What are spirituality and talent?
Gao said in a program that he wrote a lyric after drinking. In retrospect, it seems that the lyrics did not come from his own thoughts, but higher wisdom wrote beautiful words through his handwriting.
This is a realistic experience of inspiration, which seems to have nothing to do with personal abilities and skills.
A work of art that hits people's hearts directly, arouses strong emotions and has great influence is inhuman. It is divorced from the artist's individual emotions, arouses the collective bottom emotions, arouses the emotional shock of the group, and becomes the channel to express the collective emotions and the carrier to bear the collective unconsciousness.
There are many aspects of human thinking. Like the physiological structure, our consciousness and mind also inherited the psychological tendency of primitive people. This psychological tendency formed by various genetic forces is called collective unconsciousness, and consciousness develops from unconsciousness and becomes self and rationality that people can perceive. Each era has different characteristics and needs different faces. The collective consciousness that meets the needs of the times is highlighted, while other neglected spiritual functions are suppressed and hidden.
Being suppressed does not mean disappearing. The more we emphasize the collective consciousness, the more the unconscious surges like compensation. If there is a channel and carrier of collective unconsciousness at this time, it is possible to set off a wave through art or literature, and artistic works, literary works and artists will become spokespersons of the spirit of the times.
What is the presentation of the collective unconscious? In the early history, there were myths and religious images, tribal totems and abstract symbols. This is an illusion. Each culture has its own myth system and religious beliefs, which are passed on to future generations through inheritance. Our unconscious has the same illusion system to the outside world as our ancestors.
Early myths and religious images are the way people look at the world. At that time, people and the outside world were integrated, and this perception was the whole content of understanding when rational thinking and scientific thinking were not highly developed. Instinct should be not only physiological instinct, but also psychological instinct and emotional instinct. Those early myths and religious images are all manifestations of psychological instinct. With the development of western rational scientific thinking, we began to ignore psychological instinct and distrust individual spiritual experience, and we were suppressed by rational thinking.
Those real artists, who work tirelessly, can't stop for a moment. Their thoughts can't seem to suppress and control themselves like ordinary people. The collective unconscious call makes them look crazy, and hallucinations emerge in front of their eyes and minds. It must be recorded with poems, melodies and drawing boards, so that they can get a moment of peace. Goethe's Faust, Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Picasso's paintings all speak with the voices of millions of people, predicting the change of his consciousness at that time.
Jung said, "Art is a natural motive. It catches a person and makes him its tool. An artist is not a person who has free will and seeks to achieve personal goals, but a person who allows art to achieve artistic goals through him. As an individual, he may have emotions, personal will and personal goals. But as an artist, he is a person in a higher sense, that is, a' collective person', a person who carries and creates the unconscious spiritual life of human beings. In order to carry out this difficult mission, he sometimes has to sacrifice his personal happiness and everything that ordinary people think makes life worth living. "
Therefore, the artist's life is full of contradictions and conflicts. On the one hand, they are ordinary people, on the other hand, they shoulder the "collective" mission. He is sensitive to the collective unconscious and constantly impacted by it. Is it lucky or unfortunate that the artist is the tool of his works?
The touching thing about those literary and artistic works is that they echo the instinctive needs of the soul.
What we call higher-order wisdom may be an intuitive experience that has been neglected for a long time. God's gift is actually a collective cry from the heart of mankind.