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Theology of the Body with Christopher West | 22

Elliott Hulse Podcast

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The Touch Point of the Spiritual and the Physical

Music is a resolutely physical reality, but it gets us in touch with profoundly spiritual realities. What are you hearing when you hear a violin melody that brings you to tears? Vibrate. It's taking hairs from a horse tail and rubbing it over sheep guts. And we're weeping and sound vibrations are going through the air, through the air and rattling some membrane in our inner ear. That's why this was the reason why we understand this stuff. Because you were in your body. That's what music is, right?

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