The worst picture can appeal to our senses and imagination by arousing their activity, setting them free, and leaving them to themselves; the best work of art also appeals to our senses, but in a higher language which, of course, we must understand; it enchains the feelings and imagination; it deprives us of caprice, we cannot deal with a perfect work at our will; we are forced to give ourselves up to it, in order to receive ourselves from it again, exalted and refined. Goethe (1749-1832)
The story of qualia is the story of moving from the worst art to the best art. It is the story of merely living to creating a whole, new life. It is the story of evolution.
A crisis heightens our awareness, allows us to notice new qualia, and ritualing with qualia arouses, frees, and teaches us who we are. In a crisis we cannot help but act with spontaneity; but with conscious ritualing we construct a framework for controlled spontaneity. We submit to knowledge and ideals, but within these chains we express ourselves in exalted and refined ways.
Conscious ritualing is the pursuit of a higher language, the development of a new aesthetic out of the original qualia.