Der Geist aus der Kunst

The spirit that flows like a demon from art can touch anyone. Such a touch is experienced as conscious and rational knowledge, yet it remains misunderstood, although it is felt as energy. Erwin-Josef Speckmann, a brain researcher and visual artist, notes in his diary: "It makes a natural scientist, who deserves this designation in every respect, irritable to experience something with his senses and assess it as real existence, which he cannot describe, i.e., cannot measure; he knows it exists and has an effect, yet he cannot grasp it..." Erwin-Josef Speckmann repeatedly circles around the spirit of art with his neurophysiological and artistic thinking, examining it from various aspects. The resulting fragments of thought are essayistically summarized into the following bundles: I. Art – a game, II. Art – a preschool of prayer, III. Art – patterns as structures of order, IV. Art – immersion.