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The human legacy is grounded in art. Using art for healing and to make sense of the world is as ancient and current a behavior as mankind has. There is ample evidence in the cave art of 50,000 years ago that humans utilized the power of art and symbols to improve their lives. Recent discoveries have pushed the timeline for humans creating art back to over 120,000 years ago and probably even much longer. I am not saying that our early ancestors stretched out animal hides and created paintings to hang on the cave walls. What paleoanthropologists have discovered is far more meaningful, not only for our legacy but for us right now. Cave paintings from Lascaux caves (Montignac, Dordogne, France) From WikiMedia Commons Conceptualizing ideas in consciousness and then being able to represent them in visual forms that can then be understood by others is one of the defining characteristics of what it means to be human. A picture is worth a thousand words. You have heard that many time...