Spirituality can be regarded as the awakening of a thought that goes beyond the circumstances of everyday life, the mere adjustment to material necessities demanded by foraging, reproduction, and survival. Humans begin to pose questions about the world around them, and that is the essential point. They will often seek a reality other than that perceived by their senses, to which—like the animals from which they are descended—they have always responded instinctively. Here, we are not very far removed from art.
