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CONCLUSIONS There is still much to be said about the sacred nature of Art, about the ritual of creation, about the somatization on the part of the artist during the creative process, but I shall stop here. An important reflection emerged during the week of the retreat at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter in Cologne, and it concerns the role of Art and Artists in this era of fast-paced change of culture and human society: Art today, for all its creative, intuitive and visionary qualities, has a fundamental role in the orientation and building of a sustainable, evolutionary, synergistic and virtuous future, in the re-elaboration of ethical and aesthetic models, and in supporting the practice of awareness as a way of overcoming a egocentric system. That the spirit of awakening sustains us while we compose the verses and forms of our destiny. I would like to heartily thank all the people who have in any way contributed to the realization of this work.