Art as a path

We live in times where an excess of information coexists with a growing lack of meaning. In the field of Art, this paradox becomes even more visible: the more accessible artistic creation becomes – through digital media and the democratization of tools – the more its essential content is sometimes emptied. In view of this, it becomes urgent to rescue Art in its noblest function: that of being a path. A path of return to the center.

A path of self-knowledge, of integration, of realignment with the higher principles of Being. In the light of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and the teachings of the Tibetan Master, we understand the human being as constituted by a trinity of bodies: the physical, the emotional (or astral) and the mental. This triad, when harmonized and integrated, configures what we call personality – the functional shell of the soul on its incarnate journey. The soul, in turn, is the link between the planes of matter and the realms of higher consciousness, accessing spheres such as the higher mental plane (Manas), the buddhic plane (Buddhi) and even the atmic plane.

 

It is precisely in this construction of the bridge between the concrete mind and the abstract mind – the Antakarana – that Art reveals itself as a powerful vehicle. Unlike purely intellectual or technical approaches, Art, in its purest and most essential expression, touches the intuitive plane of the soul and, in doing so, awakens in the individual what is most alive, whole and authentic in his or her being. Through conscious creative artistic practice, we are invited to silence the noise of the lower mind – that field of the mind that tends towards analysis, repetition, logic – to access states of presence, fluidity and inspiration that belong to the subtlest levels of consciousness.

 

“The mind (Manas) kills the real”, say the teachings. Only when we silence the concrete mind, the discursive mind, do we glimpse spiritual reality.”

This perception is echoed by Wassily Kandinsky in his seminal work On the Spiritual in Art, where the Russian artist proposes art as a manifestation of the soul and not as a mere imitation of the external world. Kandinsky understood that form must arise from an inner, spiritual need, and not from the copying of visible reality. For him, color, line, and rhythm – when freed from the figurative – become direct instruments of the soul. By breaking with realism, he did not deny reality, but proposed an expanded reality, where inner vibration is the true reference.

 

"Art is a language of the spirit, it transcends matter."

Wassily Kandinsky, "On the Spiritual in Art"

This same vibration can and should also be sought in everyday life. Art as a path is not limited to the canvas, the studio or the museum. Creativity – a living expression of the soul – manifests itself in all human acts when we are present and aligned with our inner purpose. We create when we raise children, when we resolve conflicts with listening and empathy, when we transform a seemingly ordinary daily life into a sacred space of evolution.

 

“A sky can be purple. Or green.

A flower can grow from a stain.

Form is always a possibility, never a prison.”

 

In conscious artistic practice, the relativity of form is revealed: what is ugly or beautiful? Where does taste begin and conditioning end? What separates copying from creation? These questions are not merely aesthetic – they are existential. Because just as the artistic gaze transcends visible form, creative living transcends the automatism of routines. The secret of spiritual evolution does not lie in great epiphanies, but in everyday consciousness. In the way we see reality. In the way we deal with others. How we transform ourselves, moment by moment.

 

At this point, it becomes inevitable to touch on the crisis of intellectualization. At a time when Artificial Intelligence has already shown itself capable of producing texts, images, formulas, diagnoses and analyses with superhuman speed and accuracy, intellectual study – as an accumulation of data – runs the risk of becoming obsolete. What will we do with this new reality? The answer lies in the transmutation of knowledge into wisdom. Reading a thousand books is not enough. Wisdom is born when the concept becomes experience. When knowledge becomes embodied, it becomes spiritualized and applied to existence, otherwise we become nothing more than walking libraries, full of information but disconnected from the very essence of knowledge.

“Art is innocent, it is purity of spirit, while intelligence is a library. And today any library can be replaced by a robot. Being intelligent is not enough. Art is more than that. Art is purity of spirit.”

 

It is in this sense that artistic practice offers itself as a tool for sublimation. Creative energy, often condensed in the lower centers – desire, power, affirmation of the ego – can be conducted to the higher centers, connected to vision, inspiration and synthesis. Through a well-guided creative practice, the human being elevates himself. He transforms his drive into constructive action. His restlessness into beauty. His doubt into fertile silence, his Thought-Form into Reality.

 

Art, therefore, is also political, philosophical, educational and spiritual. It is, in its essence, an act of resistance to the trivialization of life. To create is to resist chaos. It is to organize the invisible. It is to offer the world a new reading, a new image, a new breath. Castagnet, in his words full of experience and synthesis, says: “To paint the soul of a place with a brush, not its photograph”. This is Art. This is presence. This is a path.

This Art that we propose is neither elitist nor utilitarian. It is not therapy, but it can heal. It is not religion, but it can reconnect. It is not pedagogy, but it can teach. It is not science, but it can reveal. It is not magic, but it can transform.

Don Juan, Castaneda's teacher, said: "The difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that the warrior sees everything as a challenge, while the ordinary man sees everything as a blessing or a curse."

Art, like the Warrior's Path, is a way of seeing. It is a state of being. It is an attitude towards life. The true artist, like the child, sees with clear eyes. He does not seek results – he lives the process. He does not wait for applause – he dives into the mystery. He does not seek meaning – he becomes the meaning itself.

The child, in his purity, is the great model of the spiritual artist: his curiosity is innocent; his creation, spontaneous; his joy, integral. Education, then, becomes protecting this creative space, and not training for performance. Raising children is also an art. Creating relationships, ideas, solutions, lives: everything becomes art when done with soul.

 

In this context, childhood is a sacred territory for art in its raw state. It is through play, experimentation, and imagination that children freely express their souls. Education, in this sense, should preserve this state of creative freedom, rather than suffocating it in the name of performance. The true artist is the one who, even as an adult, keeps this childhood fire alive: a fire of discovery, of fascination, and of love for what has not yet been said.

 

Art, then, ceases to be a product, an object, an image – and becomes a way of existing. A way of seeing, feeling, and acting in the world. And the artist – or the one who lives creatively – becomes a co-author of reality. Because creating is, ultimately,

an act of responsibility.

An act of love.

Art is, therefore, a spiritual technology.

A rainbow bridge between worlds.

A language that precedes language.

A call to totality.

 

That is why I affirm, based on my own experience and experience: Art is a path. And perhaps it is the most urgent, the most possible and the most necessary of them in the present day.