right now. How did this change happen? Did literacy cause this great of a shift in perspective? Why do we have such a strong segregation of sacred and profane and that the same humans as us, living in history, did not experience?
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