Connecting to earthly life processes through culture
Culture is nurturing us, forming and awakening in us forces of spirit and soul. What happens if this «nurturing» culture is reduced to mere entertainment? Then we distance ourselves from our own being and from the basis of life, the earth.
Culture is linked to our beloved earth, just as we are. Every corner of the world allows its inhabitants to develop the cultural element best suited to their inner needs. Stories are then told of distant lands and heroic men capable of everything! In this way, humanity has always been nourished by the most suitable food.
Depending on where we are and on the season, we receive the necessary fruits of the earth as a gift, full of the elements that our organism needs at that precise moment.
Culture enables us to face what happens in life, inside and out, in close relation to the place and time in which we live. The interdependence of humanity and earth, the symbiotic relationship we have with it, must be re-established if we are to evolve further.
Entertain, keep at bay, delay
But what is this culture that becomes entertainment? Entertain. Keep at bay. Delay. The basis of the artistic and cultural element is lacking, where forces are active that bring something to fruition in us, something that is cultivated, waiting patiently.
A process of animalisation takes place through the culture of entertainment, where human beings are trivialised, their complexity simplified, their threefoldness excluded from the start, spirit and soul atrophied. Everything is focused on stimulating and soliciting the lowest instincts and animal drives that we carry in us, without the possibility of purification. All this allows the entertainment industry to exert a powerful control over the body.
‹I› processes and catharsis
Can culture still escape all this and resume its spiritual task? Can we return to our verticality? When Steiner imagined a Christianization of art, did he not mean it? A culture and an art capable of acting through the processes of the ‹I›, giving humanity the possibility of facing what comes to us from the future and from the present; giving, through the cathartic principle, the chance to transform, purify and evolve, together with and for the earth.
Being part of the vital processes of the earth through culture, all that remains is the hope that we will find ourselves again, that we will stop fleeing from the planet that hosts us and begin to look inside ourselves, consciously re-appropriating the cultural element, with love.