One evening, after leaving a U2 concert, I breathlessly said, "That was like going to church!" I was startled by my comment. I do not exactly consider myself a religious person. I certainly do not think Bono is God. What could I have meant by that statement? I believe now that I had meant to convey that I had experienced a shift of consciousness and music was the vehicle that enabled it. It appears the musical experience can intersect with religious experience, and that poses questions about the ways in which music helps people to construct their sense of self.
Music has long been used to convey ideas, thoughts and feelings. It is because of this that humans identify with these arrangements of sounds because it is sound itself that is one of the most basic tenets of consciousness. In the book, The Secret Power of Music, by David Tame, he argues, "music is more than a language, it is the language of languages. It can be said that of all the arts, there is none other that......

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Title: Music & Conscioussness
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