a void

"My input revolved around the idea of ritual art—what options were
there open to that kind of quasi-sacrificial blood-obsessed sort of
art form? And the idea of a neo-paganism developing—especially in
America—with the advent of the new cults of tattooing and
scarification and piercings and all that. I think people have a real
need for some spiritual life and I think there's great spiritual
starving going on. There's a hole that's been vacated by an
authoritative religious body—the judaeo-Christian ethic doesn't seem
to embrace all the things that people actually need to have dealt with
in that way—and it's sort of been left to popular culture to soak up
the leftover bits like violence and sex." -- David Bowie,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hearts_Filthy_Lesson