Toward a New Consciousness of the Sonic Healing Arts: The Therapeutic Use of Sound and Music for Personal and Planetary Health and Transformation

Abstract

Proposes music as a holistic model for therapy, recognizing the power of sonic vibrations to effect wholeness, health, and consciousness. Music as a communal force has the potential to improve human understanding and relations. Although forms of shared music may vary, the results of communal music can be the same: the breakdown of the barriers that cause isolation among people. This awareness of interrelationships may influence a consciousness far larger than the initial group creating the music and may contribute to a global consciousness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)