# Art > Art is the act of creating and sharing meaning that reflects society's consciousness and can initiate transformation in individuals exposed to it. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/art # Art *Several makers bring different materials to one unfinished shared mosaic* In this session, art is discussed in both collective and individual terms: it reflects a society's state of mind and consciousness and, in the account offered, can also initiate changes in people exposed to it. > — Be Ecstatic, Not Static (Missing Tape 2) (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/be-ecstatic-not-static-missing-tape-2) ## Creation and shared meaning The response calls creation, in any form, an act of giving meaning. It places the creation of meaning before the symbols that manifest it, with those symbols being relevant to the creator's state of consciousness. > — Be Ecstatic, Not Static (Missing Tape 2) (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/be-ecstatic-not-static-missing-tape-2) Reception is not presented as passive. The response says that a perceiver must already have some accepted meaning to perceive a creation and may then change its consciously imparted meaning into what makes sense or brings benefit to them; at that point, it calls the encounter co-creation. > — Be Ecstatic, Not Static (Missing Tape 2) (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/be-ecstatic-not-static-missing-tape-2) ## Art in collective change *Makers repair different parts of one public terrace while an unfinished mosaic grows nearby* When asked whether metaphysical themes would become more central in films and stories, the response says art will move with and reflect the direction of society's consciousness. It goes further within its own framework, describing exposure to art as one way changes can be initiated in individuals during transformation. > — Be Ecstatic, Not Static (Missing Tape 2) (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/be-ecstatic-not-static-missing-tape-2) ## Practical implications The session does not prescribe a medium or career strategy. Its concrete personal reference is to art as an expression of the speaker's totality while doing what they love and living their passion; a learner can therefore distinguish this stated expressive role from a claim that any particular artistic outcome is guaranteed. > — Be Ecstatic, Not Static (Missing Tape 2) (text), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/be-ecstatic-not-static-missing-tape-2) ## Representative passages The act of creation in and of itself, on any level, in any form, is the act of giving meaning. That is what creation is.— Bashar, Obviously it has begun, and obviously in many ways it will accelerate. Remember, of course, that your art is always reflective of the state of mind and consciousness of the society. So as your society continues to move in that direction, of course, so will your art. It will reflect these things. And more than reflect these things, it will assist in the transformation itself by initiating changes within the individuals who are exposed to those forms of art.— Bashar, ## Related - [Transformation](https://sassani.app/topic/transformation) - [Creativity](https://sassani.app/topic/creativity) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/art. The HTML page is the source of truth.