Magic, Medicine, or Love...?
Since ancient times, every spiritual tradition of the world has used sound for healing and as a gateway to transcendence, worship, and exploration of consciousness--the therapeutic value of music was considered indivisible from its own nature. Specific chants and music were played as a form of natural medicine. Today sound is used extensively in scientific research and complementary medicine. But how does healing with sound actually occur? Clinicians and scientists talk about entrainment, resonance and pattern recognition; mystics delve into the sacred and magic aspects of sound; and musicians are guided by their quest for aesthetic beauty. In this keynote address we experience and explore the question, is it Sound that heals... or is it Love...?