April 1996

Abstract
The title of this paper comes from Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art, and by expanding it to include science one is clearly attempting to cover a rather large area of human endeavour; clearly not much more than a map of the territory is possible. To narrow this down only two of the possible three relationships between art, science and the spiritual will be investigated: that between the spiritual and art and that between the spiritual and science (the interaction between the arts and sciences is well-documented elsewhere, for example in Leonardo). Furthermore, the focus will be on investigating the intuition, which has grown out of personal observation in recent years, that science is at this juncture more receptive to the spiritual than the arts.

Commentary (31/5/98)
This paper laid the groundwork for later papers, and also for the main area of current research which is an investigation of ways in which to engage the scientist and artist with the spiritual.

Submitted for the Option: Varieties of Transcendental Experience in Modern Culture.

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